Crews built a three-foot-deep basin and filled it with roughly 400,000 gallons of water . They used concrete road barriers lined with plastic to hold the water in the streets.

The story behind Creed 's music video for "My Sacrifice" is a deeply personal narrative of and internal struggle . The Story & Meaning

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Besides Universal Studios, parts of the video were filmed near Interstate 4 in Polk County, Florida.

A central scene features lead singer Scott Stapp in a rowboat. He reaches into the water to save a drowning man, only to realize the person he is rescuing is himself . Stapp has explained this represents pulling himself out of "dark periods," specifically his struggles with substance abuse and alcoholism .

The video begins with an old, seemingly blind man (played by Herbert Maynard) feeding pigeons in a park. The camera pans into his mind, showing the flooded city as a landscape of his memories and reflections.

The production was featured on an episode of MTV's Making the Video and involved some impressive practical effects:

The band transformed the New York-styled street at Universal Studios Florida (outside the former Kongfrontation ride) into a massive pool.