Once the groups were established (I joined Sarah and Sabrina) the first thing we did was to establish what kind of music style we wanted. We are a pretty diverse group but almost immediately we all agreed that we definitely didn't want to do an indie-alternative pop video - not that we had anything against the music style but the genre itself was very overdone and seemed repetitive. So we knew we wanted to do something different and something visually engaging. I had an idea for a track called "Flyswatter" by Eels and explained it to the group, it got the greenlight from both Sabrina and Sarah so we agreed to do it.
The song itself has a very creepy nursery-rhyme-meets-its-doom kind off feel and it is an very evocative piece. We won't follow the lyrics, so much as the idea of the song. The flow evokes Haunted House meets Alice In Wonderland feelings that I think could really turn out visually delicious.
Now our idea is a combination of many - we want the zest of the carnival, a circus, the Haunted Mansion (Disney) and Wonderland all put together. I summarized it as "Tim Burton makes a music video". However, when researching we almost immediatley found that we didn't want to go down the creepy route. Artists like Metallica and Marilyn Manson had the idea of a crazy house party (haunted house party) but it was too creepy for us. So Sabrina suggested that we took a light hearted spin on it which was perfect. We would make fun of the characters and incorporate fun fairytale characters that are immediately recognizable - such as Sleeping Beauty would be passed out on the floor or the Mad Hatter would be having a tea party or Pinnochio would have his strings being pulled by other guests etc.
There are a lot of ideas and the next step is to pin them down and make sense of the sequence and the storyline of the music video. It should be a promising project.
The song itself has a very creepy nursery-rhyme-meets-its-doom kind off feel and it is an very evocative piece. We won't follow the lyrics, so much as the idea of the song. The flow evokes Haunted House meets Alice In Wonderland feelings that I think could really turn out visually delicious.
Now our idea is a combination of many - we want the zest of the carnival, a circus, the Haunted Mansion (Disney) and Wonderland all put together. I summarized it as "Tim Burton makes a music video". However, when researching we almost immediatley found that we didn't want to go down the creepy route. Artists like Metallica and Marilyn Manson had the idea of a crazy house party (haunted house party) but it was too creepy for us. So Sabrina suggested that we took a light hearted spin on it which was perfect. We would make fun of the characters and incorporate fun fairytale characters that are immediately recognizable - such as Sleeping Beauty would be passed out on the floor or the Mad Hatter would be having a tea party or Pinnochio would have his strings being pulled by other guests etc.
There are a lot of ideas and the next step is to pin them down and make sense of the sequence and the storyline of the music video. It should be a promising project.
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