The song really paints a picture of a man on the brink of suicide and a guardian narrator (the Seraphim in the title) who is struggling to support him. This video had to be as dark as a story like that deserves. So, we surrounded the main character with monsters who represent circles of hell from Dante’s Divine Comedy, sat him next to an angel who is physically close yet emotionally distant, and faced him with a child version of himself who just wants him to be happy.

With our emphasis on doing as much as possible through practical and in-camera effects, this was unsurprisingly a large project. For example, the set build alone was a big job and required getting a full size tree inside a warehouse and standing on its own. The wings created their own challenge too - A Seraphim in the Bible has six wings so our Seraphim had to have six too. With two tattooed on the main actress already we needed a set of four fully functioning, completely life size ones to add to them. They had a span of about twelve feet, and (crucially) were wearable and animatronic. Speaking of which, the make-up department had to apply intensive prosthetics to create eleven demonic monsters while keeping two much less monstrous actors camera ready, not to mention the unique costumes each monster and character wore. The end result of all of this practical work is a much more realistic scene, because every element of it IS real.