Simcha Leiner Shuvi - Behind the Scenes

i'm symchaliner i'm here with matthew berkowitz and we are going to take you behind the scenes of my latest music video shulie [Music] i had an idea for this uh music video which we were going to take a bunch of different clips that were lined up side by side do some really cool stuff with it i uh called mati really late at night he was somewhere very loud um and he's like you know maybe we'll uh talk about it a little bit a different time talk about it later i said give me 30 seconds let me pitch it about 45 minutes later uh we had this uh production underway let's get this thing going let's get this thing started five o'clock in the morning uh was when this day started um by seven o'clock in the morning the restaurant was unlocked for us as you've seen in the video this is a beautiful space a lot of different areas in the restaurant that need to be worked with and worked on but ultimately this is a functioning restaurant this is not a set we couldn't shut it down for three days to plan for this so we had stations set up in rooms where we can basically pull out all the equipment as soon as the dinner service finished to set up the next spot it's just a matter of having everyone on the same schedule everyone on the same team a couple days before i went down to like kind of take pictures of all the areas of all the you know the kitchen area and the dining area and the roof and then there was a lot of uh like you know going going over the parts sure sorcerer played like the main actor funny story actually when i wrote the script i wrote i was like okay what am i going to name this guy this this chef like i need a name i had no idea who's going to be acting i was like you know let me call come come josh come on josh and then she would click the part so you see how amazing you know it's crazy this whole thing with uh what we try to do with music videos in particular is not give too much of a detailed storyline so that way people can interpret it as they wish the song um should be is the lyrics are pretty deep you know it's ultimately wanting to get close to hashem and this storyline could be interpreted any which way that you you know find a way of uh adapting it to your own life but there's different levels you know there's the upstairs and the downstairs of the restaurant there's the upstairs and the downstairs over our lives there's a way to get closer there's a yearning like you're missing something um the story line follows that shua is a chef in the kitchen but he's always yearning to do what he really loves to do and he didn't have the opportunity he dreams about doing it and as the video progresses you know if you haven't seen it by the way just stop this behind the scenes like just stop just go watch the video we'll wait like now we'll wait oh yeah watch out yeah what do you think about it yeah so the video starts off with a crazy fpv drone shot which we got um of just i wanted it to start with a bang this shot actually we got it like actually a little bit before the video started before we actually the day of filming uh on the city because it's a much more complicated thing to do um but i wanted to start with a bang and just kind of like flies through the city and then it just kind of like takes a pause and you see simha and chua in the alleyway on a split screen again synchro side is kind of a little more colored a little more you know like like honestly a little more optimistic a little more like you know cool and suicides a little more you know a little more darker like like kind of like you know he's he's not in the best of places you see you're right you see kind of simple walking to his place and show walking to his place and then it kind of starts sure as part of the story right our days are basically taking place at the same time parallel different situations but at the same time shus starts his day-to-day boring job in the kitchen and you see him like getting lost in the music really wanting to do what he always dreamed of doing which was being musician being a drummer yeah or being close to our show when when i i wanted to show kind of like getting into like his imagination kind of like like he's not here but i want to almost feel like like oh like now the whole all the staff is dancing and all the waiters are suddenly cutting everything on b and everything but i want them to feel like oh that's actually happening so we did was we kind of had the we we had like sure kind of just right he puts on his music and kind of like the music is the thing that kind of gets him going and gets him you know into his fantasy world and we had like we had all the light the whole lighting crew kind of had we had the whole kitchen lit up and the whole kind of thing's slowly dim you zoom with this face and then the whole kitchen goes bonkers all the waiters are are cutting on beat and washing dishes and trolling pots and doing everything on beat all right and then and then right and then then it gets even more intense once like the chorus comes in again that's when you see something there's a whole dance sequence going on and she was on his drawing [Music] and then we did uh the shot where he kind of comes back to life or the camera spins around when he comes back he's just he has his pots and pans he just spilled all the onions on the floor and uh and the other chefs aren't happy and then he turns around and sees you or does he maybe it depends we still don't know right i may still be there you know we wouldn't even know i didn't feel like that at the end of the day yeah we should have just like printed out a big cutout make it uh [Music] yeah so we had him we wanted to kind of feel like as if like we weren't kind of you to decide like how real is it how fake is it because it is something he really wants and when he turned around and he kind of saw simcha almost like the things that were like was part of his imagination in germany like he felt like it was all connected