Talk with the Band

Dean and I had a facetime call with Saving Herald to get things cleared up for our project. They decided that the song they'd want a music video for is their song Breathe. 

Maxx and Kenzie discussed how its message is about mental health. They suggested that they'd want the video to be of random stuff, so that it could be interpretable in any way, however they don't want the video to be taking away from the message of the song. Mental health struggles are important to them, and they also don't want the premise of the music video to romanticize or glorify mental health issues, nor be too edgy or serious, as this is an overused depiction of mental health struggles in the media and they don't want it to look cheesy. 

Dean suggested that we go the hybrid video route, with its premise following half-story, half-band performance. To make things as easy and put together as possible, we're going to record the band "performing" the song, and put the studio recorded audio over the video. 

As far as places to film go, we have a few ideas: abandoned areas around Florida such as the Miami Marine stadium, UFO homes, and some bike trails behind regional park that lead to an open area (which is our last resort, because it'd be hard to bike/carry our equipment over there). 

After prompting them a little bit, the band let us know about some of their own specific visions for the music video, such as having coordinated outfits, and a saturated and bright aesthetic look to the video. Maxx gave us an example, the song These Days by Wallows. 

We told them about what's required of us for the project, so we also discussed how we're going to make them a digipak and new website to promote their band. They said they'd be fine with us taking over and remodeling one of their accounts, such as Instagram and Twitter, or making them an account on a different platform where they don't already have an account set up, such as Tiktok. As far as this goes, we're still waiting on the band to send us their Twitter login info, because none of them know it by heart or have it saved in their Twitter app other than Maddie.