Ideas for a music vid - help!

[gorillaonabike]

Hello chaps / chapesses. I have a rapper who wants to shoot a music vid. The track is short - less than three minutes but it's complex. It starts with 5 seconds of religious connotations then moves through a series of quick changes. One of these is a Muslim reference, another is an Egyptian female reference (Isis, my future beautiful woman), another one is a Turkish warrior.

The problem is the speed at which the rap changes. It changes so quickly that I am having issues working out how to bring imagery to the forefront which reflects the lyrics. The only part I have is the, erm, 'chorus' where he talks about his lines being his vendetta.

One idea is we will start in a self-help group. We will steadicam our way into the group where one person is talking about themselves. The therapist will then ask for a second person and move into our rapper. He will then start rapping.

The question is, how would you do the next part where the headache is the speed of the changes. I could just use the chorus and cut between the chorus and the rap... maybe.

What would you do? What would you think about doing?

 

[Lucky Hardwood]

For the rapidly changing ideology, I would go to a barrage of flashing images of the subject matter with brightness and contrast changes for each image. For the chorus, I would push in on the rapper at a pulpit preaching his message of vengeance. The push in and subsequent pull out will accompany a change in the rapper's attire and location (it starts off with him at a support group meeting in street clothes and transitions to a church setting with him in choir robes or the like). The final segment at the end of the song (the end of the pull out) could show a congregation of peers (thugs and the like).