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sweetsnail	hehe. Look at it! It's barren! So, I was thinking, if you made a music video for one song, what song would it be and what would you do with it? -steph
sweetsnail	Oh yeah. So I should start, eh? Well, I think I would like to do "Longing Town". It would be this guy sitting in his house. He looks out the window and the wind is blowing the bare branches of a tree. And there can be this ghost woman who follows him around as he looks at reminders of her...like a jar of dead flowers, and as he looks at them and remembers why they are there, they come to life, but start to die as he moves onto another thing, say a picture. Or, a sock laying on a chair. You know how you remember someone just by looking at something? That would be the whole video. And at the end, where the lyrics say "O, so cold... No one home... All of the notes, a word for gone..." here is what would happen. He has a bag packed, and he picks it up, goes outside the house, gets in the car and drives off as the song is finishing those last lines. -stephanie
blue_psyche	i'm more attached to "far away". a sepia-colored film (not black and white, mind you), duncan in his room, on his bed with his guitar, or maybe he's at some balcony looking at the sunset. or he's walking along the streets of some city with flashbacks of him and some girl (could be me hehe ). that's all i can contribute for now. still making up a storyboard for "requiescat"
sweetsnail	Mirror in the Heart: Stephanie style!! Okay, so here's how I see it: A carnival. Duncan is walking around during the intro, when he starts to sing "There is a swan-white curtain..." he sees a white curtain in the corner. An older woman sits by it, digging in the trashcan. He looks at her, and lifts the curtain edge. He falls into the sky. Flying through the air, able to see the moon when he comes to a big silver mirror. In it you can see distruction on Earth. Duncan steps into the mirror. He sees all the sad people. They all have little mirrors on their chests. He follows them and sees a war going on in some of the mirrors on the sides of the road. Passes a cemetary where there are several burials taking place. Some people are kneeling by the road mirrors and crying. A old woman ringing a bell appears. Duncan finds himself in a field of candles. People are lighting them. The fields turn green and alive again. The people have happy images on the mirrors on their chest now. Duncan sees another white curtain, and walks behind it. The end -steph
BryterLayter77	I would choose "This Is How My Heart Heard." As I see it, the video should be done in black and white. The setting would take place on a snow covered field, with leave-less tress on each side. In the beginning, we would see Duncan, dressed completely in black and without an instrument. Gerry and Jeff would be behind Duncan, on opposite sides of the London Session Orchestra. Gerry, Jeff, and the London Session Orchestra would be playing instruments. Like Duncan, they would be dressed completely in black. The players begin to play, and Duncan starts to walk through the snow covered field. As he's walking, people will see the air he breathes. The strings will "slide down" and then "slide upwards" (at the point when Duncan sings: "I forgot the taste of fears"), and the wind will move the trees. Duncan will walk past an icy pond, and then back to where he started. At the moment Duncan sings "This is how I want her," the camera should be completely fixated on the front of Duncan's face. It should be a front and center shot of Duncan's face, with the sunlight directly in the background. Consequently, the shot would provide an interesting contrast between the light and the dark. When the song ends, Duncan will return to his original starting point. So, what do you guys think? Richard
sweetsnail	ooo, I can picture it all. Nice. -steph
Damion123	Bryter, are you aware of the fact that that's basically the way I pictured a video for "How my heart Heard"? We must have some sort of super pyschic link! But seriously, it's great to see how if people are really into one thing that they end up thinking similar things about them. I feel a real connection to the board now and to you. Thanks. Adam<********************>
Calvin924	All right, I put a lot of time into this and spent a long time writing this out before this final product. I hope you can see some of what I see. Music Video to "This is How My Heart Heard" (I suggest listening to the song before, durning, or after, or all three, to get the full effect.) We open with a scene of a Duncanesque looking man sitting on a simple white, wooden, rocking chair on a small porch in front of a weathered, white little house. (this porch is above ground level by 6 or 7 steps). He is wearing a white dress shirt, untucked, and faded blue jeans. It is an overcast day, and although we can see the uncut grass and large trees in the background, they all possess a grayish haze. The man rocks his chair to the beat of the song as it begins (although he is not hearing the song) and he has a solemn, reflective look on his face. He has a small photo in his lap of he and his former lover, a simple yet pretty girl with medium length, light-brown hair. He looks down at the photo and on the beat right before "And I forgot the taste of fears" he shuts his eyes and tilts his head back and the rolls it to the right untill he's staring down at the picture again, where he opens his eyes again to look at the photo as the words "Someone who is missing" are sung. Now he slowly gets up and walks to the railing of the porch. As the lines "And how I kiss her lips and taste goodbye" are sung, the screen fades white to a memory he has of he and his girlfriend sharing a soft, sensitive kiss that, while only lasting a few seconds, seemed to him to last a lifetime. Then we fade back to him on the porch where he turns around and starts to walk back towards the chair. As the end of the instrumental draws near its end, he starts to see his love standing there, only a few feet away from him. They go towards each other slowly (as "And I forgot the taste of fears" is sung") and move to kiss one another, but just as their lips are about to touch, she fades away on the word "haunt" of "haunt the lips you're kissing", as alas, she was only an apparition. All the man can do is stare back at his feet and close his eyes. The camera begins to move in a circle around him, keeping his whole standing body in the shot. After one complete circle, the camera continues in its circular motion, but begins to progressively zero-in on the mans face. Meanwhile the repititions of "This is how my heart heard" continue. As the closing instrument begins to wind down, the camera freezes on a straight view of only the man's face, where we see a tear roll down the left side, just before he closes his eyes one last time on the closing note of the song and the screen fades to white. Thats my vision, I hope you could picture at least some of that in your head, even though I'm sure it differs from how I see it. Hope you enjoyed. -Calvin
sweetsnail	wow, I'm so impressed with the ideas you all have. And so articulate about them. Glad you finally got that up Cal. -steph