Draft Idea for Music Video

We think that the best way to make this music video is to follow the narrative. The song has a strong narrative which would seem pointless to ignore. The basic idea will be to have a guy and a girl following the lines of the song (which can be found in the last post) and going to different locations to do this, E.g A beach or the seaside.

We want the video to match the pace of the music, so it will be fairly slow and also peaceful to fit in with the feel of the song. Another possible idea that we have at this time is to keep the people in the video anonymous and to not show their faces throughout the video, to create an element of mystery. This will also inspire us to have to use a lot more creative camera angels, and possibly have to film at lot of it using low angels showing the bottom half of the bodies only.

We feel that in this type of video its not particularly important to "have a lot going on" but more about how the video is made. Slow motion shots are another thing that we are considering to use, and also changing the contrast to make the whole video brighter, as we will be filming in the winter and we want the video to have a warmer feel.

This is only a draft and may change, next lesson we will have put together a presentation that we will be able to show to the rest of the groups and receive feedback which will help us develop the idea further.


Music videos that we could take reference to could be ones such as

Sugar we're going down (swinging) by Fall Out Boy is a song that has a boy and girl throughout the music video, and we are shown their story as it goes along. Although the video may not directly follow the lyrics we can still use it as a reference for the storyline idea. This is also good since this song is relative to the kind of genre stereotypes that we will be looking at for our own production.

This music video by Taylor Swift clearly shows the narrative and the link between film and lyrics throughout the whole of the video. This could be used as a reference since it is a clear example. We can apply this video to Todorov's narrative theory since there is a disruption which the character has to face and overcome; this being her trying to get with the guy she likes.