2. And I don't write bitter, when I'm stuck in the ground, so don't teach me a lesson, cause I've already learned…

Sooooooo had some more ideas this morning.

And with James in Germany I thought I would spew them onto here before I forgot them.

First of all was:

Jack Penate - Torn On The Platform

Hehe Reggie Yates particularly loves this song. So he was raving on about it on radio one this morning.

Plus the video is a tad boring ... one of those concept videos where if you don't like the concept then the music is spoilt... Another song about failing relationships lol.

The idea was we could film someone being late to catch a train. So he has to wait on the platform ... anxious ... waiting for the next train. However the geezer has had to take two trains to get to where he’s going and by missing the second train he's going to be late obviously. So he rings up the love interest and apologises for being late ... she don't take it too well and cancels the date. So now the geezer is "Torn on the platform" wondering whether to go home and give up ... flashbacks of arguments bad memories in sequence to this bit when the Jack stops sing and the bass drum goes dum dum dum dum ... or to go to her. Eventually it ends with him arriving at her house in the rain soaked with flowers and her letting him in. Awww nice ending.

Yeah would be tricky rigging the weather but as it’s an indie song the video doesn't need to be too impressive looking.

The Strokes - Heart In A Cage OR Radiohead 2+2=5

Had this idea for days but I don't know how to visually represent it because it such a complex video idea.

Basically both songs are about society stealing your soul. Therefore I decided to take influence from Plato's analogy of the cave.

Basically the analogy goes that there are some prisoners in a cage chained together and facing a wall. Cast onto this wall are shadows that the prisoners believe to be the real world. However after one breaks free and escapes from the cave he goes outside and is enlightened by the sun to the real world. Where as the other prisoners are stuck ignorantly in the cave believe the shadows cast are the real world. When the escaped enlightened prisoner comes back and tries to tell the ignorant prisoners what the real truth is they kill him (don't ask me how considering there chained up). It all represents how Philosophers have escaped the cave of ignorance (society's view) to think properly ... and this is why Philosophers should rule the world. As they think with reason instead of just ignorant accepting everything.

To videoly represent this I was thinking of showing a guy playing football or painting ... something creative ... and then being sold a TV by a man in a suit. The guy then sets up the TV and gets addicted. He starts wearing the shoes and clothes advertised and starts thinking exactly the way the TV tells him to. Eventually ... ain't decided this bit yet ... the guy realises the truth. The guy walks through a door to like a football stadium or an art gallery (previously mentioned hobbies that the guy has now forgotten) and then as he opens the door and walks through it cuts to a shot of him climbing out the box. This represents him realising the truth again putting the TV back in the box and putting it in the loft or summing. And then the last shot is him trying to convince his TV addicted friends to stop watching TV and come outside but they kill him and the video ends.

So yeahhh as I said quite complicated.

Radiohead:


The Strokes:


Muse - Assassin

This song freaking OWNS hard. So gutted Muse didn't play this song when I saw them as I would have gone mental.

I keep thinking how incredibly cool it would be to have a gun fight video in suits with some walking parts that pay homage to "Reservoir Dogs". Dunno what the story would be but it looks awesome in my head every time I listen to this song.

Plus anything with guns and suits is automatically cool unless it's got Vin Diesel in it.



So yeahhhh a few ideas.

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1. While the boys chew lego, so now we can't build castles for robots, because the pieces don't fit together...

So yeah ... me and Sibley were thinking if we start early with the whole production for the music now, then it would allow us to breeze through the shooting and editing phase.

We haven't decided whether we want to do a narrative or a concept based video yet. However we have decided that an amateur live performance video will look pretty lame and we wanna keep it professional looking lol. Plus James only plays bass basically and I own a guitar ... but that leaves no rhythm section.

Also another unwritten decision is that we don't want to rely on actors to heavily ... as the thriller opening enlightened us to reliability issues we can have with them (we would of finished it much sooner ... leaving more time to edit ... if Zal hadn't messed us around).

I've found listening to music while trying to get back to sleep ... after doing a paper round ... is the best conditions for being creative. Thus my first idea was created:

The Maccabees - Lego

Its quite an epic song that uses metaphors to describe a failing marriage. So I thought it would be interesting to show this divorce through the eyes of a small child. How they see the world and situations much differently to us.

So I was thinking a POV video as a kid. Something that looks like peep show without hearing what the kid is thinking. With the kid only seeing the adults legs (like tom and jerry) which leaves us able to change the adult actors around ... if necessary ... as we could step in by just putting on certain trousers.

• The kid picks up a Disney holiday magazine thing (cue prop) and hands it to mum ... but she jus chucks it on the floor.
  "Mum said no to Disneyland"

• And then walking through a massive church doors with a camera technique conveying the kids is bored.
  "And Dad loves the church, Hallelujah!"

• The kids picks up some Lego and chews it...
  "While the boys chew Lego So now we can't build castles for robots Because the pieces won't fit together "

• Then the kids is getting taught how to cross the road ... and squeezing the dads hand really hard to feel safe. Making it looks like a good memory.
  "So look left and look right, cross the road but hold my hand, so look left and look right, cross the road and hold my hand, and we'll hold on, and we'll hold"

• Then someone walks in ... like and older brother or something ... and the kids drawing a picture of the family on the kitchen floor.
  "Only one where one stood for, and closest to the kitchen floor, the family favourite"

• Then the music suddenly stops and the kids in the back seating of the car asking "are we there yet?" and the father says no and then presses play on the radio and the song comes back on.
  "Today we learnt that screaming 'are we there yet!?', doesn't get you there any faster"

• The kid gets out the car and practices the whole looking left and right trick he learnt earlier.
  "So look left and look right, cross the road but hold a hand, so look left and look right, cross the road and hold my hand, and we'll hold on, and we'll hold"

• And then the music mutes again and the scene dissolves to the parents having a row and then the dad slamming his wedding ring on a table and leaving with his bag. The kids chases after him and runs across the road (using the trick again) but the dads already got in a car ... the dad says goodbye tearfully ... and then the kid just watches him drive into the distance. Flash backs of squeezing his hand to feel safe.
  "Crossed the road and said goodbye, you crossed the road there wasn't a dry eye, you crossed the road you said goodbye, there wasn't a dry eye, there wasn't a dry eye, you crossed the road, you said goodbye, there wasn't a dry eye and I wanted to die"

• And then the ending shot is the picture the kids was drawing earlier with the character of the dad fading away to leave a white space.

Anyways heres the song:


Tis a weak idea ... but it’s always something to fall back on as its so simple.

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