Friday, July 06, 2007

Sober - music video concept

This is my music video concept for Kelly Clarkson's "Sober".

It's been in my head for weeks now and everytime I listen to the song, these images and scenes appear in my mind.


Live at AOL Sessions


The music video will start off focused on the moving road. Coming from the car Kelly is driving. (The cameraman is sitting on the front passenger seat, focusing the camera on the road over the window and slowly panning to Kelly's (driver's) side. And the first line will start:

"And I don’t know, this could break my heart or save me..."


There will be a scene wherein Kelly either look in her rearside mirror or side mirror and will see a Kelly with black tears on her face.

My interpretation on the song is that she wanted to forget everything after the "break-up". All of the pain she been carrying and all that. Wondering why she's still alive and breathing.

The long and empty road she's having symbolizes her life after the failed relationship. Hollow, sad and lonely.

Towards the middle of the song, she'll get a little agitated (just like the song does, well every Kelly song has this 'hysterical-mode' part wink! wink!) so she'll drive a little faster not a care in the world. Remember, she wanted to forget and leave everything behind already.

On the climax part of the song, a terrible thing will happen. She will have a head-on collision with a truck she never noticed and never managed to get rid of it on the last second.

The scene will be in slow motion but not the words on the song.

"Three months and I’m still breathing
Three months and I still remember it
Three months and I wake up..."


Car's flipped and rolled over. We will see Kelly breathing for life for the last time with a flower (out of nowhere) in her hands stretched out of her wrecked car's window. (Brutal ba masyado?)

Then a huge binding of light, we will see Kelly on a lying position (similiar to her position on the wrecked car) on a flowery field symbolizing peace and tranquility.

She will sing the last two lines of the song:

"Three months and I’m still sober
Picked all my weeds but kept the flowers"


The flower still in her hands, gently moving it closer to her nose. Her hands slowly breaking free and the winds will carry it along with other small flowers at the end of the song.

BUT WAIT! There's more! That's not the end yet!

We will see a camera (as if a person carrying it getting closer to a car) and will knock on it and we will realize it's a federal traffic enforcer waking up a sleeping woman on a car, Kelly.

He will make a hand gesture to her to get back on the road.

Kelly has tears on her face as if she cried while she were sleeping. Little sniff there, wiped her tears and she'll realize maybe there's more to this life after all. And then she'll drive away with all courage to face a new day.

Xenxa na, sinapian na naman ako. Want to hear my video concept for her "How I Feel", "Yeah" and "Can I Have A Kiss"? Nah, wag na lang. I love you Kelly!

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