Music Video: Idea 3

My third potential idea is to make a video for the song "In My Dreams" by Scanners, a rock band from London formed in 2004 from which little is known of. I see potential because the tune is catchy and the female voice special. I can also see a narrative unveiling with the lyrics as a starting point.

               

The song is abouth dreams, an alternative to the reality we are living in and love in the form of a lost lover who is presumably dead. The point of view is quite pessimistic, though the beat is empowering and the song is very special overall, it has a very wrapping sound.

I'd picture a brunette singer, very pale, straight hair, tall. With her, an all-female band dressed in suits. 

The narrative would evolve around the singer, who is reminiscing her lover. I would begin with a sequence of quick cuts in which we see her in different spots of the city (cafés, an apartment, a park, a garage, a tunnel, etc), first accompanied by the boyfriend and then by herself. This has to be very subtle, not falling in any romantic clichés at any moment. The more realistic and gruesome the sequence is, with both positive and negative moments rather than idealising the relationship, the better.

A key image in the music video would be that of an audience in the cinema watching themselves in the screen, an initial idea which could eventually evolve into the image of the girl with lover watching a movie in which she is alone in the cinema.

Another key moment I've thought about which really fits with the aesthetic of the music is using a cementery as a location, in which the dead become dancers and join the band. As a transition, I'd add a white room in which doors appear and disappear, changing place.

Finally, towards the end of the video I would drop another representative moment which would be a close-up of the singer/girlfriend cooking biscuits with the shape of the lover, proceeding to a shot of her teeth dissecting the biscuits while lip syncing.