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The Pretender
Project type
Music Video
Date
September 2024
Location
Lakeville South High School
Over the summer of 2024 I had the honor to create this music video along side some great friends and the incredible high school a cappella team, Encore, from Lakeville South High School. This piece came from their 2024 ICHSA competition set and I had the best time creating the choreography and creative directing this music video. I cannot thank Encore and their incredible Director, Julie Brott, for trusting me to create for this project.
As the creative director and choreographer, I wanted to take the strong undertones of classic rock that comes from this song and create the battling dynamic between the two soloists. This piece is transformed with Katherine Bodor's gifted arranging and her artistic decision to make this into a duet. The once inner monolgue-like solo line is now a young person feeling lost inside his own head and a contrasting darker voice that seems to be telling him he's not good enough. In this piece we follow Cade as he is faced with making large life decisions in the near future. When we first meet him in this video he has little confidence and he is battling the demons around him which make him grow more and more insecure; a feeling all of us could relate to. The demons around him try to persuade his decision making and he stands up for himself time and time again. I wanted to show this evolution of Cade into a more confident version of himself. At the end of this piece we see him become stronger and stand up to the voices who are telling him he is incapable of following his dreams. This song informs us all to ask ourselves "Who are we? Are we who we want to be?".