WELL, HEY THERE! LET'S TALK ABOUT MY FIRST MUSIC VIDEO. COMPLETED AND RELEASED
FEB. 5 TH 2023 ON THIS SPICY SOUTHERN GAL’S BIRTHDAY! IF YOU ARE LATE JUMPIN’ ON THE BAND
WAGON…NO WORRIES, BETTER LATE THAN NEVER, RIGHT? SO, WE KNOW I WROTE MY SINGLE, “IM
DONE PLAYING CINDERELLA”, BUT WHO WROTE THE MUSIC VIDEO? WELL, OF COURSE SILLY, WHO ELSE
BUT ME. THAT’S RIGHT! I WROTE MY OWN MUSIC VIDEO AND ALTHOUGH I MAY HAVE BALLED UP
THOSE PAGES AND TOSSED THEM INTO THE WASTE BASKET A GAZILLION TIMES TO START FROM A
CLEAN SLATE, FINALLY, THE CINDERALLA MUSIC VIDEO WRITING WAS DONE. AT LEAST AT THE TIME I
THOUGHT IT WAS HA-HA. UPON MY COMPLETION, I REALIZED "WELL, KEELY NOW WHAT? MOVE ON TO
THE NEXT STEP." I THEN BEGAN CAREFULLY GOING THROUGH MY STORYLINE TO BRAINSTORM
POTENTIAL LOCATIONS FOR SHOOTING. I KNEW WE HAD TO HAVE MUDRIDING ACTION FOR SURE. I
QUICKLY BEGAN TO REALIZE THAT I HAD INFACT WRITTEN A VERY INTRICATE PIECE OF WORK. HA, GO
FIGURE! THIS WASN’T GOING TO BE AS SIMPLE AS I THOUGHT. I WAS GOING TO HAVE TO RECREATE/
STAGE TRUCKS MUDDING. AS AN INDEPENDENT ARTIST I HAD TO STICK TO A VERY PRECISE BUDGET! I
KNEW I NEEDED MORE THAN ONE LOCATION TO TIE WHAT THE LISTENER WAS HEARING TO WHAT I HAD
WRITTEN IN ORDER TO BREATHE LIFE INTO THIS SHORT FILM.
A HOUSE, A MUDPIT LOCATION, BUT WAIT I ALSO NEEDED TRUCKS! BIG TRUCKS AND LOTS OF THEM, SO MANY PROPS, MULTIPLE LOCATIONS AND MAN NOT TO MENTION PEOPLE! LOTS OF EXTRAS AND STILL A
MAIN CAST. WITH NO TIME TO WASTE I BEGAN WRITING OUT ALL OF THE CONNECTIONS I HAD
CREATED OVER THE YEARS THAT MAY BE WILLING AND INTERESTED TO HELP OUT AND GET INVOLVED. IT
WAS TRULY SO SHOCKING AND TOUCHING AND IN NO TIME I HAD ROUGHLY 200 PEOPLE READY TO BE
EXTRAS. I THEN KNEW I HAD TO CHOOSE MY MAIN CAST. I POURED A LOT OF THOUGHT INTO THIS PART
OF THE PROCESS. I WANTED THIS VIDEO TO BE TRUE TO WHAT I ENVISIONED AND KNEW WHAT I
WANTED IT TO BE A REPRESENTATION OF. IM SO HUGE ON EQUALITY AND SO I WANTED A VERY
DIVERSE GROUP CASTED AS THE MAIN CHARACTERS! I ALSO WANTED THE VIBE OF IT TO MATCH THE
DRAMATICS OF THE SONG AND THE DRAMATICS OF KEELY IN HER DAILY LIFE HAHA! ONCE I HAD SECURED
ALL OF THE CHARACTERS I NEEDED A VIDEOGRAPHER. SO, I BEGAN THE SEARCH FOR THAT. AFTER GOING
THROUGH AT LEAST 100 OF THEM SOME EVEN OUTSIDE OF LOUISIANA, I MET CASEY COPE! SO HERES
NOTHING I THOUGHT AND I MADE THE VIDEO PITCH. I KNEW WE'D MAKE MAGIC! HE WAS SO PUMPED
AND DRIVEN TO SHOOT THIS. I COULD SEE THE PASSION HE HAD FOR VIDEOGRAPHY WAS IN FACT THE
SAME PASSION I HAD FOR ALL OF THE ARTS I CARRYOUT. WE MADE THE OFFICIAL BUSINESS DEAL AND
THEN BAM! TO WORK WE WENT. IT DIDN’T TAKE ME LONG TO REALIZE THAT COORDINATING 200
EXTRAS, 50-100 MONSTER TRUCKS COMING FROM ALL AREAS OF LOUISIANA, A MAIN CAST, LOCATION
AVAILABILTY, AND MINE AND CASEYS FREE WINDOWS WASN’T GOING TO ALLOW US TO SHOOT AND
PRODUCE THIS EASILY NOR QUICKLY. IT WAS THEN THAT IT HIT ME! WHY DON’T WE JUST GO TO A BIG
ATV OFF ROAD PARK??? AFTER DIGGING I LOCATED THE ANNUAL EVENT TRUCKS GONE WILD IN COLFAX
LA. THIS IS WHERE MONSTER TRUCKS, FOURWHEELERS, DIY BUILDS, SIDE BY SIDES YOU NAME IT COME
TOGETHER OVER THE WEEKEND AND WELL, PRETTY MUCH GET REAL LIQUORED UP, MUD RIDE, AND
BREAK… HAHA, THAT'S RIGHT “THEIR AXLES OFF IN THE MUD!” I COULDN’T GET MORE SPOT-ON THAN THIS,
SO, AFTER ELIMINATIONG THE EXTRA CAST, I MODIFIED LOCATIONS AND THE STORY LINE A LITTLE. I
THEN WROTE THE DATE DOWN FOR TRUCKS GONE WILD AND WE BEGAN THE WAIT FOR ITS APPROACH!