Behind-the-Scenes of the 1st Burning Man: The Musical video
The weekend of August 8, 2015, a mad group of Burners, actors, and filmmakers made a 5-minute video of the opening number for a new musical called Burning Man: The Musical . With $5,000 raised via Kickstarter , this group of about 30 people on camera and another 20 behind-the-scenes put in a Herculean effort shooting in 4 locations over 3 days, mostly in borrowed spaces in Brooklyn and Queens to pull off this shoot. For many of us, it was our first time meeting, but there was a wild energy that weekend, and ultimately the whole was greater than the sum of our parts. What started as a small concept video grew into a full-blown music video under the guidance and vision of Kyle Fasanella and Amanda McHugh. We released the video 1 week before Burning Man 2015 (after Lillian Mauser-Carter edited the RED footage for 2.5 days straight) and put it out for the world to see. We did not expect 130+ newspapers, radio stations, websites, and blogs to pick up the video and write about it: ...