About this project
Your Heart is the pop/rock band fronted by Andrew from Songs To Wear Pants To, and they are planning a music video for the song 'Never' .
'Never' has been a fan favorite since it first came out as a minute-long acoustic ballad, and last summer Andrew was commissioned to extend it as a radio-length song for full band. This extended version will be the lead single from Your Heart's upcoming album Autumn, which the video will help launch. Autumn is the second in a series of four albums which Your Heart will be releasing this year - one for each season. Andrew and Karl worked together previously on the video for In The Sun from the Summer album.
And this is how we see the story…
The song is a lament. Starting delicately the track sets the stage for an intimate moment with Andrew that progressively builds into a climax of broken-heartedness.
He stands alone in a room of cardboard boxes, starting to slowly un-pack them, revealing personal belongings that reflect a failed relationship. Picture frames are filled with photos of him and a girl through various seasons of life. The couch and the blankets on them, the lamps, the dresser, coffee table, television and other decorations all reflect this past relationship.
The song progresses and Andrew sets up the room with these belongings but nothing seems to fit. He gets it wrong with each attempt, putting everything in one corner or everything stacked in the middle of the room until he finally gets it right…and then proceeds to break everything.
The details of the story will be told through the photos he puts on the walls as he breaks each photo frame, one by one. At the beginning we’ll see the girl happy with him, but as her expression and body language change in the picture frames we are lead to a total breakdown of their relationship with Andrew left alone amongst the ruins of their world.
We wish to capture all the moments of breaking in very very very slow motion. The kind of slow motion that allows you to study the impact and fracture points a baseball bat would have on a flower pot before it explodes into a million pieces all over the room. That slow. Water-droplet-frozen-in-time slow. This means we need specific camera and lighting equipment that is very costly to make this all that it can be. Your contribution will help us realize this video without compromise and be able to capture destruction at its most beautiful.
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DON'T FEEL BAD PLEDGE ♥ You will receive a download of your choice of any one of Andrew's albums (including STWPT, Your Heart and any side projects).
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CRUNK JUICE PLEDGE ♥ You will receive the $10 reward plus a download of Your Heart's upcoming Autumn album, a signed and numbered copy of the limited edition CD pressing of Autumn, and a recipe card for Andrew's favorite juice smoothies.
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HOW TO ACTUALLY WEAR PANTS PLEDGE ♥ You will receive everything included with the $30 reward plus a download of the entire STWPT back catalog and signed copies of all 3 STWPT CDs.
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YOUR HEART PLEDGE ♥ You will receive everything included in the $50 reward plus a t-shirt that either says LISTEN TO YOUR HEART or PANTS (your choice) and downloads of Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring - the four seasons-themed albums that Your Heart is releasing within the next year.
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HEY AN MP3 PLAYER PLEDGE ♥ You will receive everything included with the $100 reward plus an MP3 player filled with never-before-heard music of Andrew's.
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WE ARE THE ROBOT PIRATES PLEDGE ♥ You will receive everything included in the $100 reward and your name will appear wherever credits for the video are displayed, including a commemorative STWPT page. You will receive an mp3 of the Robot Pirates singing about you. You will receive a video of Andrew, dressed as a Robot Pirate, dancing to a song of your choice - under 8:59 please (that's the length of 'November Rain').
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ZOMBIE PLEDGE ♥ You will receive everything included in the $250 reward plus Andrew will write a song for you, any kind of song you want, up to 3 minutes long. He will change his Facebook and Twitter profile pictures to a picture of you for a week. He and a friend will spend one evening playing Left 4 Dead with you and a friend on Xbox Live. Or some other game on Xbox or online... but that would reduce the zombie-ness of it all.
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SNESLY WIPES PLEDGE ♥ You will receive everything included in the $500 reward plus Andrew will give you the ukulele he used on "The Story Of Snesly Wipes", "In The Sun" and most other songs of his which involve a ukulele. Signed, if you want.
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GUITAR PLEDGE ♥ You will receive everything included in the $500 reward, plus Andrew will give you the acoustic guitar that he used on every single STWPT song that has an acoustic guitar on it. Signed, if you want.
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BAN JOVI PLEDGE ♥ You will receive everything included in the $500 reward, plus Andrew will give you his beautiful 1960s long-neck banjo. Signed, if you want. (By the way, the banjo's name is Ban Jovi.)
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HOT DOG EATING CONTEST CHAMPION PLEDGE ♥ Andrew will record an album for you. 12 songs or 77 minutes, whichever comes first. Whatever you want them to sound like and be about. As long as he doesn't have to sing anything that would shock and offend the average grandma.
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I LOVE YOU MORE THAN BUNNIES PLEDGE ♥ We will fly you to the video shoot. You will make a brief appearance in the video itself. You will be there for everything, including the wrap party. After which you will spend two days doing activities with Andrew, such as song-making, cosmic bowling, yoga, and pottery. All your costs will be covered, including transportation, food, and ironic thrift store outfit. After all, you will have just given us $10,000.
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Born in small-town Canada, Karl Richter was heavily influenced by his older brother’s interests to pursue the arts at a young age. Through secondary school into highschool he studied comics for inspiration in illustrating and story-telling, always looking to movies for inspiration. By the end of highschool he pursued design and moved to Toronto to learn about graphic arts at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Within 6 months of living in Toronto, his love of film and the possibility that making movies was real, he realized motion picture was the means to fulfill his desire to tell stories using all facets of art— from composition and colour to emotion of performance and movement.
After a few false starts, ‘The Boy and His Wolf’ was the first short film that Karl felt he had made something worth talking about. This was the beginning of his journey as a Director, which lead to the creation of ‘wendel’, a collective based moniker to take the emphasis off of Karl as the sole creative force behind any project he would write, direct, edit or produce due to the collaborative nature of motion picture.
'The Boy and His Wolf' was a Platinum REMI award winner at the 2009 International Film Festival while his second short film 'The Door' was an official selection at the 2009 SoCal Independent Film Festival.
The end of 2009 released wendel's second music video and first for Your Heart, titled 'In the Sun'.
2010 was a very transitional year for Karl and wendel as it officially became an entity unto its own, created out of the inclusion of Philip Bowser (visualFX) and Russell Greene (Producer) as well as Nicole Martens (PR + styling).
With the full 'cast' rounded out, wendel has relocated to Los Angeles to get into the industry proper, having started 2011 with Discovery channel and riding that to transition into doing continuous TV branding and motion graphics. This of course alongside all the continuous shooting for more musicians and brands including Quiznos, US Bank, Brother Printers, the NCAA, Colin Munroe, The Working Hour, TiRon and Ayomari and Lexdray.
Always keep your eyes peeled for new things from wendel.
