Madame Brainstorm

Been thinking a little more about the dominatrix thing. It's amusing to me, only because I know people who actually are into kinky stuff, and I'm not. I just want my presentation to have some impact. There certainly won't be any shortage of source idea material out there for the costume design.

It's important to note that this is not how the female naturally presents herself, but the male is forcing her into the role. I don't know how I would show that. There won't be any explicit nudity, I've decided that (though it can always be a little risqué, and hopefully sexy), so he probably won't be dressing her up outright. Maybe somehow he could "capture" the reality that he's in into a malleable medium, so that he's working with a drawing, or cutting/ripping things out of the books and magazines around him and somehow applying them to his fantasy of her. Hell, maybe even break down and incorporate clay into this after all.

Keep in mind, though, even though he's applying this fantasy to her, she is still actually there. He's not just sitting there thinking about this. So there has to be resistance from her, and something for her to be resisting, even if the leather is imaginary.

The lyrics are, on the surface, about him changing himself (until the last line), but what he's really trying to do is change her. And not only that, but he's trying to force her to be his master, which doesn't make any sense. And that's the point. This isn't just about male-female, this is about other kinds of relationships too; about wanting so desperately to be led that you shove someone else against their will into a role of power over you.

I should probably set a deadline for the storyboard itself.