Hey Little Girl

Music video, set to the excellent 1982 track "Hey Little Girl" by Australian band Icehouse. I'd been looking for a while to do a video specifically for a song (any bands reading this wanting a video, let me know!), rather than just editing footage to music at a later date, and the words for HLG started to suggest the story you find here.

In a nutshell it's how a girl has her femininity stolen from her by the murder of her parents, how this subverts many of the icons of being a woman for her, and how she only frees herself by becoming her enemy. However, you could argue that although she's regained her life, she's lost her childhood, so it's not necessarily a happy ending...

I storyboarded the whole video, then created an animatic to make sure it worked. Then we filmed almost all the footage on Thursday 1st March with Becky Speed, with some pickups with the henchmen actors on 4th March. Editing took about 2 days all in all, including faking up newspapers, photos and the FX with the "ghost bullets". It was filmed with a Panasonic GS500, edited with Ulead's VideoEditor, with graphics work done in Photoshop.

Guns and girls fans, make the most of this as it's probably the last thing I'll do that appeals directly to the G&G crowd. There's other things to do, and at the moment I've run out of money anyway!

I would dedicate this to my Grandma who died in February, but she probably wouldn't appreciate the gesture. But she's missed, anyway...

A hi-res DIVx, 16:9 file of this video can be downloaded from: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=75P1STZK

For more information and images about the making of this video, visit http://www.redbluegreenproductions.com/

Category:

Music

Tags:

• assassin
• hitwoman
• leather
• trousers
• pants
• silencer
• gloves
• wigs
• masks
• vengeance
• becky
• speed
• icehouse
• gungirl
• killer
• femme