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As some of you have already guessed, last weekend we were actually filming a music video for a band called White Flame! The shootings were great, and we had a lot of fun, although days were exhausting and filled with scheduling problems, but it was good to be on a set, directing, once again, after a pretty long pause. Most importantly, we were able to test out some elements we would later need for the Iron Sky the film, and also filmed some missing stuff for the demo.

The script for White Flame’s Hour of Emptiness video has been forged so, that the production goes partly hand in hand with the last few things we still need to do for the demo. Also, it was good to fiddle around with some nazi flick cliches, like Ilsa and an interrogation room scenario, that would propably be a bit too cheesy as such for Iron Sky’s style, but terribly fun anyhow!

I’ve never liked that much working on music videos for some reason, but they are good for training and pretty challenging - trying to fit minimum budget into maximum production values, and respecting the ideas of a group of half-alcoholic rockers (ok, ok, WF guys are actually nice people :). After that, shooting a film with enough crew, time and everything in my own hands will seem easy as hell! :D

The environment was amazing. We shot the film in the cellars an old, abandoned asylum close to Tampere, where we set up the most roughest interrogation room. The place was pretty creepy, and when we entered the room for the first time, we found in one corner a big pool of blood and some shells lying around the floor. No idea what had been going on there, we hope it was some props for another film that had been shot there several months ago. What made me feel uneasy was the fact that the blood was still wet and fresh…

The second day shootings took place at Akun Tehdas, a small studio in the vincity of Tampere, where we set up the greenscreen and had the band play for the camera. Good fun.

One of the things I’m most happy about was the castings: three super-cute girls from a Swedish pop-trio Sister Love, and a model called Sofia, accompanied by the band - mainly Vince, the singer - and each and every one of them did amazing job. I was especially surprised how well Vince, being a rock-band singer and having virtually no experience in front of camera, worked like a seasoned professional, always in a good mood and sporting everyone else up.

Schedules sucked big time and technical problems were present all times, but the crew was amazing, didn’t utter one word of discontent, and worked like hell despite long hours! The video was shot by Juice Huhtala, directed by me, and produced by Samuli Torssonen. We don’t know the release date yet (it’s up to the recording company), but you’ll be the first one to know! We posted some pictures to our Flickr account, go check ‘em out!

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