Kiss Kiss Goodnight

Dan Fajans
Shadow of a Doubt
Worth the Time
dir: me :)

Oh my, this video was sooo fucked up to make I had double booked my Easter weekend shooting two videos in a 72 hour time line. Not the smartest idea I ever had… but it turned out pretty dope. Everything that could go wrong went wrong on this shoot. I woke up 40 mins late so I showed up 20mins late, then it started to rain, I couldn’t find my iPod speakers, then I left my iPod at home (but it was really in my back pocket the whole time), got chemical black mess on my face, and then I lost his friends umbrella… super not the business…

The original concept for the song was one that I had for while. I wanted to do it as a fan video for a Gnarls Barkley song (No Time Soon), but I never got a round to it. After I heard the song… I knew I found a home for my idea. This is also the second video that my pimped out Chrysler makes a cameo…

I’m glad that every thing worked out in the long run. I stayed very close to the concept minus a few things here and there and the video was shot in about 8hrs and the video edited in about a month (I really need to step up my color correction skills.)

Shot on a naked Hv20
Edited on Final Cut

Here’s the treatment:

Scene fades in:

Downtown Seattle day:.

Homeless man lays buried under some blankets and filth.
***cue music***
The homeless man wakes, and checks his watch (a watch that is too expensive for a homeless man)
He sets up his living area, folding his blankets and arranging his living space. He pulls out a bottle of hand sanitizer and uses it to sanitize his face and hands, before pulling a half eaten sandwich out of his bag. He enjoys his breakfast as the sun sits on the ocean (breath taking view)
The homeless man checks his watch once more; he quickly finishes up his sandwich, packs up his back pack, and grabs his sign (a white sign written with black letters)

He walks the streets of Downtown Seattle, rapping the verses (as if the camera is not looking at him, picture a man rambling to him self) holding the sign.
People try to offer him money or food but he declines it, has he scales the city rapping.

Has he cross an intersection, he is hit by a car…. The driver jumps out to see if he is ok. The Homeless gets up dusts him self off and continues to rap holding the sign.

As the day comes to an end, the homeless man makes his way back to his living space. He puts away his sign, lays out his bed, and crawls up under the covers…

Scene fades out:
The End

**I’m thinking of maybe trying to have different sayings on the signs. So that every different shot it might say some thing different… maybe have a whole phrase that the sign is saying but the audience has to watch the full video and pay attention to understand.

**The video can be shot in one day but it would work best if it was shoot over two preferable a weekend or some thing.

**The car scene with you being hit will be very easy to achieve and you will not be harmed at all… nor will the car.

**I’m completely open to any ideas or notes you may have… this is just a blue print and this is your video so if any thing is not what you want it to be then hit me up…

**I’m excited to do a video like this, with your song and my visual concept we can make a haunting video that connects people to the song.

cheers…

This was posted on Friday the 17th, July, 2009