[scene 1]

there is approximately a thirty second delay before the guitars start up. the viewer hears nothing. there is some aged film dust and scratches twitching and parading about a slow motion shot of crash dummy footage. (the aged film effects will be prevalent in most of the film, similar to the album's cover, innersleeves, etc.)

[enter guitars]

the screen, at a medium speed, fades in and then out of white onto a highway scene similar to that which we see on the cover of okcomputer. (somewhat high above in angle) the scene is at first a still shot. frames are dropped and skipped, while the film is slightly sped up, causing the cars to appear jerky and erratic, as if the viewer was blinking and / or twitching profusely. (a fairly standard trick in film...once again mostly old film effects here, which i think keeps with the theme of both the album art and feel of the song itself)

intermittent between this (timed to the second guitar's squelching effects) we would place high speed footage of a camera running through what appears to be a city not unlike manhattan during the day. when people do cross the path of the screen, the angle is such that they can only be seen from the collarbones on up, as the angle high with the camera held low.
it proceeds past skyscrapers, people of all kinds, subways, tunnels, byways...though in all of this it's movement is barely detected because it is flashing in and out quickly to the screeching of guitar2. guitar1 continues to drone on, as do the cars seem to flicker on and on, much in the same way that blood pulses through viens from the view of a fiberoptic.

[drums start]

on the first drum roll an airbag expands in a first person view.
it's slowed slightly to fit the time of the roll, but is still fast enough to be somewhat startling because the viewer has become almost tranced by the preceeding rythmic scenes.

as the drums kick in and the song seems to really begin, so does our view of the scenes which we've seen so far.
the angles change, and we find them to now be more of a first person view, as if rather than seeing the city from afar, we are now in the city. we are now in the present.
the airbag on the roll is in a way symbolic of a curtain opening, and we see the characters of our play for the first time, the character largely being the afformentioned city.

day and night are interspersed. helicopters with aggressive lights speed past skyscrapers, while other scenes show a view from a taxi (no not like karma police). the view from inside the taxi is in realtime, and the subject is looking out the rear passenger side door. (in first person view....okay so that's somewhat like karma police, heh)

outside of the window of this seat, the view is sped up incredibly, even moreso than in our origional scene, and cars and people and bright red, green, yellow and white lights of stores and buildings trail and illuminate the nighttime street scene, wizzing by far to fast to really comprehend.

as guitar1 hits it's final chord before the vocals, and the refrain / "mini-lead" can be faintly heard in the background, we are shot down through tunnels and subways, at increasing speeds. the view would be obtained by strapping the camera straight to the front of a car doing what appears to be 80-something miles an hour (standard city driving here in boston i might add)

as the vocals start, the theme turns to advertisements.
ridiculous and somewhat retro-50's themes, such as radiohead tends to use in most of their promotional material, but presented here as enourmous billboards, all the way down to small flyers in the local coffeeshop.

[in the next world war]

police helicopters racing by afformentioned advertisements, rounding corners as sharply as if they were bees on crack. the camera follows almost as if it were attatched to the helicopter with a 300 foot rubberband...slow at first, and whips after it.

the camera then drops sharply and trucks itself around the block at streetlight level, almost as if it was a parasite catching a ride with the copters. things are mostly in realtime now, and we can see people walking in and out of shops.

[in a neon sign]

of course here we have a red led sign, with all of it's scrolling effects crap. the message is the same as the lyrics:

in a (scroll down to center)
neon sign (blink effect)
scrolling up ( this text scrolls up and stops)
and down (this text scrolls down from top and stops, and then the entire message pauses, then splits the opposite way in wence it came quicky)

[i am born again]

a picture of a born-again christian advertisement.
(*smirk*)

stay tuned for part two...