to it but he wasn't sure if he saw right what was going on and no one else really saw him and he goes out to chase him yeah yeah this scene was a this was a big scene foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] so you see you're running around and bangs into people and the wine and everyone's looking like what what's he doing and then i was like i was like we need like we need something to kind of storm out and be like yo what's going on um i was going to use one of the like one of the extras we had that oil city restaurant but i i sold the actual head chef he was already there at the time starting to cook for later i was like would you want to play this part he's like i don't know and i was like he's like what i have to do my new the head chef of wall street grill uh is no stranger to cameras he was like a top chef finalist like he's been all around the world featured on shows and like but he is the nicest guy though i told him you have to get mad he's like no i don't know like i'm not he's like he's a really really nice guy i was like come on do it just do it do it do it for views you know and he nailed it he storms out i did it uh for all those camera geeks i think we did it like kind of hand held sick you kind of feel as he's like super mad agitation yeah he like runs out and he comes over and storms over at the show and he starts he starts yelling at him and then it comes to see where you see the head chef still kind of angry he's like fighting his hand but kind of shu kind of completely lost focus on him and just looks past and sees somehow in the corner um just telling him to like get back into it like you know yeah who cares about it who cares about you focus oh yeah people don't realize the amount of you know work that goes into every time you see on a video that it cuts to another take to another clip that was someone restarting the clip restarting everything so when you see these videos they have these long clips these 20 30 second clips they're a lot easier to pull off than when you're cutting cutting cutting and keeping up that attention and action like just the dining room scene alone that probably took like i don't know like two and a half hours to film and we have to there was we have to go through take after taking different styles right when chua runs out like like how like how we're feeling it like when does he bang and we don't like there's a lot of there's a lot of like details to go into it you don't want to feel like overkill because you're you're filming a story you want it to feel as much real as possible you don't want to bang into 30 000 people and you know and people get up and start yelling and like it's like in real life it's something would happen which is right probably something not that far off someone acting crazy in a restaurant he would look at him like no like we have to get that right now so we have to film it many times over many times there were funny times also we're dealing with like 30 people sitting there so when one person decides that his phone sharing your one person decides to laugh over exactly as the video the story progresses you see my performance start um to you know really intensify and you notice that uh i'm missing a drummer um i'm missing a drummer that i'm missing one of the most important parts of my uh my van and that's really where the the video comes together is that uh he's chasing his dreams and the dreams are waiting there for him and the whole the concept of like the flashing lights and everything that whole that whole like light effect i saw it in something like recently and like you always see these dance sequences in videos you always see a lot of this type of thing but the reason why this was different is because this wasn't really real but when you see the dancers you see she withdrawing this wasn't real i was trying to figure out how do we how do we make it feel like it's not really there or maybe it's here so yeah the whole all the light flashing we probably all basically almost died from that do you remember the star acrobat you had in the video that's right if you if you slow it down the video and look at that if you pause it at the right millisecond you'll find it in the hidden uh the hidden dancer yeah um yeah demonstrate what the guy did though i'm not sure i don't know if he could come today yeah and the roof scenes were a ton of fun that was also they had this wall street girl by the way go there if you're hungry um they have this kind of like the roof area the whole life side comes up so we had this gorgeous view in the background of like the city minor detail the office building across the street has another building next door to it that people live in so if you're shooting a music video at midnight yeah blasting live music you're gonna upset some of the neighbors yeah this is actually crazy we filmed we let's say we filmed on the roof for alex and at like two two and a half hours right we literally we did the like the performance scenes then afterwards we went back to the scene where she was kind of having his electric guitar uh debut on uh the on the steering wheel yeah so we we did the performance um which had like blasting music and then we then like right where we did the spheres and then like him running and literally like right when we wrapped the cops came upstairs and they're like yeah we're getting noise complaints like it's gonna happen i don't know we're just doing this for a computer no no it's over it's way over completely done so whether we liked it or not yeah the perfect time thanks so much for watching our behind the scenes of the show video go follow matty berkowitz on instagram and his youtube channel go follow me on instagram if you're still on facebook close that account and just go follow me on instagram i can't wait to send you watch ruby watch the music if you don't watch the music video right now go there we waited for them to watch it already oh he definitely launched it bye guys