Red Room Music video
The couple hours of Red Room footage is all chopped up and smooshed together into something 4 minutes! I watched it a good dozen times, showed it to a few people with opinions I respect, and I just don’t think there is anything left to do to the damn thing. I’m really happy to have it completed, and on April 2nd we can show it off to everyone.
This project as a whole felt like quite a success. I planned the concept and shooting from a thousand miles away, while MARBLE (Chantel and Matthew) did a lot of the leg work. They found the actors and locations and sent me pictures so that I could work out the best way to film it. MARBLE really gave me my dream project. Red Room is my favorite song off the new album and they told me to pitch them whatever crazy idea I could come up with. I have always enjoyed music videos with stories that move and match to the music and this song gave me such a clear picture of the story I wanted to tell. I was overjoyed when it fit their vision as well.
The two days it took to get the actual footage went by quickly and every problem that came up was immediatly taken care of. We had one actor back out at the last second, the coffee shop was missing all of the seating because of covid, the blood recipe turned out difficult to get consistent, and we changed the location of the morning scene last minute (Thanks for letting us mess up your house Josh Perrault)
Special thanks to Anchored Ship Coffee in Ballard for being so incredibly accommodating. They did everything possible to help with our shoot, going out of their way to help stage the scene and keep customers out of the shots. Larry’s Tavern in West Seattle opened specifically for us with Ian Carey playing a cameo in the restaurant. The space was great, the cameo was great and the drinks afterwards were great. Joel Phillips turned out to be the perfect person to play the lead role. He instinctively understood the direction I wanted from the character and he only gave me quality material to work with. I had so many clips of him upset, annoyed, distracted and pissed off, it was surprisingly easy to build the final cut.
This is my first completed film for Day Museum. I have another music video with MARBLE in the works and a few short films in production. I’m going to keep this momentum going so there should be much more to see very soon. To keep up find my Instagram or Facebook page. Or just keep checking back to this website, it will all be updated regularly.
