Welcome to my music video project! This was a collaboration between myself, Cayley Ho (whose website can be found at freestyleacademy.rocks/~CayleyH/Music_Video.html) and Binh Wilson, who's a film student. I wrote our song, titled Shivers, in May of 2014. With some changes to the lyrics by Binh and Cayley, we recorded my voice and the ukulele in the Freestyle Studio using ProTools. That, paired up with some electronic backing tracks, evolved into our finished product.

Our band name is Limerence, which means "an involuntary state of mind which results from a romantic attraction to another person combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one's feelings reciprocated."

This song was written around the idea of a siren who pulls a sailor to his death with her deceptively beautiful voice. It describes how, even though the sailor is suspicious of the siren, he is hypnotized into complacency. You can view the lyrics and listen to the song below. In filming, we wanted to capture the sense of being lost, then shattering your reality and finally letting go of all tension and worry. We filmed at Rancho San Antonio and at Binh's house, where we filmed a lot of shots with a high frame rate of myself breaking glass. The high frame rate means that we can play the clips in slow motion and watch the glass shatter at a more comprehensible speed.

Shivers could be classified as alternative music, but who really needs labels? It was inspired by the feeling (drawn randomly from a hat) of "suspicion while listening to music," which prompted a poem about a siren, which evolved into music. It has some darker themes and lyrics, whose discord you can hear through the use of chords like E7 and Dsus4 in the middle of other major and minor chords. Fun fact: Shivers was written in one day, from the floor of the English room. Shout out to Mr. Greco for not asking too many questions about the artistic process.

My concert poster, which you can see in the art section below, is designed to draw the eye to its center, where the colors overlap and make the head pop out from the background. The white lines are given color when they reach the face's outline to represent music, and how when it reaches your ears it can change the way you think and perceive the world. I used two drastically different fonts for the name of my band and album, and then for the venue, date, etc. This is another reflection of our music. The chorus begins with the line, "What you see is always different from what you hear," and I used the swooping font to represent how I hear the music. I also took Impact, the other font, and used a folded-paper tutorial in illustrator on that text. It shows the truth about things appearing differently than you think they would, and the folded paper design was intended to create shadows on the text to further embody that concept. The shirt, similarly, has a black background with the colored lines and the presence of the two contrasting fonts. The lines come from the ukulele that I'm holding, embodying the music that flows from it.

This video was filmed and edited by Binh Wilson. I'm the actor and singer, and Cayley Ho and I collaborated on mixing the music and adding background tracks. The video was inspired by the story in the song Shivers, and illustrates shifts between discontentment and hypnotic calm.

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Click here to view the music video on Youtube.

Click here to download the Shivers music video.

Click here to download the Shivers mp3.

 

You can see the lyrics to Shivers below.

 

This is my photo gallery. It includes pictures of us recording in the studio, filming on location at Rancho San Antonio and Binh's driveway, screenshots of our music editing process, and more. On a monitor, you can drag the polaroids around to see those that are hidden behind others. Enjoy!

 

The poster art for my fictional concert and my band t-shirt can be found below, along with Cayley and Binh's arwork.

Limerence Artwork
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