Sit Down

An idea I had for a music video is to create the scene of a psychiatrist's waiting room, similar to Eminem's Slim Shady music video and have about 8 people stood up doing contemporary movement.
This idea stemmed from 'chair duets'- a theatrical device used by the company Frantic Assembly to show inner thoughts or relationships through movement.
My concept is that all the characters are stood individually doing movements which require other people to interact in order to continue. For example, they need someone to catch them but no one is there so they fall or other people's movements will seem incomplete and fragmented. Then, in the bridge of the song, the lead singer collects all the characters and they all sit in a row- similar to the original video. The singer tries to configure them into an order where they all fit together and in the end, all the characters' movements fit together, for example, people who were once falling are now being caught. This communicates the message of the song which is that we can all help each other and people can solve each other's problems without going out of their way.

When filming the beginning, when the solos don't fit together, I would vary the shot types and speed of the filming in order to show the disjointed nature of their thoughts and how they don't fit together.

The band could be characters in the scene- for example the lead singer could be behind the counter and the drummer, guitarist and bassist could be characters in the scene.
As well as this, we could cut to the band playing the song in a different location, perhaps a shopping mall before it opens and as the song goes on, the location gets busier and busier and the band interact with the audience until they're singing along. This reiterates the message of coming together and helping eachother.