Monday, 8 April 2013

Proposal, for a music video..to something like Fatboy Slim

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The sun shines down on a side street in the city. It is lined with restaurants and cafes, filled with consumers sharing stories. Towards the end of the street, two buskers are setting up; they have with them an old cassette player and bongos. The first busker puts in a well used tape. Whirr, click and the tape is in place. Music begins to filter out and approaching the musicans is a couple. They get closer – the beat kicks in tom-tom-tick tom-tom-tick – and they begin to dance to the music. As they do so, their bodies ripple and stretch. As they move it looks like different past of their body become stuck in position, stretching –ly to the next move. The dancers are in sync. A skateboarder goes past and does an air 360. Like the dancers, his body and board are briefly stuck in position making a spiral shape as he twists, and falls to the ground. A boy then approaches- tom-tom-tick- --and he flips over some boxes on the pavement; his body becomes an arch, a human slinky. tom-tom-tick. The music and the buskers still play and the people still dance. In the background, some friends are having coffee. One of the party lifts his mug from the saucer to his mouth. Like the dancers, the bottom of the cup remains on the saucer and stretches up to the mouth, warped. Opposite him, is his friend. He places two sugar cubes into his cup and we see its creates two solid white arches from the bowl to the cup. The coffees ripples in time to the beat.  Music cuts and all returns to normal. Final shot is of the buskers packing up and leaving their mix tape for someone else to experience it.

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