Blue Haven

Tomorrow marks the final shoot of the music video for our original song, Stardust. We'll be shooting on set. It's going to be exciting. Maggie gets to smack Charlie upside the head. We get to shatter glass. Breakin' stuff is always good. 

This has been an amazing journey. When we first decided to do this, we met with the video production company, and we were complete noobs. We were thinking something along the lines of We Get Up There In Front of the Camera and Jam, the Crowd Goes Wild, Confetti falls, Explosions ensue . . . and HEY! COOL! We have a music video!  Well, there's a little more to it than that. The production company is fantastic, and Tom walked us through it like the pro he is. This guys knows his sh...stuff. He's worked on some well-known films (The Crazies, for one), and been on projects with some pretty amazing actors (Forest Whitaker, for one). So this is no home-made 8mm looking job. 

The first thing Tom talked about what our vision for the video (um...yeah...rock out, confetti, explosions?). He'd listened to the song ahead of time and read through the lyrics several times to get a feel for it. Then he asked us about our script.

Uh...our what?

Tom was a good sport. He laughed, then gave us a lot of examples. We went back home and brainstormed. The whole band had some fantastic ideas. We had to keep in mind, of course, that the song is only three-and-a-half minutes long. But we came up with a good story that fits the song and was a ton of fun to shoot. 

So we went back with the script. Tom read it over and liked it a lot. He added some great suggestions, told us what to take out to make sure the video was more about the band than the story, and just pretty much made our first experience in video filming AwSoMe! We love Tom. 

Can't give away the details, because we're not releasing it until it's finished and Tom is ready to debut it on his TV station. But some fun factoids are we did, as a band, decide to do our filming in local areas. This is where we're starting out, and we wanted to pay homage to the place that brought us all together and the people who have been cheering us on all along. Also, as mentioned previously, Maggie gets to deck Charlie, so if you see him wandering around town with a black eye on Thursday, be sure to high-five Maggie. 

And as soon as we can, we'll get it out for everyone to see. We hope you like it. This is our first, but it definitely won't be our last. Now that this will be finished, we can finish all our originals - which we already have the lyrics for and the music for a lot of them - and get our CD recorded in studio. We'll also have time, finally, to do live shows, which is really what this is all about. Can't wait to get out there in front of all of you and share the music.

~ Blue Haven