Filling the idea in

I knew from the beginning that we had our performance element set with the band playing and we would have glitter falling on the from above with lights on them to make the glitter sparkle. I thought about having the sequence with the performance element with the glitter and then having a lip-synching element as well created also in the studio with glitter falling down. Then I realized these to elements were to similar and you don’t want your audience getting bored while watching this video, because a music video is something that should be enjoyable to watch over and over again. Because we chose not to have a specific narrative we would have to do something really creative. As I’m looking around the room trying to think of other elements I see the poster from “The Pact” movie on the wall, with this picture:

When I saw this, I suggested to my group that we should use see-through foil like the one you use in the kitchen, and create a wall of this, behind this wall we would have people pushing against it as in the picture above and they would be covered in glitter as well, this idea fell through really well and we all built on it. From this sequence an idea of gimp suits sparked out. We had a chat to look and were talking about all of this glitter, he said that we shoud think about the glitters meaning and why it actually was coming down, yes it would look good but what would the audience interpret as. Since the audience is the most important we started to think. We created this idea that the glitter is taking over the world and it has to do with people being vain and as the song time is running and everybody is getting drowned in this glitter. This is when the idea sparked. Instead of having to cast people besides the band we came up with the idea that everybodt should look the same. We did some research and came up with the idea of using Barbie masks or doll face cut outs. Like this:

But then we decided to buy gimpsuits and first cover them in glue and then stick glitter everywhere on them creating this atmosphere of people getting suffocated in glitter. This will also be used for the people trying to push through the wall of foil, so they all look the same and I want to have close up’s of there faces pressing through and glitter rubbing off on the foil which I think will give a great visual look on camera.

After the idea of the people pushing through the wall and the idea of glitter taking over we tried to think of small sequences we could use to intercut with as a third element. This is when we though of having small scenes with people getting “eaten” by glitter. We had this idea to start with of a bathtub. The bathtub would be filled with glitter, coming out of the tap as well. From this we decided to use everyday tasks but replace then things with glitter. We want to have someone getting a facial with the cucumbers on their eyes and then instead of having the mask put on someone who is smothering them with glitter. Following we would also have a hairdryer sequence, a hair mask, champagne popping with glitter instead of drink etc etc.