How to Give Tribute to FATHERS and DAUGHTERS

Artist - Rebecca Roubion

In the wake of Father’s Day, Spirit Juice Studios CEO, Rob Kaczmark is looking back on a project that gets at the heart of the father-daughter relationship for our latest Catholic Filmmaking Breakdown.

Spirit Juice Studios worked with musician Rebecca Roubion in 2017 to create a music video for a song she wrote as a tribute to her father. We at Spirit Juice love producing music videos, as it offers a unique opportunity to tell a compelling story and evoke emotions through visual imagery and the crucial selection of key shots to match the lyrics of the song. Sometimes you can even give the song more meaning when the visuals are particularly strong.

For this piece, we filmed a full day with Rebecca around various locations across the Chicago area. We started out in an AirBnB apartment that we rented for this shoot and filled it with a haze that provided a dreamlike aesthetic for the video. It might have also given the neighbors a reason to worry that the apartment was on fire. We used a lot of haze!

Rob recounts the story of getting another crucial shot with Rebecca in an open field, and how it was a matter of timing to get the sun hitting at just the right angle at exactly the right moment.

The footage of Rebecca was supplemented with lots of footage of real fathers and their daughters from a variety of sources—iPhone footage, VHS footage, home movie camera footage and high-quality, professional video footage from our archives. We liked the look of having diverse shots and footage quality, and we sequenced these archival pieces to show the progression of the father-daughter relationship as the daughter grows up.

It all leads to a crescendo moment at the end of the music video when Rebecca shares a father-daughter dance with her own actual father in a gazebo that the Spirit Juice team rented and prepared with special lighting for the shoot. Lacking any footage from her actual wedding, they recreated the scene of a father-daughter dance, and Rebecca’s family was even present for the filming of this special moment.

We were very pleased with the finished product, as it is a wonderfully artistic representation of the eternal bond between a father and daughter. Don’t say we didn’t warn you if it brings a tear to your eye!

Spirit Juice Studios thrives on creative storytelling through multimedia—whether music videos, documentary films, short web videos for social media or longer feature productions. We are blessed to work with a wide variety of clients who allow us to share their stories and spread our Catholic faith through storytelling, from our camera lens to your screen

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