Undertow
One room, one colour and a singer who would not stand still. Shot in a day on stage two and cut in a week.
Client
Marlo Finch
Kind
Music video
Location
Stage two, Kinning Park, Glasgow
Running time
3:42
Delivered
1 × 3:42 video, 4 × vertical teasers
On set
Stage two, haze at full
Final cut
The brief
Marlo wanted a video that felt like the last ten minutes of a night out: everyone still dancing and nobody sure why. No story, no performance to camera, one colour.
The shoot
One room and a full day of haze. We lit the whole stage from behind and let the camera find people rather than placing them. Twenty-two dancers, two cameras, and a playback rig loud enough to keep everyone moving for nine hours.
The cut
The edit follows the breath in the vocal, not the beat. It took a week, and the label asked for one change. The teasers were cut vertically from the second camera, which had been framed for it all day.
Film, 16:9
Feed, 1:1
Vertical, 9:16
Director
Isla Marr
Director of photography
Callum Reyes
Editor
Tomasz Brodie
Colour
Hana Lindqvist
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