Andria Landis "White Picket Fences" Prod. by Rocc Starr
Director: J.B. Adkins
DP: Jess Dunlap
Prod. Co. Revel |
| White picket fence house where young Andria comes running. Opening shot. |
Purpose- To relay the most mundane and organic love story through emotional stimuli as well as visual artifacts all the while appealing to the aesthetic sensitivity of both the music and the artist.
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| Symbolic dead end sign. Recurring theme throughout video. |
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| Shot of wrecked vehicle after climatic accident |
The Look- Lots of earthy and wet colors incorporated. Grays, olive drab greens, and wet down cement with reflections. Flickering green and red lights with hints of blue symbolize streetlights against wet cement intersection.
The Vibe- Mood is initially bright and glorious, yet slowly subtracts as we near the FINAL MOMENT/CLIMAX. We display moodiness incorporated with the band performance by slowing down a fraction of the performance scenes and featuring Andria at her most organic emotional state. All performance scenes are enhanced through a hue of dark shadows, gloomy shapes, clouds, and gray, sensible color palettes. Overall dreary and rainy as the mood slowly digresses.
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| Reflections in water for performance scenes with Andria and BAND. |
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| Intensity of the reflection in Andria and the band's performance scene(s). |
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| Dead end road where Andria's love was first discovered and where love ended. |
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| More reflections in water. Looking closesly in the video we reveal Jakes reflection. Can only see when the video is paused or played back slowly. |
Video- We open this flick with a performance shot of Andria and the BAND in a vintage concrete-surrounded warehouse with wet floors and dimming green, blue, and red soft lights all around the space reflecting in the puddles. Also, we slip a quick dolly out [angle out] of a suburban home in a clean neighborhood with a white picket fence featuring a little girl and her mother running out to fetch the mail. All narrative will be overcranked and shot in 60 slowed to 24fps in an effort to convey the flashback-like memory. The story revolves around Andria meeting the love of her life on a rather deserted road while struggling with a flat tire. A young man (Jake Sandvig) driving with his friends discovers Andria discontented by the fate of her flat tire and pulls over to offer help. This is where the two exchange glances along with contact info and discover that they indeed have somewhat of an innocent affinity for each other. This is the catalyst that fuels the fire for the remainder of the symbolic relationship between the two. Jake Sandvig Ref.
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| Road similar to the one Andria and her love 1st meet. Colors and tones in this shot match what we see in the exteriors. |
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| Ex. of our principle as she frantically awaits help for a flat tire before discovering her love. |
Note: Dead end sign where the two met on a bright sunny day. Dramatic irony at its very finest. The two young adults embark on a journey of courtship so mundane it causes the audience to feel as if they are experiencing sensations of new love again for the first time regardless of relational status. Andria and Jake are seen hanging out in bars together, taking dance lessons, applying dance lessons to the actual ballroom together, picking berries together, hiking, and kissing/courting. The climax of their love comes to a screeching halt on a rainy day when Jake and Andria are featured driving down a rainy, windy, winding path with an unforeseen dead end on approach. Jake turns a sentimental eye towards Andria and fails to see the dead end road sign up ahead where he then proceeds to lose control of the vehicle, resulting in his own fatality. Ambulance, police, and paramedics all around, Jake is lifted onto the gurney/stretcher where it is implied that he is pronounced dead on the spot. Andria is featured crying and in shock that the love of her life is no moreTowards the end of the song we see Andria sitting/singing next to her love’s grave where we dolly out and REVEAL her love behind her unawares observing the entire ordeal. This leaves the audience with a cliffhanger wondering whether or not the unthinkable did actually occur, or if this instance is a mere figure of Andria’s or the audiences’ wildest imagination.
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| Gravesite where we dolly out and REVEAL Andria's love. |
Execution-Shooting all performance scenes on the Canon 5d MkII with Ziess Primes and zooms. Extreme telephotos for CU’s on all instruments and faces. All narrative scenes shot in 60 or overcranked with 7D and RED Mysterium X camera [Cooke lenses]. Lenses discretion of Jess. Flickering and lighting complete with Magic gadget flicker box and dimmers disc. of Ryan/Jess. Car narrative scenes executed with one car mount on the exterior of the front of the vehicle looking into the driver and passenger seat along with interiors with grips/gaffers standing on the outside moving lights past the windows and lightly soiling the vehicle with a sprinkler/water hose in order to simulate rain.
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| Audacity and intensity of the accident. We use a wrecked vehicle in order to display the intensity of the accident. |
