P R IN T : Arts& Culture
Wednesday, Feb. 13,2013
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It’s a wrap on campus rap video
Sage Niles
The Clackamas Print
Human puppets, rigging and
rapping Were just a few of .the
activities going on Saturday, Feb.
2, on campus. To be fair though,
it was not a normal Saturday.
Clackamas Community College
was privileged to be home to the
second video shoot for student
Kim DeLacy.
DeLacy also works in the
music office here on campus,
helping out with the recording
studio, fixing monitors, giv
ing tours, and walking students
through the music degree if
they have any questions. When
DeLacy isn’t helping out in the
music department or in class,
she is a budding musician. In
fact, her first music video enti
tled “Beneath Their Blankets”
currently has 29,000 views on
YouTube.
The video they were shoot
ing on Saturday was for a song
called' “Hold My Heart”. It is
described as a song about love
and being on tour and how the
two are constantly at odds with
each other.
“The song is about kind of
being a womanizer and player
and we had shots were I’m,
quote -y unquote, womanizing
which was fun to shoot,” said
DeLacy.
Thi§, however, is not
DeLacy’s personal view, but
rather a character she has cre
Director ofphotography fo r the shoot Tony Logue captures KimDeLacy and local rapper King Bishop Stylze midfree
style. The video shoot was filled with ideas and creativity that pushed all the members to perform their best.
ated for the song which is a part
of a five song EP where DeLacy
tries her hand at hip-hop.
“I wrote folk music, that’s
what I sing, that’s what I’ve
sung forever, but all my close
friends know I listen to hip-
hop, that’s like all I listen to.
So I jokingly recorded five hip-
hop songs and then everyone
started really, really liking it.
So we chose one of the hip-hop
songs to be for the video.” said
DeLacy.
The video shoot was ambi
tious to say the least. DeLacy
was suspended from a rig to
make her look like a human pup
pet. While it was visually inter
esting the human puppet idea
had a very practical application
to the core message of the song.
“This shot is me being a pup
pet. We wanted to kind of touch
on the fact that womanizing and
saying women are: objects is
kind of me being a puppet to the
media. It’s me saying whatever
the media or population wants
to hear. Then at thg end of the
video I’m cutting the strings of
the puppet and I’m climbing the
rope and that’s a metaphor for
going up no matter what and
that no one can stop you,” said
DeLacy.
Although this is fairly new to
DeLacy, she was lucky enough
to be working with a capable and
professional crew of students
and non-sttidents. The director/
producer for the video is- stu
dent Mae King love. Kinglove
expressed that the shoot was
going well and was very posi
tive about the direction it was
headed.
“The shoot is going really
well, other than our few minor
snags which have pretty much
gotten taken care of pretty
.quickly and promptly. Things
are going smoothly, we’ve man
aged to stay pretty much on
schedule,” said Kinglove.
While breaking down the rig
ging, and loading it into his
truck, Nate Leigh, who did
tech and rigging for the video,
explained his involvement with
the video shoot.
“I was actually attached via
rope and harness to Kim, the
rigging actually looked pretty
cool,” said Leigh.
Although not a student, Leigh
was helping out per Director
Kinglove’s request. “I am
involved with Mae Kinglove’s
productions so she has requests
and I try to fulfill them,” said
Leigh. .
With a crew of half a dozen
hard working individuals who
talked and acted more like
good friends than co-workers,
the video shoot was destined
to be both successful and tons
of fun. DeLacy and crew were
lively, with laughter and conver
sation filling the McLoughlin
Hall auditorium. With the video
shoot finished, the crew still has
a lot of work ahead of them in
terms of editing. The video is
slated to be put on YouTube by
the end of the winter term. For
more information on DeLacy
visit kimdelacy.com where you
will find her first video and
other information regarding her
music career.
Director/producer and student Mae Kinglove holds the clapperboard as
Kim DeLacy gets ready fo r the next take behind her. There was an over
whelming sense o f comradery among the individuals film ing the video.
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Student Kim DeLacy is suspended via ropes and harness, fo r her video shoot fo r her new song "Hold My Heart. ”
The human puppet concept is a central metaphor fo r the song.