Initial Ideas“Girl On Fire” – Ella Mae Bowen

Initial Idea #1Song: “Girl On Fire” – Ella Mae BowenStructure: Narrative

Synopsis:After a “heated” argument with her boyfriend, she breaks up with him. After the break up the girl gets incredibly depressed and becomes isolated. This causes further tension between her and her family. After another disagreement, the girl packs her bags and her guitar, and runs away in the middle of the night, taking a taxi into the countryside. With no money or help, she camps out in order to experience the simple lifestyle. After a while there she begins to adapt, while doing this, she is learning and growing a tough skin as well as her own philosophy. She is singing the song during this time. By the bridge of the song, she comes to realisation of how careless and selfish she’s been, so she runs off into the night, finally coming across a car, she waves in front of it to get its attention. The scene then switches to her returning home and hugging her parents. It ends with her thinking over what she has learned during her time alone.

Initial Idea #2Song: “Girl On Fire” – Ella Mae BowenStructure: Abstract

Synopsis:This video’s aim is to convey the emotion, feelings and impact of loss, war and pain. There will be a few different settings, most of them nature based. The artist will be wandering through woods, fields and eventually reaching a graveyard where they will place some flowers. Another setting will be in a garden with a bonfire as the background. The artist will be wearing a simple white dress to represent the undeserved pain of the innocent. There will be extra shots of various bits of nature including trees, raindrops, grass, wildlife etc. There will also be a consistent shot of a burning flame which will serve as a motif and symbol for the music video to represent it back to the title and the meaning. There will also be a performance setting of various instruments being played, like guitar, violin etc, this will appear now and then during the music video.

Initial Idea #3Song: “Girl On Fire” – Ella Mae BowenStructure: Performance

Synopsis:This video will be a full performance of the song. It will be filmed in a theatre and lights will be used to represent the theme of fire and angst. My artist will be centre stage and I will use multiple camera angles to make it more professional. I will also include various musicians that will be filmed individually too. This is the least complex of all my ideas. To go along with the performance part of the video, I will also film various shots of candles being lit as this is symbolic of the song’s title and meaning. As this only includes the performance aspect, the video will serve very much as a speech, like I mentioned in my lyrics analysis. The artist is encouraging people to fight for what they believe in in the lyrics of the song so I felt this arrangement was relevant. It is similar in a way to the director’s cut of Miley Cyrus’ music video for “Wrecking Ball” as the entire song is a close-up of her singing with strong emotion.