Sleepy Sun-”New Age” Official Music Video

Directed, Edited, and Produced by Brandon Moore

INTRODUCTION

Working with little-to-no budget is always difficult. However, have entirely no budget can sometimes make your vision a nearly impossible task to achieve. “New Age” was my first music video project, in which I expected a to reach a somewhat large audience of enthusiastic fans. With this in mind, my initial goal was to create a video as grand as the opening song itself.

PRE PRODUCTION

From the very beginning I had big ideas for this video. Growing up watching fantasy films such as “The Neverending Story” and “Alice in Wonderland” were always a captivating experience. Therefore, it only seemed natural that I would honor such a genre. So in the spirit of fantasy I wrote a treatment, which would feature a young child who bares witness to a world that pushes the limits of imagination.

““NEW AGE” SCREENPLAY LINK

PRODUCTION

Adapting a heavy, psychedelic rock song like “New Age” had me stretching and expanding the limits of my filmmaking. Never before had I employed so many different forms of experimental filmmaking: buying a fish tank to shoot colored dyes and creating an elaborate setup to shoot ultra-macro bubbles to name a few. All of these bizarre experiments were extremely beneficial in regards to visual effects. However, shooting the narrative proved to be more of a challenge. Working with a child actress, Destiny Pape, and here mother, Amanda Pape as makeup artist, was very exciting as a director, but it would require that I communicate my vision very delicately as to not overwhelm Destiny.

POST PRODUCTION

With my nonexistent budget looming over my head, I decided to that in order to achieve a video teeming with some of nature’s most miraculous creatures, I would need to rely on found footage. So for the next 4 months scoured the largest plethora of royalty free archival footage on the entire internet: archive.org. Downloading and converting movie files of all sizes and formats became a daunting task in its own, although it proved worthwhile when it came time to start cutting. Using the newly converted movie files of archive footage, I began integrating it with the original HD footage I shot during production. From there I was able construct a fluid narrative.

FINAL CUT

After a 2 day shoot with Destiny, my child actress, Josh Unger, my supporting actor/grip, and an abundance of composited found footage I was able to construct “New Age”, an equal trippy counterpart to the psychedelic song.

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