Obama Music Video Shot in Virginia and Maryland

By: EricByler
Published On: 2/22/2008 5:12:11 PM

I produced and directed this video.  We are predicting national exposure in coming days. Proud to say some of the best images were captured here in Virginia and at U of Maryland.

"Si Se Puede Cambiar" (Yes We Can Change)
Written and performed by Andres Useche
Directed by Eric Byler & Warren Fu
Edited by Warren Fu

Special appearances by Sen. Gil Cedillo, Kelly Hu, Ken Leung, Kal Penn, Wendy Carrillo, and Annabel Park.

www.YouTube.com/UnitedForObama
Videography by Eric Byler, Diego Morales, Amyn Kaderali, Jeff Man, David Hou, Annabel Park, and Rueben Aaronson.

Song recorded and mixed by Tom Von Doom
Video post supervision by Loni Pham.
Video produced by Annabel Park and Eric Byler

For more videos by United For Obama, see our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/UnitedForObama.


Comments



Very Well Done n/t (BP - 2/22/2008 5:30:50 PM)


Just Awesome! (The Grey Havens - 2/22/2008 8:41:15 PM)
Push this wherever you can.


Great job!! (Shenandoah Democrat - 2/22/2008 9:12:59 PM)
get this to south Texas ASAP.  


Excellent! n/t (Ingrid - 2/22/2008 9:24:47 PM)


Making of "Si Se Puede Cambiar" Music Video -- and how to download (EricByler - 2/22/2008 11:45:28 PM)
We were in Las Vegas when we began posting videos to our United For Obama YouTube channel. Soon after, we received electronic messages from artist/musician Andres Useche and from music video director/editor Warren Fu. Annabel was very enthusiastic about both contacts and encouraged me to work with them. In Los Angeles, a few days before Super Tuesday, there was a rally at UCLA, and Oiyan Poon introduced me to Andres. We filmed videos with Andres and Oiyan and others, including actresses Tatyana Ali and Kerry Washington. The next day, I called Andres to invite him to canvas with us in an area where there were many Spanish speakers. Andres turned out to be awesome at voter persuasion, and we had a great time doing it. At some point, Andres mentioned he was thinking of writing a song. Later that day, I was at his apartment when he picked up a guitar and started composing. He would stop once in a while to help me translate stuff from English to Spanish as part of our Latino outreach. I liked the tune of the song but I didn't fully understand the words at this point.

click here to read the rest of my MySpace blog about the making of this video, or to find out how to download a higher resolution version that YouTube allows.



What's Spanish for synergy? (jsrutstein - 2/23/2008 7:44:01 AM)
No offense to the pro-O crowd at RK, but the video's been posted at the pro-O-iest blog ever, Al Giordano's:

http://ruralvotes.com/thefield...

Al's been sponsored by the people behind ruralvotes.com and his enthusiastic readers to be in Texas soon through the Mar. 4 primary.

It would be awesome if Eric and/or Annabel could link up with Al at some point.

Congratulations and good luck to you and all the rest of the pro-O- ers.