Not terribly recent, but it’s my latest work and I’m relatively new here on Lines, so I thought I’d share. There’s a neat story behind this film, which I shot for my friend and talented artist Brinleigh. @jasonw22 suggested I share it here.
Basically, Brinleigh came to me with the idea of making a conceptual short-story film for her latest musical idea, and brought a rough script and some sound sketches to me for treatment. The story was written where each scene is it’s own conceptual piece of music and it’s own self-contained short story, but when assembled together you end up with a larger story arc as well, matching the album’s own concept. I wrote up a shooting script and took the sketches as mood music for the shoot, then we packed up a bunch of beautiful friends and headed out to the stunning Fundy bay region of Nova Scotia to shoot. One mosquito-infested long weekend later, after hiking vast kgs of gear across muddy fields and through old-growth forests, we settled down with the footage to edit.
The interesting thing is that while we originally intended this as a music video of sorts, we ended up shooting one story scene per concept, which then turned into sort of a video album, but because the music wasn’t more than a rough sketch at shooting time, the album became heavily inspired by the footage and the process of shooting, thus becoming something of a soundtrack. This conceptual feedback loop continued a little bit throughout the editing process too, as we passed rough cuts back and forth, tweaked ideas, and generally lead both the music and the footage towards their conclusions in a spiralling, cyclic manner.
The album is now out, and due to time constraints we only finished the first three pieces worth of footage, but that just means that over time we’ll have more to share.
