Some 2am ideas.

The following is written by Alex Noble

It's 2am right now, but I just woke up and had some ideas for the video, thought about writing them down but I'd no doubt lose the paper, so here's the scoop, blog style.

Firstly, we'll need two guys to do the lyrics obviously, I've looked at the group a bit more and I think it's two guys, anyway that's all I can hear in the track. At the start there's a kind of, I don't know what kind of beat that is but I like it, we'll have lots of small squares, in different colours, filters you know, and each one will display something random, something small, it's not important.

Anyway, as the lyrics come in we'll have both guys taking up 4 small squares, so they'll be on th left of the right, either way, the squares can interact with each other, so for example the dude could tap the other guy on the shoulder, through the squares, this would be cool for the chorus when a guy gets his head made into a TV by the woman with the "POWERS!", he'd be running around the screen and you'd see him go between squares, bothering the people in each square. In that way they'd become like films of seperate rooms, but they'd sync up at other points, time wise of course.

I quite like the idea of having a focal point, because without one the video will lack direction, people won't know where to look, it would be cool to make a confusing artsy video but this isn't electronic music we're using here, this is something a bit more mainstream, so it's gotta have a somewhat mainstream video. Well maybe not, but the song's kinda silly and so should the video be.

ANYWAY, yes, a focal point, one square bigger than the others, we'd have smaller squares around it showing different things, I like this idea because it gives the entire video more replay value, you might notice things when you rewatch it that you didn't before. For this purpose I would want to put some interesting stuff happening in the other squares, maybe some references to other songs and TV shows and stuff, just to personalise it a bit and add some laughs. Not that it won't be funny enough already.

There's a bit in the middle of the song, apparantly it's called a "bridge", where we lose the tune and they go into pure rap mode. For this i'm thinking a camera that kinda zooms in and out with the beat, i'd call it a "pulsy" camera. Make sense? Black and white maybe, both dudes in one square, camera below them, hands doing that pointy thing.

Also, I considered how the squares would move, change sizes and positions, two options. 1. We have some crazy video effects to smoothly make them move around, resize, merge. Might be hard. 2. We change the layout with each beat except on the chorus bits where we only move the smaller squares. I like the second idea the best to be honest. Also for the first bit we could have a wall of squares, and change a few of them each beat but not all of them.

Also how about some mouths at the top all saying POWERS with a letter in front of each one spelling out POWERS. Beneath that maybe the girl zapping the guy, or something. I'm imagining some lovely modern, sometimes symetrical, well thought out and generally awesome looking editing here. I think i'm alright with the olde editing software so I don't think this will be a problem, but I don't think we should leave editing as an afterthought for this one, we need to decide most of the stuff now so we can film it according to how the editing will best complement it, if that makes sense, and you know it does.

SLEEP NEEDED, ALEX OUT. (Alex Noble that is)