In August 2011, I went to Ireland to shoot 2 music videos for a new artist “DANI.” The main concept video is called “One Of Those Days.” The 2nd is a performance video called “DMC.” It was a very exciting, fun, and tiring week. One of those “you get less than 20 hrs of sleep” weeks! You production folks know what I am talking about. A couple nights going to bed at 2am and waking to leave for set at 4am. Your brain is working so hard on what’s at hand to even realize or think of being tired. From the second I got off the plane it was go time. We had a lot of gear to find, pick up, locations to look at, props, even getting the actress…The thing that made this whole job so difficult was the location change. For 3 months, the videos had been produced for Stockholm, Sweden. We found out 2 weeks before the shoot that it was being changed to Ireland, due to “Visa complications.” The team literally had to start from scratch and re-produce 2 music videos in a new country with no help on the ground. It was a logistical nightmare. The props, the actress, some important gear, and a couple locations weren’t even found until the day before the 3 day shoot started. The 7 musicians that play with DANI weren’t even originally planned to be in “One Of Those Days.” I found out the night before that the client wanted to make that change. Adding 7 musicians into a video on an 8 hour notice shouldn’t be too hard right? Shouldn’t add any time to our shooting schedule right? In the end, the team came together and really pulled through.
Everyone stayed at a big house an hour outside of Dublin, in the good ole country side. If it weren’t for the hard work of the crew and patience of the client/band, it would’ve been a real disaster. There was absolutely no down time on this trip. If we were awake, we were working. Even the interview for the “making of” was done at the airport at 4am the day I left. There was simply no other time. Anyways, I shot my butt off and came back with way more content than I could ever use. Hope you guys enjoy the making of. Can’t wait to share the final video!
The “making of” was filmed and edited by Andrew Philip.
Andrew also shot the behind the scenes photos in this post and plays Keys in both videos.
Super talented and nice guy. Please go check out his awesome work. Thanks Andrew!
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105 votesvote as favoriteThanks to the crew, producers, and clients. One of the craziest and funnest jobs I’ve ever done.
Cale Glendening
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