We filmed this video for ‘Once again’ early last October. The first trick was to convincing Carol and Laurie they wanted to come on a bit of a Sunday afternoon road trip. 

I’d looked on Google Maps for a place close enough that might work for a bit of seclusion and found a pull-in by some scrub off Mitcham Common.  Laurie filmed from the back seat and Carol was pursuaded to do a bit of the acting in the front seat. 

We had been messing around on the Common for a long time filming but really we were waiting for dusk. I wanted to get a sense of journeying into excitement and jeopardy and that needed a bit of darkness. 

I had my pad of paper with shots to tick off which I was hoping would give me much more footage than I needed. Then later when I got home I moved things around to see what fitted with each line of music.  

Each time I do this I’m trying to make it visually interesting without ecclipsing the song.  The challenge for a narrative song  like this one is to suggest things without over explaining it. So there were a lot of shots I left out, shoes getting pulled off and thrown on to the back seat, that sort of thing, because they were too on the nose.  Instead of that stuff, I edited together lots of clips with ‘red for danger’ like the tail-lights; and that parked red car like a dangerous red heart.  Other bits came by with a bit of luck; I really like that fox scuttling away at 0.55 – moody 😉

Anyhow as you won’t be able to tell from the video we had a laugh running around on the Common and squashed into the car. Hope you like the song! Thanks Laurie, Thanks Carol 🙂