Pitch

'Wishing Stone' by Howling Bells

The track is relatively slow and melodic, paying homage to Radiohead, but with a twist of PJ Harvey provided by the female vocals of Juanita Stein. Like many songs, this track does not merit a purely or conventional performance based video, as that would retract from the feeling of the song. Therefore our pitch will be based around a non performing central character and will used some timelapse photography. Several locations will be used. The imagery created by the lyrics themselves will help to influence our ideas.

An example of a video we will reference for timelapse landscapes:

Guillemots - We're Here



This video for the track 'were here' by British band The Guillemots was directed by Chris Cairns uses timelapse techniques, to bring epic views of the Scottish countryside to life. The video fits with the pace of the song. Which is in many ways similar to 'Wishing Stone'. It also uses water to great effect, someting which we hope to use in our video, such as a river rushing.

We will also include shots filmed with cities, which will be sped up until the figures of people become blurs, rushing around. We will use time stretching within singular pieces of footage to make the public surge forward and backward with varying speed. This will reflect the pace and rythmn of the track. A trip to London might provide better locations for these ideas.

An example of a video in which these techniques are used to great effect is Slipknot's Video for 'Vermillion' (we dont like them) but the video by Tony Petrossian is a perfect example of the kind of concept we have for our video.



As you can see this video hardly focuses on the band and does not include them performing. Although it does focus on one central character who is not performing the song.

Sam, Tom, Antony, Lewis