Lyndsey and I decided to use masks in our music video. Due to the lack of vocals on our track we has the possibility to create a small story. We decided to show the escapades of a young girl opening up a small wooden box and finding toys inside, as the girl studied and played with the toys life size models of the toys came to life. This is a link to pandoras box and adds to the back dated theme we intended to set.
Animal masks seemed like the best idea and we decided to mould our own masks on the masks used in the 1973 film 'The Wicker Man.'We decided to make several
masks, so that we had a variation in animals.
The Bunny, Cat, Mouse and Pig were chosen due to the fact that my younger sister has some small toys that would work well for the toys inside the box.
The intertextual references between our music video and 'The Wicker Man' do not stop there, when working on the climax of the video we realised that the masks could be worn by anybody and that the video could end with the Small girl putting one of the masks on. This links to the idea of the policeman in 'The Wicker Man' being stolen away by primitive people and the temptations that surround Pandora's Box.
Great masks Robin and well done for getting on with posting your planning onto your blog. I like the size of the masks which should give your music video a suitably surreal tone.
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