As director of our group's music video, I was both honored to have the chance to direct this, and also immediately concerned that I was supposed to be the one who had the main idea for the concept of the video. Luckily we were able to get the rights to the song that I wanted to use, thus the ideas came more easily. The song "Welcome Home" was one that I've heard in a few different films, all accompanied by varying visuals. As I've listened to it over and over, several different ideas came to mind.
My original idea was more story based, a man obsessed with material wealth and losing a significant other, only to come home to their dream house, but without what he should've cared about the most. I'd like to show that success does come with a price often. For this video however, I still wanted to show the roving eye for material wealth, but in a more abstract way. To examine mechanical devices that liken themselves to the human mind, their gears turning are just like the thoughts that run through our own heads, and depict this nostalgic feeling that the song projects. Showing a transition from golden hewed antiques to an open field, a flashback of sorts and to show a world that "might've been", two lovers by themselves, a light and airy field, isolation.
I know this is a lot to accomplish in a short amount of time, and hopefully we'll be able to pull it off. I've got a very specific vision both thematically and visually, and nothing would delight me more than to see this being brought to life.
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