Awards
Jan 25, 2026
Introduction
Five24 members Michael Liang, Oswin Wong and Ethan Choi is proud to have collaborated with rising artist Jun Lee or J.L on his latest single: Twisted Love. A song about Jun realizing that the girl he has been talking to actually has a boyfriend and while the situation gets complicated and twisted, his love still persists and is adamant on pursuing this girl no matter the circumstances.
Twisted Love is now publicly released on all platforms.
The Story
When Jun and I had our first meeting outside the Spoke @ Western University, I immediately knew without a doubt that this is an artist with real passion, talent and ambition to succeed. He had the same drive that I had, except for music instead of videos. So, after some more strategy meetings + business pitches, the Five24 team and I accepted the commission, and started the planning and production for Twisted Love.
Pre-Production
As Jun told us the story behind the lyrics of Twisted Love, we realized this isn't a simple love story. This was a man attempting to sabotage and steal another person's relationship. So while we planned cute shots with a female second actor, we understood we needed to keep the idea that his character should also portray a more narcissistic approach.
He requested the MV to feel retro styled, so the team and I decided we would shoot at four main locations.
House
This scene was to set up the entire narrative. It would almost be like a mini-appetizer for the film. The idea was that Jun would approach Elly's house and propose to her with flowers, but when he rings the doorbell, another man opens the door, and he realizes that Elly has a secret boyfriend.
He would then play it off as him selling flowers around the block, go back to his car and throw the flowers at the proposal poster in the trunk, where the viewer would realize what he was truly doing. Due to that, I traveled 30 minutes back and forth by bus to grab the materials at a dollarstore to make the promposal poster prop. We spent 3 hours cutting, pasting and curating one of the most aesthetic promposal posters made. This was all for 2 seconds of screen time, by the way.
A Phone booth
The phone booth idea was mine. The thought of having the camera in the top left of the booth, almost like a security camera, was also my idea. There was one problem, though. There were barely any Phone booths left in London. The team and I spent hours searching on reddit, google, facebook, and google maps for a phone booth in our area. We even had ideas of heading back to Toronto just to shoot it. We needed a phonebooth with 3 sides, not just somehting in the wall. And when we finally found one on google maps, we instantly called the gas station closest to it to confirm if it the "phone booth" was still there. They said yes… this is heavy foreshadowing, and I'll get back to this point in the next section of this article.
Retro Diner
We simply decided that slushies, and old styled diner with colored old fashion seats/booths would be a perfect location for Elly and Jun to be sitting face to face, on a more romantic styled dat-… hangout.
Arcade
In the early 2000's, kids would actually go to arcade locations to play games with friends, so we brought back that idea of going out and playing games with a girl at an arcade. With the colourful lights, we were sure that the bokeh on the camera would look fantastic.
We had other ideas like a roller skating rink, but it was difficult to find in London ON. To further enhance the retro style, we decided we'd also film everything on a digital camcorder to get that grainy feel.
Production
We split up the production into various days due to our schedules being mixed with midterms. Freelancing and being a student weren't easy.
Our first shoot location was at the Arcade. We shot at the RECROOM by Masonville Mall. Luckily, there was an extremely kind worker who tapped all the arcade machines for free for us after he realized our intent of filming. We had a few stares here and there, but the arcade was mostly empty as we shot midday. The footage turned out great.
Our second location was the House Scene. Everything went smoothly besides the temperature being -10 C. We had multiple times where we rehearsed lines inside, restrategized and went back out to film the outdoor scenes. Luckily, our cameras did't act up, no matter the cold weather. Oswin had an excellent composition idea planned for this scene, so the shots were on-point, especially in such a enclose space between two characters conversing between a door.
Our third location was the diner. We headed to Wimpys diner, and all the waiters were so kind. We had a scene where the waiter would come to the table and take both of their orders, so we requested that one of the real waiters would like to play on that role. They gladly accepted. We also had many stares from other customers in which one kid in the booth next to us, who even asked, "are you making a movie?" The cameras Oswin and Michael brought were no joke… they had displays, and wires connected to them and were big enough to look like a real film making camera.
The final location - the phone booth- was a disaster. We traveled some 25 minutes by bus to the location in the freezing cold only to find the phonebooth, had no phone inside. We had to reschedule.
Takeaway
This MV was truly a new experience for the team. We had never directed one before, but we can say confidently now that Five24 can make good MV videos for music artist,s and hopefully this opens up more doors to future clients who are looking for cinematic film like MVs. Definitely a fun experience.
Twisted Love is now released. Go follow J.L on Spotify!
