Story & music video ideas
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between_time_and_42I just saw that plutodetective had made a list of all the projects she wants to write in the future, and I’ve been thinking of making a similar list myself. It’s a bit different, though, because there are two lists. Here is a list of all the spin-off stories set in the Concept Album Multiverse that I either have written or have planned, and following that, a list of music video ideas that I had wanted to film, but it wasn’t in the cards.
Written Stories:
-Ziggyfloyd smut 1: Ziggy & Floyd take a shower together the day after they move into their new home.
-Ziggyfloyd smut 2: A rainy day and a bout of writer’s block won’t stop Ziggy & Floyd from having fun.
-Ziggyfloyd fluff/hurt-comfort: Floyd is there for Ziggy when he feels too depressed to get out of bed.
-Ziggyfloyd angst/hurt-comfort: While house-hunting for a place to live now that they’ve arrived on a new planet, Ziggy finds the last remnant of his people, and comes to terms with the fact that everyone he ever knew from his home planet has died while he was either on Earth or traveling through time and space to find them.
-Short gap-filler between the last chapter and epilogue of Will They Come?: Julie’s introduction to Aresian gender dynamics throws her into a state of questioning, leading her to break things off with Jack.
Unwritten Stories:
-Will They Come? Conclusion: A grand finale for all the characters as they gather in celebration of Jack’s 21st birthday.
-Ziggyfloyd angst/fluff: Ziggy and Floyd agree to separate temporarily after Ziggy witnesses tensions between Floyd and Jack.
-Ziggyfloyd hurt/comfort: Ziggy discovers that Floyd suffers from hallucinations, and tries to help him when he’s experiencing psychosis.
-A look into Floyd & Haushinka’s relationship as they go from mutual dislike to true companionship.
-Wedding fluff! A look at how traditions are rewritten for three different weddings in Hunger City- Mylo & Xyloto, Widdy & Dice, and Jack & Shalaya.
-Possible headcanons that I have, but am not sure if I'll end up writing a full-fledged story about them- Shalaya & Jack's struggle to have children, Jagger finds out what happened to his parents. (Also, I'm going back and forth on whether I want some of the Aresians to have survived the Aresian genocide, if only because I NEED Ziggy to have some sort of closure. If I settle on having some of them be alive, I'll definitely write a story about that.)
I think that's it for the stories... Now, here are some music video ideas that I had to scrap.
-Accompanying a funk song about hooking up at a club: A woman enters a bar/club and notices the band performing, which is my band. After I sing the first verse, I notice her noticing us and come down from the stage to talk to her. We chat, get close, she buys me a drink, we dance and enjoy ourselves. Towards the end of the song, we leave the club and she drives me to her place. As we walk through the main room, the camera pans past wedding photos on the wall of myself and the woman. Hey, pretending to be strangers keeps things interesting in a relationship... Last shot is of the bedroom door closing.
-Accompanying an introspective song about fearing vulnerability in a relationship: A man and I wake up in bed, get dressed, brush our teeth, shower, have breakfast... all while keeping our backs to each other. I don't mean that we just happen to be shown back to back in every shot- I mean that when he turns around, I move seamlessly so that I'm always back to back with him, no matter what. During the first chorus, I am shown following him up the stairs; during the second chorus, he is following me up the stairs (or we're just following each other in some other location). The scenes during the second verse are similar to the first, except we're going through nightly activities instead of daily ones. On the bridge, a slow tilt will occur so that everything looks off-kilter (not sure yet what will be happening in this scene). At the very end, we're walking towards each other from a certain distance, finally looking each other in the eye once we get close enough to touch. I then fall into his arms.
Both of these ideas are too ambitious for me to pull off at the moment, but I'd still really like to make them. The songs are sort of mirror images of each other, as one is about being carefree enough to go out with a stranger (well, she's not a stranger in the video, but still) and have a good time, whereas the other is about being afraid to be open with and trust a person who you've been with for a while. So I thought it would be cool to have a sort of duality about it. I definitely want one of the videos to have a female romantic lead while the other has a male romantic lead; at first it was an arbitrary choice because I wanted a woman to sing backing vocals and I thought it would be fun if she then appeared in the video, but now I just like the idea of having an F/F relationship for this particular video because it's far more typical, in a music video set in a club where one character is pursuing the other, for the couple to be heterosexual. (It would still be cool to have me, a woman, pursuing a man, but I'm pretty solidly stuck on the F/F couple at this point.) The two videos would also contrast because one would be a much more conventional, what you see is what you get type of video- how many music videos have you seen that take place in clubs? Many, I'm sure- while the other one is more conceptual and layered. I would also like to work with a choreographer on it, and maybe that could be a jumping-off point for the song cycle/stage production I eventually want to create, but who knows.
plutodetective had made a list of all the projects she wants to write in the future, and I’ve been thinking of making a similar list myself. It’s a bit different, though, because there are two lists. Here is a list of all the spin-off stories set in the Concept Album Multiverse that I either have written or have planned, and following that, a list of music video ideas that I had wanted to film, but it wasn’t in the cards.Written Stories:
-Ziggyfloyd smut 1: Ziggy & Floyd take a shower together the day after they move into their new home.
