Initial Video Ideas

Andrew Goodwin suggested that music videos are 'just an extension of the lyrics.' For our music video, we want our narrative scenes to reflect what is being sang as I think it's pretty difficult not to! The lyrics and music include a range of emotions, from being kind of impatient and annoyed, upset and angry to eventually feeling happy and fun again, and we would like to portray these emotions in our video. We've decided to use quite simple settings, for example, inside a house, in & around the school, in fields, in shops. Not only will this be easy to do, it also reflects the areas that our target audience spend a lot of time in which will make the video more relatable. We will be putting most of the focus onto one character who will be in all of the performance and narrative shots, and we may include a few friends and some other background characters to make it seem more realistic. I think a performance scene where the lead character is singing on stage will work well as its seen in quite a few pop music videos and is a good way of entertaining the audience. Mis en scene will be based on our target audience, for example, if we film a scene in a bedroom, then we will make sure that cosmetics and girly things are on show. I also think it's important to use a range of different shots to express different emotions, if there is part of the song where the lyrics or music is quite vulnerable or sad, then a high angled shot will be useful for making the main character look quite small.