Trying to quickly jot down an idea for how the video could open taking into account 1) it will have time before the music enters and 2) we were talking about Tarkovsky etc and having striking images that imply something further. On this subject, the idea of suspense being implied by what Gabriel came up with as a rough idea for the project would work along these lines, that is, a boy who appears to be being sent messages directing his movements. If we come up with ideas for single scenes or images then we can piece together a video from these. What me and G came up with a week ago was -

- My idea explained above

- Scene where he runs away from house and we see indistinct figures of his parents in the background as he leaves the front door.

- The idea that there are sinister Magritte-esque flourishes such as subtle hovering objects or a sense of 'weirdness', was explaining to G how in The White Ribbon the producers digitally removed all traces of modern life from the village featured in it, something one would not suspect it being a black and white film .. I was thinking it could be something like having everything symmetrical in a scene in a subtle way, so the viewer doesn't realise what is strange but senses it or sees it on a subconscious level.

- Stuff should be insinuated rather than shown.

- End scene is band on beach at sunrise/sunset with boy running to them but last shot is figures getting out of car on horizon and boy turning round.

- All obv needs to be done easy and cheap.

Guess that's probably how those directors (Wenders, Tarkovsky) work, thinking of images first and piecing them together. Obv these are very 'serious' people to be influenced by and I imagine this video would have considerably more humour in it than an AT flick.

Anyway i need to go to bed that's my attempt at starting off this blog. Post at your leisure.

Michael