Niteskool 2008 Music Video

Thursday, April 3, 2008

WEBISODE 1: THE CD RELEASE SHOW

Here's the first of many webisodes. This one's about the Butterfly Assassins' CD release show yesterday--enjoy!

Visit the Butterfly Assassins's Myspace to check out their new album, "Sylvia" at: www.myspace.com/butterflyassassins
-Rob Runyeon '10: Director

Friday, March 28, 2008

Our First Post!

Hey everyone -
This is the official blog of the 2008 Niteskool Music Video. There will be frequent text and video updates here, and we are also now accepting donations for our project through PayPal!
In case you aren't familiar with Niteskool, The Niteskool Music Video is an annual project through Northwestern University that gives students an opportunity to create a music video with a large budget. The song that has been selected this year is Butterfly Assassins' "Sylvia II". The purpose of this blog is to keep people updated with the pre-production, and eventual production of the video. We'll be posting updates periodically, so keep checking back to see how the project is coming along!
Thanks,
- Chris Amos (Northwestern '10) and Rob Runyeon (Northwestern '10)

Video Concept

The basic concept of this video follows Sylvia, a girl with a fractured sense of reality. The video begins with the story featured in "Sylvia I," with Sylvia and Father Time staring at each other in a barren room, as they have been doing for years. Sylvia decides to get up, kill Father Time, and finally leaves the room.

Cue the music.

Sylvia walks into the town outside the room, where she is finally free. She is truly happy upon entering this town, and her childlike mind translates this bleak wintery setting into a vibrant springtime world with blue skies, green grass, and a tree that is fully in bloom. While in the winter setting, Sylvia performs several actions that she sees as acceptable, while in reality, they are wrong and uncalled for. For example, as Sylvia thinks that she is shaking an apple tree, she is really destroying a lamp post, and as she playfully tosses grass into the air, she really hits someone in the face with a snowball.

As a result of this, two policemen attempt to arrest her, whom she plays off as two suitors. Sylvia runs away flirtatiously. She trips and falls. She scrapes her knee and begins to bleed. She cannot keep herself from bleeding in her spring world, and thus cannot distinguish the difference between the two worlds, and they begin to clash with each other. Her latent insanity rises to the surface, and she begins to scream in disbelief and confusion. Her world literally crashes down around her, and the entire set eplodes and collapses in all directions around her. As the music fades, Sylvia giggles softly to herself, alone in the wreckage of her three realities.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

WEBISODE 1: THE CD RELEASE SHOW

Friday, March 28, 2008

Our First Post!

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