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Talk of the bay
Music video features Pinellas shore in drab form
By MARK ALBRIGHT
Published April 25, 2005
Yes, that is the Redington Shores Long Pier and the beach at Fort De Soto Park in a new Trick Pony music video making the cable TV circuit.
The Nashville honky-tonk band filmed the video for its remake of Bonnie Tyler's tear-jerker It's a Heartache recently in what would hardly qualify as chamber of commerce weather.
Skies were gray. It was chilly. The gulf waters were gray.
"We were worried, but the producers were just thrilled," said Carol Walker, film commission manager for the St. Petersburg/Clearwater Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. "It was exactly what they wanted" to fit the mood of the song.
One scene was filmed in a cemetery. Another showed a gritty sunrise framed in the pilings of the Long Pier. Crews piled up dead trees to create a stark background on the beach. For unexplained reasons, a flock of old TV sets is scattered in the surf.
"Reminded me of a Tim Burton movie," mused director Jeffrey Phillips of Revolution Pictures.
The weather looks even more foreboding in the video because producers fiddled with the contrast in post production.
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