Tell Me Where It Went – journey of a music video

Making the video for Tell Me Where To Go and filming/animating it all with my friend Joseph Boyle was one brilliant journey. It’s subsequent tour of film festivals over the past year was also a totally unexpected ride. Disappearing into a journey in a world of one’s own to create a video about a fantastical journey, only for it to go off on its own unexpected voyage across the globe has all been rather surreal. We watched it get picked up by 35 different film festivals across the continents, receive nominations and awards, get championed by various folk, culminating in us attending the British Animation Awards at BFI Southbank in London, where it was nominated for a Best Music Video award. The song too was appreciated with radio play and a ‘Best Song’ award from the Cannes World Film Festival. All of which is crazy. We met a lot of truly wonderful people, who shared a lot of love and appreciation for the work Tell Me Where To Go became. It was quite overwhelming and it leaves one feeling very humbled and grateful for it all. It was made with a lot of love, and many long long hours creating artwork, the story, and with myself and Joe in a darkened room aboard my boat, creating scenes and moving things in minute increments, snapping a frame each time. Tell Me Where To Go will continue on its own journey and for now it feels like there’s nothing else to do around it. But what I’m left with is the wonderful creative experience of merging music with art and storytelling, and that it’s the start of a journey rather than the end of one. One of the nicest things to happen through the journey was the BBC World Service produced a documentary piece about the making of it for their programme ‘In The Studio’, which was made by the wonderful journalist and film critic Antonia Quirke. Having Antonia on board my home, chatting to myself and Joe, and then hearing the brilliant programme she crafted was a real honour and joy, as was the wonderful feedback received from listeners. If you want to check it out, you can have a listen on the BBC Website here.