Monday, 26 September 2011

Treatment for music video. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds – The Beatles.

Song: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds                Artist: The Beatles
Characters: 4 males - To play each member of The Beatles
                   Girl - To play main character
                   30 extras - To play various roles as people at parties/ walking down the road.
Location: Party: Megan's house        Wood area: Bentley Lane         Road: White Horse Way


Idea for the video:
When it starts and music is slow in tempo the video begins in reverse In slow motion, Starting with a long shot of main character and zooming in until camera reaches her eye.
It takes the girl back to a party where everyone is dressed up in crazy costumes. The lighting is bright and airy, everything seems infinite. The camera then follows her through the party. There are many close ups of peoples faces.

When the lyric reads 'the girl with kaleidoscope eyes' the screen is then filled with a spiralling pattern. People jump out of her Then the drum beat sounds, and on the last beat the pattern stops and the reversal stops and it shows the girl walking down the street.

To the left of her is four of our friends, dressed up in suits playing the song. She seems different, is staggering everywhere and when she turns to see people they are dressed up, but when she looks again they are back to normal. Everyone is dressed as if it is the 60's, showing the era it which the song was written. The girl looks to the sky and sees birds flying and the clouds moving in speed, all the while miraging shapes appear in a kaleidoscope of colour. Eventually the girl ends up in a forest which is abundant with people dressed up in animal costumes having a tea party. The forest is strung with lights and lanterns.

The girl joins in with the party, all the animals come up to her, touch her, stroke her, get really up in her face. She panics tries to fight them away, but they take her to join the party. She is engulfed by them, then she re-ermerges dressed up as an animal like them. The party continues then, everyone is dancing and camera focuses on the girl, she is stumbling around, eyes wide, physchedelic colours flow everywhere. The end of the song the girl stumbles, she trips and falls to the floor. The camera focuses on the animals around her that close in and stare at her.  The end of the song sees the camera holding a fixed shot on the girls face, she closes her eyes, then opens them and smiles.

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