Madeon - "Finale"
(Aahoo hoo hoo)
Brace yourself
Brace yourself
(Whoo hoo hoo)Your last chance,
last summer,
your last dance,
to beat to your own drummer.
Go out fighting.
Go out young.
A flash of lighting.
Clips the Sun.
(2x)
Brace yourself, brace yourself.
Brace yourself, brace yourself.
(Brace yourself for the grand finale!)
Your last chance, last summer, your last dance, to beat to your own drummer.
Go out fighting.
Go out young.
A flash of lighting.
Clips the Sun.
Brace yourself,
brace yourself.
The length of the song is 3:24, around the same time as most radio edits of all music tracks, meaning we can expect to have the same length music video to other videos that we have looked at and taken influences from.
The overall idea that we had for the music video was to do a large chase between a thief and members of a record label/mysterious people with high authority. We had the idea of the characters who are chasing wearing anonymous masks and wearing suits to show their mysteriousness and sense of unknowing/danger.0:00 - 1:04
The beginning of the music video needs to link in with the long intro in the song, so we thought that there needed to be something to show what the actual main chase scene in the video is about. To begin with we thought of just having a descriptive title intro with text at the beginning of the video, but bearing in mind the length of the intro, this would be virtually impossible to do without it looking like it has been done to run down the time at the beginning of the song. Instead, to help make our video look as professional as possible and fit in well with the rest of the video and lyrics, we decided that we should do a short film at the beginning to set the theme for the rest of the video. The idea for this intro was to have an unknown man to be moving slyly around a shop/market whilst unknowingly being watched by the two anonymous characters through cctv. This man would then steal an object such as an unreleased record/private information about the record label/something of great value to another character (undecided yet) and run off. You will then see the two anonymous characters leaving their seats at the cctv security office to chase this unknown man. This will then lead in to the main lyrics of the song.
Seeing as we probably won't be able to get access to a real cctv security office, I had the idea of using a cinema screen and filming the two anonymous characters sitting at a desk in front of it using computers whilst looking up at the screen. We could the superimpose a video of lots of different cctv feeds onto the cinema screen, looking like a real cctv security office. Below you can see images of what sort of effect we want to create, and what sort of room/screen we intend to use:
As I mentioned in my 'Music Video Song Choice' post, we wanted to keep the video linked to the actual artist in some way, and the inclusion of the Sydney skyline in the official single cover for the song we are making a video for, we decided that we would keep the same theme and links to location. This is why we decided that our video would be located in a city/urban location such as London. Along with keeping it similar to the official products of the song, we also realised that London as a location would offer a lot more variety in our filming than, say, our hometown highstreet for example. There are very grimy parts of London, yet also very upmarket areas, which could be used in different parts of the video to highlight the extent of the chase.
1:04 - 1:49
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