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Charted #17 in Australia ~~~ a late release for them in 1988. Very typical for Australia to like songs that the rest of the world never cared for chart wise. We have a long history of chart anomalies. 

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    'Get me to the doctor...!'

Audio

F

Visual

8 Bar INTRO

  1 (A)

WS

STREET SCENE    NIGHT

Enter MICHAEL – crazed, walking, stumbling, struggling towards camera, confused in desolate urban landscape

  DEMON DANCERS in background

  Mechanised/synchronised walking marching behind?

  1 (B)

CU

Enter MICHAEL – distressed face, slowly coming towards camera in final bar and turn into camera (back to camera)

  1 (C)

MS

(cued action) DEMON DANCERS motion hands grabbing at Michael, now in foreground..just hands…

  slowly coming towards camera in final bar and turn into camera (back to camera)

    2 (A)

‘You,

 You walk on past..

    CU

        DOMESTIC SCENE    

Michael – (back to camera) turning into camera

  2 (b)

‘your lips cut a smile on your face

your scalding face

to the cage, to the cages

she was a beauty in a cage..

    WS

  Camera pulls back to reveal domestic setting with wife LEONIE

  singing directly down camera barrel? Gesturing to LEONIE?

  2 (c)

‘Too, Too high a price..

To drink the rotting wine from your hands

Your fearful hands..’

  MS

  DOMESTIC SCENE    

Interacting (mild domestic body language)

  MICHAEL singing to camera over LEONIE’s shoulder?

    2 (d)

‘get me to a doctor’s I’ve been told

someone’s back in town

the chips are down

      2(e)

  ‘I just cut and blackout

I’m under Japanese influence

any my honour’s at stake..

  close ups

    WS

          CU

          CU

      DOMESTIC SCENE   

Reveal of demons dancers – immobile but present with MICHAEL AND LEONIE

  Some kind of symbolic formation?

    MICHAEL freakout in kitchen – symbolic exchange with LEONIE?

        LEONIE close up face

MICHAEL hand held close ups

DEMON DANCER eyes

DEMON DANCER costume

DEMON DANCER mouthing ‘get some direction’

‘get some protection’

  3 (a)

                                (should this be the transitional line to STAINED GLASS SEQUENCE?)

FADE INTO NEW SCENE/DANCE

  EXPLOSIVE MOVE by MICHAEL transition onto dance sequence with DEMON DANCERS?

  or

  STREET SCENE

CUT to MICHAEL freak out on street holding head?

  PRE BRIDGE (2bars?)

WS

  STAINED GLASS SCENE    DAY

  EXPLOSIVE MOVE by MICHAEL transition onto dance sequence with DEMON DANCERS?

      Intro of audience to dance formation with DEMONS and MICHAEL

  Symbolic frozen diablo in front of STAINED GLASS ..ready fro dance sequence..

  ‘The weather’s grim ice on the cages

            3(b)

‘me I’m robin hood and I puff on my cigarette

‘panthers are steaming, stalking, screaming

CU

              CU

      Intro of audience to dance formation with DEMONS and MICHAEL

  Symbolic frozen diablo in front of STAINED GLASS ..ready fro dance sequence..

    STAINED GLASS    DAY

MICHAEL mouthing THIS LINE

MICHAEL stares directly down into camera, straight profile

    4 (a)

‘if you don’t stay tonight

‘I will take that plane tonight

‘I’ve nothing to lose

nothing to gain

              4 (b)

‘I’ll kiss you in the rain

kiss you in the rain

kiss you in the rain

‘In the rain

      WS

                  CU

        WS

  STREET SCENE     NIGHT

MICHAEL crazy playful, deciding he has chosen his demons..

Jacket over his shoulder..

  DEMON DANCERS still prowl in backround

  MAYBE BACK TO STAINED GLASS?

    MICHAEL “Ill kiss you in the rain”

Interacting with DEMON DANCERS

    Scene continues into reveal of DEMON DANCERS and MICHAEL dance sequence

  5 (a)

‘get me to the doctor

  CU

STREET SCENE

MICHAEL (MAKE UP)

transformation/stained glass

  BONGO DANCING?

  5(b)

‘get me off streets (get me some protection)

‘get me on my feet (get some direction)

    CU to MS to CU

  DOMESTIC SCENE    

  LEONIE freakout , pulling hair out, drops baby

  Discarded BABY BIRD CREATURE

5 (c)

‘hot air gets me into a

blackout

            CU

    WS

  STREET SCENE MICHAEL mouthing this line

  STREET SCENE    NIGHT

MICHAL falls to floor, DEMON DANCERS aid, pick him up in formation

  They carry MICHAEL’S body face down over the camera as he sings the next line..

  5 (d)

‘get me off the streets

FREE FORM DANCING?

      CU

MICHAEL looking down into camera/mime shot from above

5 (e)

‘get some protection

              ‘get me on my feet

  ‘YEAH WOO HOO’

        MS

  STREET SCENE

DEMON DANCERS (carrying MICHAEL (this time face up/feet to camera)

Turn to camera on each syllable of

‘Get…some…pro…tection’ Head turn by Head turn..

  5(f)

  ‘while the streets block off

‘getting some skin exposure

to the blackout

‘get me on my feet

‘get me off the streets (get some protection

    WS/

MS

        WS

  WS

    MS

STREET SCENE

  Big dance off

DEMON DANCERS move around MICHAEL in an oval formation, crouching down infront as they move in clockwise formation…

  Hitch hiking on side of road

  Rooftop dancing to formation from beginning of video

  Camera tracks away from action on street as MICHAEL walks away in opp direction..into darkness.. with DEMON DANCERS in tow

    IMPORTANT CLOSE UPS

CU

LEONIE mouthing ‘get some direction’

LEONIE close up face

  MICHAEL hand held close ups

Crazy eyes

    DEMON DANCER eyes

DEMON DANCER costume

DEMON DANCER mouthing ‘get some direction’

‘get some protection’

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Juliette of the Herbs

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Tele Visions: Afterlude at Experimenta: Recharge 6th International Biennial of New Media Art 2014 -2016