Summer Friends – behind-the-scenes
Director, DP, Editor, Color – Mike Russell
Models – Katie Pettit and Brandon Lee
Agency – Vault Management
HMU/Stylist – Jenny Dyson
Producer – Alexandra Gemma
Gaffer – Josh Eskridge
Photography – Josh Eskridge
Summer Friends is a two minute fashion short film told in 4 parts. A fleeting, summer love story. A familiar tragedy. A short tale of tender impulse, love and destruction that follows a young couple from meeting to a possible ending. Shot over 2 days in South Florida with a small but ambitious crew, the goal with this project was to match the instinctive nature of young love with a reactive style of filmmaking. There was no over planning with highly-detailed shot lists, instead a general outline was created to keep the flow of the shoot open for creative possibilities. Mike Russell
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