Our Group's Initial Ideas

During the process of choosing our soundtrack, collectively, we came up with a brief idea that still needs a little more detail to it, but we all feel could work to our advantage.

Idea No.1

For this, we came up with the idea of having the person playing our artist in a dark room, with a singular spotlight or several spotlights aimed at the centre of the room. Within these spotlights, the 'artist' would be in a trance-like state, giving a number of cameras we were planning to use loads of direct address in a semi-confrontational way. We'd also have a number of close-ups mainly directed towards various body parts such as the hands and forearm, the legs and different areas of their face. This would be at the very beginning as its gives a build up to the physical appearance of the artist from the off, leaving the audience to want to stay on and watch to find out more about the 'persona' that we want the artist to portray.

Idea No. 2

This was an idea that I have recently come up with by myself. I have sat and listened to the soundtrack  a number of times through and have thought about the different themes that strike me straight away.

There are a number of different elements to this soundtrack that are possible to implement within our own music video, however there are two in particular that I feel we could pull off. The first is that the instruments used in the soundtrack create a machine-like atmosphere, possibly even zombie-like. So, taking elements from idea no. 1, I thought that the starting shots could consist of pretty much the same, close-ups of different areas of the artist's body, however they could be a lot more lacklustre, giving off that 'zombie' vibe. The shots would then focus on the artist's face, which has make-up on to make him look partially 'dead' but on only one side of his face. Following shots would then consist of different locations, rather than just the one, that gives both machine-like surroundings and isolation.

Idea No. 3

The third idea I have is the other theme I found was predominant from the soundtrack, to portray a 'break-up' between the artist and a 'lover'. I had this idea when I saw the new lecture-style room that had been built in our school. This would be the setting for the music video, and would have a clear narrative and performance element to it. Like the first two, the starting shots would be the same but this time, there would be a number of shots showing the artist putting a CD on, and then on the projector, showing him and his 'lover' on a recorded video. This video would then be the main source of light in the room and then to follow this, there would be a number of shots showing the artist slumped in different spots of the lecture stand watching the video back whilst clearly singing/miming the soundtrack as well. This would be cut up with a number of shots showing the crazed look of the artist that has obviously been an impact of the break up, much like the one's planned for the previous two ideas.