Kelsey Cox-thumbs
The ideas I like the best in my thumbnails are
1. faces with trojan horse reflected in glasses
2. upside down girl where her hair looks like trojan horse
3. polaroid picture of girl leaning against a car at the side of the road
4. a guy who has an old computer as a head that has a trojan virus that looks sort of like the old Oregon trail game (but its a trojan horse)
5. coffee cup stain that looks like a trojan horse
I like the guy with the computer head idea the best. There are a few thumbnail variations of that idea in the picture.
Great song and good exploration of ideas. I would be careful of too literal interpretation of the "Trojan horse in my head" metaphor, but I do think there's potential to use it as a starting point.
ReplyDeleteI'm old enough to have seen MANY images of men with computer screens (or TVs) for heads, in all manner of contexts. So it's an interesting metaphor, but also kind of a tired cliche.
The concept that interested me most in your description was the polaroid picture of the girl and the car. I think there's something there because the song seems (to me) to be about memories that get in and haunt you—memories of disappointments, loves lost, mistakes made, friendships broken, families disrupted, etc. The video is a dissociated montage of images from a half-dozen or so narratives, like flashbacks of memories. So there's something about the polaroid picture that I think has potential.
What if, instead of a figure of a man with a computer screen head, he actually had an old polaroid camera for a head? The lens would be like an eye, and he could be holding several polaroid picture prints and looking at them with a forlorn body gesture (drooped shoulders, nodded head, etc.). You'd have to iterate on the thumbnails to figure out how to compose it, and whether or not you could portray the girl & car in one of the prints, but I think that could be and interesting image.
Really these cameras have a sad, lonely expression designed right into them. We aren't fooled by that little rainbow stripe.
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Classic song. I like the imagery of the man with a computer for a head. It is strange, and the idea reminds me of the collages of matthew cunningham. It could be cool.
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