Other crazy cool music video with Mike Southworth from collide entertainment where I get to play with cardboard which I think is becoming one of my favourite mediums to work with.
The music video takes place around 1985 where the band The Matinée are around age 5-7 years old and are on their very first tour. My part of the music video project is to build all the instruments (Drums, bass amp, guitar amp, acoustic guitar, electric guitar and bass ) using household items. So the kids The Matinée put on a huge music concert for their parent and stuffed animals in the living room.
The biggest challenge with this is making the instruments be able to take a beating from Five, 5 year old hyper boys and still look homemade. I also wanted to replicate The Matinée’s real instruments since the video will switch to them in present time. I wanted the instruments to look like they fit the kids and so could not copy the actual size. Here is what I came up with.
The Cardboard Amps
Were made using cardboard boxes as the foundation then painted. For knobs I used beer/pop bottle caps and lego as power buttons and standby buttons. Then to finish off the amps used jump/skipping ropes as patch cords.
This is a play on 1980’s Marshall Stacks using cardboard, beer/pop bottle caps, and lego
Wanted these to resemble vintage tweed fender amps
The bass cabinet had to have a real monitor that was used to playback the song the band would be rock'n out to so I cut out some round holes and put landscaping cloth so the sound can still travel through it.
The Drums
These were the greatest challenge because they had to be strong enough to take a beating which they did and they stood up to it. I had to incorporate wood so I made stands out of wood with plywood bottoms.
Top view of the drums 80% finished
Adding The Matinee logo to the bass drum
Guitars
I built a couple of different guitars because I was not sure which ones they were going to use in the video.
Fender Strat. almost complete.
acoustic formation backside
acoustic from front.
Microphone
Had to use my daughter to give me an idea of what size to make it. even know she is way younger.
Power Wheels - re-paint
I also had to quickly paint this girls I jeep that was originally purple, pink and light blue princess designed power wheels. So Red, Black it changed.
