Back in October 2019 near the end of my time documenting Caskets recording process, Caskets were set to record their music video for their first single ‘Glass Heart’ of their upcoming album. More blogs will be coming out about the Recording process soon once the boys start releasing more of the documentary and songs.

Prior to the video Chris (Bassist and boss man of Caskets) spent time sorting the props for the music video. Chris designed the boiler suit design, James (Drummer of Caskets) printed them and myself and Chris had the fun job for wearing the suits in, so they didn’t look brand new. doing that to 16 boiler suits takes time, using the contents of Chris’s garage with use of a saw, a lighter, some sand paper and good old dirt from the floor we completed our task of essentially fucking up the boiler suits. Chris got the glass heart made from Etsy, the quality and detail in the heart was unreal. I was definitely scared to be anywhere near the box with it in. The school tables were borrowed from a school in Barnsley from a friend of the band Lily. Authentic chewing gum and all.

The video is set in Bolton, at a very spacious warehouse, at Atlas Studios. Perks of documenting everything is you get out of carrying all the gear in. for the load in at least. All the extras were friends of the band. And the video was being shot by Life is Art. And as you can see from the video their work is amazing.

First part of the day was filming the narrative. The worker scenes of them crushing petals into the mysterious yellow liquid. The most exciting parts of the scenes were definitely when Craig ( Guitarist of Caskets) was tackled to the ground. The poor guy had to do that scene at least 4 times. Another fun scene was the flipping of the tables. R.I.P pestle and mortars. So as well as shooting the behind the scenes, I also was an extra. See if you can spot me in the video. I was one of the group that had to put yellow contacts in for the end of the video. I can confirm putting contact in for the first time sucks. And Matt (Singer of Caskets) was crying a good hour. I can safely say I wont be winning any oscars for my parts.

After all the narrative shots, the boys set up at the other end of the warehouse. Shot all the performance shot. It was amazing how much natural light the window lets in. Lots of takes later of the boys going ham and we were finished. The boys did well. Big shout out to everyone involved it was a great day of hanging out.

Enough words, hope you enjoy looking through the pictures of the shoot below. And I’ll be releasing blogs about Caskets recording their album soon.

If you haven’t already, check out the music video for Glass Heart - Caskets

Stay Safe!

Charlie