I have created an idea in which i feel is suitable to be used as my promo music video to Damien Rice - Eskimo.
My idea surrounds a female character 'searching' for someone or something. I want to remain the mystery in which Damien Rice has included in the lyrics therefore I don't wish for the audience to see what she is searching for. Throughout the verse, this character will be looking for something/ some one, however i want the mise-en-scene to be mainly nature, i love the idea of her not being satisfied by nature, not being fulfilled by the cleanliness and freedom of nature. I feel this gives the character more depth and creates the audience to have a more curiosity emotion surrounding the character. I also want her searching through college social areas, the house and again, through nature.
Throughout the chorus i have picked a mixture of male and female to hold up a large A3 card, which has a written 'secret' printed with bold permanent marker. I want them to hold this sign towards the camera in a medium close up as they Mikey mime the chorus 'I look to my Eskimo friend...' In terms of mise-en-scene i want some sort of bars behind the characters to suggest intrapment, i wanted them originally behind the bars, however that would be a big problem due to the audience actually reading the signs with large metal bars in front of the statement. The secrets will come from the book 'Post-secret' which was created by an artist called Frank Warren, in which was an idea in which the American population would send in their anonymous secrets on a postcard in which could be designed and entail the language at their own choice. Some secrets within this book are dark, others are funny and others are very emotional however i feel by having a mixture of these emotions being shown on an A3 large piece of card, this creates some humour in the video as well as reflects the idea that even funny secrets can still trap people in a place in which they don't want to be in. However the secrets link in the with the idea of the main character searching for her Eskimo friend, or 'help' in my interpretation of the song, and with other characters explaining why they feel trapped, it creates the idea that really, she isn't alone, and everyone needs someone or something to confide in. A secret which you cannot tell can sometimes literally destroy you inside, it's the worst pain I've personally ever felt therefore this is why this idea means so much to me as I've felt like the main character does within my idea.
What i really like about this song is the idea it has an operatic / climax ending. The Finnish opera really creates the song to have a 'wow' factor in it. There for i want to place a 'wow' factor within my music promo video. I have the idea of during the first tenth of seconds within the operatic section within the song i want the character to look at camera to suggest the idea of she's realised how to finish 'her' story, how to not feel lost anymore basically she's realised where her Eskimo / what her goal to find was. I then want to reverse and rewind the whole promo video, to the beginning where she was sleeping. As the operatic middle section within the song comes into full swing and delivers the climax of the song, i want to show her meeting / seeing her goal, her higher power, i want the audience to see her happy. To really create that 'wow' factor which is heard in the climax of the song, i have the idea of decorating my whole garden with tea lights, and hanging tea lights in Dolmio pasta sauce jars from our Japanese tree. I'm trying the suggest the image of heaven, to her personally, as the song is entirely subjective and therefore i would like the video to also be subjective. Therefore the idea of the candles represent the idea of calming and comforting therefore suggests that she's finally found what she was searching for all along. When this song finally comes to a close with the three repetitive lyrics 'when I'm down...' i want to fade back to the character sleeping and slowly zooming out from a close up, as the song fades out. I feel this creates such strong ambiguity as the zoom out, could suggest the soul leaving her body, it could suggest that in fact all of this was a dream therefore we, as an audience are leaving her to dream as she's realised she's only happy in another world. It could suggest the idea of her dying naturally, or the idea of her just commit suicide.
Throughout the video, i wish to use Black and white and colour when necessary to connote separate things. The idea behind black and white i feel is to suggest realism, therefore when she's searching a feels 'lost' i would like this edited in black and white, also when she is sleeping i would like it edited in white. I want to use colour only to suggest fantasy world, the same connotations where used in the film The Wizard Of Oz, however they used sepia tone instead of black and white however, it was still for the same effect. I want to use colour, during the time she's found her heaven and is finally free and happy. However, as the video comes to the close i want to revert back to her sleeping in black and white once again for the same reasons of realism and the idea of the place where she's gone, she's finally free and happy.
Throughout the chorus i have picked a mixture of male and female to hold up a large A3 card, which has a written 'secret' printed with bold permanent marker. I want them to hold this sign towards the camera in a medium close up as they Mikey mime the chorus 'I look to my Eskimo friend...' In terms of mise-en-scene i want some sort of bars behind the characters to suggest intrapment, i wanted them originally behind the bars, however that would be a big problem due to the audience actually reading the signs with large metal bars in front of the statement. The secrets will come from the book 'Post-secret' which was created by an artist called Frank Warren, in which was an idea in which the American population would send in their anonymous secrets on a postcard in which could be designed and entail the language at their own choice. Some secrets within this book are dark, others are funny and others are very emotional however i feel by having a mixture of these emotions being shown on an A3 large piece of card, this creates some humour in the video as well as reflects the idea that even funny secrets can still trap people in a place in which they don't want to be in. However the secrets link in the with the idea of the main character searching for her Eskimo friend, or 'help' in my interpretation of the song, and with other characters explaining why they feel trapped, it creates the idea that really, she isn't alone, and everyone needs someone or something to confide in. A secret which you cannot tell can sometimes literally destroy you inside, it's the worst pain I've personally ever felt therefore this is why this idea means so much to me as I've felt like the main character does within my idea.
What i really like about this song is the idea it has an operatic / climax ending. The Finnish opera really creates the song to have a 'wow' factor in it. There for i want to place a 'wow' factor within my music promo video. I have the idea of during the first tenth of seconds within the operatic section within the song i want the character to look at camera to suggest the idea of she's realised how to finish 'her' story, how to not feel lost anymore basically she's realised where her Eskimo / what her goal to find was. I then want to reverse and rewind the whole promo video, to the beginning where she was sleeping. As the operatic middle section within the song comes into full swing and delivers the climax of the song, i want to show her meeting / seeing her goal, her higher power, i want the audience to see her happy. To really create that 'wow' factor which is heard in the climax of the song, i have the idea of decorating my whole garden with tea lights, and hanging tea lights in Dolmio pasta sauce jars from our Japanese tree. I'm trying the suggest the image of heaven, to her personally, as the song is entirely subjective and therefore i would like the video to also be subjective. Therefore the idea of the candles represent the idea of calming and comforting therefore suggests that she's finally found what she was searching for all along. When this song finally comes to a close with the three repetitive lyrics 'when I'm down...' i want to fade back to the character sleeping and slowly zooming out from a close up, as the song fades out. I feel this creates such strong ambiguity as the zoom out, could suggest the soul leaving her body, it could suggest that in fact all of this was a dream therefore we, as an audience are leaving her to dream as she's realised she's only happy in another world. It could suggest the idea of her dying naturally, or the idea of her just commit suicide.
Throughout the video, i wish to use Black and white and colour when necessary to connote separate things. The idea behind black and white i feel is to suggest realism, therefore when she's searching a feels 'lost' i would like this edited in black and white, also when she is sleeping i would like it edited in white. I want to use colour only to suggest fantasy world, the same connotations where used in the film The Wizard Of Oz, however they used sepia tone instead of black and white however, it was still for the same effect. I want to use colour, during the time she's found her heaven and is finally free and happy. However, as the video comes to the close i want to revert back to her sleeping in black and white once again for the same reasons of realism and the idea of the place where she's gone, she's finally free and happy.
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