The document discusses ideas for a music video for the song "Human" by the band Daughter. It proposes that the video will tell a narrative about an isolated girl who feels alone in society where everyone wears animal masks to show their identity. While most people wear sheep masks to follow the crowd, the girl wears a fox mask to show how she is different. Throughout the video, metaphors of fire and light would represent how the girl's spirit is trapped and slowly burning out until she finds acceptance by joining a group of foxes at the end.

1. The Pitch
Hannah Jess Lucy Maddy

2. Song: Human
Artist: Daughter: European indie folk band
from England formed in 2010 after the addition
of swiss-born guitarist Igor Haefeli

3. Ideas
Isolated in a crowd
Natural vs
Unnatural
Masks
Motif
Manikins Barbie Doll
Bright Vs Dark
Urban Vs
Rural
Emotionless
Sheep vs Fox
Animals

4. Woken up like an animal
Teeth ready for sinking
My mind's lost in bleak vision
I tried to escape but keep sinking
Limbs lost to a dead wait steak
Skull cage like a prison
And he has lost faith to ever see again
So may he once taught of me then
Underneath the skin there's a human
Buried deep within there's a human
And despite everything I'm still human
But I think I'm dying here
Waking up like an animal
I'm all ready for healing
My mind's lost with nightmares streaming
Waking up (kicking screaming)
Take me out of this place I'm in
Break me out of this shale case I'm in
Underneath the skin there's a human
Buried deep within there's a human
And despite everything I'm still human
I think that I'm still human
Underneath the skin there's a human
Buried deep within there's a human
And despite everything I'm still human
But I think I'm dying here
Feels different to
everyone else
No matter what they do
still feel isolated
Might not portray
emotions but they’re
there
Emotions
killing her
Trapped

5. Narrative
Isolated girl feels alone, she has to hide her true
identity from society
Everyone wears animal masks to show their
identity
Most people wear sheep masks, as they follow
the crowd but the girl wears a fox mask to show
how she is different.

6. Performance
• Female lead singer
• Band behind her
• Forest setting
• They are foxes too, but they don’t wear masks.
• Masks could be discarded around them on the
floor

7. Metaphors
• FIRE:
- candles (church candles)
- Candle in a jar
- Lanterns
- Matches
- Sparks
She is represented by fire (which is associated with foxes) “firey personality” is trapped and slowly
burning out. Candle wax burning away, if wearing a mask the mask could burn at the end (throw in fire
showing sick of hiding it wants to express herself)
Mask could be faceless showing she’s expression less but to link to song keep it an animal mask.
Have a symbol for the wolfpack in subtle places everywhere (hidden in the back of shots)
Light her lights going out.
Animal mask: Trapped in captivity (animal in zoo) animals cant communicate with people she cant
communicate/ animals cant communicate with different animals.
Burns mask using flame to light lantern then lets lantern (with wolfpack symbol on) go setting her self
free. See other lanterns in the sky referring to other people like her who have finally found where they
belong but they don’t star in the video just represented by their lantern in the distance.

8. Motifs
• Animals – Everyone wears animal masks but hers
is different (doesn’t fit in with a group/species) at
end finds the wolf pack where she fits in e.g. ugly
duckling. Fit in with candles wolf pack holding
candles.
• Fire
• Light
Idea: everyone else is sheep (metaphor) everyone
doing the same thing and she’s not. Maybe she’s a
fox and the sheep are scared of her (rejecting
her/scared of her)

9. Sheep vs Fox
• Try's to fit in with sheep
• Realises that’s not who she is
• Sheep give her mask (acceptance)
• She burns sheep mask
• Joins foxes
Are humans with animals (human body) masks
doing daily activities not in fields.

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Symbol of
wolfpack

11. Locations
• The dean
• The Oozburn
• National Trust areas such as Anwick and
Cragside
• Blyth Beach or Longsands