This music video was created for a band called The Majority. During initial development of the production it was suggested that we used the story line of a soldier lost, trying to find his way home, only to realises that home is where he left it.
The idea was developed from a documentary that Kris McDonald was working at the time. It was something topically current and close to the hearts of many involved in the production.
It was suggested that the song reflected the idea even to the extent of words being adapted for greater meaning.

From a production point of view it was important that the band had original World War 1 uniforms. We rented the costumes from a supplier who had the costumes designed for a BBC drama.
The modern day soldier’s uniform was a little easier to come across, as was the rifle he holds in the opening scene. This was supplied by a local army expert, who was also present on the shoot to advise the actor how to run and operate.

The modern day scene were recorded over the space of a day, the call time for recording was 5am in which the opening scene was recorded, ending around 7.30 on the beach. It was a very long day considering the following day we were recording the band scenes.
We had a amazing actor to play the role of the solider, Colin Osbourne. Colin was great to work with, he had a lot of patience and was very creative.

The location we used for the band scene was a abattoir. There was a derelict room in the rear of the building which we were given access to. As you can see from the production we used back light to generate a halo effect around the band. The other channeling aspect of the production was to get the modern day solider to walk into shot mid song on a raised platform.

This was a challenge as it was difficult to light plus extremely dangerous for the actor. Although it doesn’t look high Colin was standing around 12ft in the air on a very short platform.

This video received a lot of attention and was featured on save our soldiers web site.
Overall we spent around three months producing this music video.

Director – Kris McDonald
Producer – Andrew Cass
Assistant Producer – Aaron McDonald
Editor – John Granelli
Production Manager – Eugene Wong