Kellie Coffey Walk On

[5/18/2007 11:10:00 AM]  Video Shoot

Kellie wanted to hit the ground running

For the launch of Kellie's new album, "Walk On", Kellie wanted to hit the ground running. One of the most powerful ways to showcase a song is with a video. Most artists are lucky to get their label to shoot one video a year. Since Kellie has her own label, she thought, "Why not shoot 2 videos?" Kellie teamed up with Tom Blomquist, a close friend and accomplished film and television director who is also a professor in the film department at California State University Long Beach. Tom assembled a crew of well-known pros and a group of his most talented students. Kellie set out to film two of the most emotional songs off her new album: the title track "Walk On" and "I Would Die For That".

"I Would Die For That" is a song about a women's desire to have a child. The concept Tom and Kellie developed for the video mirrors Kellie's own life experience as a working woman and her inner struggle wanting to have both career and family. The video shows Kellie alone with her thoughts, the way it was for her on the road while touring the country in recent years with such artists as Kenny Chesney and George Strait... the way it was when she was longing for a child and asking herself the questions, "Have I waited too long?", ''Will it happen for me?"

The video's director, Tom Blomquist said,  "The song is so powerful, the lyrics and Kellie''s vocal performance are so strong that all we wanted to do was capture Kellie going through the emotional journey of the song." There were 3 main locations for the shoot. The first was a backstage makeup room. Tom recalls this location, "We called it the House of Mirrors because of the way it was laid out. We were able to shoot from different angles using different mirrors in order to see Kellie from the front and back and then have the reflections go off into infinity." Kellie surrounded the mirror with photos of family and friends. "Even though I was alone in the entire video, having those pictures there just reminded me of family and that feeling of longing to have and be with my family which is really what the song is all about."

The second location placed Kellie in an empty theater sitting in the midst of a sea of red theater seats. ''It may be my favorite location,'' said Kellie. ''It was so simple and yet dramatic and conv