On this visit to The Film Lounge -- an uncomfortable conversation goes from bad to worse.

A lone lighthouse keeper signals the end of an era.

A student filmmaker shares her winning entry.

A driven skater tests the limits of endurance.

A music video summons a world of fun.

And we celebrate five years at The Film Lounge by catching up with past filmmakers.

Suit up for another cinematic deep-dive here at The Film Lounge.

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♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ I'm Justin Norman.

I'm a filmmaker from Des Moines, Iowa.

And my film is Enjoy Your Evening.

Justin Norman: When I was younger, you know, I played music a lot and that was the thing that I did outside of work that made me really happy.

That was a great way to do something creative with other people.

And then as I've gotten older and it's less of a, I guess less common to be in a band with a bunch of people around my age, I've just switched over to filmmaking and got a consistent group of people that all enjoy it.

So, we've done about 50 comedy shorts.

Well, enjoy your evening.

And I'm -- Justin Norman: Enjoy Your Evening is about two guys that get out of a job interview.

So one guy really wants this job and the guy he's interviewing with is kind of dangling it in front of him and they have the experience that so many of us have had where they say goodbye and then they begin walking toward their cars and then they discover that they have quite a long walk together to get to their vehicles so they have to continue to make small talk on the way.

And the guy who wants the job, Doug, has to suffer through trying to tolerate the conversations that my character, Carl, is trying to start with him.

It's a great night out.

Great night for a game.

Yeah.

Justin Norman: They seem to naturally fit into a sketch comedy structure normally.

And when you're doing sketch comedy, you do three or four iterations of the same joke.

So if that experience was repeated several times it seems like it could get both funnier and possibly scarier the longer it went.

I think that the way that I end up scoring my comedies is fairly different from the way I see a lot of comedies scored.

A lot of comedies are scored very light-hearted and I like to score the comedies as if they are dramas and have the music kind of play a straight man role.

Popular place.

(laughter) You could say that.

Justin Norman: Creating an environment of seriousness where all of the unusual dialogue can hop in.

That is where the humor is at and the cinematography, the editing and the music is all kind of just a straight man for the strange characters and dialogue.

♪♪ Doug: Okay, well it was great meeting you and learning about your company, Carl.

Carl: I think he might be the one.

Carl: Oh, God.

You didn't hear that.

Look, we're still considering a few other candidates.

But, between you and me, I think you're the right kind of cheddar to make papa's little rodents squeal like the midnight banshees they are, if you catch my drift.

Doug: Uh -- I think I do.

Uh -- well, enjoy your evening.

And I'm sure we'll be in touch.

Carl: Can't wait to feel it.

Carl: Your touch.

You know, when we reach out.

About the job.

Doug: Oh yeah, of course, right.

Doug: Oh.

Carl: I just parked this way, so -- Doug: Oh, of course.

Yeah.

Doug: Uh -- it's a great night out.

Carl: Great night for a game.

Doug: Yeah.

Doug: Uh, you follow the, follow the ball?

Carl: Yeah, yeah I do.

I love me some ball.

Jeez, Doug, you really get it, don't you?

Doug: Yeah.

Carl: That's great.

Carl: Love it.

Doug: Well, hey, enjoy your evening.

It was so nice to meet you.

Carl: It really was.

So good, Doug.

Doug: Yeah.

Carl: Just up in the old parking garage here.

Doug: Oh, yeah.

Popular place.

Carl: (laughs) You could say that.

♪♪ ♪ Take me out to the ballgame ♪ ♪ Take me out with the crowd ♪ Carl: Ever hear that?

Doug: Uh -- Take Me Out to the Ball Game?

Carl: Timeless classic.

Me and my boys, we recorded a cover of it.

Doug: Cool.

Carl: Yeah it is.

It's pretty cool.

♪ If they don't win it's a shame ♪ Doug: You know, I've got a nephew, he's really big into ball.

Carl: Me too.

My nephews can't get enough of them ball boys.

Doug: Yeah, I really like to see 'em smile, you know, when they get the points.

Carl: Yeah, it makes me want to throw back a cold one.

Hmm?

Carl: You like cold ones?

Doug: I -- love cold ones.

♪♪ Doug: All right, enjoy your evening then.

Carl: Oh, are you -- I certainly will, Douglas.

Doug: Okay.

Carl: Might even throw back a cold boy in your honor.

(elevator dings) Carl: (clears throat) Doug: Oh!

I thought you were taking the stairs.

Carl: Nah, the stairs are all broken.

Doug: The stairs are what?

Carl: It seems like maybe these construction devils, they are as fond of cold boys as you and I are and got a little bit randy on the job.

Doug: That doesn't make -- Carl: Oh, already pressed!

♪♪ Carl: It's creepy in here, right?

(phone ringing) Doug: Uh -- don't you need to take that?

Carl: Oh, no.

I don't want to be rude.

I'm talking to you.

You remind me of a friend I had last week, also named Doug, also big into ball.

You know what he was really into?

Crock pot cooked venison.

Yeah.

Bought this beautiful Cuisinart cooker.

He was taking it back home through this very same parking garage we're in right now.

These, uh, bloodthirsty muggers sprang from the shadows, knives glistening and all that.

They tell him that he's got to give them his car or they'll stab his eyes out.

Carl: But they don't.

They don't stab his eyes out.

Uh -- they just take the Cuisinart and, caved his skull in.

Doug: Jesus.

Carl: They murdered him with the Cuisinart.

Carl: That's why I bought this knife to protect myself.

I know what you're thinking, I don't want to be paranoid or anything like that.

It's just, you know -- Doug: Okay, all right, well, enjoy your evening.

Carl: You too.

Enjoy -- I didn't mean to -- Doug: Are you serious right now?

You're parked in this row?

Carl: Yeah.

It's kind of crazy, I guess.

Doug: Yeah, that is kind of crazy.

Which one is your car?

♪♪ Carl: This is my car, Douglas.

♪♪ Doug: This is my car, Carl.

Carl: Okay, well calm down, we can both have the same car.

Doug: Uh -- what?

If it's your car then unlock it.

♪♪ ♪♪ Carl: Look, Doug, if this is about you wanting to give the ol' girl a spin, that's fine with me.

Want to get in?

Doug: It's a Prius, Carl.

I don't want to give the ol' girl a spin.

If it's your car, unlock it.

Carl: It has a proximity sensor.

Keyless entry is great.

Doug: It's my keyless entry!

Carl: Look, Doug, I thought that you were the perfect candidate for this job, but, this whole thing with the car was just, weird.

Now I'm gathering that you clearly lack the foresight to display your parking permit properly and you got yourself towed, right?

So do you want to stand there mocking your potential employer's gas efficient, environmentally friendly car or do you want a ride home?

Carl: What do you say?

♪ Take me out to the ballgame ♪ ♪ Take me out with the crowd ♪ Doug: It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay.

♪ Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks ♪ Carl: Long day, huh?

I cannot wait to get home, flip on the T, kick back a few cold boys and catch an eyeful of ball.

Um, where am I taking you here?

♪♪ Doug: 311 East 13th Street.

Carl: No way!

(laughs) I know that place!

Doug: Oh wow!

I bet that's your place too, huh?

And you're just gonna walk right in and eat my brisket and wrastle my boys and French kiss my wife!

Carl: What?!

Why the hell would I wrastle your boys, Douglas?

Carl: I live over on East 12th.

Carl: You screwed up, alright?

You screwed up real bad.

Carl: But, in honor of my friend Doug, other Doug, who is dead, I won't say anything to corporate, if you get out of this car right now.

(seat belt unbuckles) Carl: No, no, that's mine.

Carl: Oh Doug, enjoy your evening, alright?

(car door closes) ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ (phone rings) Carl: Yeah.

Did you get it?

Carl: No.

Ten out of ten meeting, but the ride home was a big zero.

I thought we were close this time.

Carl: We got closer than before, but all I got was the car.

Jesus, what happened?

Carl: He went for the car, but he wasn't going for the whole house and wife bit.

So, no wrastling his boys?

Carl: No.

♪♪ Carl: There's no way we're getting that guy's Netflix password.

Wait, what?

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Hello, my name is Jack Sarcone.

I'm from Des Moines, Iowa.

And my film is Salt & Sea.

Jack Sarcone: So this is a documentary about one of the last lighthouse keepers left in the world.

There aren't any left in the United States, so this was an adventure out to Ireland to find one of less than a dozen lighthouse keepers that are still there.

♪♪ The life of a lightkeeper -- Jack Sarcone: I found Gerald online.

He has a website and a book that is out about his life.

So I read his book and then reached out to him and became kind of pen pals with him up until I met him in Ireland.

Gerald is an amazing subject.

He had so much wisdom, had such an amazing life that he is really someone from history that is living now.

Jack Sarcone: I sat down with him for a couple of sessions, about two hours at a time, and just let him tell everything, his whole story, the history of Irish lighthouses, the future of them and just his thoughts and contextualized this lifestyle with his life and what it was like to kind of preserve that lifestyle.

Jack Sarcone: I went with my sister.

We stayed at the lighthouse for 3 days, which I'm glad it was 3 days, it was just enough time.

But also each day was completely different weather.

All I brought was a small mirrorless camera and a tripod and a shoulder rig and a microphone and recorder.

So I was really running gun and I just locked down shots and made sure, focused on my compositions and I let the Irish landscape tell its story as well.

I was quite happy to be there -- Jack Sarcone: The sound and the look and the feel is just kind of a natural, organic thing.

I didn't really spend too much time in post mixing and mastering the soundscape, it just kind of happened as it was.

I didn't add anything.

I wanted to keep it as organic as possible.

I'm more of a simplistic, minimalist filmmaker, so just kind of using one song to come back to and make it more of a pensive, contemplative piece I think really made sense with this as kind of a piece about isolation and finding peace within that and the end of an era as it was.

♪♪ Gerald: A lighthouse is alive.

The lighthouse stands there and it defies the weather.

It stands up to all the elements and it is performing its own duty, keeping that light or making sure that the light shines out.

Yes, the keeper has to do his work.

But the lighthouse is there doing its own thing, what it was made to do.

So yeah, a lighthouse has a life of its own.

♪♪ My name is Gerald Butler and I am a lightkeeper, was a lightkeeper.

I'm the third generation.

My father and both my grandparents were lightkeepers in the Irish Lights.

Gerald: This is where I grew up.

This was our family home.

My father was the lightkeeper here and it was great living here.

He was at home with us so we were a complete family unit and living and working away here.

♪♪ ♪♪ Gerald: The life of a lightkeeper, it's a sedentary way of life.

You're very isolated in it, so you're very cut off from the general public.

Gerald: It's something I was kind of used to, but still you really don't know properly until you experience it.

I can remember when I landed on -- when the helicopter left the rock the isolation was colossal.

You were on this rock and there was no getting off of it.

Gerald: There was a part of your mind wanted to be at home, or wanted to be somewhere else, and you needed to detach.

And detaching takes a little bit of time.

For me that was never an overriding feeling because I was quite happy to be there.

I had an adventurous enough spirit so climbing and exploring was fantastic.

Gerald: When I was out on the rock I completely lost sense of time.

You'd know the time you were coming on watch and going off watch and you'd know when the watches were changing at the end of the week.

It allowed me great time to read, great time to grow inwardly, to get an understanding of life itself.

Gerald: When I look at what is happening around me, every wave that will strike the rock, that has been going on for millions of years.

You can sit and look at that and know that your time here is just a drop in the ocean.

♪♪ ♪♪ Gerald: There are stories attached to these places.

There are histories buried in each of these lighthouses, incidences that happened such as the passing of the Lusitania.

Gerald: I remember reading in a book one time where a young boy might ask his father, what were those things?

Automation really changed the entire face and use of lighthouses.

Gerald: The motto of the Irish Lights was In Salutem Omnium, for the safety of all.

So that was why we were here.

We were here and we were offering navigational aids.

We were also keeping a watch out for anybody who got into difficulty.

And yes, we were living up to that.

That was for the safety of all.

But now the automation program came in and the de-manning went with that.

So the motto has changed.

And personally to me I feel that's awful.

It's awful to change that motto.

And I think it has been truthful to change it.

I think they have to change it because now lighthouses are no longer there for the safety of all.

It's up to a ship to provide its own safety.

The aura of the light, the life boats and the Coast Guard are here to help.

But lighthouses are not keeping an eye out anymore.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Gerald: I am eternally grateful that I was born into this and that in this time that I have come to serve as a lightkeeper.

Looking back on it, no, I would never have been anything else.

A businessman, forget it.

A farmer, maybe, but I don't think so.

There's too much salt water in my past, in my blood, in my system to allow me to be anything else.

I really am appreciative that I have had the opportunity to live the life I've lived.

(waves crashing) (waves crashing) ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ I am Aleesa Lavrenko.

I am a senior from Postville High School.

And I'm a dancer, theatre geek and aspiring filmmaker.

Aleesa Lavrenko: Pressure Pointe is a ballet film that showcases the practice of ballet going from studio to stage.

The most difficult part about making my film was since I was also acting in the film as well as directing it, it was really a struggle relaying my vision for the film to someone else.

So, having the person filming me stand in a specific way or getting exact camera angles and showing what I wanted in the film.

♪♪ Aleesa Lavrenko: I think the most rewarding was showing the true art of ballet.

Ballet has always been a part of me.

I'm really passionate about it.

So it was really personal to me that I could show the dedication and work that goes into making a good ballet performance.

Making the film on its own was a reward.

I just really was happy to participate.

But receiving top honors just really encouraged me to pursue filmmaking as my career.

I plan to attend the University of Iowa to major in cinema.

So after that I'd like to work with videography and cinematography.

Aleesa Lavrenko: Sometimes I just make films for fun for myself.

So I will make short montages of either nature or me hanging out with my friends.

But currently I'm working on a short film for a speech contest.

So I'm working on that with my classmates and right now we are figuring out a storyline, getting ideas and we'll see where it goes from there.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Hey, I'm Kaitlyn Busbee and I was featured on The Film Lounge in 2017 with my dance film, Introspect.

♪♪ Kaitlyn Busbee: And again in 2018 with my documentary, Paintallica.

♪♪ Kaitlyn Busbee: So, since my appearance on The Film Lounge a lot has changed.

I have move to New York City and I started an MFA at Tisch School of the Arts in their graduate film program and I am currently in year two.

I shot my first film for grad school called Stop Gap.

It's a four-minute long black and white film shot on 16 millimeter film without any dialogue.

Stop Gap is about a high school senior struggling with the harsh new reality of being forced to live out of her mom's car.

Kaitlyn Busbee: So my second film for grad school is a short observational character study documentary called Behind the Eye.

And I got to come back to Iowa and shoot that over this last winter break.

It follows an incredible woman, Lindsey Pronk, who works up at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

And she is an ocularist.

And what that means is she creates prosthetic eyes individually tailored to every single one of her patients.

Kaitlyn Busbee: So my third film in grad school happened right on the onset of the pandemic and we were scheduled to shoot a short, fictional, seven-minute long narrative film in New York City and then the pandemic struck and New York City went into lockdown and my program went entirely remote.

And so my partner Brennan and I decided to pack up our car and head back to Iowa.

And so I made a film about a young man traveling from his home in New York City back to Iowa to shelter in place during the pandemic at his empty family home.

And he is trying to navigate this world of chaos and isolation and do it without totally losing his mind, as I think many of us experienced during that period of time.

Kaitlyn Busbee: While being back I have had the opportunity to collaborate with a lot of my favorite Iowa filmmakers and also safely work on film projects.

And I really look forward to bringing back as many films as possible to Iowa and making art happen here with people that I love.

Hi, my name is Tarrell Christie and my films Flava, and The Spaceman were featured on The Film Lounge and my film Blackstar was featured on The Film Lounge Halloween Style.

Tarrell Christie: Since I've been on The Film Lounge I have been taking my work out on the film festival circuit, which has been super fun and really rewarding because you get to, A, put your film up on the big screen for people to see and B, you get to meet a lot of fellow filmmakers.

So that is an experience that I've really enjoyed doing since I've been on the show.

Tarrell Christie: Outside of that the only project I have really worked on is called Miles: A Spiderman Fan Film and that was by far the biggest project I've ever had to make.

It took almost a year from shoot to editing and it was a super big learning experience just to bring that all together, make Iowa look like New York.

It was crazy fun and I loved doing it.

Tarrell Christie: But after that I've kind of just taken a back seat to filmmaking, more so just working on writing, visual effects, editing just because with the pandemic putting together shoots can be kind of dangerous and hard to do.

So I've decided just to kind of take a little break to recharge.

But that's all I've really been up to.

I hope you've enjoyed checking in with me and I hope you enjoy the rest of The Film Lounge.

Thank you.

♪♪ Hello, my name is Bruce James Bales.

I am from Bettendorf, Iowa, currently reside in Des Moines, Iowa and the film I'm going to be talking about is Ultra.

♪♪ Bruce James Bales: When I get a script or an idea in my inbox or put in my hands, the first thing that attracts me is the story.

Is the story good?

Do I identify with the story?

Can I see the story coming to life visually?

Also, there are projects that I like doing just because someone is involved.

Maybe it's a director I like working with, maybe it's an actor that I have really wanted to work with, but also uplifting stories, stories of humans overcoming themselves, overcoming obstacles.

♪♪ Bruce James Bales: So those things have really informed my style I think.

Ultra is a documentary short that focuses on my friend Caleb Smith and his personal and physical journey rollerblading from San Francisco to Los Angeles down Pacific Coast Highway 1 in California.

This is a trip that Caleb has wanted to do for some time so we were with him for a week documenting his journey down this beautiful coastal highway and it's really a story of his own personal journey, overcoming himself to do something that is both physically demanding and mentally demanding.

Bruce James Bales: So in all honesty I had my doubts about him being able to complete it.

♪♪ I think it's a really good marriage of mind and body.

Bruce James Bales: Pacific Coast Highway 1, there is a level of danger there.

Caleb had never seen it, he had never been on that road.

I had driven it and known the just sheer amount of turns and cliffs and watching him do that was inspiring and gave me a love for life and a love for rollerblading that is really hard to put into words because when you see someone that you love and care about push themselves like that and achieve this goal and how much it meant to them, it really hits ya.

And watching him do that, it was an emotional journey for me as well.

What if this is not possible and I do fail and people see that failure?

Bruce James Bales: Ultimately when you're on a film set where everyone is serving the story and everything is firing all cylinders it's such a beautiful, magical thing and that is the magic of filmmaking that I love and that feeling of seeing everybody to come together for this one cause.

It's just, it's honestly the most beautiful thing.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ What's up.

My name is Caleb Smith.

I am here at the Golden Gate Bridge because I'm getting ready to ultra-skate from San Francisco all the way to Los Angeles, California.

♪♪ Caleb Smith: I'm going to be spending roughly 7 to 10 days skating down California Coastal Highway 1.

I'll roughly be skating around 472 miles, but with trips like this it varies from day to day.

Sometimes you have more miles than you would have thought or less miles.

So it's really a discover as you go kind of thing.

♪♪ Caleb Smith: I think my favorite part is, as soon as you get out on the road, those first few strides when it's dawning on you that you're about to take on this extreme challenge and you just feel this new sense of freedom, you're about to go on this adventure and discover so much and it just fills you with like a really wonderful sense of energy and a connection with yourself mentally, spiritually and physically.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Caleb Smith: I'm in Half Moon Bay.

I did 30 miles yesterday, which was a good start, a lot of climbing and a lot of just getting used to what I think the trail is going to be like.

I'd say 70% of it the shoulders were pretty smooth and four foot average shoulder so I had enough room to stride comfortably.

Traffic is right there, but when you have the wide shoulder it's not really ever scary.

There were a few parts going up some of the steeper hills where there was no shoulder and I sort of had to skip along in the openings of traffic.

So there would be a big group of traffic and then I'd jump on and I'd skate 100, 150 yards if I could and then jump off the road again.

And that can be cumbersome.

But that's just going up the big hills.

Once I got to the top, awesome.

I was just cruising down those hills.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Caleb Smith: 60 of the craziest miles of my whole life.

(laughs) Caleb Smith: 3,000 foot of elevation gain, just like insane curving mountains, cliffs against the ocean.

I've never experienced, I've never skated anything like that ever before.

For real, that was like the craziest hills I've ever seen.

I mean, super steep, so long, like multiple miles long, like a 3-mile long downhill it felt like.

Just like, you're going forever.

The weight of your pack is carrying you and you're going, I was going as fast as traffic and just like ripping it.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Caleb Smith: It definitely puts me in a state of Zen.

It's like -- ♪♪ Caleb Smith: -- when you get your body in motion and you have to keep your thoughts in motion too because like, one can so easily dismantle the other.

If like, you let your thoughts get crazy or stop you, your body wants to stop.

So if you keep the thoughts positive and if you keep them kind of flowing, keep your energy in motion, your body stays in motion easier.

♪♪ Caleb Smith: I think it's a really good marriage of mind and body.

You can't be super strong and not have the mind to do it.

And obviously you can have all the mind in the world, you need some sort of athleticism and discipline to be able to do it.

♪♪ Caleb Smith: I want to do it because for as much as I believe it's possible, I always have a slight, I always have a fear and a doubt that I won't make it.

And I love overcoming that.

I love the feeling of achieving something that just terrified me, that I thought about for so long, that I thought what if this is not possible and I do fail and people see that failure?

And that has been a good learning experience for me and I like that that's a driving factor for me is not having to beat anyone else, I'm always beating myself.

And I feel like each time I grow stronger and that is something I haven't found in a lot of other places in life and I really enjoy that.

♪♪ Caleb Smith: Being able to step off the road into nature and experience that and all the force that it is makes all the struggle of the day kind of melt away.

When you skate this distance and then you take your skates off and you step onto the oceanfront, it feels as if those waves kind of wash away all the struggle and all the pain of that day and you just get to admire the beauty of what the world is.

And that, having an off day and being able to rest and prepare for the next few days and being able to hike and see nature just makes it all tie in together to be what I think an ultra-skating journey is.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Caleb Smith: I'm definitely halfway.

I don't really know though.

I've been in Big Sur for two days.

♪♪ Caleb Smith: Insane hills, no service, so really mentally isolated.

But -- ♪♪ Caleb Smith: -- everything out here is like so beautiful and so silently powerful that even though you're all alone, you don't feel alone.

♪♪ Caleb Smith: It's day 9.

I'm about 90 miles from Los Angeles.

It has been an extreme mental and physical battle to get here.

But I am, I think, over the hump, in the home stretch.

I feel good physically, mentally.

I'm excited.

I'm ready.

I look forward to today's skate.

It's going to be the last big skate of my trip.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Caleb Smith: I'm in Los Angeles, California.

I just skated here from Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California.

I left 10 days ago.

Caleb Smith: Every brutal moment that, like, was almost going to stop me, like, the only thing in my head was the things that I loved, people that I loved.

The love of being able to look out and see, like, just these beautiful sights, just like this moving thing.

I'm going to go back to Iowa and go back to work and wake up to, like, regular everyday life.

But I'm not going to forget this for a while longer.

I think I'm going to have these waves going for a little while.

And I'm going to just be thankful for the love that's like radiating inside of me.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Caleb Smith: It's going to take me a while before I can fully encapsulate this journey with words.

♪♪ Caleb Smith: It has been profound.

And moving.

Painful.

At times bitter.

And frustrating.

Wearing me down to my bones, just ready to quit and go home.

And at the same time it has been so beautiful and majestic and freeing and a reminder of the energy and life that is within me and I think that is within everybody.

And that is always what I aim for when I go after a skate like this.

I think that is one of the most important parts of it is when it brings me down to nothing, to remind me that I'm full of everything I need, everything in the universe.

♪♪ (birds chirping) ♪♪ William Locker: Hi, I'm William J. Locker.

And I am the musician/songwriter/ cameraman for the music video, Hook.

Stefan Hansen: And I'm Stefan Hansen, originally from Denmark, now living in Des Moines and I am the co-director and videographer for the music video, Hook.

♪ Singing my song in front of everyone ♪ William Locker: We called it Hook because it was this hook I kept singing in my head.

Even when I was writing other songs that line -- ♪ Singing my song in front of everyone -- ♪ that line always popped up.

I'm like, I've got to use that someday.

I kind of wanted to make a music video for it and put it out in the world.

♪ I've been travelin' all day long ♪ William Locker: Well, with the natural tempo of the song and the way it grooves, it kind of gave me almost like a catwalk feel.

But that involves contacting a lot of people and a budget and time and so I'm always thinking, that's a cool idea, but what's another thing we could do that's more outside the box and maybe actually easier to achieve?

And Stefan got this fun 360 camera.

Stefan Hansen: One thing with working with Will and working with musicians for music videos, to me they're sort of a way to experiment with different techniques.

Sometimes that might be an editing technique, sometimes that might be a lighting technique, sometimes it's a new piece of gear, which in this case we had a 360 video, one of the ones where you can look around as the video is playing.

♪♪ William Locker: So it just kind of worked out, like this is going to be a very Iowan video because it sees everything around you.

So I got the shot next to the Capitol with Heath on saxophone and the Sculpture Garden with my wife Nella and out in the country with my dad's old 1954 Cockshutt tractor.

So it kind of challenged me and I think challenged Stefan a little bit too to make a fun video using that 360 technology.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ I've been travelin' all day long ♪ ♪ And I'm tryin' to get some air ♪ ♪ And a kiss from the sun ♪ ♪ And I hope I get to know ♪ ♪ How it feels before I'm over it ♪ ♪♪ ♪ This ain't a B-Side baby ♪ ♪ And it gonna prove your counterfeit ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Singing my song in front of everyone ♪ ♪ Ain't that hard to do when I'm alone with you ♪ ♪ In my mind, you must be trippin' ♪ ♪ When I'm fixin' to play ♪ ♪ When I go, you got no hook ♪ ♪ You got no hook on me ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ There's some pretty girls walkin' outside ♪ ♪ And I don't know if they're wavin' hello or goodbye ♪ ♪ But I do know that I'm faithful to you ♪ ♪ Faithful to you I swear ♪ ♪♪ ♪ If someone's breaking a heart ♪ ♪ Then the burden is yours to bare ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Oooohhhh ♪ ♪ Singing my song in front of everyone ♪ ♪ Ain't that hard to do when I'm alone with you ♪ ♪ In my mind, you must be trippin' ♪ ♪ When I'm fixin' to play ♪ ♪ When I go, you got no hook ♪ ♪ You got no hook on me ♪ ♪♪ ♪ You got no hook baby ♪ ♪ Yeah Yeah Yeah!

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♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ I think I got my soul back today ♪ ♪ This time I hold it close so it won't fly away ♪ ♪ Where I do know that I'm faithful to you ♪ ♪ Faithful to you I swear ♪ ♪ I swear.

I swear.

I swear.

♪ ♪ Singing my song in front of everyone ♪ ♪ Ain't that hard to do when I'm alone with you ♪ ♪ In my mind, you must be trippin' ♪ ♪ When I'm fixin' to play ♪ ♪ When I go, you got no hook ♪ ♪ You got no hook on me ♪ ♪ Singing my song in front of everyone ♪ ♪ ain't that hard to do when I'm alone with you ♪ ♪ In my mind, you must be trippin' ♪ ♪ When I'm fixin' to play ♪ ♪ When I go, you got no hook ♪ ♪ You got no hook on me ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ You got no hook on me ♪ ♪ Yeah Yeah Yeah!

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