The document proposes an idea for a music video involving self-murder and overcoming darker habits. It involves the protagonist murdering their own stunt double by drowning them in a lake, then dragging the body out and burying it. This is intercut with performance footage. Iconography ideas include stabbing one's leg, putting out cigarettes on hands, and using a bath. Influences mentioned include Pixies, Candlemass, Triptykon, MGMT, and various Guns N' Roses and Iron Maiden songs. Green screen and motion graphics may be required to realize some elements.

1. Idea 1: Self- murder

2. • This idea looks at self-loathing, but also overcoming the darker parts of
yourself/your bad habits.
• The protagonist murders themselves, then drags their body out of a lake. Shots
of them fighting and shouting at themselves in a mirror, or against a large
window at night, them drinking/doing drugs/smoking.
in the end they wrestle with a stunt double, one of them gets thrown into a
lake. Ends with the living one dragging the body out of the lake (face-down).
The protagonist then buries this body, and goes home and throws out their
alcohol and cigarettes. Maybe in the end though they still find themselves
looking in the mirror.
• cross-cut with performance footage.
• could be more abstract - person with a mask, or even a different person
maybe you don't see them die, you just see the hand reaching as they fall and
they dont quite meet

3. Iconography Ideas
• stabbing leg and ripping tights (done by having someone put a knife against their leg and pull it away
quickly, ripping tights/stockings as they do, then reversing the clip)
• Putting a cigarette out on their hand (done by having something like dirt in the palm of their hand, but
shooting at a low angle or mid-angle so that the dirt isn't visible)
• involve a bath (dark theme) - could look cool if reversed, maybe fire too - chance for colour correction
• maybe dye the water
• potential reference - fruit loops in Pixies - Bag Boy
• Evie bath reference, Faithless - Insomnia student video, BMTH
• colour powder?
• wigs?
• final fight and fall into lake could be slow-motion
• Pixies where they recreate a living room in a forest, another with a trans character in a subway (Silver
Snail?)
• use of masks?

4. Influences
• Pixies where they recreate a living room in a forest, another with a trans character in a subway (Silver Snail?)
• use of masks?
• honeyblud - have a look
• Candlemass - mirror mirror
• Triptykon - aurorae - look at performance, layering, eye thing 2:19
• MGMT - Little Dark Age fire, general quirkyness - look at the student Depeche Mode with fire, maybe burning photos?
• Lipstick colouring, dark – anti-male gaze (draws attention and then deters it) gender ambiguity?
• look at the ring for intertextuality? focus effect and crawling out of the tv
• Guns n roses - Welcome to the jungle, and later Estranged. Looking at themselves on the tv (potmordern, self-referential, maybe watching her old
misic video on the tv - background of bar of cafe?). Iron Maiden - Can I play with madness, audience dude falls into pit with tvs and iron maiden
playing
• Iron Maiden are good for industry look - how its changed (November rain guitar solo helicopter shot)
• Guns n Roses - Estranged underwater shot 7:45
• maybe try the ring effect from a polaroid - Guns n Roses - dont cry 1:35 (crude now). look at 3:24, multiple years of Axle (walks into a mirror)
• use of diegetic intro-outro-breaking - extreme example is daft punk - Da Funk (postmodern 1975 ref to)
• Similar to Megadeth - Sweating Bullets
May need green screen
May need Motion - a FCPX companion program - controlling depth and 3D effects