I can't begin to express how excited we are that we now have a video clip.
Every band will tell you that it's not primarily your major concern to have a video clip, even we will tell you that.
It often will take years to raise the funds/have the organizational skills to piece together a video clip and more often than not your best option is some friend studying video production at uni needing some content for an assessment but even then, it's no guarantee that you'll get anything more than a 4 minute video of shakey hands and awkward acting, unsynced drums and a story line that makes no sense.
Everyonce in a while, life will throw you a bone.
In our case, we happen to have an extremely talented close friend of ours By the name of Pete Seamons from Epik Films.
In Jan of 11, Pete, Luke & I spent a couple days recuporating at Apollo Bay after running a holiday camp for teens at Philip Island.
After some deliberation, R Kelly's In the closet Youtube series, the laziest form of cricket
possible. (sit down cricket) we discussed the idea of doing a video clip whilst in tents on
a footy oval. With the knowledge that our songs weren't finished, they hadn't been
recorded and we had no idea how or when it would all come together.
But we sat on it over the next few months, as the EP was recorded at Grafete Studios
by Daniel Kelaart.
The Video shoot was continuously delayed by our indecisiveness and inability to organise what we needed to have sorted by shoot days.
But after a couple meetings at Pancake Parlour Eastland.
And a Parma at Micawbers Tavern, things were in motion, discussions were had, treatment was sorted. All we had to do was cast, organise catering, lighting and find a venue to shoot.
Another thing any band will tell you is, this is not the type of endeavour you take up during the infancy or your band. HYSTB played its first show in November of 2010. Discussed Video by Jan 2011. Shot July 2011 and Released September 2011.
Not because doing a shakey hand awkward video clip is difficult.
But to have an intertwined elaborate plot line whilst your main characters are played
by Children.This is more of the challenge.
So we began scouting!
Fortunately through a frenzy of e-mails, facebook chats, sms'and phone calls.
We had our main cast locked in and they did such an amazing job.
Shoot happened Friday 8th July and Saturday 9th.
Friday morning we met with our cast and crew,
Max, Caleb, Kai & Corey were all still very sleepy.
It's a pretty big ask to have strangers meet for the first time and pretend to be best friends. At 8 and 6 years old.
I sat with Caleb as he showed me his dinosaur book. it was totally awesome.
And then shooting commenced!
You can watch the behind the scenes video by clicking the link below.
Watch Behind The Scenes
The Story unfolds with our main characters (HYSTB as children) meet up in their
primary/elementry school hallway before class. Sam taps Luke on the shoulder to point out Nicola our Lead Girl. Luke is flawed and waves, she waves back and he is ecstatic! They all hi 5 at the premise of acknowledgement!
The story then follows on with several points of dissapointment from our main character
Luke, during which there are some adorable shinanigan sequences.
So the boys concoct an elaborate ploy to stage a school dance as an opportunity for Luke to be friends with Nicola.
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