A couple of years ago I started working on a music video, it was a self driven project so there wasn't really any deadline. I had a rough idea about someone who goes on holiday and every day she can see an image of herself and what she did from the previous day. She gets stuck in a loop and ends up following herself around. The idea played out in my head very well, I thought this is going to be amazing.

I started creating backgrounds in my spare time, each background had to have a sunny, a rainy and a night version for the different days and times. I got caught up in the lighting and the mood, I thought I'll put people in later, it'll be fine. I went all isometric and flat trying to get a feel for a place out of the colours rather than the shapes.

I got about three quarters through the backgrounds before I thought I'd better put it together and start creating characters. Unfortunately It didn't work. I tried editing it different ways. I tried putting captions on the screen. I tried simplifying the idea. It really was rubbish. Eventually I had to abandon it.

Recently I had another look at the project. Seeing the backgrounds with fresh eyes I realized the backgrounds where what interested me all along, not the story. I was creating footage of an imaginary but slightly boring city. A city where all the people are at a concert or something out of sight.

Going with the footage idea I found a piece of classical music and made a mood piece. 

Scenes from an abandoned Music Video

Having done all this work that went nowhere I feel like a character out of a JG Ballard short story, a character with an obsession he can't explain.