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Rejected 09/03/2010

Concept

A video featuring three ancient Tai Chi masters shot in slow motion. The eyes of the masters will flash red and blue to the beat of the song. The movements of the masters will be inter-cut energetically with pop psychedelic animations of Chinese dragons. The band will not appear in the video. The art direction for the dragons will be similar to this:

Technical Treatment

The video will be inter-cut between two scenarios. Scenario one will feature three Tai Chi masters performing on a set of ruined over grown steps. The Tai Chi routines will be performed and filmed at twice normal speed, then converted to slow motion in post. This will give the movement of the performance added intensity and make the footage ominously beautiful.

Scenario two will be an animation based on a Chinese dragon. The dragon will be an elaborate stop-motion puppet decorated with jewels, metallic textiles and silky fibers. The animation will feature the dragon snaking through a natural environment with fantasy / pop-psychelic elements (ie rivers of jewels ect) The dragon peruses the tail of a second dragon. Eventually he catches it, and in the final shot we see that there are dozens of identical dragons all connected together mouth to tail into a giant psychedelic chain.