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Well,

the concept of the song, it's always been about loss. The whole record's

loss, and this song is about the fear of losing somebody.

We wanted to do something that wasn't expected, and I think what would be

expected for a video, especially a song with the word ghost in it, is do

something creepy in a house with ghosts and stuff.

I thought, instead of that, let's do something really unexpected and chop off

all my hair and make it World War II and have lots of explosions and stuff.

I know that when we were talking about videos, one of the ideas that Gerard

always wanted to do was a World War II kind of war theme.

The thing about videos is like...

You know, when we were younger and, you know, maybe rocking out in front of our

mirrors, like, it's like a dream, you know, playing on stage and, like, in

of people is a dream come true. Being able to do videos is a dream come true.

So, you know, we try to take that to the fullest extent.

I saw Mark, and we had lunch during Helena, and I said, well, how do you

about making, like, a real movie instead of, like, a rock video? And he said, I

would love to do that. I said, well, could you do World War II? And he said,

yeah, absolutely.

Hi, this is Mark Webb. This is day one of My Chemical Romance's Ghost of You

video. We're at the American Legion, built in 1929.

This is a place where they used to have get -togethers for veterans, basically.

I'm the historian of the post, and I've been here 26 years, and I know

everything about this place.

This music video that you're doing...

Looks just like it did in a picture that I have upstairs in a museum that was

taken in 1944.

And that whole room was full of exactly what you have.

Men and women in the military here for a ball for their entertainment while they

were back from the war.

We're all reenactors.

We do this for fun. So usually we pay money to go do this, and today they're

paying us.

There's two main scenes in the video. The first scene is...

the performance, which is the stuff at the bar, and it's us in our dress

screens, and then there's the war.

And it just works so great. Like, you know, the verses of the song are just

quiet and mellow, and then the choruses kind of kick in, and it just seems like

a really good marriage of the music and the visuals.

Good morning.

How's it going, man? How are you doing? Good. So we're at the one day one on

this. Yeah, we're day one of the video.

We're in some American Legion Hall in Los Angeles.

It's cool and creepy.

Just started.

Got our hair pinned down.

I got these weird glasses we're going to wear.

And here's the end of the film. We're just bumping into Ben.

It's a big moment here.

I've always had some sort of beard -ish thing going on.

Gerard cut his hair, so I'll shave.

My hair was this short when we started the band.

And then I never cut it.

I mean, I, like, would trim it and shape it and stuff, but I never cut it until

yesterday for this video. Check it out. Like, they managed to get all my hair

bunched up into this little ball here. And as long as I'm, like, this, you

facing the camera this way, this way, or this way, you can't see it.

We're going to come around, do some close -ups, and then we're going to have

you, like, kind of like late -night drunken singing along to a jukebox kind

performance kind of stuff. Really relaxed.

All right?

So, hey, Devon, are you ready to bring him in? Yes. All right. I want this to

be, like, kind of a curl.

Everybody's really high up there in the background, then it kind of comes down,

and you're lower here, so we can see everybody.

You've got to be kind of careful not to block each other's devices.

We're very ready to shoot, so let's look.

Left looks all the way around, please.

Nice.

Here we go. Standing by. Pitches up. And roll ambient playback.

Yeah, everybody loosen up. Loosen up. We can even take some of the jackets off.

Maybe, yeah.

Would we have our tie out if we were loosened up? Come in and like, ah, yeah,

you know, you're looking good, babe. You know what I mean? Stuff like that. You

know what I mean? Like, roll ambient playback, please.

You just kind of see us all just hanging out and being friends, which we are.

It's really easy to do all this stuff because we're like brothers.

I think the next thing we're going to be doing is the ballroom scene, the

performance scene. We're going to be playing, and there's going to be, I

like 30 couples, guys and girls dancing and doing their thing.

It's going to be really, really awesome.

Okay, I'm Frank.

I'm in My Chemical Man.

I'm uncomfortable, and I'm going to film ballroom dancing.

Can you interview Mike? Can I hold the mic?

Sure. Mike.

Hey, dude.

How are you doing?

Pretty damn awesome. I'm kind of upset that I'm going to die tomorrow.

How am I doing, gentlemen? Mike?

You're doing awesome.

Just a little bit in frame there.

Hey,

Bob Breyer.

So good, dude.

Right now we're setting up for the performance scene. The video is broken

two different parts. There's the flashback dance sections, and then

battle sections.

The flashback dance sections are during the verse, which is a little bit more

mellow and calm and serene, whereas the battle scenes are kinetic and fast and

hard cut and handheld.

Right now this is all about creating kind of an emotion.

Move back a little bit.

All right, here we go. Stand by.

And make up.

Really quickly. Step in, please.

Next.

Forget her.

But he could try.

I've seen men build the world.

Or the last thing I've seen.

You are never coming home, never coming home. And I try.

And all things that you never ever told me.

Hey, how's it going? I'm Dave. I'm the visual effects supervisor.

We just finished up the shot where we're doing crowd duplication, making less

people look like more people. Kind of like what we did on the last My Chemical

Romance video.

The next setup that we have here is an overhead shot of the dance floor where

all the G .I .s and the ladies were dancing.

Then we're going to cut tomorrow to the same shot overhead of the troops, the G

.I .s storming the beach. Tomorrow when we shoot the beach, we're going to have

people running and we're going to cut them out and put them into this existing

shot. And then when the beach comes in, we're going to... cross -faded.

So everything looks like it's one final composite and people are running in into

the middle of the scene and transition to the beat.

It

all

went really well. I'm very happy with the way the footage looks. The band is

doing great. They're very fun to work with.

Hey,

we're My Chemical Romance, and we just wrapped up day one of the Ghost of You

video. Thanks for hanging out. See you later. See you in the morning.

All right, welcome to day two.

We're on the shores of Malibu, I guess.

So this is day two of the Ghost of You.

I feel like I'm about to embark on a great crusade.

You're not supposed to be able to do this within 30 minutes.

Get it going.

Jump on the boat.

Go for it.

Walking miles.

You never had hell back in the day.

What about makeup?

No, exactly.

You didn't have makeup back in the day.

I'll let you know when I have fun.

All right. I'll let you know when I have fun. What's up, dude?

Let's go. Let's go.

Ha ha!

I will save him.

I got him.

Doing good.

We're moments away from dropping the gate, okay?

Hey, hey, don't go from one side to the other. Stay in the middle.

Guys, get right here.

Get in the middle of the boat. I still see water coming in and out, it looks

like. Guys, calm.

Real calm.

I'm still off.

I think I'm going to throw up.

Thank you.

It's one of those things, you know. We were shooting the shot. We had the door

coming down.

And what happened is the door scooped up some water.

And there was too much weight on the front.

How much water did it take?

A thousand gallons.

Yeah, over the course of about 20 seconds, the water started seeping,

raging inside the boat.

I have like a fear of harsh bodies of water.

When I saw it starting to fill up, I was getting nervous anyway.

I heard the word fail.

You're afraid of large bodies? There's a very small body of water inside the

boat.

It's like a lake.

You know what it was? Luckily it was handled well. When my balls got wet,

when I got scared.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's exactly what happened. I don't know if this is water or pee.

The boat nearly f***ing sank, and an hour later we're getting back on and

out to get more.

I just love that.

We're about to set up for the invasion. We already did some Higgins Boat stuff

in the morning.

It was a little intense at times, a little crazy, but we got a lot of really

good stuff.

So now we're going to have a safety meeting because there's a bunch of

explosions that are going to go on here.

Then we'll start the invasion.

Look forward to it. It's going to be fun.

I just want to, like, take the blood down. Hey, can I get makeup on the bed

quick? I need makeup now. I just want to take down the blood.

What about under your glasses? That's it, that's it, yeah.

Oh, that's where you got, oh.

On the bed? Oh.

No, it's great. Yeah.

I think I'm at the front.

Do you flip that heat screen around so I can take a look?

I got some salt water in my eye.

Oh, I'm in the for sure.

I've never done anything like that before in my life.

I'm a little shaken in the hand.

We just did a couple stops in the German Gunner Tower, and now we're going to

start doing more close to the band after lunch.

Before lunch, it was all about setting it up. Now we're locking it down.

What are we filming next?

Mikey gets blown away.

How's Mikey doing? Eight minutes is about the last thing he gave me.

We're not a prompt and I'll be walking And

Mikey

died

It's funny.

Chunks. Come on, man. My favorite part was dying.

Favorite part?

My favorite part was storming the beach.

Hey, great work. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Sorry I killed you. Are you hugging me?

Hey,

yo, next time somewhere dry, like a desert.

We're My Chemical Romance. That's a wrap for our video for The Ghost of You.

Thanks for watching The Making Of, and we'll see you next video.