Initial Ideas for the Music Video

After we had decided on our groups, and I was with Courtney and Sabrina, we had to then decide on an artist, track and genre. We all had decided that we wanted to do something different and not the same indie alternative rock style music video we had seen in the past.

After a lot of discussion we finally decided on a track. Flyswatter by Eels.

I personally had never listened to the band before, but after hearing it a few times, instantly warmed to it. I like the genre of the track as it has quite a creepy atmosphere which really goes well with grim lyrics, for example:

Field mice, head lice
Spiders in the kitchen
Don't think twice 'bout
Whatever keeps you itchin'
Ice water, flyswatter
Gonna get you through

Our initial thoughts about the video were a Tim Burton kind of style inspired by Alice in Wonderland meets a haunted mansion/fairytale land. The tune in the song would go well with a creepy fairytale storyline and it reminded me of The Nightmare before Christmas.

We started researching artists which had made similar videos to us for inspiration. As we wanted a circus/carnival atmosphere in it, we used Panic! At the Disco for inspiration.

This video has the creepy but humourous style that we want to achieve whilst still being crazy.

Other videos we looked at were Metallica and Marilyn Manson. This was when we decided we didn't want to go down the scary/gothic route but instead have a sense of lightheartedness in our video and use mixed up fairytale characters.

These are still just ideas, however we are certain that we want to go down the creepy but humourous Tim Burton style video.