Recce.

Stephanie, Sayed and myself went to see locations for our music video yesterday. We went from Greenwich, Westminister, Canary Wharf, Cutty Sark, Walthamstow, Namco and Island gardens park. We went around to different places according to the storyboard.








For the beginning of the music video, we intend to have a tilt shot. Having the camera start from a low angle shot with the trees and surroundings as the subject. It's going to tilt slowly down from the sky, to the trees and then to Tyler.

Tyler then appears to be sitting in a park on a bench. He looks at this watch, showing the audience he's waiting.
Tyler will get a text message "it's over" and get up and start walking. He'll start to walk down a path and lip sync the words. We plan to have a tracking shot, when the camera will  walk with the actor as he walks down the path. "Tracking".

He gets up, and starts walking on his own. He walks down the path still lip-syncing the words showing his stressed, and upset about their breakup. He'll sit aganist a wall, and then we'll insert  We'll have a close up of his face, to show his facial expressions and then the chorus will start with the flashback.

The flashback includes the couple playing around on the grass. There will be a mixture of close ups, birds eye view, medium shots, and so on. The first flashback is of the couple playing around, in a park. Chasing each other, laughing and teasing each other. We then planned a short reverse shot in a local cafe. We intend to have the couple sitting with each other as the flashback.

 We came across both these cafés, that we could use for one of the flashbacks.- Greenwich. We have decided to use the cafe in Bakers Arms. It's near college, and easy to get there.

 This is where Tyler is going to be standing on his own. Looking at the view of London ahead of him. We want to get a shot where he's standing at the edge looking at a scenery of London. Looking and also feeling lonely.

 Cutty Sack; the couple will walk along here during a flashback. We thought it'd be a nice location to have a flashback.

Near Canary Wharf, the bridge is where Tyler will be for the last scene. He'll start to burn the image, with a lighter of himself and Charlotte. He'll then walk away from the photo. Leaving it to burn to show, he'll get over her.

 The place where Charlotte and Tyler first meet. We have a flash back after the time rewinds.





I really enjoyed seeing our locations for where the music video can be filmed. It's brought many ideas to our minds and also we had a good day out at looking around. 

Lyrics along with story.

The whole story of our video:

It starts with the sky, we're going to pan the camera from the sky, to the trees, and then to Tyler. Who appears to be sitting in a park on a bench. He looks at his watch, showing the audience he's waiting for someone. We then show Charlotte (his girlfriend) texting Tyler "I can't do this anymore, it's over".


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( "There was a shot in the dark,
I was caught by surprise
There was a hole in my heart,                                                              

There were tears in your eyes
And there was nothing to say,
Cause you made up your mind
And so I guess what you meant
When you left was goodbye". )

He gets up, and starts walking on his own. He walks down the path still lip-syncing the words showing his stressed, and upset about their breakup. He sits aganist a wall, and then we insert flashbacks.

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 And leave me in a lonely gray
I won't let it show, 
Until you finally float away". )

The first flashback is of the couple playing around, in a park. Chasing each other, laughing and teasing each other. We then planned a short reverse shot in a local cafe. We intend to have the couple sitting with each other as the flashback. The camera is going to go from Tyler, (smiling and happy) to Charlotte (also happy, and in love) and then moves back to Tyler. When it moves back to Tyler it will no longer be a flashback and now turns back to reality. The camera will cut back to an empty chair to show she's no longer in his life.
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("You gotta know that you tear me up
When you say you wanna take it all away, take it all away
You tear it up when you say
You wanna take it all away, take it all away!
You were the one, and it was enough
To be the one you were dreaming of!
You were the one and we called it love
And now you take it away, take away")

We also plan to still show him distressed, and almost confused and angry as why this has happened. He can't digest what happened, and is struggling. He'll lip sync through this whole verse. We're also thinking about having a time lapse through this verse to represent his life at present. Without her, his life has sort of stopped. But the world and time is still passing.

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"I felt a pain in my chest with your kiss on my cheek
And as I tried to digest the words I couldn't believe
I'm left with nothing to say with my heart on my sleeve 
Making it easy to hurt, and even harder to breathe."

