Friday, 12 September 2014

Music Video Idea #1 ("Tessellate")




In my first music video idea I turn again to one of my favourite bands "Alt-j (∆)". I want to use the song from their first album, "Awesome Wave", which is called "Tessellate". This is probably one of their most celebrated songs. And here is the link to the music video...


Alt-j is an experimental rock band. And usually their videos are very weird. In some of them they use narrative, but this is not the case all the time. Nonetheless, we never see them singing themselves, in fact we can only see their faces in only one music video "Matilda", however, these are just pictures of them and not them actually doing something.
And this is probably their most weird video.
Soon enough they're going to release their new album "All Is Yours". Some of music videos for their new album have ben released already, and it's possible to see the difference between their first and second albums. The videos as well as their songs as well as their star image remained quite weird and unusual, but there is some tendency to make everything a bit more "normal". This is an example of the music video from their second album.
There are some pictures that may illustrate the overall mood and atmosphere of the band, their style.





So my concept of the music video rather than a proper idea is based on experimenting with time flow. At first, we see several breakable objects, e.g. glasses, cups, plates and, finally, mirror. And mirror seems to be especially important since this is the only object that we can actually see flying towards the floor in super slow-motion and we can see someone dropping it down. Then we see what happened before to the person who broke all the objects (not sure what it is yet), which is showed in a normal time flow. But this alternates with moments that happen just after the mirror was broken and time goes backwards to the point where the person actually breaks the mirror. Then in the end we see something that happened after the mirror was broken which resolves the situation and the mirror that was broken becomes a normal mirror again, not a set of splinters.







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