Slight change in idea..

On our storyboard, we said that we would portray the relationship through a scene at south end. We would have used sand to draw a heart to show their happy times and have a shot back at this later on in the song and have him cross it out, symbolising the end of their relationship. Unfortunately, seeing as there has been a lot of snow and cold weather and no sun at all, we might change this idea and extend our intertextuality idea from "(500) Days of Summer". We will use IKEA and have the couple run around pretending that it is their house, and then return back to this scene and have him just walk away, like shown in the film. We also will film a lot more close up shots of me singing to make it more performance based with a narrative to follow.

Our moving storyboard

We decided to to creative and inventive and draw and film our storyboards to make our filming easier and more reliable instead of written directions. We feel as a group, that this way is a lot easier as it fits in time with the music, so when it comes to filming we will be able to see what scenes we are at easier.

Background Research

At the weekend I watched the film 'Couple's Retreat' and I loved the way during the opening sequence to the film, as it first started, there was different video's a pictures in 'sepia' 'black and white' and 'colour' etc all going through time from the early 1900's to the present day, changing into more modern times. I thought this idea would go well with out theme of our music video as it is about a couple.

Mindmap

This is our spider diagram of all our current ideas for our song choice. We thought of using calenders as the theme of the song is about time changing etc and so we would green screen the calender and have different things happening in different months and possibly the main guy walking through the different months. We want to start with the music video acting as a home video and it would start off with someome putting into a TV a VCR with on the white label, "Watch The Sun Come Up". We would then zoom into the TV as if the "film" is coming alive

Miming

To make sure our video does not go horribly wrong and look cheesy, we wanted to focus on a performance video rather than narrative, although including some shots of narrative. To do so we thought of the idea of using long shots and wide shots so that the movement of the mouth isnt so clear.

We also thought that by making the rapping more exciting, we could use a number of mouths, male and female to rap parts of the song, like Black Eyed Pea's did on their single 'Where is the love' and Example's 'Kickstart'. This could be a really effective technique to use.

Lastly, at the start of the song 'Love the way you lie' we were thinking of filming the flashbacks of the two different couples fighting, or possibly just show one couple at a time, to save confusion of the audience, and only when Rihanna's singing part of the first chorus comes in, the couples or girl depending, begin to reminisce over their good times, and so the plot of our performance starts in our video. (As we want to focus more on the happytimes of the story to contrast the songs lyrics and make it feel more upsetting and depressing that this is how the couples have turned out.)

I have been researching loads into different music video's my group can use, and found that it was a lot harder than we thought! There are so many different types of genre's and storylines we could use, but we managed to get a rough idea of what our video can be about.

We watched Example's video of 'Watch the sun come up' and loved the idea of the scenes with a girl, walking and talking randomly, and just being happy. We also loved the arguements and fighting in Eminem's video 'Love the way you lie' as it is very meaningful and powerful.

We want to encorpertae both happy and sad moods into our video, juxstaposing eachother.

Our idea of 'love' is looking promising, as we have written bullet points on a plot of a story to do with 2 couples, 2 different girls, but both in the same situation and in the same location( possibly a cafe or leaning on a tree on two opposite sides) as they reminise their previous fighting and arguing, along with their goodtimes, possibly looking through photo's of memories, or their memory in their head. The girls could start off at the cafe or the park and either reminse what's just happened in a flashback or, during the flashback at the end it goes through all the happy times repeating the arguements from the start of the music video and then showing the two girls leaving in fury and making their seperate ways to the starting location, using different routes, but finding comfort in this one place where they can think. We would focus on the two girls situations by using a zoom in editing technique either into the cup of coffee, or the girls themselves, and using a split screen later on in the video to show the girls similar situations and how they are both handling it.

We was also thinking, to show the difference in the flashbacks and real life, to use a date and time on the screen indicating the location and the fact it is earlier that day or even the previous day.