MUSIC TREATMENT
“No Tomorrow” by Orson
The overall tone and feel of the song is
very bubbly and optimistic. The lyrics carry the connotations of a party
atmosphere. Because of this tone, the music video itself will reflect this by
having a lot of energy in it.
Our first idea for the music video was to
have a narrative going in that eventually moved into a performance. The
narrative would be about the several band members of the group getting ready to
go to a party of some sort. After cutting from the different perspectives
between the band members, there stories will merge into a single narrative and eventually merge into the performance.
After a while we decided against the idea of a full blown part idea as it was a little too ambitious and getting the right amount of people in a single place at the same time would have been too problematic due to scheduling and timing. As a result, we decided to go with something a little more condensed, focusing more on the band itself and not on the party like atmosphere a lot of people would be needed for.
In the end we went with a dual Performance/Narrative motif where each section would be inter cut between each other to keep some variety throughout the song. The performance will be the band partaking in band practice, continuing on without a missing band member, which is where the narrative comes in, The narrative will follow the absent band member and his attempts to get to the band practice before the band finishes. Throughout his journey, he gets caught in an series of unfortunate events that escalates the more the song continues, getting more silly and implausible to match the party like mood of the song and its lyrics. Eventually the music video will end with the missing band mate finally arriving, only to reveal that he has missed the performance and all that's left is the bands instruments.
