Golden Opportunities

A friend of mine gave me the opportunities to create my second music video. My friend’s band, The Cutaway are an up and coming alternative pop band. Oli Court approached me to create a music video for the title  track of their new EP ‘Golden Opportunities’. Following my method of working, I prefer to create a video with a story that viewers can follow, thus keeping their attention for the duration of the song. I listened to the track, and a envisaged a coherent story. The track gave me visions of pursuit, or two lovers on the run, and so, the scenario was set. The various characters within the video seemed to fall out of this process, then again, as mentioned before, I seem to have a knack of creating characters for certain scenarios.

I had a lot of passion for the song and wanted this to come through in the video, so spent a lot of time perfecting each scene, I was also teaching myself Cinema 4D at the time and wanted to use the video to take advantage of this. A few scenes, (such as the one in the bar where you first see the band) took two weeks to create and animate…for only a few seconds of screen time! – it was long (10 months to complete, working in my spare time) but it was worth it. I had to cut a lot of scenes even, the female character was intended to use a horse and a boat, unfortunately, this would have been to much pack in. Below the video, I’ve placed a few production shots of the video, as well as a few of my initial ideas I jotted down when the video was in its planning stage. ~Enjoy!