Samuel had gone viral on multiple occasions (from both covers and their original tracks), and wanted to step up the game for their new release He Gave Me Nothing: from being backstage in a dressing room that goes from pristine to trashed, trawling the hallways of a venue, to ending up on stage – with a magical dream-like sequence along the way!

To get two of the three distinct sets shot in one day, we built them over the top of each other, hanging the curtain and rolling out a wooden floor for the stage. The main build element was a 9m long corridor, with a door at the far end. Reusing out flats for the walls, we aligned them at a slight angle to both give the camera dolly more room to manoeuvre – and give a forced perspective of the hallway being even longer than it was.

Once assembled, the gaps between the flats were hidden, and the whole thing was given a lick of paint to go a slightly orange/pinkish-white, as the whole video was intended to have a buttery warm texture to it.

Whilst we were building the hall, our set dressers were turning out studio’s fairly sterile green room into a lush environment of candles, flowers, fabric, and textures.

The final piece of the puzzle was turning that gorgeous environment into one hell of a mess… The finale of the track involved smashing up the dressing room, destroying vases and furniture, and collapsing on the floor with petals raining down from the ceiling – which was a hell of a lot of fun, albeit a chore to clean up after!

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