We went to Orange Twin today so my kids could participate in Elf Power’s video for Pancake Mountain. It was a lot of fun. I knew in advance that the band wasn’t actually going to perform live. Instead they lip synced to “Peel Back the Moon, Beware!” from their latest album, Back to the Web. Most of it took place on the little stage pictured above, but there were also scenes of the kids and band streaming out of an Air Stream trailer, riding on this three-wheeled cart type thing, and sloshing around at the swimming hole. And if you’ve never seen the show, Andrew Rieger is dressed as the character Captain Perfect.
It was funny because director/producer Scott Stuckey seemed to have a “that’s good enough” attitude and was very open to suggestions. For example, after the first take Andrew noticed that it didn’t seem right for the kids to still be rocking out for the last part of the song because it slows down considerably. So they came up with having the kids sit down and sway back and forth for the last verse and then pretend to go to sleep at the very end. I can’t wait to see how it’s all put together!
Thanks, I knew Elf Power were going to be on Pancake Mountain, but was baffled when they never showed up on that show’s website. Now I can’t wait to see the finished video! You’ve got some lucky kids.
that was the most fun i have had all summer! i got to work rufus and meet so many amazing kids and parents. i loved it.
Hey, missy! Thanks again for helping me take a picture of my boys with Rufus Leaking. You’ve got some cool stuff on your web site.
I sent a couple of additional Elf Power pictures to Jeff at Optical Atlas. He put them all up in the photo section here.
cool! that sounds like a good and fun opportunity! it’ll definitely be interesting to see how the music video turns out.
Could you email me about the photos? I’d like to post some of them to our website as I didn’t get to go on the Athens Road Trip and cover the event myself. Thanks.
Tracy at Pancake Mountain put up some of my pictures plus a few by this fella named Dan that we met there. His are really cool because they show the rest of the band. Check them all out http://pancakemountain.com/photos/elf_power/index.htm