Music Video Idea 3

This idea is for the song Prague by British indie rock band Blaenavon :

This idea is going for more of the typical indie rock boy band video, based on shots of the band performing the song rather than following a particular narrative.
Examples of this type of video done successfully are 
the Hurtwood music video from 2015, 'Jungle' : 
and The Strokes' video for Reptilia :




One line in the chorus of the song Prague is 'you keep running through my head' . When the lead singer sings this, I would want the camera to slowly zoom in to an extreme close up on his face, right to his eyes, and then cut to a shot of a girl running through a dark forest - to give the idea that the camera is literally showing this girl 'running through' his head.  There is also a theme of wilderness in the song - 'longing for the wild...a tribe...blood red skies.'  which is what made me want to show the girl running in a forest. She would be wearing a plain white dress to make her stand out in the darkness and she would have a 'wild' look about her - unbrushed, knotted hair, pale skin, dark eyes etc. 

Therefore the majority of the video would be performance based, filming the band performing the song, with lots of close ups on each performer's face (like in Reptilia) but interspersed with shots of the girl in the forest. 

For the shots of the band, I have quite a clear aesthetic in mind for the setting. It would have a David Lynch, Twin Peaks-y vibe, with a lot of red - red curtains, all of the band's costumes would have some red in them, red guitar/drums
(if possible!)

Example :

The band to be mainly dressed in black, ideally long hair - typical indie rock band look...
Speedy Oritz

Catfish&the Bottlemen 

Tame Impala
Arctic Monkeys
Blaenavon 


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