GUNS N’ROSES – YOU COULD BE MINE
You Could Be Mine was the first single to drop from GN’R’s 1991 Studio Album, Use Your Illusion II. It was also a music video promo for the Mega-Movie Terminator 2-Judgment Day, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The video also served as an appetizer for Guns N’ Roses fans anticipating the long awaited release of the Illusion records slated to drop later in the year. Gun’s video performance was captured during a live show at the Ritz in NYC. The performance shoot was produced by Propaganda Films/The Foundry (Metal Music Video Division), and directed by Jean Pellerin. The concert was shot on 16mm film, employing 9 cameras, the rest of the video was produced by Carolco Pictures. Unlike most music video shoots, this is not a lip-sync performance to playback. Guns N’ Roses were playing live and did not provide a Set List, so the Film Crew had no way to prepare for the near 6 minute song You Could Be Mine. Pellerin filmed the entire concert and as luck would have it, nearly every camera rolls out at different times during the “YCBM” performance. A lot of times bands re-take the stage and will perform a single again to get a Music Video in the can. Not GN’R. This was probably one of their last shows played with Izzy Stradlin’ (May 16, 1991), that was actually shot on film. It was a raucous GN”R performance in their prime at a sold out club gig in NYC. It was a loud, raw, high energy performance that would definitely be worth seeing again. That film and tape is sitting in a vault somewhere.. just waiting to be edited.
Directed by Jean Pellerin/Edit Directed by Mark Racco
GUNS N’ ROSES – LIVE AND LET DIE
The 3rd single and video for the Use Your Illusion Records. This video was culled from 30 plus live performances from the 1990-91 GN’R tour. The video is a montage of greatest moments of Live and Let Die performed in the US and Europe, from St. 
Louis to Mannheim, Germany. The video elements were line cuts shot on Beta SP that would be broadcast in the arena while the band played. Josh Richman was at the creative helm for this video constantly pushing the edit. “Slash me. GO…” The band had supplied childhood photographs that were integrated into the video along with some Super8mm film of a young Axl Rose standing in a doorway with a Cowboy Style cap gun to open the clip.. Edited at 525 Post in Hollywood CA, the offline edit was cut on a Grass Valley 3/4 inch tape system. The video itself was a relatively low cost project, pretty much a post-produced video. We weren’t so sure we liked the look of it, so we brought it to a film look specialist to do a test with the offline cut. Cost wasn’t really an issue and the film look was pretty nice looking, but somehow, side by side it just looked better on video. In a marathon 24hr online with editor Shursen Pursad at the switch the video was transformed, by punching up the colors and keying in multiple layers. At one point Axl said let’s put Izzy on a milk carton. A quick run to the kitchen brought back an empty carton of milk, and voila. The handwriting in the vid was supplied by Axl and eventually we created a handwritten Axl font that would be used for all future GN’R projects. There was also a personalized message that Axl added at the end for MTV.
Directed by Josh Richman
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS – WICKED GARDEN One of 
the most unusual things about the Wicked Garden video was the animations that Graeme created, he hand cut them with an exacto knife from 35mm work-print at night, while we were editing the video. Then he had the work-print film transferred, and we replaced the original shots with the animations. The film look created in Telecine still looks great, I love it. Strong performance from STP at their very beginning… and the the life-size cardboard cutouts of the band are outstanding. You’ve got film burns, cool in camera animation. Damned good video from a super creative director.
Directed By Graeme Joyce