half·alive - Make of It (Official Video)

“Make of it” is a story in which worlds not only interconnect but bleed into one another in a messy display of beautiful-humanity. Often, we must drown to land, sink to swim, move to heal, and dive to the deepest depths to breathe again.

When Josh showed me this song in July 2020, I wrote this video treatment right away. Almost too quickly. I didn't understand why so many specific characters and images came out of me upon hearing "MOI" for the first time. As the edit was finalizing, I realized that every aspect of this music video had already been a part of my subconscious for precisely 26 years. It was a wild journey to get this from paper to the internet, but … this is my love letter to those doing anything they can to heal by any means necessary.
- Emma


half•alive - Make of It (Official Video)
"Make of It" available everywhere now: https://smarturl.it/HAMakeofIt

Written & Directed by : Emma Portner
Edited by : Emma Portner
Choreographed & Movement Directed by : Emma Portner
Improvisation by : Byron Tittle, Matthew “ET” Gibbs, Madaline Riley, Ian Eastwood, Joy Brown
Produced by : Mike Dones
Colored by : Bossi Baker

DANCERS
Emma Portner (@emmaportner)
Ian Eastwood (@ian_eastwood)
Byron Tittle (@byrontittle)
Madaline Riley (@madalineriley)
Matthew “ET” Gibbs (@matthewgibbs_et)
Joy Brown (@joyisabellabrown)


Cinematographer : Tyler Fukuda
1st AC : Shane Sackett
2nd AC : Dave Eaves
Key Grip : Mike Primm
Grip : Keean Johnson
Swing : Anthony Wilson
1st AD : Mike Dones
Key PA : Michael Rennie
VFX: Caleb Natale
BTS : Leo Lovely, Keean Johnson


Music & Lyrics by : half•alive, Ojivolta
Produced by : Ojivolta, half•alive
Programming by : Mark Williams & Raul Cubina
Mixed by : Neal Pogue for Roselle, New Jersey
Mastered by : Dale Becker at Becker Mastering, Pasadena, CA
Mastering Assistants : Hector Vega, Fili Filizzola & Connor Hedge


LYRICS

winter got me feeling down
next season i’ll come around
reflecting back on it
you were my only friend
you really helped me out
but even now i——

want this love like everyone
want this love like everyone else

we ran aground
i heard it loud
can’t pretend
i ain’t down
didn’t plan
to never land
just never thought
that we could drown

therapy saw me naked
26 years i’ve waited
life isn’t what i made it
my past is what i make of it

make of it
make of it
like these new shoes
i'll break em in

old best friends
i'll pray for ‘em
all my friends
i'll pray for ‘em

lost what i have never held
hardly recognize myself
brought to the deepest end
God help me breath again
tell me have i been alone
all along?

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