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.

Narrative or Performance?

We are more than 80% sure our narrative will be about love, preferably a couple either having arguements or a couple that are happy and looking over memories. We think this would be a good choice as many artists nowdays are about love as it is such a big part in people's lives, and so we need to find the right music to match this.

We will be including performance in our video, but not too much as we do not want to over do it and make it look unprofessional, as a lot of artists, such as Rhianna, and Example, have a storyline and a few shots of them actually singing. We would like to do the same.

Genre's and song choices

We are currently debating which music genre to choose. We have had a number of idea's, ranging from indi/rock to pop. We want to focus on a narrativee music video as we like the idea of a storyline going on during the singing. We want to stay away from using too much performance video as it could come across as being quite cheesy.

We found a song from the film Matilda - written by Rusted Roots - 'Send me on my way'



We have also been looking at Examples songs; Kickstarts and Last one standing as both have an upbeat rhythm which we could easily do a narrative video with. They also have meaningful lyrics.

Groups- We're Back!

For my group, we have decided to all stay in the same groups from AS as we are all ocmfortable around eachother and know eachothers likes and dislikes whilst making a film. Last year I was the main actress in our film, and so this year, depending on the music choice we choose, we are all debating whether to all take part in the music video, as it is also our last year of the A2 course.

I have been researching this years A2 music video's on YouTube as I wanted to get a rough idea of the competition and what kind of music and genre's have been previously used. I come across this fantastic music video called 'A-ha! Imogen Heap - By Greg Bernstein & Joshua Moss' which I found some great shots and ideas. The genre for this music video is very Gothic and eerie, and reminds me of my groups AS two minute film we made, featuring a music box, likewise to the one in this music video. I also like the overlapping transaction at the start of this video showing the confusion as the audience does not know what is happening. I also liked the upbeat beat and tempo of the song, and the sillhouettes of the girl and objects in the background. I hope you like this video as much as I did.

I really like the Kate Nash video 'Foundations' as I like the movements and individualism of her storyline as she uses objects to show her split with her boyfriend. For instance during the video, the man and womans toothbrushes start off together and start to seperate as Kate is singing about her seperation with her boyfriend. Likewise with the watches.

I also like the camera angle of when she is singing "my fingertips are holding onto the cracks in our foundations" and she is holding onto his hand and the sun is creaping in, and as she sings "and I know that I should let go" as she sings this she drops the boys hand which is significant as it shows the change in the relationship etc (1:03)

The high shot of the feet in bed is a good shot as it shows the connection the couple has and the relationship status between them. These objects make the storyline and make it more interesting to watch.