Over the last week we have been finalizing our idea for the music video. As you saw we already brainstormed some idea's for our video but we made sure we had all aspects like locations picked out. We have been developing our initial ideas which has given us enough knowledge to start storyboarding.
Here is what we have come up with:
Locations
We have decided to pick 3 locations and we will film the whole song in each one, this is so we have a variety of shots to choose from when we are integrating all the shots together when editing so the song flows.
Our locations are as follows:
Location 1 - Ferry Meadows (which is a picturesque location with park with a lake etc)
Location 2 - Drama Theatre at our school.
Location 3 - The pond at our school
We have decided to choose these locations as they are all different are when edited all together will give it a variety to make it interesting. All these locations will be filmed in different ways.
In Ferry meadows we want to use the aspect of her being outside at night time where it's peaceful and emotional.
In the Drama Theatre we want to use that for the effects, for example we know that the theater has a spot light that we can use which would be perfect for our video.
At the pond we want to give the same ideas as at Ferry Meadows that being outside is peaceful and the pond represents tranquility and peace and it's a very picturesque location.
Cast
We have decided on our actress, obviously being female as the song is sung by a female. She's pretty and looks very feminine due to her long hair, so this is why we think she is good to play the role, which is stereotypically what females in pop music video's are like.
Mise-En-Scene
We have decided that what the actress is going to wear will be different in all three locations.
- In the Ferry meadows location she will wear a white dress because this is very feminine and from our research we noticed that in emotional songs usually the clothes reflect the song. White is often related to pureness and femininity so this is why we've chosen white.
- In the Theatre she will wear a purple dress
- At the pond she will wear a black dress
We have decided to choose feminine clothes because the lyrics in the song are very emotional which is related to women and this will give it a more feminine and personal feel.
Also we have decided that we are going to use loads of candles throughout our video. In the theater location we are going to have loads of candles on the floor beside her and have her carrying one through the trees in Ferry meadows, which also symbolize the light that she craves.
Here are our storyboards. We have story boarded for each location and will film the whole song in every shot, and during the editing stage we will pick and choose which shots will go next to eachother and see what looks best.
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Our overall idea for our Music Video will be very simple. It will be a girl singing along while running to the song very emotionally, and using devices like location (dark locations) and mise-en-scene (candles etc) we will accentuate the mood. As we found from our research, having a simple idea isn't always bad, using things like lighting and editing it can end up looking really good.
We also started discussing the use of representations in our music video. We found that our idea contained many stereotypical representations of women in it. This is mainly as the song is a very emotional song, and we have a female actress being very emotional and singing about love, which is usually a stereotypical view of women to be very "emotional". Also the fact that the clothes we have decided on being very feminine dresses this also accentuates her feminine qualities which is showing stereotypical representations.
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