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The first time we "met" Manny Siverio, it was during the making of his first music video called "Mi Amiga," which starred his wife Addle and featured plenty of exciting salsa dancing. Siverio, a New York-based stunt coordinator and stuntman, has just finished making his second music video, called "No Me Queda Mas." It also stars his wife, an established Mambo instructor, choreographer and performer.

This is his story.

"I wanted to make the second video better than the first so I did a couple of things differently this time around," Siverio recalls. "In the first video, I wanted to highlight Addle as a performer who could both dance and sing. This was easy to accomplish since 'Mi Amiga' was a salsa song with a lot of energy and feeling. All I had to do was find an ideal location (under the scenic Queensboro/59th Street Bridge) and surround Addle with talented dancers to perform with (the Side Street Kids, members of Addie-tude Dance Co.) And, bingo, we had ourselves a music video.

"This would not be the case with the 'No Me Queda Mas' video. It's a slower song that ends with a smooth Cha-Cha. This time around, I wanted to shoot a story that would evolve around the song. I still wanted to showcase some of Addie's dancing and choreography, but it would be for only a small fraction of the song."

CREATING A STORYBOARD

Reading the lyrics and playing the song over and over again enabled Manny to come up with a series of images that would be the centerpiece of the story for the video.

He says creating a storyboard, or a series of drawings that illustrate a scene, helped him create a smooth visual sequence.

"Mind you, I'm not the greatest artist, but I did manage to create images that conveyed what 1 wanted to capture on video," he recalls.

BREAK THE SONG DOWN

Manny did with the "No Me Queda Mas" video what he did for the "Mi Amiga" project. He carefully listened to the song and determined where he could break it down into different segments. After listening to it, he decided that "No Me Queda Mas" could be separated into four 1-minute sections. To save time looking for the exact spot to begin and end each segment, Manny decided to make a working CD with four different tracks. Each track would contain one of the four divided sections of...

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