music video treatments

a classic
(to be sincere, i like johnny hardstaff's version better)

"LynnFox: FC Kahuna Hayling promo
Director LynnFox
Record Company City Rockers, London
Comisssioner John Hassay
Contact John Hassay
E john@bluesource.co.uk

Treatment
The video is an attempt to translate the unfolding of a classical love story into an abstract succession of sensuous atmospheres. We follow the courtship process, from the initial shy and fragile glange, to the careful establishment of bodily contact. Over the duration of the track we watch the invigorating stimulus of a giant and versatile organism as it is coupling with a cosmic epicurean light source. It is Romeo and Juliet's moment of attraction transferred into an abstract Eden of epic proportions.
She stirs. Flicking her wingtips and peening a velvet flank. The long graceful arc of her body disappears into the salty dusk light, a distant blue glow picking up her silhouette. Sparkling luminescence dances about her, playing in the grooves and shallows, fizzing on the shifting tendrils.
She is a breathtaking creature.
This is how he finds her. Efortlessly melting into her environment, yet impossible to miss. He never saw true beauty till this night. At once she senses his presence and freezes. Their eyes meet.
Then slowly at first, he approaches, his shilver armour casting fligkering light onto her skin. The rays caress her warmly causing her to blush, but she unfolds and allows him closer. They are captivated, held in each other's gaze, paying no attention to the devils and astronauts whirling around them.
As his courage increases his advances become more daring, shining bright like magnesium. She struts peacock-style, basking in the warm light rays filtering from his headlamp. He probes and she recolis like seaweed caught in the tide. They dance back and forth. His touch would burn holes in cellulose fabric but she doesn't care, not while his lens flares dilate the iris. "You kiss by the book" she replies.
This close encounter can only end in bloodshed. Its danger is the key to its appeal and the temptation could be all-consuming. It is a fleeting embrace on a beach far from the withering routine of civilised life. This is something to remember but not to repeat.
LynnFox "

and cunningham's for 'all is full of love'

Against black we hear the faint sound of electricity gently surging.
All around us, banks of fluorescent lights, behind Plexiglas flicker to life at random, illuminating an elegant, pristine white environment.
It has a Japanese feel to it, a simplicity in its design.
As we track forwards we are dwarfed on either side by two enormous medical/industrial robots. In unison they sweep around towards a workspace littered with eggshell white plastic parts.
As we get closer the parts become more visible and reveal an organic nature, their shapes resemble humanoid forms.
From above we see clearly a female form in a fetal position completely abstracted and disassembled. Although it is artificial it is beautiful and elegant.
The machines set to work in extreme slow motion. Their arms gracefully engaging with the incomplete human form, removing and adding parts to the partially hollow plastic shell and its matt black complex inner workings.
Although only the front portion is in place its features are clearly those of Bjork’s, albeit the smoothed panels of a Japanese motorbike.
The eyes open as the robotic arms construct consciousness. Warm orange sparks fly against the cold blue white plastic.
It feels like we are watching the last stages of an artificial intelligence's birth.
As it starts to sing, the elegance of the song and the imagery is contrasted by the abstractions caused by this incomplete form. It never quite becomes whole.
As the track unfolds so too does the imagery developing in stages.
The figure, still incomplete is upright now. Its hand reaching up to touch its own face. We reveal more of the scene.
Gently white fluid, like milk starts to was[h] over the forms and eventually engulfs it (this would be achieved by submerging the forms in a vat of milk and draining it off, filmed in reverse).
When the form emerges from the vat we reveal that it is number two in a series. Still with Björk's features, the two ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES begin to engage with one another.
Locked together in a surreal embrace, parts intertwined and fused, we concentrate now on details, kissing, slow motion white fluid, fluorescent light.
The imagery is slowly becoming more sexual but way to [sic] surreal and abstract to be offensive.
We see the plastic bodies begin to unfold like strange flowers.
The last sequence of shots as we pull back very wide reveal an indescribably abstract life form made from the two unfolded, artificial, humanoid forms.
It's like Karma Sutra meets Industrial Robotics.
The shots in this video will not be as difficult as you might imagine.
The main performance aspect of the video would involve attaching blue panels to Björk's body and replacing these areas with model parts filmed against the same background.
This will give the illusion of her being hollow, completely artificial. We would shoot everything as a lock off.
As we approach the finale, the shots would possibly start to include a mixture of computer graphics and live action, used seamlessly to depict these robots unfolding.
A lot of preparatory work would be needed and some compositing but the shot would be very simple.
I am convinced that this would make an extroadinary surreal performance video.
The imagery would be majestic and we could be sexually suggestive as we like and get away with it.