Judah vants your blood...and your ears. (image courtesy artist)

With the colder months looming, producer Judah has been spending time coming up with ways to continue to promote his summertime single "Sundresses and Sandals." He decided that what the track needed was an infusion of new blood.

The result is "Sundresses and Sandals (Ode to True Blood)," a promo clip that gives his song a video treatment inspired by the popular HBO drama.

"First and foremost, I'm a True Blood fan," Judah says. "I was trying to shoot some little promo videos for "Sundresses and Sandals," and working with directors just wasn't doing it, so I went out, bought my own camera, found a beautiful model [Brittani, in a Sookie Stackhouse-inspired role] for the joint, and did it."

The video was originally timed to come out earlier in September, but Judah decided to drop it this week, to coincide with the Sept. 12 True Blood season 3 finale — even though the final episode left him a bit cold.

"It was kind of weak to me," he says. "There could’ve been more killing, more action, everything. It just didn’t sit right with me, especially because they made us wait a whole two weeks for it. I mean, Entourage did better than that."

Judah- Sundresses and Sandals (Ode to True Blood) from Simple Videos on Vimeo.

The spot is Judah's second project under his own Simple Videos, a production company he started with partner Bonita Star, when he decided to stop hiring others to bring his video visions to life. "I just created it out of frustration with video directors charging too much, and giving too little, he says. "I got the camera, got Final Cut, and said, 'We're gonna do this.'"

Although didn't want to go all Adam Ball and get too technical with the special effects for the True Blood clip (which also features R&B singer Chays), the setting was very important. He chose 14th Street, NW's Donovan House, which is a dead ringer for the Dallas vampire hotel feature in True Blood's second season.

"I definitely remember that [episode], so the Donovan is what I needed," he says. "Plus, it had the shower where you can get the silhouette of a body once you cut the light on, so it was something similar to that room [in the True Blood episode]."

He also threw in some quotes from the show in the video, including vampire Bill Compton's much-repeated line: "I can smell the sunlight on your skin."

"I originally wasn't gonna put quotes in the video, but there are so many memorable quotes. The characters are way out there in how they speak to people," says Judah, who cites his favorite True Blood characters as Pam and Jason. "A lot of the dialogue is classic."

And although it would be easy to assume that Judah was inspired by another video for a track that mixes hip-hop and True Blood fandom — Snoop's "Oh Sookie" — the producer/director says that wasn't exactly what he was going for. "The Sookie song was terrible!" he says. "[The video] was pretty corny, but at the same time, it was funny."