Initial Ideas and Planning

We begun Planning our project by thinking about what we wanted to be in our Music Video. We knew initially we wanted a meaningful and hopefully emotional video, as it reaches out to the audience and connects with them more. Our idea for the story we would use for the music video was to have three individual people who would be in there own locations, and have their own personal struggles that they have to deal with on a daily bases. At this point, we were unclear as to what these issues would be as we wanted them to be reflected clearly in the video. We discussed Location, Costume and Potential People to be in our Video. When it came to Location we wanted four different places to film; three of them would represent each individuals situation and circumstance and we wanted an extra location where they would all lip sync to the song. Potential People to be involved is just a list to help us decide who might be in the video and Costumes are the give us an idea as to what their personality's are like. Originally at the time we had already chosen a song as we felt it had components that fit our ideas e.g. meaningful lyrics, strong and emotional beat. The song we had chose was 'Walking The Wire' by Imagine Dragons.

After the original plan we began discussing more ideas and how we could improve our video. After doing some more music research I made the decision to change the song as I found that the song; 'Way Down We Go' by the band Kaloe was exactly what we were looking for when it came to creating a believable and emotional story. I kept the idea of having three people with there separate locations (three main locations). However I had changed the locations in order for them to fit the characters personality's; one is a runner who struggles dealing with feeling isolated from others so they will be running in the woods. One of the other characters is a student who is does not like the way they look, their location throughout the majority of the music video will be in a library. Finally the last character struggles with not being noticed and therefore keeps all there feels and doubts inside, there main location will be in a High Street/Shopping Centre. In addition a separate location will be used for the characters to lip sync to the camera (there will be cuts through out the video to each character lip syncing the song). Finally the characters will all come together in the end to represent the moral of the music video, which is; No matter how lonely and awful you may feel, there is always someone to talk to and relate to how you feel. 

This was more brainstorming we did on a separate day which included ideas and information about Locations, Characters, Editing, Camera Angles, Props and Costume.