So I have settled on Faust Arp as the track that I’ll work with. I think for me its the key to the whole album and although its the shortest and simplest (masquerading as a filler track even) it is laden with the themes that run through all the other tracks on the album. What I would like to do is to somehow express the stream of consciousness feel of the lyrics whilst acknowledging the motifs that I think underly the song - ultimately rewarding closer attention to detail. This is a nice raw clip from the ‘halfway-up-a-hill‘ performance filmed for the thumbs down webcast on 9th November 2007:
So far I have given the style little thought but my first draft at some concept artwork produced the image below. I think it is important that as the video is meant to be animation it is produced in a way that could only be made with animation. Obviously this is still a huge field of potential but the point is more that I dont want to fall into the trap of pulling together an idea / plot line that would in fact work better if it was filmed live action. In the next post I’ll try and gather some thoughts about the album as a whole and what I want to hold onto and connect with from that perspective.
