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-A bit more orangey

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♪♪

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-I'm Cody Kilpatrick.

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And I'm Austin Smith.

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And we are Digital Velvet.

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-He's going to have his guitar
that's taking up this space

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that extends him out a
little and the further off.

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- Known each other for
about six or seven years.

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Worked on a couple
different projects,

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filming like talking head
videos, some like kids content,

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and then periodically a couple
music performance type things.

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And then both, let's
see, got laid off on the

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same round of layoffs.

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And then we're like,
well, we've been

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doing this together for
the last couple of years.

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Let's just keep that train
rolling and do it for ourselves.

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-Striking overhead.

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♪♪

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-Got to get that pro
looking like a microphone.

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-So at the end of 2024,
we were putting together

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the brand Digital Velvet,
and we're like, how do we

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make an impact and get
people to find out about us?

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that's not just a like
boring Instagram video.

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♪ I can hear the sound
through the walls ♪

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-And so we decided to come up
with this like crazy concept

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of doing live performance
videos for like every

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weekday in January
from iconic Seattle

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locations around the city.

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And it was an insanely
challenging project.

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There were some days where
we were filming a band,

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and I was literally in the
back editing the video

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that was supposed to go up
later that day and posting it.

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♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪

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♪ Not talking about no
ordinary night up on the town ♪

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- We love the
Seattle music scene,

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and we've taken a pretty
huge portion of our identity

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into serving that community
and trying to make sure

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that they have the ability
to get their art seen in a

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way that's really impactful.

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♪ ♪

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♪ Moving alone, 
a heart with no home ♪

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♪ She wants to... ♪

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-I remember one conversation
down in the basement

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of this building and
just being like, "Hey,

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this is insane.

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We've never done
anything like this."

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But if at the end of the
shoot we learn something from

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this process, great shoot.

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Forget about how the
angles look, what all that

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stuff. We should just make
sure that we walk away

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from this shoot
learning something.

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Let's like add a new
skill set, let's

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add some new piece of gear
that we wanted to focus

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on and just make sure that
we understand it better

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or whatever and just
prioritize doing that

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every time.

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And so that attitude
that we both

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like, "Oh actually that's
a great idea to make this

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thing livable."

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That has translated into pretty

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much all of our shoots now that
if it bombs, find out why.

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If it hits, find out why.

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If we wanted to try something,
don't hold back and wait.

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Find the first
opportunity to try

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and educate yourself
on that process

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and let that kind of dictate
the types of projects

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you take on or the type of
shape that a project takes.

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♪ As I lay up questioning ♪

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- We're both massive gear nerds
as much as we are music nerds,

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which is a great
combo right now.

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There's a lot of
really fun technology

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for both working with musicians
and music in general,

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but then also
filmmaking obviously

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is having a really fun
technological boom.

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- Sippin' on you, sippin' on me.

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Swing, set, view.

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Quarter past three.

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- Two, three, and look.

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We use a lot of
motion in our videos

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where we kind of strategized
building out our

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entire gear closet
around how can we be

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as flexible as possible
and how can we be the

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fastest notes responsive
to the music as possible.

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So we want it to feel
immersive as a viewer

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to feel like you're
experiencing that music

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for the first time or that
performance for the first time

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the same way that we
are behind the camera.

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That really requires
us to have things

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like stabilization in play,
a good option of lenses.

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- I'm feeling pretty good
in terms of our angles.

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We're obviously gonna need
to discover some things

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as we go on this one.

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- I don't wanna do work
that I think is boring.

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Like I wanna do fun projects.

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I wanna push myself.

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And so we're gonna
keep working and doing

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probably more and more
ambitious things as we go.

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♪ ♪