Syspnosis

Our music video, 'Imagine Us', is set in a abandoned forest. The empty forest is not the usual and is much more mythical, it is home to unknown woodland creatures living amongst the trees, they do not destroy forests like us, they live at one with it. The creatures dress in bright unusual homemade outfits, their hair follows this strange trend and they also have their faces painted in what could be called almost tribal face paints. For our video we wanted to move away from the typical cliché love story and change it all around making ours unique. Our music is quite an alternative style, so we thought it also made sense to take the video in that direction. Our video creates for the viewers a feeling of surrealism, while at the same time not giving the impression this creatures are malicious.
There are two wood creatures we concentrated on in particular, the two are in love. The start of the music video is a sunrise, sunrises are often associated with peace and calm which it does represent in our video but also when it is on screen there is an absence of music creating suspense as to where the video is going. After the sun rise we cut to panning shots of the forest. The woodland creatures eventually start to come out from their hiding places, behind trees and bushes when the lyrics start, almost as if the singings awoken them and the story's begun. The forest we chose is Pin Mill as it's made up of tall tree’s close together in regimented rows giving it a very unique and odd feel. The forest’s light can be beautiful at times with the sun streaming through the trees but other times the forest grows dark, this would be a great look for our video as again it adds weirdness and make it unusual. Our woodland creatures; who will be played by Sharni, Arti and Amy, who are three other media students who we asked to join in our video. Kirstin was also a woodland creature. They will make up the rest of the creatures who form the circle around main couple, who will be played be Jessica and Lucy, while i join the others as extra. The circle eventual breaks apart and reveals Lucy and Jessica inside, and then they all begin to dance, after which the creatures perform ritual like activity's around the couple such as throwing leaves. The dance then repeats and the creatures return to there hiding places, this is played in reverse.