You can dream. You can dance, for inspiration. I can just film some stuff.
Forget lighting, all that nonsense, I can do up my bloopers, do up my last transmission
I don’t need anything for haunted microscope I’ll just keep developing it, it won’t be august, that’s for sure. How long is the mix? Like 15 minutes? That’s how long the video will be.
I’m trying to look for my notes on this and I can’t find them, there’s home alone and thats supposed to bridge to it, but wheres all that business about
oh here we go, haunted garden
Yeah I got a big burly garden. There’s a possibly scary shed. I’ll just make the “Haunted Garden” video in my garden. I just thought of it then. There’ll be the Microscope mix of all the songs, the Haunted Microscope EP for the main tracks, and a minimix with a video called “Haunted Garden” make 10 minutes long and I’ll shoot it in my garden.
Basically the microscope is about analysis and understanding, but in the haunted garden, past lives and old lives are trying come at the new house. So in the garden, the ghost of our old life . . . appears.
Old lives haunt you in the garden. So you can’t get out the microscope and understand because old lives haunt your thinking.
In home alone, the house is a sanctuary and a womb, so there’s acts.
Past lives keep trying to invade, they lurk out there.
In the shed lies oblivion is what I said, my own death? Ghosts want to help to my death? I want to make this spooky.
Just the suggestions. I’m safe in the house but it’s haunted by neurosis and empty existance, the ghosts are trying to get me out of the house, the represent past lives. Through the tangled vines, they shephard me to my death.
Hang Em High: The house of heaviness, home alone, where ghosts I’ve left behind lurk.
I’m safe in my womb but I’m cold and alone and it’s not real, it’s too eery. I’m doing business but I’m not, i’m rocking a crowd but I’m not, I’m in bed with a girl, but I’m not and suddenly it goes dark.
I’m weeping, I’m dead, I’m cold, it goes dark, and I realised it’s all like a haunted miscroscope.
And it’s all dark crazy flashing light plays and the ghosts going crazy at the windows of the house and eery images or psycho schizo freak out
but it’s the home alone buzz, it’s not real.
Rain: The call of the night, of the possibilites
Polyps: The ghosts anthem, of deep ghosts in the night
Pretty Ghosts: the warmth of the memory, maybe a girl, i’m looking out the window and seeing myself differently amongst the ghosts
maybe have pictures of my name on posters for gigs that have passed.
Doubt: Is the classic man, who removes all doubt in mysterious style – i’m getting ready in my suit and the ghost of the dj wonders where I’m going . . . to the haunted shed / garage
Paper Tigers: Is the sad submission to death and bargaining with regret,
It’s Too Late: Afterworld of happy memories
So what’s the connection? Home Alone is the Hobbit to Haunted Microscope’s Lord of the Rings.
Home Alone has a narrative and little clips of songs and haunted microscope stuff, ending with
“When there’s nothing to prove and nobody to prove it to, then you sit alone in your house searching for yourself . . . hoping you don’t get lost . . .”
While Haunted Garden is just a really long music video.
So I’ll do home alone and other stuff like aucklands most wanted, last transmission and bloopers, in preparation for the haunted microscope coming down the line.
thats a good system I think, to be continually producing supporting content that hints at a bigger content package coming, so even if I dont do the haunted garden video, it’ll meld to something else, but the home alone will represent that time, and hint at future themes.
So home alone ends with me hoping I dont get lost inside my head, and haunted garden starts with the tempo ramping up to the crazy drop.
home alone is:
- happy pov around the house – part 1
- sitting alone in odd light, smoking with decks part 2
weird portraits part 2
- sinister pov, flashes of haunted, ghosts part 3
- possibly shots of “outside world” part 4
- final mash up of all themes and resolution. last shot still sitting alone in silence part 4
pretty easy really.
