A couple of music video ideas
A music video about someone blasting a song in an apartment building in the middle of the night, waking up everyone in the building. The thing is, they love the song so much, they don’t mind - they jump around and dance on their beds rather than throw their pillows over their heads and try to go back to sleep.
Instead of calling the cops, some of the sleep-deprived noise victims line up at this guy’s door in their pajamas to ask him the name of the artist and the song.
At the end of the video, his stereo switches to a different song by a different band, and suddenly now everyone is complaining, hitting their ceilings and floors with their brooms, screaming to shut off the racket, putting in ear plugs and calling the cops.
Clearly the message of this video is that this is a good song.
That idea I had today. An old music video idea I remembered is about someone walking through her neighborhood and hearing a song from start to finish, but from different sources.
She walks out her door and hears the opening of the song blasting from a car slowly driving by. But just as the song starts to fade from the Doppler Effect, the song picks up where it left off from a radio in an open window. As she walks by another window, a parrot happens to be singing the song right where the radio left off. As she leaves the parrot behind, an oil change shop is playing the song, where the parrot left off.
And the whole video is like this. Just when we think she’s going to stop hearing the song because she’s gone out of range, she passes another musical source that picks up the song from where it left off.
Other possible sources: a radio in a gutter, an old woman blasting her I-Pod really loudly, and a crop-duster plane.
The video concludes when she gets to her destination, a club where the song’s band is playing the very end of the song (just in time to line up with the jolly singing hobo outside of the club, of course).
It would be unlike most music videos in that the song isn’t exactly as we hear it on the CD, with perfect levels and no background noise. This video would have background noise from the neighborhood, and though we’d heard the song in perfect continuity, there would be those fades in between the sources.
So there’s two music videos for ya. The only thing missing is two songs.
4 years ago