Good idea so far. Keeping with the band and the fire idea, I say there should be a boyfriend and a girlfriend enjoying a night in a cabin in that forest in front of a fireplace with some cuts between the band and the bf and gf. Then there should be some strange shaking in the house almost like an earthquake. Amy (in the same makeup) and the band appear from the ground in the cabin and the boyfriend and girlfriend are so frightened they run out of the house and into the forest.



Now for my video idea for Even In Death

I think there should be a big buildup to this song. A choir sings a long note and then the original start to the song starts up.

Evanescence are at a cemetery. Amy is wearing a black corset, black veil, black train almost like a wedding dress. Ben, Rocky and John are at different parts of the cemetery playing their instruments. Amy looks at her dead boyfriend's tombstone and lays a black rose on it. A storm starts brewing by the first chorus The veil pops off and Amy's hair whips violently in the wind.

For the second chorus, Amy is driving down a desolate road, thinking of all that could have been. Back to the cemetery for the second verse where Ben performs the solo in the song in the wind and rain. I was also thinking that this could show Amy picking up the wet dirt and putting it on herself to keep the remains of her boyfriend.

There is a shot of the choir and Ev together performing the last verse of the song and at the very end of the video a hand pops out of the grave.

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I'm thinking this video should have a lot of morphing and some humor. There's a girl who's with her boyfriend for a night of romance~!!!! The video for it's entirety is from the boyfriend's point of view. The boyfriend is blindfolded, but we the viewer can see all of the morphing that goes around. The video has all types of people morphing. From the original girlfriend, to the boyfriend, to other men and women, young and old, short and tall, white, black, yellow, even animals. Since this is kind of a dance song all of the people morphing will dance. At one point, Ben, Amy, Rocky, John, Will, and David dance. By the end of the song, the last person is the original girlfriend, but she disappears to end the song and the video.

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Kind of a self explanatory video. Before the video starts is the reason why a girl runs away from home (ie fight with parents)

At the start of the music, the girl is wearing jeans and a black shirt. She seems to be happy, but everytime she goes farther away, she notices the house she lived in always seems to always be around. In a sense, the house is taunting her.

2 months later: The girl is depressed, she shivers, her shirt and jeans are torn.

Amy and David are by the house she ran away from. Amy sings "Waking up is knowing who you really are" while David is playing the piano.

The girl recites the lines of the chorus with her hands wrapped around her knees rocking back and forth.

Then for the last 40 seconds of the video, the girl starts to realize life isn't worth running away from home and she runs back although not completely to end the video. The ending is open. Do you think she'd go back or not?

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Yeah, I know, I'm extremely late on this one. And be prepared this might be a little long and in a lot of detail. Probably better to visualize the video before you hear the song, because it's so detailed.

Similar flyover to the original as it flies to Amy's bed, but right after the first two lines the camera transitions to a special effect that goes right through Amy's eyes (kind of like Stone Sour's Bother) and in her body. Right after the word numb, it shows all of Ev performing inside Amy.

The words "spirit sleeping somewhere cold" should have exactly that. A faded image of Amy. Cut back to Ev when Amy says "cold" and have the cold breath effect. For the last two lines switch between spirit Amy (who's alone) and the band, but for the last line the camera should be on Amy with the band. There are now 3 Amys: Outside Amy, Amy with the band and Spirit Amy.

There's now a focus on outside Amy for the "Wake me up...Save me" because now Paul McCoy is now in the room with Amy. For the second verse, focus on the room and Paul at Amy's side when Amy says "breathe into me" Paul kisses Amy and when Amy says "bring me to life" she opens her eyes. For the second chorus, cut to the band.

For the bridge, Outside Amy should be lifted in the air first horizontally and then vertically as she sings the "frozen inside...dead" part and Paul is kneeling and holding her hand and then cut back to the band for the second to last chorus. For the last chorus cut to Amy and a light will shine on her at the last "Bring Me to Life" She descends from her position in the air and the video ends.

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This song has to be slightly changed to make it a little more Fallen. Amy starts off in the song, but then a huge choir follows with the same thing. That's really the only change in the song. The intro is a little bigger and intensified.

The video has Evanescence and Bruce (from Living Sacrifice) at a prison. There is a wall of fire behind the band (Rocky, Will, Ben and John). Bruce is sitting in a cell. Ev is outside. Bruce is wearing an orange chaingang jumpsuit. Bruce is also writing and reciting the lines from his part looking up at a picture of Amy, there is an edit that goes from the picture of Amy to Amy outside with the band performing Lies.

By the second verse, Bruce is starting to get impatient. He really wants his Amy. He starts trying to break out. He finally does and then breaks out the other prisoners. The prisoners come out with the band and Bruce is leading them yelling at Amy. Bruce and Amy are face to face and right behind them is Ben Moody rocking to that part of that song. The prisoners and the band are rocking out together for the final part.

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The video starts showing the piano keys tickled by David Hodges. The video is filmed in a dark room. David is wearing a black suit, black tie and black pants. Amy is wearing a black dress, but you can't tell because all you should be able to see until the room starts to light up eventually are their faces. Amy is singing a distance from David.

I think the song should change a little bit too. I think Ben (who would be wearing a black hoodie appearing kind of like Death) should have a guitar solo just to make the song a little heavier and a little faster around the 3:22 mark the room lights up.

