For my interpretation on the music video 'Human' by The Killers, I want it to follow the typical path of any other music video; the 'narrative trio,' as I'd like to call it. This is where the video tells a story with at least two different settings, and a third which is mostly used to cross-cut to the band performing the song through different parts of the video. However, I wouldn't want my video to rely entirely on the three narratives as I've already created my storyboard and completed it as an animatic. My storyboard tells the plot through the use of relatively obscure scenes, so the story isn't laid out straight in front of the audience. I prefer to try and attempt to provoke thought from the audience through this video. That is one of the main factors I want my video to rely on. I'll either achieve that successfully or fail it miserably.
Based on the shots I have drawn, there are certain needs that have to be fulfilled to complete the preparation. Such things as the actors, who need to be one man and one woman to act as the two humans who 'break free' and become less and less bothered about the constraints of 'human' life, eventually ending in them becoming the 'dancer,' a person who lives spontaneously, hence the odd location of the forest and the band waiting inside it. These people make it how they want it, in other words. The actors would need to wear certain clothing. The band would need to wear matching outfits to signify that they're the storytellers, the 'human man' would need to wear clothing that at least resembles a hospital gown in any way because of the location he is in at the beginning with the geurney; a prop that needs to be found, borrowed or constructed from various unused furniture. The 'woman human' would need to wear just casual clothes, even when awaking to imply that her life is out of order.
For the props, we would be needing a telephone on the hook for the first couple of scenes, to imply loss of communication when we film the phone dropping from the hook. Obviously we would need instruments for the band, so they are the priority. For later scenes, we would need to use stickers with frowning eyebrows imprinted onto them to place over the woman's own eyebrows for the scene where she removes them and has a much more happier look. These are the main props needed, along with the makeshift geurney, as location is the main factor for this video.
So, for location we would need a corridor that can resemble a hospital corridor, which is relatively easy as the school has many corridors for use, but we may need certain minor props to at least be able to make the scene look realistic. The other location is the house that the woman wakes up in. This could be any room in a house that will allow us to use it (of course the house will belong to somebody we know). This location will have the phone dropping off the hook. For another location, we will try and find a street that is literally empty, so timing is a big factor here. This shot will imply that everybody has left and gone to the last location. The final location is the forest and it's grounds, which will be the location of the band, the people that left the street, and the two 'humans' who finish their journey in the forest. This implies that everybody in the forest has left the constraints of an average life and now live spontaneously (these big words are making me go mad).
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