Music Video Treatment Idea

Treatment Idea

Rise Against - Injection



This is a tratment idea that I have thought up for a music video. The theme of the video will be a Performance based music video mixed with a short narrative story that links in with the lyrics.

The video will begin with the band performing in a hospital (the main location) however the lighting is very dark making it difficult to notice at first glance, as soon as the vocals of the song begins we see the singer waking up from a hospital bed who is the protagonist of the narrative. We see a point of view shot of him looking around the room slowly with his vision eventually getting better, which he then suddenly he has a headache and starts having small quick flashbacks. During this we will see the band preforming for a few seconds which will then quickly cut back onto him having a headache.

In the chorus of the song we see him tied to the a hospital bed surrounded by doctors, he struggles and tries to break free and resisting the doctors that are trying to restrain him. We see a syringe fall to the ground in slow motion along with other tools that have been knocked over. It then cuts to a room where the singer is unconscious, he begins to have nightmares of the past and we see several flashback of him in his normal life where nothing was wrong yet. The flashback shots of him in his normal life will consist of jump cuts of him traveling to work in the subway and then arriving at his office followed by a time lapse of the day.

After the scene cuts immediately to the band performing in the operating room , we see a variety of shots of the band playing with their instruments as the lights are flashing on and off, although the pace of the video will have the band cutting in now and then to show them preforming. At the end of the video the scene fades out as soon as the song finishes with a slow motion blur.