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We asked Director Gavin Randall for some thoughts on the inspiration for the video…
“The initial inspiration for the video came from the song. We liked the song’s themes of overcoming overbearing personalities and not giving up, while the upbeat tempo pointed us towards creating something fun and light hearted. I always felt the idea would be based around two characters competing or fighting. This led us to old style cartoons where the bad guy would set up elaborate traps to catch the good guy but would ultimately fail. With numerous situations and locations in mind, it was the bands name that gave us the idea of a prison with the two characters being the guard and prisoner. We also looked at classic prison break movies such as Cool Hand Luke, and The Great Escape for inspiration.

When starting production we spent a lot of time trying to find the right location. Originally we found a warehouse that we were going to use and make it look like a prison. Then four days before shooting I read an article where a feature film called ‘Screwed’ had recently used an actual prison to film in. After numerous phone calls we secured this location. We spent two days shooting, one at the prison and one at an abandoned hospital that we used for the exteriors shots. With close to 3 hours of footage captured we then spent the remaining three days editing, compositing effects and colour grading before arriving at the final cut.”

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The film was screened at ‘So You Want To Make An Album’ an Open Music Media Meetup/Discussion at the Black Box Cafe on Sunday 31st January.

Many thanks to Tim Newell for all the effort and time that went into helping us tell the story.

New Single. Firstly we’re ‘releasing’ Salt In Your Eye as a single, a video is being prepared as I type and we’ll be doing our best to have the whole world hear it over the coming weeks. Visit the wee mini-site we made for it using ‘viinyl.com’ and please tell yer friends they can download the song and more at music.escapeact.com.

The film of the album. This is something we’ve been working on over the last month or so. Our good friend Tim Newell has prepared a short film about the making-of ‘Balance’ during 2009 and its shaping up nicely. Its a nice culmination of this period of Escape Act’s existence, charting what was an interesting, challenging and emotional experience. The film will get it’s first showing at the Open Music Media Meetup in Belfast [facebook link] on January 30th, before being available on more traditional channels such as Youtube and Vimeo. Esteemed purchasers of our superb ‘Balance’ digipak will receive a limited edition DVD containing the film and various interesting extras.

A wee gig. We’re getting involved at the Oh Yeah Music Centre’s ‘Scratch My Demo’ series of gigs. We’ll be performing several songs including some newbies on Tuesday 15th February. Doors at 7pm and its free!

Happy New Year!

Rich, Chris and Ross

Listen and download more songs at http://music.escapeact.com

also, our good friend and supporter, Kevin at mp3hugger.com has blogged about ‘Single Thought’ – the opening track from Balance, declaring it to be ‘big audio dynamite’ – listen in here: http://mp3hugger.com/2010/06/escape-act-single-thought.html

don’t forget – we play Whelan’s in Dublin on July 10th, and on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th July, we’ll be doing loads of cool stuff in Belfast.

rich

Don’t forget, you can download three songs from the new album on our music page in return for your email address. We’ll be announcing special pre-order packages soon, so its worth the effort!

Youtube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goHEXNXauwc

as you can see, this was recorded before Ross joined the band, but we love the live version, and the edit, so we wanted to share it with you. the song itself is Burning Sand, a new tune we’ve been developing in recent months, among the others that are being recorded. we’re really pleased with how it’s turning out and can’t wait to share the recordings too… more news on that as it develops…

please leave a comment and let us know what you think!

Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l86kQVK8_LI

Will plans to record a series of songs under the ‘In Stores Now’ banner, so keep an eye on bandwidthfilms.com/instoresnow for more.

Enjoy!