Music Video: Idea 2

My second idea for a music video is based on the song "Chamaleon" by Jacco Gardner. Gardner is a Dutch neo-Psychedelic musician who sings and plays various instruments. This song from the album "Cabinet of Curiosities" (2013), is all about transformation and loss of identity. The original video is in black and white and features a mysterious man consistently wearing a white hat as the protagonist. A succession of images from city life, forest, and a girl in the beach overlap and fade together.

The chorus consists of a key line which matches the name of the song: "I'm a chameleon I'm changing every day". I feel drawn towards this song because of the connotations of the lyrics but mainly I am atrracted by the overall vibe, the style and instruments used.

I'm thinking of playing with surfaces and over-lapping in my own video as well, but focusing the fading on the main character, who is a melancholic-looking man preferrably pale to match the coldness of the video and of the reptile to which the song refers. I would also add textures and give more importance to natural landscapes and patterns than city scenes, though I wouldn't discard some shots of empty locations to increase the sense of solitude that the song transmits. In the music video for "Chamaleon", I would give much more importance to the performer than to the musicians, who would appear occasionally in exotic backgrounds, or freed from their instruments merging with other actors.

I imagine a dancing sequence based on contortionism, where dancers would be dressed in black and freed from their identity with the choice of white masks. The main actor would also be wearing masks occasionally, but his would be more ornamented and varied as the video progresses. 

I am considering androgenous masks or mixing male and female, and soem sort of mascarade party or carnival could be included at some point. I would encourage at least the traces of it. For instance, the remains of a festival near a park, with messed up costumes haging in the branch of a tree, comes to mind.

Having a genuine chamaleon crawling in the ground would be an extra, especially because I have the intention of including a formal dinner in the end in which the protagonist sits along with all the rest of the performers, them wearing white masks and him with his bare face, and the chamaleon would make an appearance in the table causing chaos among the guests but not the host. They would eventually remove their masks and storm out of the room, while the main actor would stay sitting in semi-total darkness staring at a passing fly as the final image.

My version has a tint of lunacy that I want to transmit with bright colours and a trippy style throughout. Ideally, I would have a competently edited video in which the sky in some filmed sequences turns into a sheer psychedelic fantasy, and the post-production would play the most important role consequently.