Video idea:
Copyright: Tom Hayes http://www.tomhayes.com


Idea: 1

Characters in a video are stalked and killed by technical difficulties.

Song: Probably Game Theory Video, but could work with any of the songs.

After each attack we flip channels.

Gags:

1)Compression artifacts (DVD style) wipe a characters face off. It stays off.

2)Fast motion MPEG compression (macro-blocking) causes a character to shear in half.

3)Info ticker over a kyron acts as a moving walkway/conveyor belt and forces character off a cliff.

4)TV Bug on screen grows bigger and eats person.

5)Test pattern bleeds through the video and the Indian pattern attacks. http://www.rmbwoc.com/vidpage/indian.gif
The Indian relents but the other part of the pattern turns into a gun sight and a characters falls clutching their chest.

6)TV turns to black and white ala Pleasntville and someone is thrown in jail for using the wrong water fountain? For eyeballing' a white woman? For attempting to vote?

7)TV signal is scrambled ala you don't subscribe to HBO and they are using something like an old Digicipher II. Characters gets dizzy and falls to ground while having a Grand maul type fit.

8)Hue/Saturation goes wrong, characters can't determine red/green light and is killed in car accident.

10)Video goes split screen / multi split screen ala Woodstock. We see in other frames a piano being packaged, trucked to an airline, flown in air, hatch opens, piano falls to earth and crushes our guy.

9)Credits come up and news caster frame squeezes credits to one half of the screen. keeps squeezing until it's 2% of screen and character dies ala Star Wars trash compactor.

10)Video ends with national anthem, flag waving and tv going to ants, then to small dot ala old style CRT.

Pull back from TV to:

a)Ben Stiller in Fat suit eating greasy bucket of chicken.
b)Jay-Z getting up to put the dvd into the case called "Who knows what you did last summer part II? No promotion kills a group."
c)All the characters who were killed watching on a big screen, laughing and having a good time at the wrap party. Maybe end on cat-eyes ala Thriller.


Idea 2:
The Roots Get Happy! (not the Negro Spiritual)
Song: Long Time

This video will have The Roots just be the happiest band on the planet.
Everyone wears bright colors, but not too silly ala Pee Wee's Playhouse.

Just The Roots being happy.
Having a birthday party.
Going to the petting zoo.
Shopping at Mervyns.
Chasing an ice cream truck and buying for everyone.
Watching TV and laughing at the Banana Splits.
Playing Frisbee.
Riding on a carousel.
Going to Supercuts.
Jet-skiing.
Ping Pong.
Golfing.
Sliding down slides.
Test driving a Camry.

The payoff: There is no payoff, just as many silly things like this as you can cram into a video.


Idea 3: For Here I Come
Back Thought is in a prison camp and escape during a soccer game ala Victory and Stir Crazy.
Prison camp is NOT Nazi camp, more Whackenhutt style camp.
Gags: Some slow motion ->fast motion soccer.


budgets:

All videos to be shot with rented HDCAM equipment. Edited on FCP on a Mac. Motion and Shake to be used for post. Shot in front of green screens.

Or could go with a HDV Cam with HDMI output to a Blackmagic-Design Inttenisity or HDLink pro HDMI. FULL HD resoultion bypassing HDV limitations.

Sound recording done with whatever The Roots currently own.

Shoudl be under 20g for equipment. Two day shoot.