Lately I’ve been getting more into music videos. I’ve been watching a ton of them from different eras, reasearching trends and styles. I’ve been watching as many behind the scens videos about how they where created and now all I want to do is do music videos.
One fun finding was that I found a new favorite director without even knowing. I looked for inspiration in many places and after a while something hit me, for many of the things I liked there was a common denominator, Paul Thomas Anderson. He is the director of an old favorite, Magnolia, which is almost a feature length music video (look at this scene!). After using an amazing film makers tool called Shotdeck to look at movie stills I ended up saving a lot from the film The Master which happened to be by him and for music videos I saved almost all of Haim’s videos. All of the ones I saved where by, you guessed it, PTA.
Now my head is full of ideas and I wanted to try out one of the easier ones just to see if you could do a nice video without too much preparation, just going with feeling. I messaged a friend named Mattias Larsson who I know makes music but haven’t really released his own stuff to ask if he would be my test subject. He said yes, I decided on a location and just him and me went out shooting with no more planning than that.
This is the result:
