Before we begin, a little teaser…

A little while back, the other DelCobras and I were throwing around ideas for promoting our new EP. We had a video for “West Philly Bedroom” in the can, and the video for “Caffeine” we had in mind would take a bit of planning. That left “Someday Soon,” and we figured a lyric video would be fun and relatively easy to make.

The original plan was to ask Jim’s sister to make the video for us since we loved the one she made for “The Turnaround.” It turned out, however, that Jim’s sister has a life and making animated videos takes a massive amount of time and effort.

Plan B was to do the standard slide-show lyric video: still photos of the band accompanying lyrics at the bottom of the screen, but I started poking around in the Prelinger Archives and found an old General Motors promotional film called Design for Dreaming.

My initial thought was that I’d probably need to edit the heck out of the film to make it line up with our song, but when I dropped both into Adobe Premiere, they lined up almost perfectly — kind of like Dark Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz, or so I’m told.

I think I only had to cut out a small section of the original. And, just for fun, superimpose our band name over an image early on. Other than that, it was pure synchronicity. Even the part toward the end where the audience’s rhythmic clapping (just about) lines up with the beat of the song.

Anyway, it’s a fun song, and I think we’ve created a fun video to go along with it… Enjoy!