"So if you gonna go,
And leave me in the lonely gray
I won't let it show,
Until you finally float away"

Another flashback inserted here. We have the couple at an arcade. they'll play games and enjoy each other's company. They'll also go to a photo booth and take photographs. We'll take a close up shot of the photos as they as printed. They'll be pulling funny faces, and they'll be happy. He'll start to lip sync in Greenwich. We want to get a shot where he's standing at the edge looking at a scenery of London. Looking and also feeling lonely.

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"You tear me up when you say 
You wanna take it away, take it all away!
You were the one, and it was enough
To be the one you were dreaming of!
You were the one and we called it love
And now you take it away, take away!
You take it all away, you take it all away"

In the song, at 2:25 there's a sound that reminds us of water, it's a blurred out sound. We decided to record the clock and rewind to then show the past. The music fits very well with this scene.

It'll then rewind back to another flashback, to the first time Charlotte and Tyler met. They'll be walking down a path also in Greenwich and Charlotte will drop something. Tyler and Charlotte both go to fench it and end up touching each other's hands. They instantly smile and fall in love. The last scene, It'll go back to reality and Tyler will be sitting again on his own. He'll have the photo they took at the photo booth. Then he'll start to burn the image, with a lighter. He'll then walk away from the photo. Leaving it to burn to show, he'll get over her.

ñ"You gotta know that you tear me up
When you say you wanna take it away, take it away
You tear me up when you say
You wanna take it away, take it all away!
You were the one, and it was enough
To be the one you were dreaming of!
You were the one and we called it love
And now you take it away, take away!
You take it all away, you take it all away"

Analyzing the lyrics has helped with ideas with what happening inside the frame with camera shots, etc. I always really enjoyed planning out how the music video will be and definitely look forward to filming the final piece!

Audition.

Today we did made an audition available to the performance arts students who are interested in taking part in our video. We selected both Charlotte Read and Tyler Dew who have agreed to take part in our music video. We have arranged a meeting on Friday to discuss the shoot and get the release forms filled out.

Pitch#1

This is our first pitch to the class. We explained our plans and ideas to the class about our music video. We talked about the shots that we wanted to experiement with and the places we wanted to go to, to film. We spoke about future meetings that we'll have in order to keep in contact with our actors, so they know exactly what's happening with our plans. We explained the story behind our music video and annotated the lyrics and how it would work with the music video we have planned to create. We were told that we should be aware of lighting, and the public. We were told to be aware of lighting, and the public. We were also told that it would be better if Stephanie and myself, wasn't in the video. We need to discuss or video more, in depth. And know what's happening in every scene. Nothing more was said. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6nCKZa3rT4&feature=youtu.be

Owl City- Take it all away.

New ideas:

We've all decided to change the song because we thought it might be difficult to find an actor match the voice of "Lovelier than you".
Therefore we decided to use the song "Take it all away" by Owl City.
This song is about someone complaining about a girl he loved made him promises that she took away after they broke up. The genre is generic pop, and our target audience is both females and males. However, more females will listen to this song.

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The male lead expresses his love for his ex-partner; he starts to remember their happiness, and the love they had for each other. Now, he feels pain and hurt.

We decided to start the music video, with the couple splitting up. He'll be sitting in a park, waiting for his girlfriend to come. Instead, he receives a text saying "I can't do this any more, it's over". We will use different camera shots, such as close ups to show the body language and expressions on the character's faces. 

We then want to start showing flashbacks of the couples happy memories together. 2 narratives: One is the past- shows the great memories they have together. Two: Shows the present, of the after effects of the break up. We were inspired by these songs Gym Class Heroes- Cupid Chokehold and Lawson- When she was mine.

 Locations we have chose to go to; Southback, Namco photo booth, Victoria park, West end. The actors will have two sets of clothing on, so they just need to take the first layer off to reveal another costume. 

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Media Treatment.

This is our first pitch, explaining our ideas for the music video. As a group, we have all shared our ideas to create one whole narrative. We showed this pitch to our class explaining our ideas, and received feedback from the class, helping us with our ideas and allowing us to think about problems that we may face. It was good to see what everyone had to say, and allowed us to think and discuss our ideas to try and make them better.  

New member of our group. :)

Sayed joined our group today; he has some ideas so we'll have a group discussion on Monday and I'll update the blog on our new ideas. :)