Discussing Ideas

Me & Katherine discussing our wonderful ideas for our video. Well, mainly me but that wasn't intentional... I just talk too much, and play with my hair too much. ENJOY!

My storyboard...

So, this is my storyboard. I will now go on to explain in more depth. The number key is as follows...

1  2  3

4  5  6

1. POV shot (during musical intro) of country area, walking, sun setting, getting darker.

2. As soon as lyrics start... "I can't help but wonder why..." shows female lead character walking around in country landscape you have previously seen. Possible split screen of her walking from two different angles. Front and back? Two different sides?

3. "And I'm thinking of you". Zoom in closer of female. Her eyes look up, look around as if she feels a presence there of something missing. Looking around, hope?

4. "Hope one day it'll all be clear, I'll be there or you'll be here" looking out a window, dark outside, fire inside? Cosy house... waiting for someone. Longing for someone.

5. "Under streetlights, on long car rides" through the front window of a car, showing a journey... POV of someone but it's not made clear. Could be a memory. Shows streetlights, person(s) in car passing them. Then goes back to female character and similar stuff to before but she is in urban surroundings, multi-story car park. Retracing journeys?

6. "And be happy with you" shows guy but he is never fully revealed. You see parts of him, small memories. Possibly him laying down in a bed but only his mouth/hand or sections of him. At the end you may possibly see a car pull up but you never see who gets out, things may be hinted at but nothing is ever fully confirmed. Leaves a sense of mystery. 

I really like my storyboard and ideas and am interested to see Katherine's storyboard and her ideas. I think both of our ideas will combine to make something really interesting and using our skills we have acquired so far this year I'm really, really excited to start filming, editing and sharing our ideas with people and Brooke! :) 

Our song...

So, the song we've decided to use and have gotten permission to use is...


"Under Streetlights by Brooke Annibale. We both really like this song and seeing as Breanne never got back to us we figured it would make sense to use this song as we also really like this song and Brooke seems like someone we'll be able to work with more.


:)

Locations :)

Me & Katherine went out on a cruise around Norfolk and here are some of the locations we discovered and liked (minus the fog). We'll try and get un-foggy images at some stage but we are having to contend with the lovely British weather right now so yeah...

Elsing - field location that (minus the fog) has really nice views. Could be used for our hoped shot of a sunrise. 

 Street near field in Elsing. Could be cool to see car go past?

 Also a nice wall and wooded area by the above photo.

 Katherine in her car :) demonstrates that car going down here could be nice shot....

 Massive rain shower. We faced problems with the weather. We quite like this shot though, could split screen it with car going down road. To go with lyrics "long car rides". 

 Streetlights with a nice scenic tree.

 Under a streetlight. Interesting vantage point?

 River very close to many streetlights. Reflections in water? Tranquil, place to think.

 Bridge, river, streetlights. In Lenwade.

 Posh house in lenwade, with bridge, river e.t.c.

Bawdswell, another possible field.






























So yes, location possibilities :) we feel we'll have to research this more once the weather improves. (Hopefully it will soon!).

Due to Katherine being absent :( I took it upon myself to contact a couple more artists me and Katherine had said we had liked just in case Breanne says no (yay back up plans).


I've contacted Brooke Annibale and asked for her permission to use her song 'Under Streetlights'...





I've also contacted Grant Woell and asked to use his song 'Rewrite My Heart'...




So, we're kind of just tagging along for the ride currently and seeing what happens. All ace songs though so fingers crossed :)

New song, plan.

So, here is a brief outline of some ideas I've had initially about what we could include in the video for our new song (hopefully!) 'Catapult' by Breanne Duren.


 


Lyrics:
Let's go outside
forget everything for just one night } need to escape?
Nothing to hide
I wanna see you beneath the bright moonlight } want to see beneath the surface? see you shine
Let's do this right let's go explore } need for perfection within the exploring
Try something we've never tried before

This catapult will send us into the sky, into the sky } fly to the sky, towards fame?
No I won't let you fall
'Cause you were born, born to fly
Born to fly, born to fly } born to do this

They'll climb to the rooftops } everyone wants to see them
And just to see us come brushing by } fans?
Over the streets and the sidewalks
Well they'll come running out tonight
Something's bound to happen here
It's been bottled up, bottled up for years } secrets coming out, excitement and talent coming out

This catapult will send us into the sky, into the sky
No I won't let you fall
'Cause you were born to fly, born to fly
Through starry trails } aim for the stars
Tonight across the blue we'll sail } the ocean, crossing oceans, challenges
This catapult will send us into the sky
'Cause you were born to fly, born to fly, born to fly

We'll be like satellites and never touch the ground } once we get there we won't come down
Lost in northern lights we'll never come back, } lost in beauty and light
Never come back down!

