Music Video Idea 3 - MGMT 'Electric Feel'

PART TWENTY FIVE

IDEA 3

Electric Feel - MGMT

My idea involves a scene but no narrative plot. It is based around the idea of teenagers going haywire and the music video will experiment with 'electric' elements, as the song title suggests.

Opens with a close up shot of the faces of 2 teenaged boys and 2 teenagers girls standing in a line with backcombed hair, bandanas and mud lines on their cheeks.

The idea of this is to show the wild side in modern-day youths. I gained inspiration from the lost boys in Peter Pan. I imagine the faces of the 'lost boys' and especially the lead singer to be not showing any emotion on his face. So the whole way through the performance, none of the band pull any expressions but leave their faces neutral.

The majority of this music video will be filmed in the studio. The set will have a bright multi coloured wall and the lighting will be dark but there will be lit up lazers on the wall. I'm thinking like this music video by Fletcher:

However, there will also be parts filmed in the streets.

 As the lyrics start, the boy in the middle starts lip-syncing to it, but we film him singing the song double the speed then put it in slow motion to make it seem like he is singing in time but walking forward down the street in slow motion.  I was thinking maybe as the lead singer was lip-syncing, the other teenagers could be in the background jumping on cars with sticks and chucking things at walls. The strangers passing by on the street will be looking at them in disgust but the teenagers completely ignore them and carry on. 

There will be clips of passers by watching them in disgust and confusion as they strut past in their crazy clothes and muddy faces.

I want the  teenaged girls and boys to be sassy and confident like in the Bad Blood music video by Taylor Swift.

Then it cuts to them in a different scenario and every so often, back to a close up shot of the boys mouth lip-syncing.

There will be shots of them running through the streets with sticks and close up shots of their mouths shouting 'Ahhh'.

As the song builds, from walking through the streets, there will be a long shot of them from the front and then it will begin to go in slow motion.

As the slow motion is becoming slower and slower, the screen will change colour in time with the beat, creating the whole electric element, relating to the song title. And will skip between the two same shots of them running forward in the streets and of them running forward in the colourful studio. This will give a strobe light effect.

So the shots will cut every few seconds from a shot like this in the studio:

To the same shot taken in the streets which would look something like this:

I like the colours and style of the Snakadaktal video 'Air'. The slow motion element of it, the glitter and the madness. 

Once the drop starts, after the strobe light effect of cutting between 2 scenes, all of the teenagers look down at themselves and theyve all been covered in different colours of paint. Then theres shots in the studio of them all laughing and jumping around. I like the idea` of having fun with paint like in the music video 'Honey', by Swim Deep.