The new video for being here by The Stills is finally out! We worked on this back in May and up until now had only seen the rough edit which excluded the FX.
The concept for this video is what really makes it so amazing. Basically we are following the lead singer, Tim, as he walks through the city of Montreal with his band mates heads in a bag. One by one he locates each headless musician, and plugs in their missing body part.
Sam and the Hand
Sam Roberts plays a dark, mysterious character in the video and follows Tim throughout each scene, sometimes hidden in the background. The directors asked us to create a tiny gnarled hand for Sam, my guess was to bump up his level of creepiness and it was pretty funny to watch peoples reaction. Mostly everyone on set found it very “disturbing”, which to us means “good job”.
The hand itself was something we made using bits of what we had lying around the studio. Ry and I are keen on re using and recycling things when we can. Ryan removed the arm of an older puppet, then added an additional joint to make the middle finger extra long and gnarly.
middle finger
Then I added to the hand itself, details like fingernails and veins. We left all of the imperfections there to make it gross. The finishing touch though, would undoubtedly be the tiny little white sleeve.
finished hand
HANDsome
The shoot went down without any major hitches apart from some crazy weather and a race against the sun. Finally, I just have to say that Montreal is a rad city for letting everyone run around filming without a permit.
Watch the video here on Much AXS.