The room lights up and it's a shrine of the man Amy's in love with. It's a simple performance video, but I think it's a nice idea of having all black and finally lighting up the room. The last images we see are of David playing the piano and the room going dark again. All of Ev disappear once the lights come back on.

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The video starts with a girl obsessed with Ev (who looks nothing like Amy which will be important later) who's dressed like Amy and is going to an Evanescence concert. She sends letters in the mail, she always tries to hit up their hotels and when the words start she finally meets Evanescence and sings the first couple of lines of the songs. All of the sudden this girl starts going through a metamorphosis.

She starts to slowly change into Amy Lee. Again she meets up with the band after a live concert and she says the next verses. Amy and the band are getting really worried now. The girl is now consumed by Ev. She's in her room (covered by Ev merchandise, though in real life that's not the case LOL) looks in the mirror and sees Amy Lee. Now she's gone through a complete change. Amy's at a loss for words when she sees herself in that girl. She's frightened by her appearance and she runs away from herself (the girl that looks like her).

Think Eminem's "Stan" but a little different. Same premise, different storyline.

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The video starts off with a Britney Spears like pop princess performing for her thousands of fans who are cheering for her. Standing to the side of the stage is Amy singing the first lines of the song. Amy is portraying the real side of the pop princess.

The princess of pop goes backstage "Look here she comes now, bow down and stare in wonder". Only the princess can see Amy and she is trying to fight Amy "the real her". Amy is screaming words at this princess "No flaws when you're pretending" and "You don't know how you betrayed me"

All of the sudden Amy gets the princess to start crying
"without the mask where will you hide
can't find yourself lost in your lie ".

Amy walks away at "I don't love you anymore"
and the princess doesn't know what to do.

When she goes to perform her next concert looking as pretty as she normally does, she freezes and the music stops. The princess rips up her clothes (the audience is in shock) to look like Amy who is "the real her". The music starts in its last two or three lines as she performs her songs (end of Everybody's Fool) and the crowd cheers louder than they ever did.

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If you've ever seen them live, they have a nice buildup to the start of the song. I'll use that part of that version.

The music starts with monsters crawling up sleeping girl's bedroom and the heartbeat drumming makes her wake up. She doesn't know that the monsters are there because for the first two drum parts of the live version of the song (or the ones that you would normally hear for the seconc verse).

She's walking through the house, but nobody's there. Neither her parents nor her sister (there is a shot of the family photo) are there. At "I know you're still there" a monster pops out and now the girl is scared shitless. She runs and is trying to get away, but everytime she runs away, these monsters are still trying to get her.

She finally makes it to the door at "Your heart pounding in my head" she opens the door and sees her family as the undead. She tries to run away from the monsters but she's surrounded. She gets out the door but not very far. There's a shot of Ben playing the solo outside the house (in teh Priest's uber cool collar of course).

The girl is trying to crawl away, but gets taken underground on "I won't let you pull me down". The video ends.

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I was hoping I could post one of my ideas for a video....here it is:

ok so I was jus listenin' to imaginary, and lettin my imagination(ironic..noo? lol jk) go wild, adn this is what i got(I'll use the words to show where everything takes place in the song):

*intro music playing* scanning over a field of flowers *I linger in the doorway* a younger version of teh amy, standing in a doorway, looking out into a dark hall looking uncertain. *Of alarm clocks screaming, monsters calling my name* she steps out, then sees "monsters" (possibly large silhouettes) walking towards her. *Let me stay* She starts towards a corner and cowers in it, covering her eyes. *Where the wind will whisper to me, where the rain drops as there falling tell a story* The picture fades w/raindrops falling. *In my field of paper flowers, and candy clouds of lullaby, i lie inside myself for hours, and watch my purple sky fly over me* The girl is now in a field of flowers(the one from the beginning), she spins around in the field, SMILING, then falls to the ground and stares at her "purple sky". *Dont say I'm out of touch* Back in the house, but now in a living room, with yelling parents. *With this rampant chaos, your reality* She yells back at the, the father slaps her face. * I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge* She lies on the ground with her eyes closed. *The nightmare, i've built my own world to escape* As she lays there, the father starts beating her more. *Chorus* She is now running through the field, scared, looking over her shoulder at nothing chasing her. She trips and falls, the looks up again at the purple sky, this calms her and she smiles again. *Piano part* Girl is sitting at a grand piano playng, picture fades to Amy playing. *Swallowed up in t sound of my screaming, cannot cease for the fear, of silent nights* Fades back to girl, walking aimlessly in the dark, singing the words, except at *of my screaming* where she screams, crouching on the ground. *Oh how I long for the deep sleep dreaming, the goddess of imaginary light* Fades to Amy(dressed in all white), signing the words walking over to the girl now cowering on the floor.At *deep sleep dreaming* Amy bends down and hugs the girl comforting her. At *the goddess of imaginary light* Amy and her close start glowing, until the entire screen is white. *Chorus* Amy and the young amy are running through the field...HAPPILY, at the end the fall down laughing looking up at the sky, the girl merges into amy, then amy is left there, smiling up at the sky.

ok, before you post anything, dont freak out on me about the second verse part, I was in no way implying that her parents hit her, they're cool people. it could possibly be changed to a boyfriend. I was a little unsure about that part.
I'm open to everything, its prob not that good, this damned imagination of mine!!

~*~Erin~*~