music video.

For the music video project I'm the director, which is awesome it's definitely what I wanted to be. My group and i have already had 2 meetings... we came up with some awesome ideas and i'm confident that this music video is going to be awesome looking. it's kind of scary that we only have 9 minutes of film to shoot with but we have put in a lot ofplanning to what we are going to use each roll for and how we are going to use it. We started out with this really abstract concept of a guy wearing a full suit and top hat reading a newspaper on the beach sitting parrallel to the ocean. A girl walks toward him wearing a tutu or some kind of strange party dress and boots, she sits down back to back with him and neither of them make contact, the guy sees something shiny in the sand and goes to dig it out and he finds its a ring attatched to a finger, surrounded by other fingers. the most interesting aspect of it all is that both remain emotionless and almost melancholic.. this little scene ends with the guy standing up and feeding the fingers to the birds, we are hoping that buy using bread or something we can get an awesome shot of birds hovering the two of them eating the fingers (bread).

That was the core of our idea, then we wanted to come up with other shots that form a montage like effect of this guy and girl in other parts of their world. we came up with the girl smashing items like a mirror and glass vases in the woods with a baseball bat, and the guy opening a door thats taken out of a door frame in the woods, in an alley, and on a beach, so he's basically just carrying around the door. we have other oddshots that we think will look cool like some stop animation of the girl crying pennies, or of the guy dancing alone in the alley, juxtaposed with shots of the guy AND the girl's feet dancing, giving the feel that she's there dancing with him when she's really not.

I'm really excited to shoot this, which i think we are going to start and finish this weekend, and i'm even more excited to see how it all looks when we get the film back. I'm even more thankful that I have such an awesome group with great ideas and dedication..