We chose the song Weekend wars by MGMT to film a video for. We chose this song because it gives us a chance to experiment with different effects such as animation and time lapsing because of the sureal nature of the song. The video can be very abstract and suit the song.
Lyrics:
Evil S I yes to find a shore.
A beach that doesn't quiver anymore,
Where we can crush some plants to paint my walls,
And I won't try to fight in the weekend wars
Was I? I was to lazy to bathe
Or paint or write or try to make a change.
Now I can shoot a gun to kill my lunch
And I don't have to love or think too much

Instant battle plans written on the sidewalk
Mental mystics in a twisted metal car
Tried to amplify the sound of light and love

Christ is cursed of faders and maders
Might even take a knife to split a hair
Or even scare the children off my lawn
Giving us time to make the makeshift bombs
Every mess invested was a score
We couldn't use computers anymore
It's difficult to win unless you're bored,
And you might have to plan for the weekend wars

Try to break my heart I'll drive to Arizona.
It might take 100 years to grow an arm
I'll sit and listen to the sound of sand and cold
Twisted diamond heart, I'm the weekend warrior
My predictions are the only things I have
I can amplify the sound and light and love

I'm a curse and i'm a sound,
When I open up my mouth,
There's a reason I don't win,
I don't know how to begin

The songs lyrics are very different with a lot of every day objects described in a different light, for example "twisted metal car". The lyrics open up a huge range of possibilities of what we can base the video around.
MGMT-Electric Feel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtUI5MC9tVM
This video starts of with a group of fairy tale likd creatures and a few normal people in a jungle. In this video they cut open the moon and cover themselves in the glowing liquid inside of it, the video ends with the moon exploding into two motorbikes and everybody dancing. The use of lighting and colour in this video has a big impact. The surrealness of the video works very well with the song.
MGMT- Time to pretend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVnRzEjpUmE&NR=1
This video is completely random with no story line from what i can gather (apart from him shooting a giant spider with a mouth with a bow and arrow) the video completely relies on effects and the use of colour. It gives the impression that the band members are the stereotype "hippy's".

these to videos we have a wide range of choices of what we can do with our video as long as it is quite artistic and strange. Since the other videos to this Artist are very bewildering we will follow the same path. These videos have influenced me to add different colour and effects to the video.

What role will i play
Our group has decided to take a joint directing role and take it turns filming, by doing this we can get a wider range of different ideas and theoretically make the sort of video we all agree on.

Ideas so far
Our ideas so far are quite vague but we have decided on the general story for the video. After watching some MGMT videos and discussed our options we have decided our best plan is to make a very abstract video involving a beach and a field landscape, a group of people (three or four) and drugs and alcohol. By doing this we can add a lot of colour and use a lot of effects and generally have no limits to the story line. We have decided to use animation for the chorus. We want to use other effects as well such as time lapses during the opening scene and exaggerating colour. We also want to use glow in the dark paint, strobe lights and filters to add to the general theme of the song.