A small disclaimer - I have not been involved in the creation of any music video thus far in my life (as much as I wanted to be) and any resemblance to any other music video/ imagery is more than likely coincidental and is not meant to be representative of anything.
I also, however, do not know if these ideas can work in a music video, but I believe it has potential? Who knows.
Onto the good stuff!
These were created nearly ten years ago - when I thought it was a good idea to be a manager of a band. This blog post will however not go into any details of the band and just the parts that I created for potential music videos.
As prerequisites for the music videos, I'm going under the assumption that the band has five members, a lead singer, a drummer, a lead guitar, a rhythm guitar and a bass guitar player, as well as one of these should be a decent backing vocalist.
First Music Video Idea (Volcano/lava field)
Opening scene to a bleak dusty filled chamber/ cavern with dust devils.
The starting of the song with drum beats (only) is shown by an overhead camera, which then starts to cause the roof of the cavern to fall.
The pieces of the cavern roof conveniently misses the band members that are playing their various instruments.
The sky is revealed to be a dark lightning filled sky.
As the pieces of the roof strike the ground, they break the ground away revealing the boiling molten lava field.
The opening instrumentals begin and the destruction of the cavern is completed, this should show the five members each on a separate pillar of rock.
As the song continues, the lava goes through (as random as possible), increasingly larger bursts/ waves of lava, which steadily consumes each of the pillars that the band members are standing on.
During an instrument break of the song, the lead singer slips on her platform and falls off catching herself on the ledge.
The lead singer pulls herself back up on the ledge and she sings the last verse of the song.
As the last verse of the song is finished, the lead singer falls into a kneeling position and watches as the drummer finishes the song and then leans back, crosses her arms and falls into the lava.
During the fall, she lets go of one of her drum sticks, which lands and stays stuck in a piece of rock that is just jutting out of the lava.
As the final frames of the music video closes, the drum stick is shown with the words "to be continued" written on it in fiery cursive script/letters.
The final shot of the music video will be of the lead singer giving an evil grin.
Second Music Video Idea (Waterfall - cavern in waterfall)
The opening shot is of a waterfall and in the background, snow covered mountains.
Next up would be a shot of the lead singer jumping down the waterfall and landing on a protruding rock halfway down the waterfall.
The next shot shows the full extent of the mountains and the convergence of the five waterfalls (conveniently for the five band members) into a huge/vast bottomless pool.
The five waterfalls are in a circle.
The opening seconds of the video should show one after the next, the other band members (the lead guitarist, the rhythm guitarist and the bass guitarist) dropping onto their respective ledges on each waterfall.
The opening instrumentals of the song would show behind a curtain of water (of the fifth waterfall) the drummer (minus the drummer actually being seen).
Throughout the music video - there should be continuous different camera views of each band member as they are playing.
One camera to the left, one to the right, one directly in front and one just above.
At some point during the music video a lightning storm starts turning what was once a beautiful sun kissed scene dark and dangerous.
During the lightning strikes, this should reduce the platforms of rock that the band members are standing on, reducing it to a dangerously small area by the end of the music video.
As the song continues and builds to a finish, an avalanche starts on the mountain that has the drummer's waterfall.
The resulting debris cuts off the flow of the water completely. This reveals the drummer to be safe and sound (who died in the first music video).
The lead singer sees her and a shocked look crosses her face.
The shocked look stays on her face as one of the drummer's sticks (thrown by the drummer) appears in her throat killing her.
In the last chords of the song, and in a last act of desperation, the lead singer clutches at the rock, but it is much too slippery for her to hold onto.
She falls (the 50 or so feet) into the water and blood (something red) is seen after she enters it.
A split screen is used showing the four remaining members of the band looking over the edge of their platforms of rock at the water as the lead singer hits it.
The final shot of the music video closes with a silent clock (reminiscent of the TV series 24 when someone significant dies).
This then disappears and the words to be continued is shown in cursive writing on the screen. (with water effects)
Third Music Video Idea (Ice-field/ Iceberg)
The music video starts with a close up shot of the lead singer frozen in an iceberg, arms spread wide, hair all askew.
Interestingly this shot works better in my mind with a female lead singer.
Next show shows the ling-up in front of the ice-berg, the bass guitarist, the drummer, the rhythm guitarist and the lead guitarist.
As the song starts, cracks start to appear in the iceberg that the lead singer is frozen in.
Before the first verse of the song is about to start, the song stops and the iceberg shatters into a million pieces and the lead singer is freed.
The song now starts and the next few shots are with the different band members playing interspersed with beautiful shots of the vast/ limitless icebergs field.
In the backdrop/background of these shots, the same snow covered mountains from the second music video are seen.
Midway through the music video, an earthquake/iceberg quake? This causes the iceberg to break/split up into three pieces leaving the bassist, and the rhythm guitarist stranded on separate icebergs which start to drift away from each other.
Three-quarters of the way through the song a meteor shower starts, striking at the separate icebergs reducing them to dangerously small levels/areas for the band members to stand on.
As the last chords of the song are finished, a tiny meteorite is shown to be striking the lead singer severely disorienting her.
She slips and falls against the lead guitarist and drags him off the iceberg with one arm around his neck in a choking grip.
As they fall in the most dramatic fashion possible, the music video is finished when they hit the water with the words written to be continued is shown in cursive writing. (With ice effects)
As you can imagine - there are a million ways that I can continue the sequence of each band member consecutively offing each other, 
This was as far as I had reached in coming up with different music video ideas (having listened to the theme of the album that the band's music was).
Love to hear some feedback and ideas - maybe I can have a part two at a later date.
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