Reframed The Podcast

How They Made This - Olivia Rodrigo’s Low-Fi Music Video

June 9, 2026·33 min
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▶ Find Inspiration and develop your ideas with Frame Set:https://go.frameset.app/3S0f30i▶ About This Episode:Cinematographer Todd Banhazl joins Dylan Hahn to break down Olivia Rodrigo's "Drop Dead" music video, a project shot entirely on vintage BetaCam, VHS, and MiniDV cameras. Todd shares why the team wasn't chasing nostalgia, but the unique beauty these formats bring to faces, movement, and atmosphere. They discuss preserving interlaced motion, lighting for low-resolution cameras, filming at Versailles with director Petra Collins, the resurgence of lo-fi imagery, and why the industry's pursuit of realism may have gone too far.

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