The time we were in a music video

So the story begins…

During the end of last year Evangeline had her final photography assignment coming up. It led her to inquire the help of Howard in finding a band to shoot. He had suggested some people, and after thanking him for his help we received a spontaneous invite: “would you like to be in our music video tomorrow?”…err, come again...
”Yes!!!”

We had been living at our college during that time and for that weekend we had decided to go home, we had brought our Brazilian friend with us, who wasn’t too keen to be a part of the video, but agreed to come with for the fun of it, she landed up being a part and enjoyed it to!. By the next morning we were ready and arrived at the location, with the wonderful help of a lady who kindly said yes to taking us there. Edelweiss was probably the most excited between the three of us. She was in it to win it!

When we arrived we met the crew, the cast and the band, The Boys of August-they are a 3 membered boy band who are very talented. When you listen to the song you'll realize just how much truth there is to that statement.

In our opinion one of the best parts of this experience was the smoke machine. Do you know how awesome a smoke machine makes you feel? We’ll give a quick example, for one of the scenes we had to dance around the bride and groom. Without the smoke machine it looks cool, everyone is having fun; it’s all good; but with the smoke machine it’s taken to the next level, it becomes incredibly cool, you’re feeling like a star!. There’s an extra “pazas,” and everything has a mysterious or whimsical feeling to it.

Let’s go back to the dancing around the bride and groom scene, it was one of the memorable ones because it was the first scene that we were a part of, naturally we felt a bit awkward, but as it went on it got better and better. It was like we were really celebrating the couple who just got married.

Another highlight from the shoot was the scenes of the babies. While we were shooting there was an event happening right outside; it seemed to be a moms and tots event with the fathers there as well. Naturally with these types of events there were babies! Now one of the lyrics you probably noticed, as well as part of the song’s title is “Baby it’s you and me.” You can see that with the combined situations how the idea came up to use some of the babies that were there, in the video. A brave soldier went to ask for permission and the parents said yes. The babies took to the boys quiet comfortably; well except one… see if you can figure out in the video which baby it was. The whole experience was rather funny.

During a “quick” break we went on a spontaneous adventure looking for food …you could say our inner modern-day ‘hunter vs the pray’ came out. We searched high and low looking for a place to eat, surprisingly there were very few places in this area, which started creating a stronger and deeper desire to ‘catch and devour’ our food. After driving for what seemed too long we found Steers! - A fast food take-away known for its great burgers and Evangeline’s favorite fries. Due to the struggle to find food we ran quite late in getting back on time to the shoot. (Not something we recommend), but luckily we had some grace.

In the video there’s a part where you see Edelweiss up on stage being serenaded by one of the boys, this was a pretty comic part of the shoot, here’s why: No one had been selected for this part yet because it was added as we were shooting. The boys gathered the cast and asked if any one of the girls would be willing to come up on stage and be serenaded. She had her hand up in the air volunteering her-self before the question was over - You can tell by this action how excited she was to be involved. She loved every minute of it. 

Boys of August, it was an incredible experience and we loved every moment of it. (If there are any more videos we would love to be involved again!)

So guys, check out the video, tell us if you liked it and what was the best part for you.