Three Initial Ideas

Narrative One

The concept would begin with a man wearing a mask on his face sat in his house whilst a band plays in the background. The man would then receive notes which tell him to follow a trail; the words on these notes would feature lyrics from the song as well as instructions. When he follows these notes, disturbing occurrences happen around him. As the climax of the video comes, he would appear in a woods setting where another person comes out wearing the same mask, he is then grabbed maliciously and taken away off-screen. This narrative would match the ideology of the song as Thom Yorke wrote it with the idea that the characters featured should have run away whilst they had the chance, this would be the same for the main character in this. 

Narrative Two

This narrative would start with a teenage boy who is spoken to by a group of others asking for the money which is owed (all subtitled). The duration of the music video would then follow this boy whilst he evades the law and tries to sell drugs in order to avoid trouble with the antagonists of the text. As the story progresses, it results in him being chased by the ‘debt collectors’ where he meets his demise. This idea is once again based on Thom Yorke’s idea upon writing the song which is explained in the previous narrative. 

Narrative Three

At the start of the narrative, the main character is burying a dead body in the middle of the countryside. The whole video is based on his paranoia of people finding out, which subsequently features him being followed by a range of people who he believes are undercover police. The story ends with those who he suspects to be police coming out the car to be the person that he assumed he had buried.