This catapult will send us into the sky, into the sky
No I won't let you fall,
'Cause you were born to fly, born to fly
Through starry trails
Tonight across the blue we'll sail
This catapult will send us into the sky
'Cause you were born to fly, born to fly, born to flyYou were born to fly, born to fly, born to fly!

Ideas:

Multi-story car park? Top level, rooftop? Couple on there, looking over town... possibly at night? Reminds me slightly of the opening chapters of 'Paper Towns' by John Green where Margo and Q are going around getting revenge on people and go exploring their 'paper town' and are on the highest floor of a building looking down and discussing life. Everything takes place at night and it's their last adventure together before Margo leaves and Q goes to find her. Q loves Margo and Margo does this to try and help Q gain confidence and to give him an experience to motivate him to leave too. They're both high on life and take risks and have fun. It reminds me a lot of this and it could be interesting to include some situations from the book in the video?

Videos that I feel are relevant to my ideas, may have influenced some of my ideas...

Night, lights and breaking out and showing who you really are. Taking risks, upbeat and fun song.



Friends, lovers having fun and enjoying being young. Break out and enjoy summer.


Possible locations?
Multi-story car park
Park locations?
Fields...


MORE TO COME :)

Update from Katherine & I :)

So, here's out latest update: UPDATE


It basically outlines our plans to change song and has the song that we're hoping to change it to :)


Also here is a small clip of some more split screen trials... (using the new song we're hopefully going to be able to use)

Lana Del Rey - Video Games

Swinging in the backyard
Pull up in your fast car
Whistling my name

Open up a beer
And you take it over here
And play a video game

I'm in his favorite sun dress
Watching me get undressed
Take that body downtown

I say you the bestest
Lean in for a big kiss
Put his favorite perfume on

Go play a video game

It's you, it's you, it's all for you
Everything I do
I tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth with you
Tell me all the things you want to do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
It's better than I ever even knew
They say that the world was built for two
Only worth living if somebody is loving you
Baby now you do

Singing in the old bars
Swinging with the old stars
Living for the fame

Kissing in the blue dark
Playing pool and wild darts
Video games

He holds me in his big arms
Drunk and I am seeing stars
This is all I think of

Watching all our friends fall
In and out of Old Paul's
This is my idea of fun
Playing video games

It's you, it's you, it's all for you
Everything I do
I tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth with you
Tell me all the things you want to do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
It's better than I ever even knew
They say that the world was built for two
Only worth living if somebody is loving you
Baby now you do

(Now you do)

It's you, it's you, it's all for you
Everything I do
I tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth with you
Tell me all the things you want to do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
It's better than I ever even knew
They say that the world was built for two
Only worth living if somebody is loving you
Baby now you do

1 minute analysis:

Coming soon.

A couple of music videos I've come across recently...

So, as you can probably determine from previous posts Katherine and I have been experimenting with the split screen technique and it's a technique we really like and hope to use in our final video. So, I found a music video for the very popular Kid Cudi and his song 'Make Her Say'. I really like the techniques he used in this video, I don't think his style music is similar in any way to the 'Sunsets For Singles' but I think their is a lot of interesting shots and ideas of how we could further develop our split screens in this video. I'd really love to try something similar to the opening balloon shot and I like the concept of their being a shot of the same place from two different vantage points where you can see two different people doing different things (like at 1:10).





Whilst watching NME TV the other day I came across the above music video. I must admit I only caught the last minute or so and whilst I'm not a huge fan of the song I really like how the director (David Higgs) has  overlapped shots and made it have a really vintage style look. The main section of the video that I like start at around 3 minutes and the hue of the clips is really warm and dramatic. I'd like to try this style out as I like it a lot :) I'm not too sure how well it would fit with our song though... so it's definitely something we'll need to consider.

Final Cut - Split Screens & More Fun.

As you can tell, we have been doing lots of trials recently all in preperation for when we film and edit our real music video. Prior to doing these trials we had no idea how to make split screens so being the kind of people we are we said: challenge accepted! So, this is how we made our beautiful split screens...

Split Screens :)

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