Behind The Scenes - Music Video for Bump In The Road

Music videos are a great way to communicate your song on a new level. Making a music video is a lot more complicated than it looks and it is always a lot of fun!
Here's how we made one of my favourite music videos (and currently the most watched video on my YouTube channel!) ​for my song, Bump In The Road which you can also listen to on Spotify (cheeky plug!)

The Team
​​Myself and Callum Latimer, who is such a brilliant director and filmmaker! He came up with the concept for the music video and filmed and edited it.
Not pictured is Callum's Mum who was the assistant and kindly stood on a ladder for hours for us. 

The Master at work!

Callum first did test shots of each scene idea on his sister, then sent me the videos to ask me what I thought of the concept. Of course I loved it.

​Callum shot it in portrait and we did two whole days of shooting for these scenes.
Also hours and hours of editing for Callum afterwards!​ 

We got to film in the house of cats.

Maybe my next music video should just have cats in it..?

My signature aesthetic are
flowers, trees and leaves.

​​Callum and his family have some of the fluffiest, most chilled out cats so of course we got cuddles in, in between filming!

​I love them so much, so we had to include some foliage!

Our flower props which were dropped on me (it felt like Heaven!) and the finished look!

I don't think we did more than two or three takes of each scene because it all worked so well.

It was fun to interact with the leaves and flowers as they fell on me, laughing as they got stuck in my hair, trying to catch some, admiring them, playing with them like I would when I'm out on a walk.

I had a gig the evening of the first day of filming and I brought the leftover bouquet with me and decorated the stage with flowers!

Smoke & Snow

White chalk was sprinkled over me to give the illusion of snow as the music video moves through different seasons.

Show(er) Time!

One of our most impressive scenes in the music video was the rain scenes. 
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Big rain and water scenes in films always look epic don't they?
I wasn't dancing or singing in the rain on this occasion, but I think the results were still very exciting!
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Can we just appreciate how well my eye make up held on - I always buy really cheap mascara because I'm terrible at doing make up but by a miracle this one held it together. It held itself so well that it started giving me life advice.

Not pictured is the tablet which we burnt to create a smokey fog (okay it was a while ago, check out Callum's website to confirm!)

We had Callum's Mum on a ladder with a watering can and the shower head for the water!
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​This scene took the longest to make, we re-shot it and then after the first take of re-shooting, did a few more takes just to be sure and well, I was already soaked, so hey!

Callum also filmed each of these scenes with just the props and effects by themselves.
He then edited everything into three split screens, with the film being played in reverse...

Voila! It looks amazing!
​Click on the image below to watch the result:

Click here to visit Callum D. Latimer's website to see more of his work.

Click here to see more Little Strings music videos

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