Everything, Everything-Photoshop Handsome

"Everything, Everything-Photoshop Handsome" music video
In lesson we were made to listen to a song and plan a music video just from listening to the audio. We wrote down things that we associated with the music and mentally placed it into a genre in order to plan the music video that we -as a group- would make for this song. Me, Zara and Alex imagined the music video to involve a house party because of the upbeat and indie nature of the song, involving some performance aspects from the band to highlight the importance of their instruments and the fact that the band would hold performing live as a key aspect to their nature. We also imagined there to be a carnival/circus incorporated within this to add a more abstract level to the video with stereotypically retro objects placed within it. We then listened to Matt's juxtaposing ideas of the music video being animated and involving a video game nature to it -an idea which he came up with from listening closely to the lyrics- and decided to incorporate his ideas into our final plan and merge the two together.
Our final idea was that the music video would take place in a house party and that someone there (most likely a band member) would be playing on a retro game station and that each video game character would relate to a person at the house party and their actions would be linked too. For instance the lyric 'dorsal fin' could be interpreted as sharks which could be placed in the video game and represent a group of boyish lads at the party, and if someone were to punch someone in the game, it would also happen in real life at the party. The band would also be performing in an animated way in the game and also in real life to give the performance aspect of the video. Bright colours would be injected into it, with flashing images and cuts and movements matched to the beat of the song. The retro and colourful aspects of our music video would be genre related as they are stereotypical elements that are usually associated with indie music-which was what you could classify the song as.
Every other group in our class came up with similar ideas of the music video being a video game, and after watching the original video, we saw that all of our ideas were completely different to what it actually was (a series of photoshopped and green screen images of the band members) though ofcourse, we felt that our ideas were a lot better than the original :).
-Annaliese