I was about 12 years old. We were on family vacation, staying at a condo in the Colorado mountains. The condo had cable TV, which we didn’t have at home. I had never seen so many channels and as I flipped through there it was. Little did I know my life was about to be impacted like an asteroid. MTV. It was in its infancy and I’d not yet seen it. Until this night. Pat Benatar’s “Love is a Battlefield” was playing.
It’s not like I instantly knew I wanted to become a filmmaker. But the way the images and the song plotted together to depict a story was fascinating to me. I knew I was seeing something special. On some level I sensed this new medium, this art form of music video would change the face of music forever.
I was a changed girl after seeing Pat on the screen that night. From then on whenever I heard a song I would envision what the video should look like. Any time I went somewhere I looked for locations that might be cool to shoot a music video. I spent the rest of my Jr. High years dreaming of making a music video starring my friends and me. And of course I became totally addicted to MTV. I would analyze the videos and try to understand what made them great, mediocre, or lame. (And I was very opinionated about this!) So there you have it, that is how my love of production was born.