At the beginning of our music video it will start off with all three characters meeting at Liverpool Street , we have decided to use the idea of a split screen like in the 'Emotion' by Destiny Child, all coming from different locations to meet. We will have fast cuts of establishing shots showing the scenery. There will also be a lot of close ups of the characters faces showing to her portray their emotions. Here we are attempting to repair the disruption, this comes from Todorv's theory, that all narratives follow the same basic formula, this helps the audience as the understand the music video. Our video non linear, it doesn't go in the order of:
1) Equilibrium
2)Disruption
3)Recognition
4)Attempt to repair disruption
5)New/Returned equilibrium
But it does have the formula within the video.
The video then rewinds to the beginning, while this happening we will show the title of the son 'YOU' '&' 'ME'. Then it leads to shots of young children in a park, we have decided to do this in Haggerston Park, this is our equilibrium. The young children are used to convey to the audience the fact that characters have known each other for a long time. We also want to show them as more innocent, that society, media, boys and other things haven't influenced them. In contrast to when 2 of the characters have changed and become rebellious unlike one of the characters.
Our video is mainly shot in POV of the Hero like character, the audience will see everything from her perspective. Her two friends are 'Villains'. This is Propp's theory, that every story has characters.
-Hero
-Sidekick
-Princess
-Donor
-False Hero
-Hero
-Villain
-Dispatcher
-Princesses father
In a video there should always be at least two of these characters, unless the video will be boring. There wouldn't be a clear story.
The shots with the young kids will be mainly mid close ups, we want them close to the camera to show the characters have a close bond. After the shots of the young children playing we are going to reveal the adult versions of them. As its in pov we are going to have a long shot of them walking and it turns into the adults walking. Or we will have them walking up spiral stairs and when they walk down it will be the adult characters. The camera will go out of focus and then refocus when showing the characters faces.
We have decided to show a build up of events, where the 2 villain characters are being bad influences and conforming to the stigma that young people are hot headed and reckless. However the third character is going to show what media doesn't , her correcting her friends behavior, not being as bad and giving into peer pressure, her being her individual self and not doing what society expects of her.
We have decided to shot in Camden, Bricklane, Hackney wick. We will shot the characters having fun skating, just being kids. But then you'll see the negative side of the villain characters, while in Camden they steal and are rude/cold to people. we show the third person returning the wallet and apologizing for her friend. During the time at Camden we will have a lot of candid shots, as there area has a lot of people that suit our video and draw in our audience as they will relate to the people in the video.
Throughout the video you will see short clips of the characters partying in Shoreditch, by the canal in Camden, skateboarding. Like in the Blonde video ' I loved you more'. We will be doing shots of that are going to foreshadow the disruption in our video. For example you will the characters in there mask walking towards the shop they will rob. And random shots of the mask.
We will have shots of dancing (hip-hop, b-boying) to add the feel of a dance video. as well as shots of creative art pieces. We were also thinking to have shots of a group of people in white and black masks. To show that young people don't have voices. That were just unseen faces in society. Seen but not heard.
Most of our performance is going to be within out storyline. When at club or parks we will have the characters singing.
The distribution is when the 2 characters decided they want to rob a shop, as they are young and don't have income and only think about immediate gratification. You will see long shots of the worker in the hair salon. And then a 360 shot the characters showing their outfits. You will see a contrast in their costume wearing all black and red mask, portraying danger.
There will be a scene of where the girls try to convince the third character to take a gun. we've decided here to show decisions here as well. One where she does, and hurts the shop employee, but then we will rewind it to show the side the wouldn't media show, her deciding to say not and not give in to peer pressure and leads her friends to a party instead. This attempting to repair disruption,
At the party we've decided to also show decisions where,we show the other side where she has fun without drinking and remembering what happened. Or whether the third character should drink, the camera will go hazey and slightly out of focus. Here will be performance mainly people at the party will be singing showing the negative affects of drugs. Her waking up clueless. Her making the decision to leave and think about if she can handle her friends anymore as she feels there different people. She walks around locations her friends were before seeing people happy etc...
She then gets a text from her friends asking to meet as they don't understand why she left with no answer , this then leads to the end scene which was shown in the beginning. We have decided to have a long shot. Where you see the third character giving her on her friendship this is shown by her walking in front of the camera and dropping her mask. Then a close up of her face. To her surprise her friends do the same thing, as they don't want to be what society sees them as. and feel the third characters decisions has helped them see they don't have be bad. The last shot is a close up of the mask.
These ideas may change over time while creating the video. Depending on how the actually filming turns out.
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