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Plot Ideas (Preliminary Task)

We spent a lot of time debating and brainstorming ideas for our music video. From the start we knew we wanted to bring in some element of dance due to the nature of the song and obviously its title. Our basic premise is a young boy is playing in his den before he gets transported to another world. Here he meets various people dancing as he explores this new world. From here we developed and expanded our idea. For example, we decided we wanted the young boy to be dressed as a superhero: using 'the safety dance' as a means of protecting himself from evil. We also decided we wanted the den to be in a garden whilst the new world will be a forest and various locations within it. What happens and where the young boy goes in this new world is still being finalised. Some of the ideas for this section are as follows:
  • He enters the new world and finds a party in a clearing and joins in, eventually being hit by confetti/party poppers/paint which cause him to fall and be transported back to reality;
  • He enters the new world and meets people of the new world along his way that act like guides to him, eventually leading him to the king of the land before landing back home;
  • He enters the new world and meets new people with whom he plays hide and seek with and parties and dances with before landing home.
We feel our start and ending are finalised. The start is as follows;
  • The young boy dressed up stands in the doorway of his house before running out to the bottom of his garden to his den/tent.
  • Here he begins playing before noticing a different exit to usual in his tent. He crawls through and finds himself in another world.
Our ending will be something along the lines of;
  • The young boy will be hit by confetti/party poppers/paint which turn out to be very powerful in this new world, causing him to fall over. We will use this as the transition from the new world to reality.
  • The boy wakes us back at home either in his tent, or in the middle of the garden with his den in the background
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