Musician Leeroy Stagger contacted me to shoot a music video for his new single “Everyone’s on Drugs” from his newest release “Little Victories”. After a brief exchange of emails it was apparent that Leeroy and I had a creative connection, and that this project would push the limits of the video work I have done to date.
Armed with a model (MW Photographics regular: Ashley H), makeup artist (Bonnie F), two assistants (Satnam S and Justin Q), and minivan full of gear – we met Leeroy on location in Drumheller, Alberta to begin scouting and shooting. I had pitched the concept for the video only a couple of nights previous to production, so a shot-list didn’t surface until the morning of the shoot. It was a stressfully early begin to our shooting day (5:30am) for makeup and shot setups – and we didn’t put the cameras down until 15 hours later.
The music video is currently still in production, but I wanted to blog about something that happened upon wrapping production. We had been shooting in an abandoned church in Dorothy, Alberta – and Leeroy suggested we get some still photos while we had continued access to the set. Everyone was super tired from the day, but happy to pull out battery packs and studio strobes on location to create shots you see here.
Leeroy played guitar while I shot these frames, the acoustics of the little church was quite interesting and gave the moment a bit of an eerie, but positive vibe.
