Some news

Ok, I've been away for a while. But I've been quite busy and I still am. I'm in the middle of the preparation of a music video I have to shoot by the end of the week. The band is Italian and is called La Bottega di Musica e Parole. The song I'm working on is called L'anno del temporale (The year of the storm), and you can listen to it right here.
The whole idea I am working on is quite surreal: my costume designer and my art director are already very excited about the project (I fear they will have A LOT of work to do on this one)and I'm sure it's going to be great fun.
The crew will be pretty much the same I had on The Devil's Hand: that was the first time I was working with most of those guys, but it came out as a really good group. Plus the atmosphere on set was great. I can't wait!
Besides, post-production (mostly colour correction) on The Devil's Hand almost came to an end. Which means the official launch of the video is probably going to happen soon. Stay tuned!

Devil's Hand: photos from the set

Apart from making the DoP's desires come true, the crew's electrician proved also to be a very good photographer. His name is Stefano Druetta and these are some of the photos he made on set.

Actor Federico Bava and his "Devil's Hands"

Great Art director Ascanio Viarigi working like hell. In Hell

Ballerinas practicing with coreographer Valeria Curzio

DoP Federico Torres flirting with the Devil's concubines

Frontman Larry from the band "The Scrabble" surrounded by masked ladies

Masked lady in detail

Me at the monitor

The Devil is taking a break from all the cruelty and villainy of this world

More photos of the amazing band, cast and crew to come on my website. It should be ready in a very little while...

Photos courtesy of Stefano Druetta

Devil's Hand: a few anticipations...

I'm posting a few plates from the storyboards I used for my last music video - Devil's Hand - by Italian band The Scrabble (if you haven't listen to them yet, click on their name here and you'll be redirected to their Myspace. You'll be able to listen to the track used for the video, too).
This time I scanned the images before the shooting, so you won't have to see those annoying crosses all over the drawings...

CUs of the two players confronting each other

A couple of shots of one of the two players, revealing his own nature...

The same character as before, surrounded by his "ladies"

All images are copyright of © Matteo Bernardini.

New music video coming soon...

I recently wrote about a music video I shot just a few weeks ago and I defined it "halloweenesque". I called it that way because I got inspired by gothic tales and imagery while preparing the mood board and the storyboard.
The video is made to the song "Devil's Hand" by Italian (but English-singing) band The Scrabble. It is their first music video and I think they are a really good band. Listen to their tracks following the link above, then let me know what you think.

The text of the song tells about a poker game from one player's perspective: I based my concept on the idea of having the singer play opposite a very ...ehm...special player. I can add I had fun taking the song's title quite literally...

Great news!!!

Today the magazine Next Exit officially presented their last effort: "Young Blood - 2008", a yearbook containing the profiles of 190 young Italian artists who received honors and prizes in the Arts all over the world. And I'm one of them!
The launch of the volume took place in Rome at the Ministry of Youth.
An article about the event came out today on the first page (!) of one of Italy's prominent newspapers, "Il Corriere della Sera". If you can read Italian, here's the link... and I have the honor and the privilege to be the first to be named in the article (out of 7 young artists chosen by the journalist to represent the whole group contained in the volume)!
Today is a very nice day indeed...

Happy Halloween!!

Here's my greetings to everyone. Hope you enjoy the doodle I made for the occasion...

Halloween is my very favourite holiday together with Christmas. I should shoot something that takes place during this special time. We'll see...
I can anticipate that I recently shot a new music video and that the overall atmosphere could be defined as slightly "halloweenesque". Keep watching for new posts, then!
Bye for now. I just made the drawing and I already have to leave. A masked party is waiting for me and some friends.
See you soon with new posts.

Image is copyright of © Matteo Bernardini.

The "Stranges" Photoshoot

Back in February Italian magazine Next Exit interviewed me on the "Ooh Yeah!" music video. What came out was a very nice two-page(!) article-interview, which was made even more special by a great photoshoot Turin-based photographer Stefano Stranges made especially for the occasion.
Stefano was asked by the guys at the magazine to make photos that showed me together with the cast of the video. It had to be funny, ironic and catchy. I think he made an excellent job.
Judge it yourselves by looking at these few grabs from the shooting...

Here I am, back on set and surrounded by three of my gorgeous ladies. Ehm...Can you see me?

A family portrait

Unfortunately we were unable to recollect the whole team for the day: the male lead (Big Rob) and one of our ladies (Angelica La Lapin)were missing, as well as cast/crew members Valerio Sacchetto (actual DoP and fake operator in the video) and Daniele Manca (actual production manager and fake director René at the same time).


The camera you can see in this picture is the very same HVX200 (I love you, Panasonic!) we used for the video. It was my graduation present from my beloved grandmother, which makes her the actual financer of the video. Granny as the new Larry Flynt? I don't think so.
She seemed to be a bit disappointed at first, but the positive reviews we received on prominent newspapers and magazines managed to let her "granny pride" prevail.

Photos courtesy of photographer Stefano Stranges. And many many thanks to my brilliant costume designer Micol Agricola, who created and (in some cases)re-created our looks for this photoshoot.