“Then other people would come in for 30 minutes. Then we let him go change clothes,” Rousseau said about the different shots in the videos. “We tried to keep it wide, medium, close-up, just him vibing.
As a label they were prepped.”Īlong with the Cash Money/ Young Money family, Juelz Santana, Yo Gotti and boxer Sugar Shane Mosley came out for the shoots.
Everything was pre-thought, whether it be by Baby or Slim or Wayne himself. They may not be completely sculpted out, but there is a plan. In the next couple of weeks, we’ll figure out what we got ‘Let’s take this over here, let’s take this over there.’ At the end of the day, what it comes down to is making sure you got Wayne in the can. “Cash Money came to the table with certain rough concepts. “We got some concepts,” the director said about what we can expect from the videos. Rousseau did divulge that the video from Tha Carter IV record would have parts of performance as well as a storyline, as does the video for “Knockout.” No photography, even their official photographer had to leave. We had to kick everyone off the set for it. “Honestly, I can’t tell you too much about it. “There isn’t a title for it,” Rousseau said of the Carter IV song. The rest of the clips were filmed at the New Art studio in North Miami in front of a green screen and white background, so footage can be added later. “Da Da Da” features the rock band !Mayday! - which performed at Wayne’s “farewell” party on Sunday night - and was shot on location at the Marlin Hotel in Miami. Some of the videos that were shot over the weekend were “Da Da Da,” “Knockout” and “Get a Life” from Rebirth and a brand new Weezy song from the highly anticipated Carter IV.
He’s at the height of his career, you can’t let that momentum slip.”
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and some of these other guys that’s disappeared while they were in, the point is to keep Wayne on TV and everything for whatever time he’s in. Everybody is on board because everybody knows what’s at stake. This is a hard deadline.’ It was basically a ‘Mission: Impossible’ : This is your mission if you choose to accept it. Rousseau, who had previously directed the soon to be released Young Money video “Roger That” and the recently released Kevin Rudolf/ Wayne/ Birdman/ Jay Sean collaboration “I Made It (Cash Money Heroes),” said the Williams brothers contacted him two weeks ago about his huge task. Most of the time we only shot Wayne’s verses - we’ll finish the rest of the videos off in the next couple of weeks. We’re trying to get maximum coverage for Wayne. Some stuff from Rebirth,” the director told MTV News on Tuesday (February 9), before Wayne’s sentencing was postponed. “We shot some shit from the album, we shot something from Tha Carter IV. Friday and the last camera stopped rolling at around 8 a.m. The director said he and his crew started setting up for the production around 9 a.m. The Birdman) enlisted Rousseau to shoot nine videos for Lil Wayne during Friday, Saturday and parts of Sunday. Video director David Rousseau said he and the Cash Money team might need to check the Guinness Book of World Records: He and his company Creativeseen may be the new record-holders for most music videos shot in 48 hours.Ĭash Money chiefs Ronald “Slim” Williams and his brother Brian (a.k.a.