We find ourselves in a future-tech, industrial location with hi-tech styled furnishings and fittings. At one end hangs a large white screen and in the foreground, in silhouette, we can see strange apparatus.
As the tinny intro starts we see a small mechanical toy appear on the screen, it's shape is vaguely human, robot-like. It moves towards us on it's own.
With flash cuts we notice two figures arriving in the area of the apparatus: Darren and Daniel. They move both in slow motion and at sped-up tempos. With help from Daniel, Darren is connected up to the apparatus.
Darren stands with his face jammed in one of those devices an optician uses so that you can=t move your head. A small device pans light up and down his face like a laser scanning the image which will be projected onto the huge screen.
We pan away again and see a guitar bolted between two huge poles. Daniel plays the guitar but can walk away from it at any time which he frequently does to play parts on a collection of keyboards and other technical devices we can see behind him. A huge wonderfully engineered sound trumpet has been placed with its small end close to the guitar and the big end pointed at the screen. At the end of the guitar trumpet we see the cone of a huge loudspeaker wobbling with the rhythms of the track.
We cut to the big screen. A flicker and then Darren's face appears. He seems very pale and his skin appears to have stretched tight so that he has no sides to his face or any ears. As a result all we can see is his mouth, nose and eyes. He starts to sing. The movements of his face seem animated / suffering as he sings. As Darren sings, typewritten images of works from the song, like Orwell's blipverts, are cut into his performance: face, eyes, mind, magenta feeling, tight again, arms, human, evolve, higher, closer, get 2U, find out, want, you, person, deep, commitment, interaction, talking, breathe in, want you, need you, don=t, crystal, shelter, cola etc.
Whenever Daniel plays a big chord on the guitar the screen shows a host of Daniels in silhouette crashing the chord. These images are intercut with Darren's singing features. When we hear the oh-oh's we see the screen cut into sections with both Daniel and Darren singing these backing vocals.
Meanwhile in a different location we find, sitting at a chair and looking at a small TV screen, the sylph-like figure of a girl. She has a pale complexion and wears a simple work-suit / tech overalls. She is a Girl Mechanic and her Television is not functioning properly, she fiddles with the controls, turns handles attached to the side of the TV, messes with the H - style antenna. She is trying to tune into the images we see on the large screen in front of Darren and Daniel.
In the choruses Darren pulls himself free from the head constraint and leaps over to a small 6'x6' white screen behind him where he moves and throws shapes while he sings. It seems as if this is some visual transponder because now we see the silhouette of his body movements relayed and projected onto the big screen.
By the third verse things have really loosened up. Darren and Daniel have become free of the constraints of their machinery and are rocking out - we will also shoot Darren with a mic. It seems as if the head constraint, the small screen and the mic are just part of the arsenal of methods that the band members can exploit to get up on the big screen. It seems as if the set is some vast video studio where you get to perform in front of yourself.
By now the Girl Mechanic is frantic. She is banging the top of the TV in time to the music and images of the band flicker in and out on the TV screen.
In the bridge section everything goes wild: strobes illuminate the faces of the band members, the Girl Mechanic disappears from her room and suddenly appears on the large screen in front of the band members in wildly colored clothes, her makeup is extreme and her demeanor exaggerated and full of attitude.
The track slows down and we hear the ethereal, echoey voice of the girl in the music. The camera pushes in on Darren and Daniel as their hair is buffeted by an enormous wind, they look up at the screen and see the Girl Mechanic mouthing the chant holding a microphone in her hand. She has become the voice inside the screen looking down at Darren and Daniel. We also see her face inside the screen of her own TV.
Just as suddenly we are back in the final choruses and the Girl Mechanic re-appears in her own room in her original outfit, she wonders if she really was beamed up into the large screen. She wanders back towards her TV set, now working perfectly and sits down in front of the screen with a smile on her face.
As the track dies away we look back at the large screen (and the Girl Mechanic's TV) and see that there are now two wind-up robot creatures walking away from frame on the big screen, perhaps they are even holding hands.
THE END