BLACK MAMBO/GLASS ANIMALS

Treatment by Eloise, Hugo and Coco

THE SONG• The song is Black Mambo by Glass Animals.

• It was released in 2014 in the album Zaba, which was their debut album

• They are an English organic band

• Similar artists include Bastille and Alt-J

• Their genre is indie/Alternative

• The official music video has over 6,368,335 views. Even though the video has a huge number of views, they are a relatively unknown band and our concept is so different from the official music video.

• https://youtu.be/H7bqZIpC3Pg

THE IDEA• The basic idea for the music video is that there is

a mentally disturbed teenager in a institution room, who thinks he is possessed by the devil. During the music video you what is going on inside his head, as the devil tries to take over his mind.

• The three settings are the plain institution room which the boy is in, the same room but with red lights and smoke (gas machine) - inside his head and a dark room with red lights and smoke - for the performers.

THE PITCH • The music starts to a black screen

• We start the video with a white room, which is bare apart from a bed in the centre and a man sat on the bed.

• The camera has different shots of the bare room to establish the room (different LS, CU of male etc.)

• The man is clearly mad, he could be rocking slightly and shaking his head, talking to himself.

• We wanted a camera shot which was edited as if it were a CCTV shot, so if would further set the scene as if he were a dangerous inmate and he was in a public institution.

THE PITCH• There is then a zoom in to

close up of the boys eye, to show that we are going

into his mind. • There is a devil like character who walks

towards the character and the boy behaves oddly,

like the lucifer is controlling him.

• The shot will alternate between this setting and the performers setting.

• Also, the there will be alternating shot of the boy writing on the walls of the room with lucifer related references such as “666”

and the symbol of the devil, showing how he is

possessed.

THE PITCH• We were also thinking that there could be some images relating to Vincent Van Goph, to show the connection between the madness and the artist.

• At the end of the video, a nurse comes into the room and sees the whole wall covered with drawings and markings relating to the devil/lucifer.

• She backs away with fear calls for help and the boy stops drawing and turns round to look at her, dropping the pen with shock as he realises what he has done.

• The shot fades to black.

THE AESTHETIC OF THE CHARACTERS - BOY

• The boy will be around 16 years old and we were hoping he would have a shaven head.

• He will be dressed in loose, baggy trousers and a scruffy white t-shirt. His clothes will be distressed and dirty looking, to show how he does not care about how he looks.

• We could also use makeup to make it look like he has tattoos on his face.

• We thought that the devil would be played by the same person or someone similar looking, to show that it is all in his mind.

• However, even though the devil looks similar he can be wearing dark makeup and black contacts in his eyes to make him seem weird and creepy to the audience. We could also draw the devil sign on his face, like a tattoo to show the difference between the two characters.

THE AESTHETIC OF THE CHARACTERS -NURSE

• The nurse will be dressed in a typical nurse outfit, with her hair tied back, to indicate to the audience her job.

• She will also carry a clipboard, presumably with information about the patient on.

THE AESTHETIC OF THE CHARACTERS -MUSICIANS

• The musicians will be dressed in quite basic costumes, as it is more about the lighting and musicians playing their instruments in this shot.

• They will wear black, so that they seem to blend into the background