Evanescence music videos

Lithium, a fantasy like music video, was how I came up with one of the idea's for my music video for Whisper. The forest I liked. It was a good effect for a music video, and Evanescence tend to use a lot of forest-like places. The graveyard I went to had quite a lot of trees surrounding it.

Sweet Sacrifice is another example of foresty locations for Evanescence.

Amy Lee, the lead singer, almost always wears a corset as her costume. This is because she knows that kind of costume goes with her music. It's effective because it makes it look more surreal. In Lithium and Sweet Sacrifice, she wears a corset.

In her music videos, Amy Lee always has another party with her, whether that is a man, a group or some spirit, even a audience as she sings. Call Me When You're Sober has a good example of a group of girls, dressed darkly, follow her down the stairs. I liked that idea, and thought something like that would look effective in my music video.

Her makeup is dark, going along with her look. It helps go along with her surreal, dark look.

Research for Music Video

Evanescence - Whisper.

• Evanescence means = The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plants or hopes.

Narrative for most Ev music videos is 'escaping' or vanishing away'. Hence the band's name. It's also about the feeling of the band members.

The album cover for Fallen, shows just the Amy Lee's face. I think it suggest, due to the themes of the songs from the album, that she's fallen (giving in).

Whisper comes from this album. 

The main themes in this song is 'not giving up'. I think it describes how the artist was feeling at the time, and she does it in a way that the audience can relate.
The mood of the song is depressing, but equally interesting to listen to. Most of her songs are based on low moods and feelings, which comes across in a great narrative in her lyrics.

Catch me as I fall
Say you're here and it's all over now
Speaking to the atmosphere
No one's here and I fall into myself
This truth drives me
Into madness
I know I can stop the pain
If I will it all away

[Chorus:]
Don't turn away
(Don't give in to the pain)
Don't try to hide
(Though they're screaming your name)
Don't close your eyes
(God knows what lies behind them)
Don't turn out the light
(Never sleep never die)

I'm frightened by what I see
But somehow I know
That there's much more to come
Immobilized by my fear
And soon to be
Blinded by tears
I can stop the pain
If I will it all away

[Chorus]

Fallen angels at my feet
Whispered voices at my ear
Death before my eyes
Lying next to me I fear
She beckons me
Shall I give in
Upon my end shall I begin
Forsaking all I've fallen for
I rise to meet the end

[Chorus x3]
Servatis a periculum [save us from danger].
Servatis a maleficum [save us from evil].

The song is about never giving up, but slowly throughout the song, she is indecisive, and gives up.

I will be filming in the Tower Hill graveyard.

• How I came up with the idea

For every song I listen to, I picture a music video for it. When I listened to Whisper, I pictured how it would look. I pictured the graveyard and the dark figures following her around. The 'blurred' effect is the dark figures searching. When I pictured the muciv video in my mind, I accidently switched the song to My Last Breath by Evanescence. The music video suited both songs, but after a long time analysing the lyrics to the invisioned video, I decided Whisper was the best. The basic idea was dark figures chasing the actor, wanting the actor to join them, which is why the ending is how it is. My Last Breath, I pictured, was more of a fantasy setting like Lithium.
I developed the idea after choosing the song by putting scenes together like how I saw it in my head. In the music video I pictured, the dark figures were just shadows, but I decided to turn them into 'monk-like' figures to make it more dark. I think it worked well. Plus, doing shadows would have been hard, or even impossible. And it didn't fit in with Evanescence's style. Evanescence always use real people, not shadows or animations or even a thought of someone being there.