In this shoot we all went to my house with the intention of filming the destruction of a small 15” TV, caused by Ashriel's character, but because of certain circumstances the destruction was cancelled. In the TV’s place we destroyed two heavy Subwoofer speakers which should have made a big sound, big spark and loads of smoke. I had these speakers lying about in my cellar. We wanted to show things being destroyed and damaged in order to show elements of chaos and anarchy. Ironically we didn't even use the footage of the speakers blowing up in our actual video.
(picture of Reuben's cellar)
The opening and closing shots of our finished video was filmed in one long take (actually it took three takes but you know what I mean). Ashriel (dressed as the Grim Reaper) had to turn on the TV and then the screen would display static, then I zoomed in on the TV screen until it took up the whole of the camera's field of vision. Whilst the camera was zoomed in, Ashriel had get into position behind the TV and stand with his head bowed. Once I zoomed out, then panned upwards to view Ashriel and then his apperance is finally revealed to the audience. This scene was heavily inspired by the 'Come to Daddy' video by the Aphex Twin.
