FAST FUN // MUSIC VIDEO TREATMENT IDEA

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TL DR: In the swirl of worry and stress a woman is ready to let in some good vibes. She takes to the neighborhood and city streets on skateboard to pick up a mysterious bag. We discover a vinyl record from the bag along with the sunshine, fresh air, and music were just what she needed.

High level thoughts:

  • Open on color but ideally nothing overly saturated

  • Feel should be light, fun, introspective feel capturing a way to find happiness in solitude, in music - 1979 video captures this well*

  • Very small cast and crew: Andrea skateboarding with band mixed in maybe a few others if it adds

  • 90’s music video vibes/quality… is fisheye lame?

  • Locations: Streets, Living room with record player, garage for drums, backyard, porch, maybe a car

Super rough draft treatment/idea-dump:

Shots of houses, streets, places to foreshadow places you will see throughout the video

Open with Andrea walking down a hallway out the front door.

  • Grabs skate deck or already in hand

Tight shot of a girl cruising on a skateboard

  • Wearing a shirt with JTR artwork (possible helmet design)

Pan out to skating through a neighborhood, maybe downtown, to another neighborhood

  • We don't know where she's going but we want to know what she’s up to

Maybe shots waving to people, friends, animals... 

  • Could have a Dan playing bass or relaxing on a porch/stoop

  • Danny playing slide guitar on a corner

  • Kevin in a garage playing drums

Shot putting a JTR sticker on a poll/sign or already on a poll/sign

Andrea stops at a house 

Person at house points, signals to go around back

  • A feeling of up to no good, but in an adolescent kind of way

  • Maybe extra shots leading in to create this feeling

    • Neighboring houses of youngsters:

      • Sneaking out? TPing a tree? Hopping a fence? Donuts in a parking lot? These ideas might be too grand

Cut to backyard and she picks up a backpack and skates off out of the neighborhood

As she passes houses perhaps we see more of the band playing to the song, george singing mixed throughout the video

Bridge: She stop at dix park overlooking the city 

  • She’s yelling at the city and sky letting out angst/stress then leaving feeling better with a smile - does this translate?

Cut to her getting home and walking into her house or apartment with backpack

drops shoes and skateboard

Opens back pack and pulls out a vinyl record

Vinyl needle drops (George to make "fake" album art and vinyl label for the single)

Dancing around living room, totally lost in the music, lipping singing, blocking out the outside woes

Maybe have sun setting as the day comes to a close

End with a smile

***These are all just ideas to get the video plan going***

References ideas:

Love the slow pans, slightly slow motion feel of some shots in the Delta Spirit vid you contributed to!

Hey, it’s Andrea!