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The Vision There are a lot of tense and anxious moments alluded to in the song. During the run-ups to the verses and the bridge, I kept envisioning quick cuts between a close-up of Christian’s foot tapping and his guitar playing. Eventually, I hit upon the idea of the light bulb swinging in the background of all that. All of it seemed to add to the tension. This time, I not only emailed Christian these directorial notes...I sent him a crudely drawn storyboard. The Research Before Christian started shooting his parts of the video, I began researching public domain video footage and realized pretty quickly that it often still costs money to acquire the video because you have to pay a service to access it. I turned to the public domain images on the Library of Congress website, and found a few interesting American folklife galleries. I wanted the images to convey life in the country from the 1950s or earlier. I spent a day or two downloading some options and documenting the appropriate attribution required to use the public domain images. NJ STAGE - ISSUE 71 INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 71