Grounds For Divorce

This music video is for a band called Wolf Parade. The video was shot around last St. Patrick’s Day (hence the snow and the green sham­rock on my right hand). I remem­ber it being a slightly bor­ing week­end. David was orig­i­nally sup­posed to be in it, but he found a ride home, and took that ride. Which, it turns out, was just as well, because I hardly had time to fit all the footage in as it was.

The idea was born from the song itself. I often found myself bounc­ing along to it, and I thought it would be funny if we fol­lowed a guy and a girl who find them­selves inex­pi­ca­bly bounc­ing to this song, in beat. Of course, there’s also a “sur­prise” ending.

I worked hard on this. It was my first real music video. Sure, we’d done music videos before, but this was going to be the first one where some out-of-camera edit­ing was going to take place. Where would my career be with­out our first Weird Al and Beck music videos? In any case, I went so far as to sto­ry­board this, not real­iz­ing how dif­fi­cult it can be (and how far off you can get) sto­ry­board­ing some­thing with such spe­cific tim­ing. The trick for most of it was to have the song play­ing every­where. I put it on my iPod, and hooked up my iPod speak­ers, and we went crazy.

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You can view pic­tures from the expe­ri­ence on Flickr.

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