The band we are working with, Pockets, are a Melbourne indie rock/self-proclaimed “jizz rock” quartet. They have recently released a single, “Ten Different Names”, and a very slick profile-within-a-profile silhouette design to accompany it. The song is a summer anthem that remains quite dreamy and chilled out throughout, though does dip into more vibrant, psychedelic choruses.

We are aiming to create a narrative and visual merging of live action and the abstract. Working from the band’s recent silhouette logo as a template, we intend to take their simple, slick design and have it evolve into a fantastical, psychedelic environment. To elaborate, the band’s profiles themselves will act as canvases, having been filmed against green screen, within which a number of rhythmic patterns and effects will be presented. These profiles will be manipulated against a larger background which will also display an array of vibrant visual effects. In addition to this, we want to create a sense of self-awareness in the video, where the faces of the artists themselves flicker in and out until eventually the live action footage prevails over the abstract and the artists ‘escape’ this strange fantasy.

Inspiration has been drawn from a variety of areas. The vibrant colours and use of a profile head graphic in Tame Impala’s “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” music video was a strong starting point for us. We really hope to take aspects of this video and combine its fantasy with reality. To explain this a little, like in the Tame Impala video we will have otherworldly colours, patterns, movements and graphics, but we want to balance this with video of the actual band members existing within this reality. We will use real, everyday objects for the artists to wear/use despite the chaos of the background.

Aside from the Tame Impala video we have also drawn significant inspiration from our childhood memories surrounding the ABC television program backyard science. Thinking back to all the awesome, but simple and visually effective science experiments that took place on this show, we realised they could be a really interesting material to use as a background in our video. They provide a different and fun way to explore the psychedelic patterns and designs that we hope to achieve.
The band’s logo has also really proven to be a starting point in terms of where to take this music video. The use of the group members profile faces making up the shapes which build the logo is something that in combination with the things mentioned above we could make something really exciting from.