Will their be any characters in your video?

After trying to focus the original claymation idea on a single mouse I think the concept of developing just one character quite a daunting task, however this doesn't mean some form of people won't be present in the song. While I could simply attempt to make the video solely from different scenes edited and spliced together, without some form of characters the video may loose some credibility in being a music video.

This is why i'm drawn to the idea of using silhouettes of various people in a similar fashion to the Apple Ipod adverts.

The reason behind this is that I don't think I could very well represent a folk song about the land using people without investing in the correct scenes and costumes fitting of the song (a person dressed as a tree sounds funny, but would cost far too much to be pulled of professionally.

Silhouettes of people dancing in trees or in a field somewhere along to the song would give a sense of mystery (which most folk songs alure to) in not knowing who the people are, but would ironically keep the connection between people and the land. I think this could be quite effective if applied with constant style of the overal video theme.