Tuesday 9 September 2014

IH: Track Concept Development



Song: Lorde – Everybody Wants to Rule the World

Location: A dusty house, old and decrepit with many corridors leading off to other rooms.

Performance: The drummer is striking his drum in time to the sporadic music, sending clouds of dust flying off the drum. He remains totally still after hitting the drum until the next strike, the muscles in his back and arm totally tensed. The pianist is slowly playing the piano with a blank (or perhaps sad?) expression. Toys and items of interest are scattered around the house, and they jump with each strike of the drum. Eventually they shake and move across the surfaces of the house as if there was an earthquake, matching the intensity of the music. The music video climaxes as the song does, entering an empty room with a singer kneeling in an old and tattered wedding dress, her hands clasped in front of her with some wilted flowers placed before her. She raises her bowed head as she sings the final line “Everybody wants to rule the world”, with chilling effect as she breaks the fourth wall.

Camera: Long tracking shots of musicians playing their instruments in time to the music, getting closer and more intimate as the song builds in intensity.

Costume: Abstract costumes, the pianist wears an old, tattered dress that once would have been extravagant and fancy, the drummer is topless exposing his muscular (scarred?) back. The singer has the most extravagant dress of all, like a wedding dress, but as with the others its old and falling apart.

Lighting: The lighting is dim and brown/grey at the start, great clouds of dust swirl and catch on the shafts of light coming from various windows and holes in the walls. The set gets lighter continuously to match the crescendo of the song.

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