VideoReflection Author's Note: The music video muse has finally hit me. Blame my choir teacher! Making us sing this song for choir...yeesh. Anyways, I've got several music videos scribbled on random pieces of paper, and the fact that I was listening to some very sappy, touching songs from RENT while reading 54 didn't help me any. So instead of submitting individual videos, I'm just compiling a file, one song per chapter. Here's the first, Reflection, from Mulan, Christina Whatever-her-name's version. Song's owned by Disney (I'd assume, it's certainly not mine!) and Animorphs is owned by Scholastic (much to my chargrin). Anywho, enjoy the video!

Reflection

Rachel is sitting at her desk, looking at her reflection in the mirror. As she brushes her hair and applies her makeup, she begins to sing softly.

Look at me
You make think you see
Who I really am
But you'll never know me

Her reflection wavers and is replaced by a scene of her watching TV with her sisters.

Every day, it's as if I play a part.

Image changes to a scene of her standing in the middle of the group, classic reckless grin. We can see her mouth saying 'Lets do it!'

Now I see, if I wear a mask
I can fool the world
But I cannot fool my heart.

Rachel's reflection returns to the mirror.

Who is that girl I see Rachel hesitantly reaches a hand out to touch the reflection, to be sure it's real.
Staring straight back at me?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?

Scene changes to showing the Animorphs in the barn, all looking quite conflicted. They're all having their individual internal debates over right and wrong.

I am now in a world where I
Have to hide my heart
And what I believe in.
But somehow I will show the world
What's inside my heart
And be loved for who I am.

Rachel is now at the beach, standing where the waves are gently lapping against the shore, watching her reflection in the water as she walks along.

Who is that girl I see
Staring straight back at me?
Why is my reflection someone
I don't know?

She stops walking and sings this part as if she's angry - at the world, God, the universe, all of the above.

Must I pretend that I'm
Someone else, for all time?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?

We see Rachel and Tobias, as an eagle and a hawk, soaring through the sky.

There's a heart that must be free
To fly.
That burns with a need to know
The reason why.

Back to Rachel in front of the mirror, now she's just sitting there, staring at her reflection

Why must we all conceal
What we think,
How we feel?

The image in the mirror becomes the scene from 32 where Nice Rachel and Mean Rachel are holding and acquiring eachother.

Must there be a secret me
I'm forced to hide?

Rachel stands up angrily, tipping her chair over backwards. We aren't watching a reflection now, this is really her.

I won't pretend that I'm
Someone else for all time!
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?

Rachel glares at the mirror for a second, takes her brush and smashes the glass. Rachel is breathing heavily and her expression is furious, but we see a tear threaten to fall from her eye as the screen fades to black.