So it was 3am and I didn't wanna sleep yet coz I felt I hadn't done enough to call it a day.

Decided to watch some videos for inspiration for the documentary that my team and I are gonna have to produce in Sweden. I remember watching this remix, rehashed version of Coldplay's "Paradise" earlier in the day, and I really loved it so I decided to watch it again.




It's freakin amazing!!! Somehow, the African theme fits this song so damn well.
Very powerful song, love the vibes. And..

THE VIEW. Omg, so bloody spectacular. And how the bloody hell did they manage to get that piano up there in the first place???!



So I watched the behind-the-scenes footage:





Initially I was daunted by the duration of the video, but...
I was hooked in its entirety, from start to end. I'm so inspired by this whole thing!!!

I am in so much awe of Americans' gutsiness and spontaneity. Seriously, ONE DAY before the shoot, they discovered this fantastic location. Like WHERE THE HELL did they find a helicopter?? Omg. All these crazy things just happened and they jumped on it. They didn't even stop to think and analyse, critically, about how to go about doing this. Ok, I'm sure they did. But they never seriously thought about the risks? What if someone falls, dies, and technicality wise - is the lighting good? Will they get what they want? Their unpreparedness was clear when they talked about how nobody thought about bringing food and water up even after realising they'd be isolated somewhere atop a cliff. Seriously?! But at the end of the day, everyone's so happy and enthused and psyched up! That's damn amazing, I love their positivity and enthusiasm. I can actually feel it through the video. Their mentality: The do-before-think. I'm just simply wow-ed by the SPONTANEITY of it all. It's amazing. Love it. Speechless.

After a while I thought... Omg, this is actually really relevant to the docu we'll be producing.

This is our pitch and idea for the documentary:

We're gonna be tackling Sweden's music industry. Since music streaming like Spotify originated from Sweden and is taking the music world by storm by powering the future of music, we decided to do something related to music and technology. Mainly music streaming, esp since Spotify is gaining traction here in Singapore.

After pitching this idea to our supervisor, we're currently in the midst of conceptualising the idea. I've approached and emailed a few Swedes to be our profiles. One has gotten back to me and he's keen. I did a pre-interview with him yesterday via Skype - for some reason it's kinda nerve wrecking? But anyway, he's good to go as our profile. He's a pianist and has his views about music streaming.

A pianist.

And here I am, watching a video about "The Piano Guys". It all fits. Or I choose to see it that way (can't take it away from me) and that I was meant to watch this video hahahaha. I'm easily inspired by things around me and get excited so just let me be~

I'm glad I watched it, I'm excited. It has really made me... excited.

Taught me a couple of things about production: I think it's so important to learn to let things flow. Uncertainty is scary to me, if I don't have control over production, I fluster because I feel like I don't get the stuff I want and might get stressed.

But watching these Americans and how gutsy they are and how spontaneous they go about doing things as they produced this music video tells me that sometimes, we just gotta go with the rhythm of things. (Sorry about the pun haha. I'm gonna come up with another) And let it take its course and not try to tune everything to what I think should be the desired outcome. Sometimes, beauty unravels by itself in its uncertainty.

Ahhh.. so poetic. But wow, thanks Piano Guys, you made my evening. Or rather dusk. Have a great day, reader.