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The concept of the video is from the point of view of a music store's security system (think Sam Ashe, but a lot bigger). The whole video will appear to be filmed through closed-circuit television, so all camera shots will be from a high angle looking down. The viewer will actually be watching four separate cameras running simultaneously, each one taking up one-fourth of the screen. Over the duration of the video, the screen will primarily show all four cameras at once, but periodically, each section will blow itself up to full screen. The image quality itself will be somewhat poor, to replicate the type of surveillance footage one might see on America's Most Wanted. Naturally, everything is in black and white. Throughout the video, only the band's instruments (drums, guitar, bass, and Jonathan Davis' lips) will be in color. You could allude it to the movie "Pleasantville," or better yet, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' video for "Otherside," all black and grey tones but with some really standout color (e.g. the painting that becomes wings in "Otherside"). As with most videos, this follows a storyline that runs parallel to the band's performance, which is located in the music store itself. The performance will gradually progress throughout the video. In other words, you won't see the band perform together as a whole until the last 30 seconds of the video. Since they're in a music store, there's an enormous number of instruments everywhere, maybe even covering more than one floor. Each member of the band doesn't even appear to know each other until the end. The drummer goes into the drums section, the guitarist goes into the guitar section, etc. They each appear to be just messing around on the instruments, but as the song progresses, their "fucking around" becomes in sync with the song. What progresses is a Goldilocks sort of sequence, where they move from bass to bass and from guitar to guitar and from drum set to drum set, trying each one out and being disappointed each time. Their porridge is eithe r too hot or too cold, basically. As far as the "Otherside" look goes, only the "active instrument" that each band member is playing will be in color. In other words, the guitarist will start playing a guitar and it will light up in full color. Once he puts it down, the color fades and it becomes black and white along with the rest of their world. The next instrument he picks up fades into color. The same goes for everyone. The only exception is Jonathan, who not only performs, but is the source of the storyline. The opening shot of the video is Jonathan entering the store. He's nervous. You can tell he's trying to act casual, but little things… darting eyes, shaky hands… give him away immediately. The camera zooms right in on him as he enters the store. The camera stays close on him, namely his hands, throughout the duration of the video. There will be a lot of extreme close-ups on his hands every time he gets near merchandise. You can tell that whoever is operating the camera (the unseen security guard) thinks Jonathan is going to shoplift any moment, so he sticks with him. Sure enough, Jonathan walks by the audio section and grabs a microphone off the shelf and puts it in his pocket. The store itself being very crowded, Jonathan actually gets lost through large masses of people, which causes problems for the camera operator. The camera will pan and zoom around very wildly, trying to find Jonathan. Finally we find him in the sheet music department. This particular department is divided from the rest of the store by a glass wall and a locking door. Getting a nice long shot of the entire department, showing what seems to be miles of sheet music along the walls, far off in the distance, we see one of the books is in color. As he's nonchalantly thumbing through the miles of sheet music on display, he comes across the one that's in color… Korn's "Alone I Break." We get a close-up of the music itself to reveal the music and lyrics that will be performed simultaneously. In other words, as he's reading the lines "Am I going to leave this place, what is it I'm running from?" the song itself will be up to that part. After we see Jonathan display some mild (if also comically desperate) interest in the song, he looks around, and with no one watching him (or so he thinks), he slowly slides the music into his pocket. He leaves the sheet music department, but as he's doing so, he sets off the Sensormatic tag detectors at the door. We see one or two employees walk over to him to find out what the problem is, but Jonathan walks hurriedly away. As one of the employees tries to follow him, the other calls security on the phone. Meanwhile, over the course of the entire video, the other band members' performances have been intercut with Jonathan's storyline. The bassist and guitarist have managed to make their way towards the drum department, with their selected instruments in hand. As explained earlier, instead of just messing around, they're all finally playing the song "Alone I Break." Then we cut to Jonathan, who is walking fast through the store, the camera struggling to stay on top of him. He's walking by the drum department when he overhears the rest of Korn playing. He walks up to an available microphone, opens the sheet music, and sings the last two choruses along with the band. During these last fifty seconds or so of the song while they're performing, two or three uniformed security guards are making their way towards the band. They have a lot of people to fight through to get there. We can see them talking n their radios, talking about inaudible things. As Jonathan sings the last line, he folds up the sheet music and dumps it on the ground and runs out of the store. The rest of the band follows.