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Paris Visone: Video Directing For GODSMACK, Touring With Big Time Rush & NKOTB

Kyle Fortch Season 1 Episode 10

Paris Visone is an American documentary photographer and live video director based in Boston. She was a recipient of the Getty Images Editorial Photography Grant and has been featured in publications such as Rolling Stone, and GEO Magazine. Visone has directed music videos for artists such as Godsmack and New Found Glory. After serving as Godsmack’s tour photographer for 13 years, she has now transitioned into a role as their Live Video Director. Visone also serves as the tour photographer for New Kids On The Block, and 
Big Time Rush.

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro
2:00 Hanson
7:00 at 40 changing career positions 
7:51 “I’ve been Godsmack’s photographer for 13 years, got burnt out”
10:00 was a VIP photographer that’s now she got on tour 
14:00 networking gets you jobs/using Paris’ photos to get me jobs 
14:47 meeting on the set of Banded 
16:30 scheduling tour to tour in the year 
17:00 New Kids & Big Time Rush fans are insane. Old ladies love the boys with great bodies - mid 50s 
18:30 Big Time Rush comeback tour / also actors they’re funny 
19:30 big mix of bands - couldn’t be any different 
20:13 country for a photographer could get boring 
21:00 why do you get butterflies with the band 
22:30 - transitioning to video directing / creating content for the video wall - iMag cameras vs camera 
24:22 different people running the cameras, some people need instruction, some people have a good sense of what they’re doing 
25:30 production side of the music industry - mini music video - more entertaining than showing just what’s there *** stick throw 
26:30 collaborating on the content side for the screens 
27:10 creating visuals using A.I - runway program 
Example: took the original album art and made it move 
28:00 A.I made it easier to redo older art 
30:54 concert documentaries- keep thinking about production while watching the docs lol
31:45 we’re getting old, Forbes 40 under 40
32:45 GETTY Images Grant 
33:00 publications been there done that 
34:40 Kyle still posting the rolling stone article from years ago 
35:30 going from “the grind” to focusing on the passion and art 
36:30 collaborating with other photographers rather than “looking up to them
39:00 Courtney Kemp - “do you want to work FOR someone, or BE them” 
40:00 first tour story - crew bus with blondie - tour bus rules - only girl on the bus 
41:51 VIP / stage runners 
42:30 New Kids tense moments going through the crowd 
44:30 sometimes you film stuff that shouldn’t be shown - have to respect the privacy of the artists
46:00 how many cameras per tour / venue 
48:00 camera / tech issues mid show - how does it get fixed 
49:45: it content goes down, have a backup computer / live cam going down 
 53:00 smaller venues vs arenas 
54:50 Top 3 Tours Paris has been on