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A Dream, Music video in making
I wrote this song soon after coming out of my country's long battle for freedom from communist regime. I ended up in Los Angeles. I felt alone, misunderstood, and out of place. Then one day, I read Martin Luther King's speech. I collapsed on my bed crying. I was amazed by the similarities... No longer alone, I heard this new song soaring out of my soul. "Can you feel the same, or is it only me, closing my eyes... too passionately?"
SCRIPT IDEA for MUSIC VIDEO A DREAM
Two or more families with different circumstances, yet at the end we'll see that their children dream of the same things.
For example:
One family:
Parents with a young, about 9 years old girl. Both parents are working. They live in a nice house, and a good neighborhood. Their schedule is busy. The girl is in a privet school, enrolled in many after-school activities. Everything is perfect yet somewhat rushed, missing that kind of spontaneous, be in a moment, emotional connection.
Second family:
Single mother with maybe 10 or 12 years old boy. They live in a very small, somewhat neglected house in a poor neighborhood. The boy is free-spirited, the mother works but after work she is also free spirited and often just gets on the floor with her son, and they just play.
Story
(There will be singing clips mixed with story clips)
Both children love to draw. Their different life styles, and activities are shown simultaneously (split screen, kind of like an a Radiohead's video All I Need) and often they are shown drawing or painting something. We don't know what it is. Both children seem to long for something. Maybe the girl sees from the car the boy playing outside, rolling on the grass, having fun. And at some point the boy sees her coming out of some music lesson, with her Cello, and he wishes he could have that.
The End
(I am open to change this scene if anyone has a better idea)
At the end, there is a scene where both briefly meet. Boy is riding a bike, he has (always) rolled out drawing pad where he draws. A girl is walking out of a store with her mother. She has her drawing in her hand. Boy on the bike and Girl bump accidentally into each other. Girl's drawing falls down. Boy's drawing also falls down, he doesn't see it. Mom, somewhat irritated by Boys carless riding, is rushing as usually, keeps pulling the girl to move forward but the girl pulls back. The boys is still looking at the girl. Their eyes meet and they smile to each other. Boy rides away. The girl with her mother get into the car. Camera rolls down onto the pavement and we see two drawing next to each other. They are both the same.
Two or more families with different circumstances, yet at the end we'll see that their children dream of the same things.
For example:
One family:
Parents with a young, about 9 years old girl. Both parents are working. They live in a nice house, and a good neighborhood. Their schedule is busy. The girl is in a privet school, enrolled in many after-school activities. Everything is perfect yet somewhat rushed, missing that kind of spontaneous, be in a moment, emotional connection.
Second family:
Single mother with maybe 10 or 12 years old boy. They live in a very small, somewhat neglected house in a poor neighborhood. The boy is free-spirited, the mother works but after work she is also free spirited and often just gets on the floor with her son, and they just play.
Story
(There will be singing clips mixed with story clips)
Both children love to draw. Their different life styles, and activities are shown simultaneously (split screen, kind of like an a Radiohead's video All I Need) and often they are shown drawing or painting something. We don't know what it is. Both children seem to long for something. Maybe the girl sees from the car the boy playing outside, rolling on the grass, having fun. And at some point the boy sees her coming out of some music lesson, with her Cello, and he wishes he could have that.
The End
(I am open to change this scene if anyone has a better idea)
At the end, there is a scene where both briefly meet. Boy is riding a bike, he has (always) rolled out drawing pad where he draws. A girl is walking out of a store with her mother. She has her drawing in her hand. Boy on the bike and Girl bump accidentally into each other. Girl's drawing falls down. Boy's drawing also falls down, he doesn't see it. Mom, somewhat irritated by Boys carless riding, is rushing as usually, keeps pulling the girl to move forward but the girl pulls back. The boys is still looking at the girl. Their eyes meet and they smile to each other. Boy rides away. The girl with her mother get into the car. Camera rolls down onto the pavement and we see two drawing next to each other. They are both the same.