У меня хорошие новости! Dear Даррен выложил на своей странице майспейса небольшие превью двух песен с грядущего альбома! Это
'Myself And I' и
'On The Verge Of Something Wonderful', на которую, в данный момент, снимается клип! Он будет не такой, как те два анимационных, на этот раз мы увидим полноценное видео с участием Даррена. На сколько я поняла из предложения "I'm back in London from L.A having just flown there and back within 4 days to shoot the video for 'On The Verge of Something Wonderful'", он только что вернулся из Лос-Анджелеса,где снимался клип, в Лондон (
как всегда с багажом шуток и плохой грамматикой ). Так же, он любезно пофотографировал, как это происходит и выложил несколько фото, а так же, сценарий самого клипа.
ОписаниеFirst Video Treatment Idea from The Saline Project for Darren Hayes 'On The Verge Of Something Wonderful'
With nothing but a black void as our canvas, this video opens with a series of heavy references to 1980's era experimental music videos. Talking Heads. Devo. Berlin.
All of the imagery feels somehow tweaked and manipulated. The visuals might have a 80's sensibility, but the presentation is unmistakably 2007.
Darren is very much the straight man in this fantastic world. In one set up, shades of Max Headroom. In another, the time traveler with his uniform of bright orange shoes and tie blowing in the wind as he travels through a fantastical world. Totally in control of this incredible chaos, occasionally letting us in on the fact that he understands how wonderfully abstract all this is, providing a sort of stylistic barometer to the kind of imagery that continually splashes across the screen.
Anything is possible in this world - dream sequences, fantastic personal visions, and more straight-forward performance sequences woven into a beautiful and strange tapestry.
Cities rise, cars made from cardboard appear as Darren and company walk the streets of a herky jerky city. Beams of neon light dance in the black sky to the rhythm of the synthesizer. An apartment assembles itself around us and we find Darren typing at a typewriter. A spool of paper wraps itself around him but he continues to type. The camera follows the paper which becomes a road. Darren rides a cardboard bicycle down the typing paper road. He dodges cars as traffic gets more intense. Suddenly the cars smash into each other and then unfold into waves. Darren's bicycle becomes a boat and oars fall from the sky as the camera pulls back to see him in a makeshift ocean. The camera pulls back farther and we see the earth spinning. Enlarged cities and miniature planes float around the globe and the camera rotates to reveal the earth as a hat on Darren's head. He throws the hat aside as desks unfold around him and coworkers and supervisors populate and endless office space. Darren tries to sort an ever growing heap of papers and the camera pulls back to reveal...
Hastily-made assemblage sets and props, heaped together from chunks of cardboard, toys, kids costumes and vintage instruments. Helping us create a world that is a perfect melding of retro and futurism.
The endless unfolding will continue, transforming and changing as Darren sometimes sings to camera, sometimes ignores us. Often playing with the concepts in the track, sometimes illustrating them pretty accurately- but never without a twist. We'd love to work with Darren in putting this sequence of vignettes together, pulling as much from his life, dreams, and lyrics as possible.
Like some of the great 1980's videos, Michael Gondry films, and Bjork promos, we work heavy visual elements into abstract but readable moments. With Darren as our host and guide, we enter this world immediately, with no explanation, no bookends, nothing–this is the creative statement being made and any sort of excuse or twist would water down what is strong, pure and understandable to the modern viewer.Фотографии