Project Idea #1

One of my ideas for the PDF project is to illustrate Lady Gaga's Prelude Pathétique, which is a speech/video written and directed by Lady Gaga and initially used as a sneak peak of the video for her single 'Marry the Night' before it was released and then turned out to actually be used in the full version of the official music video. It is quite a deep and emotional speech which is very personal to her because she used the video to re-enact her past and tell us the story of how she fought to get where she is today. The words to the Prelude Pathétique are:

"When I look back on my life, it's not that I don't want to see things exactly as they happened, it's just that I prefer to remember them in an artistic way. And truthfully the lie of it all is much more honest because.. I invented it. Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer. Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics, they can be lost forever. It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again. It's not that I've been dishonest, it's just that I loathe reality. For example, those nurses? They're wearing next season Calvin Klein, and so am I. And the shoes? Custom Giuseppe Zanotti. I tipped their gauge caps to the side like Parisian berets because I think it's romantic, and I also believe that mint will be very big in fashion next spring. Check out this nurse on the right, she's got a great ass. Bam. The truth is, back then at the clinic, they only wore those funny hats to keep the blood out of their hair. And that girl on the left? She ordered gummy bears and a knife a couple of hours ago. They only gave her the gummy bears. I'd wish they'd only given me the gummy bears."

The idea I have is to take a series of images that illustrate this speech from my point of view and then look further into the Marry the Night song and video and the story that she is telling us through them. 

Youtube Video: The Prelude Pathétique (Official)