Getting the ball rolling...

Now as we had the song ready, we needed to start planning the video. First thing was to get over the budget: since it was to be funded only by our bandmembers, then we decided on a humble sum of 1000DKK each, totalling at 4000DKK. One of my good friends, who makes music videos, commercials etc.(a guy called Mart Metsma) was willing to help us out for a cheap price (also since he needed to add more things to his own portfolio) of 3000DKK. To save on the location and transportation costs, we decided to do the video in our band rehearsalroom, which also was our living room (some of us were renting a house together at the time). Also that seemed like a logical idea, since we had many good memories attached to the place and it added to the sentimental value for us.

We came up with the idea of making a video that looks as though we're playing the song in our rehearsalroom to a group of friends while being ourselves amongst them. Hopefully creating a cozy atmosphere and a closeup from the band to viewers, with a feeling of being in the audience.

To realize that idea we needed as many participants as possible, so we organized an event for all our friends with the hope of filling up the room with people. Since we knew that it was going to be a long night and people might get bored or tired we prepared food and drinks to everyone (also drinks to get people more in the mood, since the video should look kinda like us partying with our fans and friends). Also we knew that people were going to hear the same song over-and-over again, thus we had to shoot as fast as possible.

Mart, who was shooting the video came also by a few days earlier and we did some test shooting to see if there was enough lights, if the camera angles were ok etc. We decided to get some heavy-duty construction lights to light up the room better (totalling around 300DKK) and that left us around 700 for catering and transportation (in this case we borrowed a friends car for driving people around and spent around 100DKK on gasoline).

A day before the shoot we also did all the shopping for nessecary catering and spent all of the remaining budget (that of course was a bit risky but we thought that if something does go completely wrong then everybody could throw in a few hundred extra...luckily nothing of the sort happened).