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MARC NELSON
Title: "15 Minutes"
Concept by Bille Woodruff

This music video will reintroduce Marc Nelson as a solo artist with star quality, sex appeal and urban flavor. This will be a performance video with a loose narrative that mirrors the sensual story of the song. As Marc performs the camera will capture his essence like a powerful panther showing off his charisma and assets in a natural way. Marc's performance narrates the story that unfolds in front of our eyes with an unexpected modern twist.

As the video begins the camera pushes down the corridor of a spaceship towards an illuminated door. The camera is following a floating mechanized "orb". Once the orb reaches the door we follow it inside where it begins to flash with a light on it going on and off and an electronic buzzing alarm sound. The song begins as the orb floats over Marc, waking up in bed. He lip synchs the spoken words at the beginning of the song (something like, "Damn what time is it?". Marc gets out of bed and pushes a panel that glows with the word "BREAKFAST" before he steps into the shower. There is a monitor in the shower and on it Marc sees a beautiful woman in the kitchen making breakfast for him. He touches the screen and the words "FANTASY INTERACT" glow on it.

We see Marc enter the kitchen and begin caressing the woman from behind. . . He sings into her ear. He turns her around to look into her eyes. His hands move up her back from her waist to her neck. He lifts her hair revealing a silver plate with a button on it on the back of her neck! She's an android! His finger pushes the button and a glow passes through her body.

Back in his room, Marc leaves the shower. He's getting dressed as he watches the interaction between him and the woman on the monitor placed in the wall over his bed. A communications device, a futuristic phone glows/rings at his bedside. Marc starts to pick up the phone but he changes his mind and continues to watch the monitor. There are shots of Marc performing with the scene playing out on the monitor behind him.

Marc sings the second verse of the song from the hallway. His body disappears and reappears very quickly at different places in the hallway as he performs. The floor has pulsating glowing lights, Marc looks like a superstar in the setting.

There are also shots used throughout the video of Marc executing a choreographed dance routine in his hallway backed by 6 male dancers. . . The dancing will be shot at various speeds and from different angles for the most dynamic impact.

The third chorus finds Marc back in the bedroom. The orb leaves him with a message on the monitor. "You have 15 minutes before you are late for work!" Marc doesn't care anymore as he pushes the button and the word "INTENSIFY" glows across the screen. The woman enters the bedroom as Marc lays back on the bed. She stands in front of him and does a sexy strip tease/dance that is also played on the monitor. When she does particularly sexy moves the orb enters the picture and reacts by moving excitedly in quick circles. There are close ups of Marc singing in the monitor as the woman/android moves toward him on the bed. . . There is a close up of the phone glow/ringing again.

We cut to a wide shot that reveals Marc waking up (again?). We see the beautiful woman standing over him. As the music fades she says, "Baby you've been dreaming about me again, now you're late for work!" They both laugh as Marc looks up at the monitor over his bed where he sees a frozen image of him and the "android". Marc removes a virtual connector from his temples as he gets out of the bed to get ready for work and we. . .

Fade to black

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