Sky Larkin - Molten
By Matt Maude
Katie has been a friend of mine for ages, in fact we go way back to when she was in a teeny band called Saving Lenny. I only call it a teeny band because all the members were teenagers. They were in fact brilliant. I still miss them.
However, new days bring new bands, and Katie's Sky Larkin had been part and party of my Mp3 since I've had one (last month).
When Katie rang me and told me that their London based film crew had dropped out and that their next single now needed a video, I jumped at the chance. Head long into the low ceiling of my box like room. Recovering from a short spell of unconsciousness, I was told, however there was no money. Not a penny.Apparently friendship is priceless, and I therefore went about creating a video that was priceless. Or another way of putting it, free
I've never done animation before, and using Sky Larkin's track I had the chance to go creative crazy using techniques I'd never done before. I shot the whole thing in Hyde Park to match the LS6 living that the band had all grown up within, and used locations within a moment's walk of their respective bedrooms. In some scenes, their actual bedrooms.The video involved a lot of walking around my house (or others) with my Z1, looking at the lyrics and thinking what would work for different sections. As the video goes on, I tried to match the lyrics with the visuals as much as possible, hoping that persistent viewers would spot something different every time they viewed it.
The song to me always sounded like the good times you had with you friends, the kind of fun that is seamless and without effort, and I hope the video followed suit.It was a creative blast to work on this video, and as was there no pressure of a big crew it meant it was a lot of fun too. Working with Katie in particular was awesome, and she had brilliant ideas, endless enthusiasm and made great hot dinners. Her gran (June) provided much of the characters within the video, possessing as she does, an entire house of porcelain. It was an all around Harkin help that put the video together.
The video can be seen here. While I was shooting it there very few photographs I took, but I did take some band promo ones, interspersed with the Polaroids that actually featured in the video.
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