Nicholls & Sibley Productions: 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"