The band was lip-synching to pre-recorded music for the filming, and that recording cut out the first couple of times the band tried to perform for the video.Д«ut eventually they made it through. He said that while the album is dark, it is also uplifting. Tollas said fans regularly tell bands that a certain song saved their lives. 'It's really positive,' said Peyton Taffe, 16, of Leesburg, Va. Seeing the band address the issue is huge, he said. He said that he has had suicidal thoughts, and he knows his friends have had them as well. McGiffin, who attends the University of South Carolina, volunteers there to help prevent suicide. The teens in the auditorium were filmed watching the band, tapping their feet, banging their heads.ДЄndrew Rodier, 18, of Culpepper, Va., and Matt McGiffin, 19, of Fairfax, Va., left at 4:30 a.m. And they would hear it about a thousand times before the day was over.ДЇilming a music video means countless different angles, takes and shots. Saturday's filming was the first time fans had heard the new song. There is no cookie-cutter formula for teen suicide, Reagan said. Teens left behind after a suicide - or any death - can experience a tremendous sense of loss, said Laura Reagan, one of those counselors. The youth suicide team brought counselors, just in case they were needed during the filming. 'Especially at Severna Park, it's a very sensitive subject,' he said. There were three or four suicides during his years there, Bethel said. According to a 2013 survey of county high school students, 16.9 percent admitted to seriously considering suicide the state average is 16 percent.ДЄnother 13 percent of county students had made a plan for committing suicide the state average is 12.5 percent.Дave Bethel, Famous Last Words' manager, graduated from Severna Park High in 2000. 'Suicide is a long-term solution to a short-term problem,' she said.ДЄnne Arundel's teen suicide rate is slightly higher than the state average. Reynolds helped craft the verbiage on suicide prevention that Tollas will give at the end of the video. Nancy Lincoln Reynolds, a member of the youth suicide team and an associate pastor at Woods Memorial United Presbyterian Church in Severna Park. 'Our goal is prevention - to take suicide off the table,' said the Rev. So, for the music video, InVogue Records - Famous Last Words' label - joined with the Youth Suicide Awareness Action Team, an organization in Anne Arundel County, to raise awareness of suicide prevention. But Tollas said he wanted to be sure the band wasn't glamorizing it. The first single, 'One in the Chamber,' deals with suicide. In the album, each character dies a different way, but their stories are all connected. Tollas researched the most common ways to die. Like its last project, Famous Last Words' newest effort is a concept album, said J.T. He heard Famous Last Words playing in someone's car about five months ago and chased them down, he said. Zach Tsottles, 16, of Linthicum, got there at 7. She made it to the high school at 7:45 a.m. When she heard the band was filming a music video for its forthcoming album, she had to come. 'I like the lyrics and how I can connect to them,' she said. She had first discovered Famous Last Words in a YouTube video a few years ago. Klarey Jaramillo, 17, had come from New Mexico to visit her dad in Annapolis. And they were also going to get a message band members and local counselors present at the session hoped would resonate: one about suicide prevention. Many had driven for hours to see the Michigan-based band. They filed into the auditorium Saturday morning: teens with purple, pink, blue and red hair, as well as the more usual blonds and brunettes, all at Severna Park High School to take part in the making of a music video by Famous Last Words, a metal band.

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