Inspiration...!

I was watching Kerrang! TV earlier on today and a music video that I have not seen for a long time came on and it gave me an interesting idea for something else we could add into our music video.

In this Blink 182 video for the song 'Always' the whole video is split into three separate strips of screen horizontally. By splitting the screen this way, they were able to take similar shots but position them next to each other so that they don't quite match. They could also use different body parts of different people in each strip to make them look mis-matched.



There are many examples of this technique in other genres of music and in TV. For example, the opening sequence of hit American TV show 'Ugly Betty';



And this technique can also be seen in the video for Example's song 'Kickstarts';



I think this technique would work so well in our music video as we could play on the idea that our main character steals the vocalist's guitar to coinside with the lyrics even further ('She stole my karma, oh no') by editing three different shots together onto one screen so that it looks like her head and legs with his body holding/playing the guitar.
I think we should think of more interesting ideas like this in order to make our music video exciting and intriguing to watch.

Group Meeting: Storyboarding/Shot Ideas

Yesterday we had another group meeting about the specific camera shots/angles/movements that will make up our music video. We had previously written down a list of specific shots that we wanted to include in the video and now we are beginning to draw out our storyboard.
Here is a photo of the specific camera shot list we made;



As we were trying to think of different shot ideas, we found it incredibly useful to refer to existing music videos of the same genre as our band (Alternative/American Rock) in order to give us inspiration for our own music video.

For example, we wanted to film a shot of the bands shoes walking past the camera and then the girls' red heels following them in order to show the audience her obsession with the band (We have also decided that one of the main themes of our music video is going to be obsession, and we are creating a theme in order to focus our ideas and be more specific about our concept). We then thought of Kings Of Leons' video for their song 'On Call' where a similar camera shot is shown right at the start of the video >> click here to see the video <<






This is just one example of a camera shot that we think will work really well with our music video and we know it does because this existing Kings Of Leon video proves that.

Group Meeting: Developing and Enhancing Our Initial Ideas...

Before starting to draw out our storyboard ready for when we start filming, we wanted to develop our initial ideas further so that we had a more specific concept, rather than just starting to film aimlessly.

Here is a photograph of our mind map that we came up with which contains all of our newest ideas. These involve lots more specific camera shots of the girl who is obsessed with the band. This idea of obsession could possibly be our theme as we think a theme would really help us to focus our plans.