This is a music video [[Ben]] is working on, using [[The Seed]] song.
== Draft visuals ==
* Intro
** From the Living Worlds Productions logo, pan downward to follow an arm of the galaxy (like on the front page of the wiki)
** Limb of Earth comes into view, on the night side, with the eastern edge at the top
* Personal verse
** Pan down through a cloud layer to a gloomy-looking city
** Some kind of transition to a cubicle farm inside a skyscraper, with a generic office drone guy in a cubicle working on spreadsheets and stuff
*** Spreadsheets reflected in the guy's eye
*** Some exciting transition starting in the guy's chest area
** The guy standing in an abstract brown space, with his feet forming roots connecting to parents, grandparents, etc
*** Zooming out, this family tree forms a brown stick-figure person with uplifted arms, which stands on a branch of a much larger Tree of Life with other animals in it
**** Can we get Molly Brown to help with this?
*** Pan up from the tree to see a bird rising, then morphing into a spaceship as the sky fades to starry space
** Transition to the SolSeed logo, then replace the sigil with a subtitle, "Reach for the Stars"
* Chorus
** Cutaway showing a seed underground
** Zoom out and pan up to the surface, with forest and mountains in the background and the sun shining above
*** Fade to the [[BatchOfNine|9 paintings]]
** Pan back down to show roots growing down and outward from the seed
*** Fade to a screen and keyboard with hands on it; the screen shows a blank document into which is typed something like "Life Goals" or "My Dreams"
** Pan up to follow the seed sprout as it runs into rocks and works its way around them
*** Fade to a steering wheel with hands on it and a road at night, with 3 billboards reading "Work Late," "Veg Out" (with a TV) and "Waste Your Life!"
** Follow the sprout as it finally emerges into the sunlight
* Community and ecology verse
** Transition "back to the present," possibly by zooming out from the generic guy's eye
** The Sanders house
** People sitting around a fire
** People dancing around a fire, holding hands, perhaps with others playing instruments nearby
** People hiking up a steep trail, possibly holding hands
** A footprint in the trail morphs into a huge strip mine
** Brief images of huge solar and wind farms
** Brief images of forest fires, floods, desiccated land
** A graphic representing the global economy
*** Zoom out to show it as just a small part of the Tree of Life, with some animation to show humanity "reconnecting"
*** Maybe show a vertical scale of eons
** An eco-village with many solar roofs, overlaid with a graph of falling solar-panel prices
** A yin-yang island with farms filling one half, a greenery-covered mountain forming the dot in that half, and the other half being a forest with an ecotopian city forming the dot
* Chorus
** Cutaway showing a seed underground with roots and a sprout
** Pan up to the surface, with a flower growing from the sprout, forest and mountains in the background and the sun shining above
** Pan back down to show roots growing down and outward from the seed, intertwining with other roots growing from other seeds
** Pan up and to the right, with roots at the bottom of the frame and a growing city filling the rest
*** We pass an industrial plant whose smoke blots out the sky as it expands to the right
**** Possibly turn it into stormclouds with lightning bolts
*** We come to a shoreline with buildings standing in the water beyond, their upper stories burning
** Meanwhile, the seeds have been forming increasingly large sprouts above the ground, and some braided vines suddenly leap out from the shore to form a bridge across the ocean
*** As we follow the bridge and leave the burning city behind, the smoke/stormclouds clear and the sun comes out again
*** We reach another shore where the vine dives into the ground and an ecotopian city grows from it
* Space verse
** Various types of seed ship (e.g. maple seed with solar panels forming the wing, bird-shaped ship with a dome on its back)
** A hollowed-out asteroid filling with life
** More seed ships flying outward from Earth, trailing stylized vines like engine exhaust
*** A ship descends to Mars, shrinking out of sight but with the vine remaining in view
*** Mars becomes terraformed and possibly grows stylized flower petals around it (becoming a flower on the vine)
** Alien seed ships of various sizes and colors (e.g. turquoise water-filled ship, red-orange ship of gas-giant floaters) fly in from afar, trailing vines of matching colors
*** Joined by ships from Earth, they spread out again to journey to various other stars
* Chorus
** Several seeds underground; pan up to follow their sprouts into the ecotopian city on the surface
** Maybe zoom out to show Earth as a pale blue dot
** Bird-seed-ship crossing the gap between Sol and another star
** Many-colored vines growing out across the galaxy, turning stars into flowers