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StuartBuck
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Saellys wrote:

Yeah, that's the point when concept videos get crappy. Much like I don't want to watch a music video that's just the band playing the song, I also don't want to watch one that's a visual copy of what's being sung. There's so much more that can be done with the medium.
Well, it wouldn't have to copy the song lyrics at every moment. But the lyrics do call up some powerful imagery.
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Here's what I envision as a video for "Sad":

[Musical intro] [Scene: snapshots in sepia tone of 3 or 4 of Sherri in wedding pictures, with the guy's face blacked out]

Hardly waiting 'til the bed was warm [scene: quick shot of Sherri sitting forlorn in bed; shot in which guy swings his feet off the bed and saunters away.]
He closed his eyes and said "I'm feeling torn". [back to Sherri, this time throwing the covers off in disgust.]
How could I be so unendingly forced
into this course. [Scene: hands throwing stuff into a suitcase.]

Sad [Scene: First chorus here has shots of band playing in a club, mixed with shots of the guy, whose face we never see, striking up a conversation with some girl looking flirtatious.]
I feel sad
For you so sad
You'll be left alone and broken
Bleeding from the heart when he doesn't come home

Softly sighs my Nightingale [Not sure about the scene here: maybe Sherri walking through the woods.]
Another broken promise tips the scale and it goes pale
He sings
Shifting from side to side [Scene for the next few lines: Sherri and the band are playing while on a cliff overlooking the ocean. Down on the beach we see the guy and the new girl
Can't make up his God-given mind [The guy looks back up at the cliff where Sherri and the band are, but his face is blurry.]
Why don't you just go
She's waiting

[At some point, probably during the next chorus but maybe the last chorus, a cool scene would be Sherri and the band playing at a fancy costume party (with masks); we see shots of her and the band, mixed with shots of the guy with a mask on dancing ballroom style with a masked girl. Then we see another masked girl at the side of the room looking around from side to side, but she drops her mask stunned when she sees the guy -- it turns out that she's the second girl and the guy is dancing with a third girl this time.]

Sad
I feel sad
For you so sad
You'll be left alone and broken
Bleeding from the heart when he doesn't come home

Oh honey I am telling you, you'd better think about it

Sad
I feel sad
For you so sad
You'll be left alone and broken
Bleeding from the heart when he doesn't come home

[At the end, we see the new girl sitting on the bed forlorn, and then a cut to Sherri smiling as she walks confidently out into the sunshine with her hand brushing her old wedding pictures onto the floor.]

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Anyone like that here? Wink


Well, I thought about tracking "Ambulance" to the Epic Beard Mand/Amber Lamps video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4OnhnvczTk

Then I came to my senses.

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bigideas
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have they still not told what song the video is for? why keep it a secret?

i think The Valley is the best song/recording and deserves a video regardless of any pre-ep, etc.

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Agreed, but nothing out there sounds like it, cept maybe well a 21 year old single at least to my ear, and I think that's a compliment that I can even make the comparison!
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I kind of think it may be the Valley or Smarter, I don't know why.

I kind of think it would be cool if they did a performance video to maybe accompany some storyboarding or animation of Sherri's artwork.
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The_Paronomasial_Mattoid
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Sherri just said via Twitter that it's "Smarter"...
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Ugh.
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The_Paronomasial_Mattoid wrote:
Sherri just said via Twitter that it's "Smarter"...


Yep, it's official.

"SDuPreeBemis Sherri DuPree Bemis
Creative meeting for our video shoot for 'Smarter' happenin' now. I hate the term "creative meeting". Shooting tomorrow! Smile"

Well, interested to see what they come up with.

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Nooo.
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so apparently we see the band set up in front of a classroom. pull back to show a bunch of 13 and 14 year old boys sitting at their desks. The Dupree sisters pause at various points while playing their instruments to pull on Albert Einstein masks. At the end, they each pull out extra big brains from the backs of their heads (very CSI, or animated like the Far Side where Billy pulls out the bigger brain while taking his test).

As long as at some point during the video they flash (or linger on) a "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them" message, I'll consider it a success..

And maybe have a shot that shows the dictionary definition of "apocryphal" Very Happy
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i think their photographer chris phelps is shooting it if i am reading between tweet lines correctly. anyone know if he's done other videos?

wonder if they need some east tx area extras? i'm game!

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I'm excited! I'm glad they are making a video and hey, we've known "Smarter" was the single for awhile now. I'm going to guess a performance type video with some added breakup angst storyline.

I'm looking forward to see what they come up with...
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The Man In The Moon
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i like smarter. i think they could make a cool video out of it. i'm not gonna try and imagine it though since bands and artists usually make something completely different and better than what i imagine from them.

at some point though i hope a video for oxygen mask, mr. moon, or ambulance happens

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Mystic210 wrote:
and hey, we've known "Smarter" was the single for awhile now..
We did?
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