-Ziggyfloyd smut 2: A rainy day and a bout of writer’s block won’t stop Ziggy & Floyd from having fun.
-Ziggyfloyd fluff/hurt-comfort: Floyd is there for Ziggy when he feels too depressed to get out of bed.
-Ziggyfloyd angst/hurt-comfort: While house-hunting for a place to live now that they’ve arrived on a new planet, Ziggy finds the last remnant of his people, and comes to terms with the fact that everyone he ever knew from his home planet has died while he was either on Earth or traveling through time and space to find them.
-Short gap-filler between the last chapter and epilogue of Will They Come?: Julie’s introduction to Aresian gender dynamics throws her into a state of questioning, leading her to break things off with Jack.
Unwritten Stories:
-Will They Come? Conclusion: A grand finale for all the characters as they gather in celebration of Jack’s 21st birthday.
-Ziggyfloyd angst/fluff: Ziggy and Floyd agree to separate temporarily after Ziggy witnesses tensions between Floyd and Jack.
-Ziggyfloyd hurt/comfort: Ziggy discovers that Floyd suffers from hallucinations, and tries to help him when he’s experiencing psychosis.
-A look into Floyd & Haushinka’s relationship as they go from mutual dislike to true companionship.
-Wedding fluff! A look at how traditions are rewritten for three different weddings in Hunger City- Mylo & Xyloto, Widdy & Dice, and Jack & Shalaya.
-Possible headcanons that I have, but am not sure if I'll end up writing a full-fledged story about them- Shalaya & Jack's struggle to have children, Jagger finds out what happened to his parents. (Also, I'm going back and forth on whether I want some of the Aresians to have survived the Aresian genocide, if only because I NEED Ziggy to have some sort of closure. If I settle on having some of them be alive, I'll definitely write a story about that.)
I think that's it for the stories... Now, here are some music video ideas that I had to scrap.
-Accompanying a funk song about hooking up at a club: A woman enters a bar/club and notices the band performing, which is my band. After I sing the first verse, I notice her noticing us and come down from the stage to talk to her. We chat, get close, she buys me a drink, we dance and enjoy ourselves. Towards the end of the song, we leave the club and she drives me to her place. As we walk through the main room, the camera pans past wedding photos on the wall of myself and the woman. Hey, pretending to be strangers keeps things interesting in a relationship... Last shot is of the bedroom door closing.
-Accompanying an introspective song about fearing vulnerability in a relationship: A man and I wake up in bed, get dressed, brush our teeth, shower, have breakfast... all while keeping our backs to each other. I don't mean that we just happen to be shown back to back in every shot- I mean that when he turns around, I move seamlessly so that I'm always back to back with him, no matter what. During the first chorus, I am shown following him up the stairs; during the second chorus, he is following me up the stairs (or we're just following each other in some other location). The scenes during the second verse are similar to the first, except we're going through nightly activities instead of daily ones. On the bridge, a slow tilt will occur so that everything looks off-kilter (not sure yet what will be happening in this scene). At the very end, we're walking towards each other from a certain distance, finally looking each other in the eye once we get close enough to touch. I then fall into his arms.
Both of these ideas are too ambitious for me to pull off at the moment, but I'd still really like to make them. The songs are sort of mirror images of each other, as one is about being carefree enough to go out with a stranger (well, she's not a stranger in the video, but still) and have a good time, whereas the other is about being afraid to be open with and trust a person who you've been with for a while. So I thought it would be cool to have a sort of duality about it. I definitely want one of the videos to have a female romantic lead while the other has a male romantic lead; at first it was an arbitrary choice because I wanted a woman to sing backing vocals and I thought it would be fun if she then appeared in the video, but now I just like the idea of having an F/F relationship for this particular video because it's far more typical, in a music video set in a club where one character is pursuing the other, for the couple to be heterosexual. (It would still be cool to have me, a woman, pursuing a man, but I'm pretty solidly stuck on the F/F couple at this point.) The two videos would also contrast because one would be a much more conventional, what you see is what you get type of video- how many music videos have you seen that take place in clubs? Many, I'm sure- while the other one is more conceptual and layered. I would also like to work with a choreographer on it, and maybe that could be a jumping-off point for the song cycle/stage production I eventually want to create, but who knows.
