Planning - Treatment

This is a treatment for a music video for the DoBERMAN track, 'Fell From Space'.

I propose to use the idea of space, and the futuristic sounds of the track, as the main inspiration and focal point of the video. The story is simple. The video follows the day in the life of a college student. We follow him from the day he wakes up in the morning, to when he goes to bed at night. However, the element of space, means that this student has a space mask on. This would usually be seen in modern society as extremely surreal and abnormal. However, using the actions of the other cast in the video, I intend to make it seem as normal as possible. The student will be accepted and just act completely normal, as will his fellow students. Doing this will slightly confuse the audience into thinking, "Why is he wearing the helmet/mask?" and "Why is nobody taking notice of this odd attire he is wearing?". I intend for the audience to ask those questions, to draw them into the video.

A common element of a good music video, is humour, and I think the fact that the audience will be watching someone walking around acting normal in a large white Star Wars mask will act as this element of humour, providing a strange humour. Another element is performance, and I have considered this. Because there is no real band to perform, in the synthesizer solo I will have somebody dancing in the helmet, to provide a performance element, and I will have a close of up a mouth or face miming to some of the lyrics at points in the video.

To make the video surreal, unique, and stand out, I plan to film it and edit it in its entirety, and then paint over it in a method called rotoscope, to make it seem like a cartoon. By doing this, I can also add random, unique effects, such as random UFOs at some point, if I feel it will benefit the video.

The storyline is as follows:

The protagonist wakes up, has breakfast, and gets dressed. The protagonist drives his way to college, where he meets his girlfriend. He attends lessons, spends time with friends, perhaps engages in sport of some sort. He then "flirts" with another girl at college, is caught by his girlfriend, and a row ensues. He goes home, watches TV in a downheartened mood, and then goes to bed.

At times, I intend to play with the colour, chopping and changing it to the beat of the song, to again add an abstract and surreal feel to the video.