Music Video Rough Edit

this is the first rough edit of my music video. There were still a lot of shots missing but it had the general story within it. The girls shots and beach shots will need to be done as well as a few shots of photos.

storyboards

A selection of rough storyboards to give us an outline of our narrative and plot to help us know what to film and when.

Locations - planning music video

Inspiration For Concept

We were able to get inspiration from many different sources for our concept because it is quite common in music videos. The idea of a relationship in struggle is something that we could easily access from anywhere in the media, this meant that we had to work harder to try and make our video unique and not like the ones everyone else sees.
For our inspiration we looked at existing music videos as well as other sources of media like film to give us an understanding of techniques and storylines that we could use. our first source we looked at the student music video made by Joe Murray Firehorse - 'Bloodstream'.









This music video follows very similar story lines as ours, except its basically in reverse. this video uses some really nice techniques to show that one another like each other without any text or facial expressions (tucking hair behind the ear), which I believe could work really well in our video. Also the story goes from a couple falling un love to arguing and eventually breaking up, ours starts with the break up and then the couple get back together in the end.






Strangers on a train











The film 'Strangers on a train' was our next source of inspiration as it uses quite a  technique that we would find useful in our video. In the opening scene of the film, the camera films two different guys walking towards a destination but we only see their feet, what's different about this scene is that one guy is only filmed walking in one directions (left) and the other is film only walking in the other (right). This gives the audience the idea that they are going to arrive and meet each other at the same destination. This could really work in our video as the two characters in our concept are too going to find each other at the beach (our final destination) and by using this technique we can give the audience the same idea that 'strangers on a train' tried to get across. this technique also creates an enigma for the audience as they wanting to know where the characters are going and where they will arrive.

Narrative timeline

For further planning we decided to create a timeline of the duration of our chosen song 'Kings'. upon this timeline we were planning each stage and scene that we're going to film and matching with the timing of the music. This way we have a much easier job sorting out which shots are when and matching the film with the music.

Doing this timeline now allows us to much easily create detailed storyboards for each scene of the music video. It also means that we can now start to plan each shot and even start shooting draft shots of our music video, to see what we need to improve or change and what we can keep the same.

Basic Concept For our Music Video



Concept

After analysing the lyrics of the song we have chosen, we came to understand that the artist (Samuel Ford) was talking about a an incident within a relationship to which the female had maybe cheated or betrayed her partner in some way. Therefore the lyrics then talk about how he forgives the female for what she has done and although it has effected the partner he believe they can become a strong couple again.

With this information we started to gather a few ideas about the different types of locations, costumes and the basic plot of what was going to happen. We decided the basic idea was going to be a montage of shots between two people in a broken relationship reminiscing over the times that they had in their relationship before they split up. Both characters will be filmed taking a journey somewhere and stopping at different location along the way, the camera will cut between the male and the female travelling throughout the video. We will keep on cut to a cork board which would have multiple photos of the couple at different points in their relationship, such as, their first date and their first time at the beach, when each person is at the location that these moment happen, it will switch to the photo on the board. The shots would be jumping between the two people travelling all in one direction (i.e. the male will be filmed going only left and the female will be filmed only going in the right direction), this creates the idea that they are going to meet somewhere (foreshadowing what actually happens) in the same location, not knowing the other is going there. Finally they meet at the last location and seeing each other reminds them how much they mean to one another, making them rekindle their relationship.

Locations:

The type of locations that we planed on shooting at we places like a beach, a forest, a café, the boy's and girl's bedroom and Marriot's way (bridleway), each of these locations would have a significant meaning to each other.

Costumes:

Costumes aren't really a integral focus of our music video as I feel it would be best if the characters just wore casual generic clothes that teenagers would wear. This is just because our music video is about two teenagers sorting out their relationship and if we were to alter the costumes to anything slightly abnormal it would create a new enigma for the audience and take away the focus from the story we are trying to convey.

Annotated Lyrics For Chosen Song

Lyrics For Chosen Song

Samuel Ford - Kings

Hold your tongue,

don’t let your fear become

a call for your pardon,

a call for your sins.

Take your time,

there’s no need to hide your crimes

from all that surrounds you.

So live like we ought to,

live like we’re born to,

live like were all of us kings,

together we'll learn,

to grow when we're broken,

grow as we’re open,

grow with the age of defeat,

together we’ll learn.

Together we’ll learn to lose,

and we’ll love.

Break your glass,

its to soon to cloud the path,

of hope it is waiting.

So live like we ought to,

live like we’re born to,

live like were all of us kings,

together we'll learn,

to grow when we’re broken,

grow as we’re open,

grow with the age of defeat,

together we’ll learn.

Together we’ll learn to lose

and we’ll love.

(Instrumental)

Hold your tongue,

don’t let your fear become

a call for your pardon,

a call for your pardon.

FINAL CHOICE FOR OUR MUSIC VIDEO

The final choice was Kings by Samuel Ford. Unfortunately the reason why we have chosen this song was because our first choice (Rolled on by) was rejected when we were contacting them and therefore we decided to contacted Samuel Ford. Thankfully he accepted. This is the emails that we received and sent to Samuel Ford for the conformation for making a video for his song.

After a few conversations about our previous work and what we had in mind for this video he sent us the email allowing us to use Samuel ford's song.

Looking For A Band

To start looking for a band we first needed to find a website that was going to give us British Unsigned Bands/ Artists. After looking at a few website we finally found one which was legitimate and could provide us with want we needed, this was RicherUnsgined.

From this site we were able to pick out quite a few artists and bands that were suitable for our project.

One possible song that we were planning on using was Whispering Knights - Rolled on by

This song showed us a steady build up of different instruments which is good for a music video as allows us to know when to start a story or where to introduce new ideas into the video, for example at each point where a new instrument starts playing will be the key for something to happen like a man walking down a street. Another example of this is Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve which we used for our project.



The other possible artist that we found on RicherUnsigned was Samuel Ford - Kings

This song gives us quite a nice melody to deal with as it opens up a lot of different options for a music video. This is because you could quite easily make the video seem like a sad or happy . The lyrics of the also support this idea as well as creating a story or a concept for us.

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