Footsteps of the Master

The aim of my music video is to combine the bands current electronica-esque aesthetic with their previous vaudevillian punk style by using a similar set-up to that used in earlier records such as 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies' and 'But it's Better If You Do' (both 2006). Both of these videos were directed by Shane Drake of Red Van Pictures. This first of the videos features the Lucent Dossier Vaudeville Cirque, inkeeping with the style of the bands debut album. The main focus of both videos shows a distortion of reality wherein everything is not entirely what it seems, with the 'truth' being slowly revealed to the audience.

 

Shane Drake also directed Panic at the Disco's 'Ballad of Mona Lisa' which follows the vaudevillian theme to an extent but with a large focus on Steampunk, including the appearance of League of STEAM's full ensemble, and largely harked back to their earlier work prior to the Pretty Odd. album and yet is distinctively dissimilar to their current videos, including that of 'Miss Jackson'.

 

My music video aims to incorporate the bands earlier style by using masquerade masks - a common feature in their videos - and heavy symbolism regarding characters, along with a cliffhanger ending.