A couple of months ago I found and friended English-speaking singer/musician "Arianne" over facebook. For those of you who don't know, she has done songs for various video games and foreign films. Her most memorable moment was probably the song she sane entitled "Come, Sweet Death", which was written for one of the most disturbing scenes in the feature-length Japanese animated film The End of Evangelion. I thought that I could possibly use her as a contact in the entertainment industry in the future, but it was also fun to get to "meet" a singer from one of my all-time favorite movies ever.
Anyway, she's currently a part of an electronic band called "iCON Electrobox" and just last night posed on her facebook that she was interested in making some videos. So I messaged her and suggested that I pitch an idea of collaborating for a music video with the producers of a TV pilot I worked on a few years ago. I've kept in touch often with these guys anyway, and we've worked on other projects since. (Seriously! Unlike that other guy I was stuck with for the past couple of months, these guys love me!) It seemed like a natural fit to have some producers who've worked with music and dance artists before to work in this project as well.
I got the producer interested enough in the project to fund some of the video's production, but I'm gonna try to see if I can't get both the producer and the artist interested in using some product placement in order to expand the budget. This way I might be able to get dancers and what not for the video if the video were to so lead in that direction.
But anyway, I thought I'd just phone in and tell everyone what I've been doing the past couple of days. And also to just brag a little about the possibility of working with someone from the original Evangelion series.
