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Ryan Lewis - "Fake Empire"



**Text taken from Ryan's post on 206proof**

All summer I've been working on my thesis project to graduate from the UW. It's another still-image motion picture like the 2Pac Vs. Franz Ferdinand mash-up I made last year. It features Macklemore and a few other people you may know (list below). Take in mind this is version one. Between limited access, finances, etc I couldn't really pursue a lot of the ideas I originally envisioned in efforts to make it epic. I feel like the music got there more than the storyline. However, we may do an improved remix of it for the VS. (Macklemore/RyanLewis) EP featuring Mack rapping and a revised production more like a music video, shot with actual video.

It was shot entirely with regular still-image cameras (Canon 5D, Canon 5D Mark II, Nikon D300 and a Nikon D3), batch-edited in Photoshop and produced in Final Cut Pro. The music was probably the biggest Pro-Tools session I've ever ran. Although it samples the original Fake Empire's piano and backing vocals, everything else was recorded live over numerous sessions.

Thanks a ton to everyone who helped:

The National - Fake Empire (Sample)
JkoePhoto.com (Jason Koenig) - Photographer
MazagranPhoto.com (Johnny Valencia) - Photographer
Myspace.com/Macklemore (Ben Haggerty) - Main Actor
Tricia Davis - Actor
Kevin Veatch - Electric Guitar, Electric Bass, Engineer
Andrew Joslyn - Violins and plucking
Zach Fleury - Main Drums, Percussion
Jonah Peters - Percussion
Ryan Lewis - Music Production, Photography, Film Production, Drums, Key Strings, Organ

We shot 100 + strangers portraits who choose a sticker that pertained to an organization/company that has either consumed them or acted as an alternative means of communication to operate with society.

Group Vocals:
P Smoov (Mad Rad)
Rosanna Veatch
Zach Fleury
Sol
Xperience
Macklemore
Anna Clausen
Isabella Du Graf
and more.

Ryan Lewis
RyanLewisProductions.com
RyanLewisProductions@gmail.com
Myspace.com/RyanLewisMusic
Myspace.com/SymmetryAndRyanLewis