Planning: Music Video Initial Ideas

HEALTH- EUPHORIA music video

LYRICS FOCUS ON NOSTALGIA. BRIDGE FOCUSES ON DRUG USE.

https://purebulk.com/empty-capsules/

Filled with pink coloured sugar. Use this for the drugs.

Alternatively, find a way to make fake pills.

Verses- slower. Music video must match pace of song

Choruses- allow the video a chance to build towards the 1 minute mark.

At this point, video speeds up.

Opening is short. Main actor could be sitting somewhere, camera tracks in towards their face quickly as the song rises.

Then speed up to match the music. Could be a quick montage of the rest of the video? Flash the name of the song up during the montage.

During the slower, first verse, have lip syncing.

‘And I'm looking back

We were young then’

((Nostalgia themed. Can show the main actor having a flashback, maybe about an ex/a group of friends/their past?))

‘In the strangest dream of me

And I'm looking back

We were dumb then

In the strangest dream’

((More of the same. Maybe some shots focusing on the main character’s surroundings/environment.))

[Chorus]

Euphoria

Don't leave

((Main character can lip sync or prepare for the next scene, perhaps pouring out some pills into their hand))

Euphoria

((Show handful of pills))

Don't lie to me ((<== lip sync this, looking into camera))

((Afterwards, down the pills and edit in blur + colour explosion.))

((This lasts a while before character sits back down.))

[Verse 2]

((Track in towards the character from across the room, sitting down again.))

Now it's in the past

And I'm stuck here

In the strangest dream of me

((Looking out across the room, another flashback. Blurry.))

And we can't go back

To a moment

In a stranger's dream

[Chorus]

Euphoria

((Character gets up))

Don't leave

((Camera follows as they walk across the room))

Euphoria

Don't lie to me

((Character opens a door/steps outside. Camera blinded by light.))

((During the instrumental part, merge more of the flashback with footage of main character walking alone. Juxtapose scenes of character with friends in the past, then being alone in the same place.))

[Bridge]

You never got high enough [x4]

((Taking pills/Snorting something. Then show character vomiting into toilet.))

[Chorus]

Euphoria

Don't leave

Euphoria

Don't lie to me

((More flashbacks scattered along these scenes. Ends with fading to black as tracking away from character.))


This is, we believe, a good first draft. It captures the general theme we want, and the overall narrative of the story. However, we are not sure on whether this is what we want- the 2nd verse onwards does not flow very well within my head.
After some deliberation, I rewrote the 2nd chorus  and the bridge.

[Chorus]

Euphoria

((Character gets up))

Don't leave

((Camera follows as they walk across the room))

Euphoria

Don't lie to me

((walk across the room, go outside.))

((POTENTIAL IDEA- SHORT BREAK FROM SONG. MUSIC PAUSES, SHOWS CHARACTER VOMITING INTO A TOILET.))

((During the instrumental part, merge more of the flashback with footage of main character walking alone. Juxtapose scenes of character with friends in the past, then being in the same place- AROUND THE HOUSE, NOT OUTSIDE.))

[Bridge]

You never got high enough [x4]

((Character is outside now. If appropriate, wide shot of his surroundings. Dips a cigarette in an unmarked vial of liquid (similar to how people take PCP), lights it and smokes it. ))

[Chorus]

Euphoria ((Character seems panicked. Re enters the building)).

Don't leave 

Euphoria

Don't lie to me

((More flashbacks scattered along these scenes. Ends with fading to black as tracking away from character, passed out/dead on the floor infront of chair -SAME SHOT POSITION AS THE VIDEO'S OPENING.))