Live Project- Song 3 Idea

This is the third and final song for Lost State of Dance's brief for making them a music video for each of their three new, yet to be released songs. This was the song that (of the three) was hardest to think up a solid concept for although we did come up with a fairly strong idea which we had no problems with pitching to the client.

The song talks about the break up of a boy and  a girl and the struggles involved, because of this the core aspect of our idea for the video for this was the boy following the girl through a maze but never catching up to her. In and amongst all the chasing we will cut in shots of the band playing with each one being filmed individually as well as full band shots.

With regards to the actual maze we were thinking of doing it in the style of maze-like streets which we will manipulate regular streets and turns to appear more like a real maze as this would be substantially easier for us to film. However, we did also consider the idea of using a real maze as one of the crew members owns a couple of drones we could use for aerial views of the maze, however, finding a maze would have been hard on such a small time frame.

One idea we had was to have the band playing at every dead end that they hit in the maze just so that we can put the band into the video in a more imaginative way than cutaways. Another idea we had (which links to the narrative) is that at the end of the maze one of them exits into a countryside and the other into a city or town showing that they are so different and don't belong together. Another idea we had was that they could reach the end and then the girl leaves with one of the band members after we find out that the band was waiting for them at the centre of the maze.

I personally think that this was our weakest of the three ideas that we thought of, but it is still a very strong idea we could put into production relatively easily. Some of these aspects could be used in other videos but most of the ideas for this were specific to this video.