Production Brief: Fuzziekiss — "FLASH, BANG, POP"

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Fuzziekiss — "FLASH, BANG, POP."

September 30, 2026 · Eric Peters, DIRXECP

Full production brief for Fuzziekiss' debut single — concept, locations, schedule, cast and crew, gear, and the ideas behind each setup across the two-day shoot.

Project Overview

Artist: Fuzziekiss
Track: "FLASH, BANG, POP." — mastered WAV delivered ahead of shoot; single release timed to follow the video
Style: Early 2000s camcorder-style rap video — club shots, candid in-between moments, old school feel
Production: DIRXECP — Eric Peters, Director/DOP

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The Vision

When Fuzziekiss reached out about his first music video, the brief was simple: make it feel like a lost tape from 2003. No polish, no gloss, just the grainy, candid energy of old camcorder footage and a crowd of friends who don't know they're being filmed.

The reference point was clear from the start: 1nonly-style club shots, loose choreography of bodies in a crowd, low-fi lighting, single artist featured throughout. Fuzziekiss brought in a handful of additional references too, each for a specific reason — pacing from one video, VFX treatments on paintings and windows from another, car scenes and light builds in a shipping container from a third. We pulled pieces from each into one treatment built around his song "FLASH, BANG, POP."

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Locations

Location	Address / Access	Use
Highrise Balcony	Downtown Winnipeg	Wide establishing shots, both rivers in frame, natural light
Shipping Container Yard	Private yard, after-hours only	Hero/performance shots, car scene, FPV coverage; backup/alt: Decon's Corner
Select Start Arcade Restolounge	110 Market Ave, 2nd floor	Club/crowd scene — neon, arcade cabinets, candid performance coverage
Downtown Winnipeg (street)	Public street	Comedic insert — Preston walking a poodle on an oversized chain

Day One — Schedule & Coverage

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM — Highrise Balcony (390 Assiniboine Ave)

Wide establishing shots overlooking both rivers, raw concrete interior, natural light. The idea here was to open the video on something that feels elevated and cinematic before dropping into grittier territory — a deliberate contrast with the container yard later that night.

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM — Shipping Container Yard

After-hours access via production contact. This location drove the whole early-2000s, lived-in tone: hard shadows, stacked steel, nothing polished. We staged a car-scene sequence in the aisle between containers to mirror one of Fuzziekiss' reference videos almost shot-for-shot. FPV coverage ran on the Spydr ITSY-EVO with a DJI O4 Pro — low, fast passes threading between the stacks that give the sequence a sense of scale and motion no handheld rig could match.

Day Two — Schedule & Coverage

Noon – 4:00 PM — Select Start Arcade Restolounge (110 Market Ave, 2nd floor)

This was the centerpiece of the whole shoot. Everything about the treatment pointed toward one scene: a real room, real people, loose and candid — not choreographed, not posed. Select Start's neon and arcade cabinets gave us a built-in Tokyo street-crowd look without needing to dress a set. Ten extras filled the room across multiple spots inside the venue, with Preston moving through the crowd for performance coverage mixed in with unposed, in-between moments — laughing, talking, drinks in hand, shot camcorder-style to keep the energy loose rather than directed.

Downtown Winnipeg (street)

The day closed with a gag that came together almost as an afterthought and became a favorite on set: Preston walking a small poodle on an oversized chain through downtown, played completely deadpan. It's a tone-break beat, shot separately from the club block,

meant to land as a cut-in during the edit rather than live inside the main narrative.

Cast & Crew

Role	Name
Director / DOP	Eric Peters
Camera Op / 1st AC / Lighting	Skye Spence
1st AD / Background Casting	Matt Matthieson
Assistant	Gabe Bell
Assistant	Blaze

Extras: 10 confirmed for the Select Start club scene, recruited through Matt Matthieson's contacts. Food and drinks covered for the group.

Equipment & Gear

Category	Gear
Camera	Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K (BMPCC6K)
Lighting	Neewer RGB tubes, Aputure 60X
FPV Drone	Spydr ITSY-EVO cinewhoop with DJI O4 Pro

Lighting philosophy leans on practical and ambient light over rigged setups — hard shadows in the container yard, neon/screen light at Select Start, and natural light spill on the balcony — to keep the lived-in, slightly rough camcorder feel throughout.