Fifteen Dead - Music Video

My band, Fifteen Dead had recently got back from touring America when we decided it was about time that we made a music video. Obviously this would be a good way for me to get one under my belt, as well as get practice doing them in the first place before I was doing one as a paid job.

Jack Peppiette and I met up to discuss concepts and art direction, we decided we should decorate the space we were going to use for performance with flags and candles to create atmosphere.

We had recently started practicing at a practice rooms in the caverns of Edinburgh's Old Town. So we thought this would be an excellent atmospheric place to do the video. I also rented out some strobe powerful strobe lights to give some parts of the video a frightening feel. Unfortunately in practice when using a strobe and a DSLR this creates a black bar across the screen for much of the filming.

We were on a pretty tight time frame, and with all the candles creating a surprising amount of heat, the rain outside leaking into the cavern making it incredibly humid and having to perform over and over for 3 hours, we had to call it quits. Unfortunately I really don't think we got enough takes to make the video as good as it can be. We so hopefully soon, it will make down to the cavern again to get some more takes under our belt and finish off the video.

For the narrative section of the video Jack was going to paint a symbol on a flag that was also used in the video. This all went pretty well.... as far as filming goes. We had to madly scrub the floor and walls to get the red paint off when we were done before anyone noticed.