| | This is a short entry, just to describe the music video dream I had for "Everybody Pass Me By" a few nights ago. I didn't do this when I did the music videos for "The Ride" and "Thru the Motion," but I decided to just go ahead and do it just to see what I came up with. And not surprisingly, the song was based completely on the movie version of Holes. So much so, in fact, that Mr. Sir was the one who was singing the words in the song. The music video starts out showing a shot of the D-Tent boys digging holes in the iddle of Camp Green Lake, and all you can hear is the sound of then digging. It's the middle of the day and the sun is almost straight up in the sky. The camera begins panning over to the right, and the song starts up. It's then that the water truck can be seen starting up its engine. The lead kid in the other music videos, the kdi with the dark pink shirt and giant guitar, is sitting in the bed of the truck, leaning on the water tank and playing the main guitar riff in the song. The truck soon roars off away from the holes. The D-Tent boys see this and shout for the truck to wait and come back, but to no avail. The truck drives across the desert back to the camp compound and Mr. Sir gets out of it, immediately turning and walking to the mess hall. At this point the guitar riffs end and the lyrics start, with Mr. Sir singing them as he enters the mess hall and confronts the various chefs. About 3/4 of the way through the first lyrics section, the Warden comes in and kicks him out of the hall. The second guitar section begins as Mr, Sir is walking through the compound, breaking up various sorts of roughhousing between groups of boys before heading back to the water truck again. All of this occurs with a few moment-long shots of the lead kid playing the guitar again, and as before, the kid hops into the bed of the truck as it's driving away. At this point, the second lyrical section begins, and this time, there are different shots of the truck driving along and shots of Mr. Sir singing the lyrics as he drives the truck. In the shots of Mr. Sir himself singing, the camera is hinged just below the rear-view mirror on the outside of the driver side, and the effect is that as the truck bounces across the desert, the view of Mr. Sir is stationary while the rest of the world is shaking. This time, there are shots of the lead kid playing the bass of the song as the truck is driving, which didn't occur in the first lyrical part. This lyrical part ends just as the truck reaches the group of holes where D-Tent is digging. During the intermediary part of the song, the boys get out of their holes and refill their canteens in slow motion, and the different guitar notes fading in and out correspond to the water spigot being turned on and off. The final 6 notes of this part are played by the kid, who jumps off the bed of the truck and joins the boys. The last guitar riff section starts. The kid is standing out in the sunlight, which is lowering, playing the guitar riffs while the boys dig. One by one, the boys finish up their digging and leave their holes as the organ accomaniment to the guitar riffs starts, and by the end, the kid is all alone, standing in the middle of the group of holes. He plays the last riff as the sun visibly moves down the horizon behind him, and walks off as the last cymbal fades away. This music video dream was actually really cool. I'm glad that I took the time to do it because I liked the way it turned out. Maybe this one I'll make into a real music video someday. Now if only I can somehow contact Shia LeBouf and Jon Voight... |
