Our Music Video

Our song which we is using in our video with music in it

● We Intertwined - The hush sound

The narrative structure

● So a basic overview of what we want to do:● Starts with split screen shot of a laptop playing 'we

intertwined',(one boy scenario, one girl scenario) then intercutting between boy and girl scenario (1st shot: boy in bed, lip synching) as they leave the house. (daily routines etc, not too much detail)

● Main body of the video is the two people walking. Split screen of the boy and girl walking, boy walking forwards towards the camera and girl walking away from the camera. Audience sees boy lip synching and back of girls head.

● Throughout the walk, things appear behind them and in the background of the camera shot, stuff like music notes, bubbles, confetti etc.

● Finishes with split screen dissolving into a shot of them both together, people lift them up, duvet over them, goes back to shot at beginning of boy in bed.

Using and challenging music video conventions

● Links between lyrics and visuals; we plan to have quite a few links between the lyrics and what’s going on on screen, there are lyrics which we feel would fit in nicely with the storyline the whole way through. However we’re not fitting every single shot to the lyrics.

● Links between music and visuals; During the song the bridge and certain parts of the song change in dynamics, we would like to pick up on some of these and link them with what’s going on on screen.

● It will be a performance video with a vague narrative – these two are often put together however In ours, the characters who are taking part in the narrative will also be lip syncing.

● We plan to follow a lot of the music video conventions however we are not having a ‘band’ in the video at all.

Tone of our video

● Basically, we want our video to have an overall positive tone to it. We want the audience to be uplifted and feel postive about life and relationships.

● We plan to do this by adding in props that people associate with happiness such as hearts, music notes and confetti, all linking to uplifted occasions. Also, the fact that the song is very upbeat, warrants us to do a happy video, rather than a tragic or sad video.

● We wanted to do a happy video so that we can make our audience feel happy! We didn't want our audience going away from our video not being impressed and feeling down, we wanted them to go away from the video feeling at ease and finding our video entertaining.

● We want to use our actors to portray the happy emotions, especially the male actor, as we want the video to be as happy as possible, we need very good acting skills from our male actor who is constantly facing the camera at all times.

Our audience

● Both genders equally● Teens, going from perhaps 12 – 20 mainly● No specific class or status.

● The genre of music we’ve used appeals to a wide variety of people therefore we can plan to aim our music video at a good range of people.

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● The actors we planned to use will be our age, therefore our target audience can relate to them due to age similarity.

● The colours that we plan to use will be bright and varied – this will fit in with the genre and mood of the song and so will fit in with appealing to our target audience.

● The setting and storyline will be one that any teenager will be able to relate to easily, we’re setting it in a stereotypical bedroom and in a conventional area where teenagers would live.

How our research has helped

● We think that our research has helped a lot in choosing our video. Mostly, by the use of analysing different music videos such as 'in your arms' by Kina Grannis and 'weapon of choice' by Fatboy slim, both of which appeal to our generation. This has helped us in making our decision because as we our teenagers, these are the videos that we find interesting and appealing to watch, and so we want to make our video as interesting, upbeat and entertaining as possible.

● Also the use of looking into different directors has helped us a lot because it's given us a lot of different ideas, such as one shot wonders, green screen, split screen etc. Also its helped to see how directors have fitted different genres f music into a likable video for most ages.

● Also our research into goodwins six helped us to establish our 'link between lyrics and visuals' idea. As this is one of goodwin's six rules of music videos, we decided to focus on this as one of the main aspects of our videos, by incorporating the objects appearing behind the characters.

Audience feedback

● Any feedback, positive or negative? (we can take criticism!)● Did you like our idea?

● Would it make you want to watch it?

● Let us know so we can write a blog/essay next lesson.... hooray...

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