Music video Ideas

Different Ideas

Artist/Band: Muse

Track: Supermassive Black Hole

Album: Black Holes and revelations

Genre: Rock

Channels: MTV, TMF, HITS

Characteristics: Mainly Abstract with Performences

Idea

As the song is a metaphor for black holes we worked this into out music video with our two characters where the girl was seen the be the "Black Hole" metaphorically, out character was portryaed as someone who was emotionaless and empty, where our other character a male who was confused and wanted to be free of the girl. We portrayed our charcaters in this way to fit with the lyrics and messages of the song.

The opening of the video is a layed effects of the male character putting up different images of blackholes on his wall, it would be quick paced with tilts, pans and dissolves. The shot then would go into a medium close up of the boy imagining to see the girl appear infront of him, the camera then would then follow his gaze to see the medium long close up of the girl. The shot then goes into a close up of the girl as her eyes are closed, when she opens her eyes they are deep black with the connotations of the supermassive black hole. The camera slowly zooms out and she smiles.

The next scene consists of an over the shoulder shot of the girl watching the guy melting an ice cream with a lighter, this goes with the lyrics of "(you set my soul alight) Glaciers melting in the dead of night". This then goes into a extreme close up of the ice cream melting, so that the audience can see the effects of the lighter and see the melting "drops" of ice cream. The ice cream then floors to the floor, with the camera tilting down to show three other ice creams melting. With the use of editing the out line of the puddle of ice cream would turn black, again with the connotations of the supermassive black hole, the darkness seeping into the puddle, (the blackhole).

As our video was going to be very fast paced with quick fluid shots between eachother, as the next shot was going to go back to the images of the black holes on the wall, again with pans, tilts and dissolves.

For the next scene I was going to have the characters both walking towards the camera in a split screen and then they would merge to be one of the characters, this would lead on to being the male character who then shakes his head in confused this is shown through a 36o shot of the camera showing his state of mind.

The music video would end with the girl dissapering and the wall that the black hole images turning completely deep balck.