LT - Change?

Kris and I have had a bit of an epiphony this weekend, a breakthrough. We've kind of decided that we'd like to change our idea, our song and our video idea. We've storyboarded about the first two and a half minutes of it and we think it'll really work, it's much more conceptual based than our other idea, with no performance shots. However we feel that the locations are much more accessible (one of them being right outside my house), there are less risks and problems to overcome (we won't need to take lighting outside, and so we won't have the problem of the weather) and that our video will be much more successful and creative than with our original idea.

Here is the basis of our second idea:

- The song is Pioneer to the Falls by Interpol, an enigmatic, quite eerie track with guitars and a lead singer. The dynamics of the song are interesting as it builds up to loud epic parts and in other parts you can just hear the singer with no backing instruments.

- The conceptual/narrative idea for the video follows a girl in a white room (possibly a squash court or a photography studio which we may have access to) with jagged lines on one wall. For some reason she is intrigued, tempted, fascinated and frustrated by the lines, she touches them but they cause her some kind of battle within herself.

- Other locations include an orchard, in which she follows the lines on the tree bark, causing her the same sense of frustration, and in which seems to get lost - maybe losing her mind? Also possibly a big open, empty field in my village which could be used to show her finally losing it.

- The video will cut between these two/three locations, showing her frustration, anger and fear.

- There could also be a section in which she is the one drawing the lines on a surface, maybe a concrete floor or something, as though she is trying to crack a code?


We reckon that we could do some really interesting shots with this idea and it would be much more interesting to shoot than our original plan. However, we don't know whether we're allowed to change it so late into the planning stage. We'll see!