On the day of filming, I saw a message from him seeking a few more volunteers. This time I responded and said that I could make it out. He replied to meet the crew down in Mission Beach, over at Canes, and that I would be playing the role of a boyfriend who is having a fight with his girl. And with just that little bit of info, I made my way down to the beach.
I like being in these quick little video shoots. I did a few with my old roommate Ben, some of which can be found online, but it's been awhile since I've "acted"... today's shoot didn't really require much acting, but it was fun to be out there and part of the process.
The video is set to the song "One Day" by Matisyahu. The concept behind it is that the camera follows this figure from behind, walking down the boardwalk. Filmed in one continuous shot, we come across four "scenes", if you will. Each scene represents an emotion discussed in the song, and I'm in the first one: anger. In our 26 second part of the video, my fake girlfriend is angry and yelling at me, and I'm angry in return, until the figure comes up to us and we realize our fighting is trivial and peace is restored to the relationship. The figure walking down the boardwalk is (if you haven't kinda figured it out) Jesus, and he comes across a few other people representing moments of loneliness and despair.
The above description probably doesn't do the video justice, but I think it will be rad when it plays out on screen. The neat part is that while the video is playing on the speakers, there will be a dance performed on the stage that pairs up with the music and the scenes. If you've ever seen a video/dance at Flood in the past, you'll know how creative and cool these moments can be.
It was funny while we were filming too, because I was paired up with a girl I hadn't met before, who also got recruited at the last minute. As this was a music video and we're not the singers, it didn't matter what we were fighting about, as long as our body language represented anger. While the finished product will be one long flowing shot without cuts, we did need to do a few takes for it to all work out right. So she was yelling at me for funny things, and I was trying not to bust up laughing. A few tidbits:
"I called you 1 and a half minutes ago, and you're just now showing up two minutes later?! How dare you!"
"Why would you not decorate using concentric circles? I hate squares!"
"I told you not to wear blue!"
"You made me lactose intolerant!"
Anyways... the dance and video will be performed/aired at Flood on Sunday the 27th. And I wouldn't be surprised if the video of both are uploaded somewhere, as Flood does have previous videos/dances available for viewing on their Vimeo page. I will post a link when it's available.
Sayonara!
