Behind the Infamous Music Video
So, about a month ago, one of my best friends, Christy decided it was time for her to move back to California. Being absolutely devastated by the news, I tried to deal with it by putting together something to say goodbye… in this case, a music video. She would always host these music video parties where we’d use her family’s old camcorder and record cheesy movies. I figured we could do something similar.
I emailed a good sized group of her friends, hoping that maybe half of them would sign up to do this… turns out almost every single one would respond! I was thrilled.
Usually, when Christy would make music videos at her apartment, they would be straight shoots; no editing. I couldn’t afford to do this if I was going to coordinate the schedules of about 10 individuals along with multiple shooting locations. This meant I had to do some serious editing, which I ended up doing.
Shooting started about 3 weeks ago in front of the White House and continued all the way till Wednesday before her birthday, which was Saturday, August 1st. All in all, I had about 80 minutes of footage amassed over about 15 hours of filming sessions. Past that, it took about 10 hours to edit it to where it ended.
Watch the video:
Needless to say, the video was a success and she was surprised and amazed. I gave her an iPod Touch with the video installed on it, which worked out perfectly. She even may have cried a little. Go ahead and watch the reaction yourself: