Jackson Dean knew exactly what he wanted for the video in his new song "Fearless" - and it doesn't get closer to home.

Dean wanted his brother, wife and infant niece to star in the clip that evokes a mini-movie set in 1863. The baby gets sick, and Dean's brother Kyle has to leave his wife and infant daughter at home, fight the elements, bad guys, and even wolves as he rushes to the nearest town to get medicine.

"Interpreting 'Fearless' visually and putting more of a storyline to it breathes a different life into it," Dean said. "Casting my brother, his wife, and their daughter in the video made it feel that much more real. If anything, I think it makes the song feel more personal to me; it just strikes a bit different—it hits much closer to home."

Sean Hagwell directed the video, which Kirsten Hagwell produced. Dean wrote "Fearless" alongside Luke Dick and Jonathan Scott. Dick produced the song.

"I've had the vision of my brother being in a role like that for so long," Dean said. "It was like magic watching it come to fruition. I was really moved watching it the first time. The realness of it all heightened it—seeing the genuine love between the characters mixed with the raw visuals will hit you square in the chest."

Dean said he gave Hagwell minimal direction for the video, only telling him that he wanted Kyle to be running through the woods and he wanted his family incorporated. Hagwell took some time and came back with the script. When Dean presented it to the record label, the concept was so big the company was sure it would be out of budget. However, Hagwell made it work.

"Sean wears all black and is just like awesome," Dean said. "He said, 'I have the means.' We got fire. We got wolves. We got bullets flying."

In one scene, Dean stood on the edge of a cliff while the wind whipped around him. He said he stood in a power stance the whole time - not to look cool but because he had to. 

"It's just big, big rocks out on the end of this ridgeline," he explained. "It's like 220 feet down, and I'm out on the very end. You'll see in the video my hair whipping around. That's no fan. That's 220 feet down on all sides of me, and the wind whipping at like 60, 70 miles an hour. There are some shots in there that you cannot replicate in a studio. It's a matter of going to the place and doing like actually doing it."

Dean hopes viewers can get lost in the video and feel what the song is about on a deeper level.

"We wanted strong visuals to really draw people in, and I think the action-packed nature of the video, along with the cinematic vibe of it being a period piece, makes it almost feel like a short film," he said. "There were some epic moments with my brother that I'll never forget, like watching him wave a machete around like Rambo or laughing as he runs through the forest like Jaguar Paw from Apocalypto. Across the board, filming this was an incredible experience."