PLANNING: CALIFORNICATION LYRIC ANALYSIS

"Californication"

1. Psychic spies from China     (just before song starts, Band Scene – photography room – in   
2. Try to steal your mind's elation  completely white bare photog studio, a blank canvas –    

3. Little girls from Sweden  performers in mono chrome as candy colours come later)                         

4. Dream of silver screen quotations  transition - Dream figure (lips and eyes)      

5. And if you want these kind of dreams  Different cuts of nails 
6. It's Californication

7. It's the edge of the world
8. And all of western civilization
9. The sun may rise in the East               Gym scene (weights lifted, yoga poses) 
10. At least it settles in the final location
11. It's understood that Hollywood
12. sells Californication

13. Pay your surgeon very well                           Surgeon (from patients POV, crazy surgeon 
14. To break the spell of aging                                  has stitches for mouth)
15. Celebrity skin is this your chin            Mirror scene (playing with cheeks) 
16. Or is that war your waging 

Chorus:
17. First born unicorn
18. Hard core soft porn              Band scene
19. Dream of Californication
20. Dream of Californication

21. Marry me girl be my fairy to the world   Bubble Bath
22. Be my very own constellation
23. A teenage bride with a baby inside  Candyfloss
24. Getting high on information
25. And buy me a star on the boulevard                 Champagne 
26. It's Californication

27. Space may be the final frontier   Snapback snatch
28. But it's made in a Hollywood basement
29. Cobain can you hear the spheres
30. Singing songs off station to station  Pimp My Ride scene (number plates, shopping 
31. And Alderaan's not far away            bags, seat covers) 

32. It's Californication

33. Born and raised by those who praise  Throwing money out window of car
34. Control of population everybody's been there and  Policemen chasing us
35. I don't mean on vacation

Chorus                         Band scene

36. First born unicorn                 Girl beating up boy - all 3 get arrested
37. Hard core soft porn              Prison mug shots

38. Dream of Californication      All 3 pushed into individual cells

39. Dream of Californication 

PLANNING: TREATMENT

GYM SHOTS

We plan to use several shots of a young male and female wearing up-to-date gym wear whilst posing un the mirrors either lifting weights or doing yoga positions.

When the male is seen to lift the weights above his head, he is wearing one outfit, then when he brings it down towards his waist he changes into a new outfit. The same applies to the female doing different yoga positions.

CELEB SQUEEZE

In one of our other shots, we discussed how we would portray a young female with her "squeeze" which is her partner. We will use several shots showing the female with her squeeze, which then cuts to  the same female but with a different boy which represents the falseness and manufactured title that Hollywood has grasped over the years. The follow shot after that will then show the first squeeze with a new girl.

RESEARCH: TREATMENT

Pimp my ride scene

One of the things you think of associating with California is pimped out cars, so show off how much money you have. 

We came up with the idea of using Ellie's car as the basis of our pimped out car for our music video Californication. We immediately thought that most pimped cars in California have a personalised number plate that says something personal on it. This was a great concept for us as recently Ellie had acquired a personalised number plate and this could useful in filming the video as we could show the transfer of the original plate to the new one that is 'pimped and personal'. 

We also associated wealthy female Californians with little dogs that they take everywhere they go for image purposes. Ellie has a cocker spaniel which isn't a really small dog, but they aren't too big either and therefore we thought we could use the dog for the filming in the car. The dog would sit on the front seat of the car, with a bow on the head of the dog to show that it's the prized possession of the Californian girl (Ellie). Max does know a friend with Chiwawas and we were considering asking him if we could use them but theres a strong chance we may not be able to use them.

We also thought that the car's inside would be very wealthy looking and girly, with pink fluffy cushions and pink dice hanging from the mirror etc, with even some of the car seats having pink covers of some sort accompanied by shopping bags with expensive designers on the bag to show the wealth that is shown or said to be shown in California. 

Bubble bath scene

We came up with the idea of different types of 'bubbles' signifying the Californian image of wealth. 

One scene we were planning to have someone in the group lying down in a bubble bath relaxing to signify the dream like place that California is and how relaxing it is supposed to be. Champagne also came to mind when thinking about 'bubbles' and this is a good thing to include in filming as Champagne signifies wealth, as you only have it on special occasions whereas in the California, the video can portray that the character in the video has it most days. 

PLANNING: PERMISSION

This is the email I sent requesting permission to use the song California by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.