I forgot, we've been working on a music video. Last Thursday we got together in Laurier park to talk about it. Arthur, who has been nice enough to lend his talent and equipment to this venture, also showed up and gave some constructive criticism.
Before he showed up, we threw around a few songs, including "Perseus" and "Mixtapes". I had an idea for the former involving a black-and-white cowboy retelling of the greek legend, which amazingly failed to win a positive consensus. We finally settled on "Headfull", reasoning that it was an energetic, mid-length song which represented our sound well. We also felt we could give the video a narrative that wasn't chained (or even necessarily connected) to the lyrics, in a way that some of the 'story' songs like "Red Plaid Shirt" would probably end up being.
We knew we wanted to have a few things going on at once, including the shot of the band playing. I wanted to have the band on the roof of 914 Mt. Royal, where there is (for reasons unknown) a giant metal octopus. I had the idea that the narrative of the video would be a few of our friends deciding to build this octopus, drawing up plans, constructing it, and then celebrating its completion with us. Justin thought that instead of building it, they should summon the octopus by magic, or they should at least be building it as a defence for an alien invasion. I couldn't see how to show either of those clearly. I am definitely no visionary. Arthur said that the story lacked conflict, and so we decided that a landlord would attempt to stop them from building it, and they would have to proceed under the cover of darkness.
The chorus of the song (which, incidentally, you can now stream on grooveshark) has these breaks where, when we play it live, we all jump. I think Mott (or was it Kassel) had the idea that we could film the band jumping in unison during these parts, so we came up with a list of iconic (to us) places in Montreal to film these parts, including the St. Christophe alley, the line at Romados, and the McLennan Library computers.
We're getting together to storyboard some time this weekend, and hopefully filming next weekend. I forgot to take pictures when we were planning at the park, so here's a video I took while we were still at their apartment. Somewhat unsurprisingly (considering his apparel), Kassel didn't make it to the park.
Before he showed up, we threw around a few songs, including "Perseus" and "Mixtapes". I had an idea for the former involving a black-and-white cowboy retelling of the greek legend, which amazingly failed to win a positive consensus. We finally settled on "Headfull", reasoning that it was an energetic, mid-length song which represented our sound well. We also felt we could give the video a narrative that wasn't chained (or even necessarily connected) to the lyrics, in a way that some of the 'story' songs like "Red Plaid Shirt" would probably end up being.
We knew we wanted to have a few things going on at once, including the shot of the band playing. I wanted to have the band on the roof of 914 Mt. Royal, where there is (for reasons unknown) a giant metal octopus. I had the idea that the narrative of the video would be a few of our friends deciding to build this octopus, drawing up plans, constructing it, and then celebrating its completion with us. Justin thought that instead of building it, they should summon the octopus by magic, or they should at least be building it as a defence for an alien invasion. I couldn't see how to show either of those clearly. I am definitely no visionary. Arthur said that the story lacked conflict, and so we decided that a landlord would attempt to stop them from building it, and they would have to proceed under the cover of darkness.
The chorus of the song (which, incidentally, you can now stream on grooveshark) has these breaks where, when we play it live, we all jump. I think Mott (or was it Kassel) had the idea that we could film the band jumping in unison during these parts, so we came up with a list of iconic (to us) places in Montreal to film these parts, including the St. Christophe alley, the line at Romados, and the McLennan Library computers.
We're getting together to storyboard some time this weekend, and hopefully filming next weekend. I forgot to take pictures when we were planning at the park, so here's a video I took while we were still at their apartment. Somewhat unsurprisingly (considering his apparel), Kassel didn't make it to the park.
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