WITHOUT WARNING breakdown
“And…what the hell is that?”
My computer graphics teacher stared at my screen like it had personally insulted him.
“It’s an owl with the fangs of a baboon,” I said, grinning.
I was thirteen. The assignment was to make people disappear from a park bench using Photoshop. I made a monster instead.
That hideous littlbecame becoming the cover art for the first song we ever self-produced: Without Warning.
It was also the first time we took full creative direction on a video.
The concept: a lost 90s horror tape dug out of your parents’ attic. The kind of horror where the creature looks like it was built out of f,oam, makeupd make up. Ofc the budge,t was Lthe OW so, in videoextremely extremly limited on what we could a,ccomplish what we envisioned for this video.
I was deep into body horror back then. Animatronics, prosthetics that would probably be considered a kids movie today tbh but I still love them
I watched a lot of sci-fi, post-apocalyptic wastelands, glitchy thrillers where you can’t trust your own mind. All of that still feeds what we make now.
We ran the footage through a CRTV, recorded it with a camcorder, then fed it back in.
Twisted the knobs until the image started falling apart.
Then we dragged it all into Premiere and started stitching. No polish. Just instinct.
I cringe at the song and video but it's a good reminder of where I started
Music video:
https://youtu.be/xr_SjJOG0lE?si=QHAwcwXHo5bgKElv
Trailer:
https://youtu.be/aEUZuaUZJKQ?si=1R__83GtnJSM2BNT
Talk soon,
Jacob & Dylan