Ideas for music video.

Intial Ideas.

I have had several ideas as to what music video I would like to do.
My most recent idea was quite complex in its editing techniques as its very heavily dependent on green screen and chroma key effects.

I want to film several sequences in the style of the Ipod adverts



I then wanted to use these squences and project them on the different sides of a rubiks cube. I also wanted to film the Rubiks cube in stop-animation so that I could bring in other rubiks cubes and animate them while having the videos projected on each of the rubiks cubes by using the chroma key effect on final cut.
This video will be mainly concept with a mixture of performance.At the moment I am not sure if I will go for this idea yet as I need a bigger budget to play with and the fact I cant choose a song that will fit the concept.

The Cat Empire - Hello.


My second idea is to the song by The Empire- Hello. The song talks about a man checking out women he likes and his catchphrase line "..well hello hello". This line keeps getting repeated throughout the song as it links the start of the chorus and the start to the next verse. I want to pick up on this line and make something happen as soon as he says it.
This Music video would be mainly performance and concept however it would include a underlining narrative to keep it interesting.
My idea is that the video starts off in black and white, and I start to introduce colour. Each colour will be introduced by a different women. So for example, when he is walking down the street he might see a women in a red dress, when he touches her dress everything that is red comes out as red on top of the black and white footage. This is the "Sin city" effect, as it is one of the signature aesthetics to the film and I would love to incorporate in my film. Here are some video tutorials I found on how to achieve this:




Esser - Work It Out.
This song talks about how he wants to "work it out" with his girlfriend. When thinking of this idea I was massively influenced by the work of Michel Gondry, particularly his film "The Science Of Sleep". I love the idea that people have their own special place in their imagination. I thought that the character in this song would most probably want some escapism so the idea is that after the argument with his girlfriend he goes to his "happy place".
In this case under his bed. I want the character to travel through his bed into a happy world with weird singing characters and in the corner a time machine so that he can go back to whatever time he wants.
This music video would be a narrative with a combination of performance at bits.

Some brainstormed Ideas:
Dinosaurs - for this I am very much influenced by the work of Ray Harryhausen.
Underwater - I really want to try filming underwater, its an ambition which I would love to achieve.
Parallel backwards universe - basically everything is backwards and a bit confusing.
Victorian era - Quite easy to manipulate on an old street with a top hat and a waistcoat.
The moment he screwed up with his girlfriend - thought this could be a sweet conclusion.