Music videos are the perfect combination of my love for both film and music. An impressive music video or a cinematic live studio session can give a song a whole new place to thrive and aquire mroe significance.
At the same time music videos are a powerful device to reach a broader audience, and an easy way to cut through the masses, while also creating artistry in a confined, straightforward format.
Walled Garden
Yannika, my friend from university, had just finished recording Walled Garden when we decided to make a music video for it. It was a very impromptu session, with just the location and the basic idea planned. The dancers (Lauren and Micaela) were creating freeform aesthetics and interacting with each other and the environment, so it was up to me in the edit to create some cohesion in the finished video.
In the end the music video was unreleased, as Yannika decided to re-record the song, but this posed as a good exercise, as this was the first music video I made for another artist.
The Bare Minimum
A music video for my own song ‘The Bare Minimum’.
Once again, Lauren provided an improvised choreography in an old ruin, with only the loose course of the movement pre-established. A great exercise for camera work and editing.
The End of the Space Age
Another music video for a song in my EP, here using NASA footage for a dramatic effect.