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Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Costume ideas and planning
We both thought through the costume ideas very carefully, and as the narrative of our music videos include flash backs of the past as well as sequences of the present, we decided it would be a good idea to use a variety of different clothes and outfits to represent the differences in emotion as well as showing a passing of time. We decided that the use of brightly coloured and exposing clothing would be an ideal outfit for when the couple are happy, so it reflects their mood and the good times they shared together. We also thought that by dressing our characters up in dull, plain clothes once they have broken up, again reflects their emotions and emphasises to the audience that they make no effort and don't care about their appearance now that they are no longer together and heart broken. Below are the ideas that we came up with for costumes:
Similar media texts that influence our work
Beyonce- Broken Hearted Girl
This music video revolves around a relationship where the artist and the male character break up. She takes it very hard and even though the break up is leaving her sad, she wants to forget that she ever loved him because she doesn't want to be a ‘broken hearted girl’. This video contains similar emotions that we hope to portray in our own music video and therefore we were influenced by this. We gathered various ideas from the camera shots within this video, including the silhouette of the artist, reversing (rewinding) and a close up shot of the happy couple.
Adele- Someone Like You
The narrative of this music video is about a woman who has lost her love and cannot get him back. She blames herself for loosing him so she wishes she can find another man just like her previous love. The ideas that we acquired from this music video is the opening sequence, where the establishing shot fades in and then tracks the artist as she walks, looking depressed. We believe that this is a good opening sequence because it immediately makes the audience aware that the artist is upset and lonely. We also like the idea of having the video in black and white as it goes well with the sad storyline and puts a dampening effect on the video. The idea of using a fading transition persuades us to use this in our own music video as it represents the artist looking back in time, which will go well with our storyline where the artist reminisces the past.
Adele- To Make You Feel My Love
This music video is about a female who wants the man she loves to love her in return, but he clearly doesn’t. The things we both liked about this music video was the close up shot of her bedside clock showing the time of 4:00am. This is because it tells the audience that she’s been up all night thinking about this certain man and that he has a huge influence on her life. We also thought that the use of the mobile phone was the central object of the music video as it resembled the man showing no love back when she did not receive a text. We therefore may use this in our own video in order to make the narrative very clear to our audience.
Katy Perry- Thinking Of You
The narrative of this music video is about a female who has lost her partner in the war, and even though she is with someone else now, she can’t stop thinking about him. The music video is about her looking back in time at the memories they shared together. This is an idea we would like to apply to our own music video, where even though the male isn’t dead, she looks back at the times they shared together. One aspect of this video we both liked was when she was in the frame, whilst she was looking at herself and the male character in the past. This shows the audience that the artist is reminiscing over the past. We were also emotionally influenced by the sequence of both characters laying on a picnic blanket and them both riding the same bike as it shows a strong connection between both of the characters.
This music video revolves around a relationship where the artist and the male character break up. She takes it very hard and even though the break up is leaving her sad, she wants to forget that she ever loved him because she doesn't want to be a ‘broken hearted girl’. This video contains similar emotions that we hope to portray in our own music video and therefore we were influenced by this. We gathered various ideas from the camera shots within this video, including the silhouette of the artist, reversing (rewinding) and a close up shot of the happy couple.
Adele- Someone Like You
The narrative of this music video is about a woman who has lost her love and cannot get him back. She blames herself for loosing him so she wishes she can find another man just like her previous love. The ideas that we acquired from this music video is the opening sequence, where the establishing shot fades in and then tracks the artist as she walks, looking depressed. We believe that this is a good opening sequence because it immediately makes the audience aware that the artist is upset and lonely. We also like the idea of having the video in black and white as it goes well with the sad storyline and puts a dampening effect on the video. The idea of using a fading transition persuades us to use this in our own music video as it represents the artist looking back in time, which will go well with our storyline where the artist reminisces the past.
Adele- To Make You Feel My Love
This music video is about a female who wants the man she loves to love her in return, but he clearly doesn’t. The things we both liked about this music video was the close up shot of her bedside clock showing the time of 4:00am. This is because it tells the audience that she’s been up all night thinking about this certain man and that he has a huge influence on her life. We also thought that the use of the mobile phone was the central object of the music video as it resembled the man showing no love back when she did not receive a text. We therefore may use this in our own video in order to make the narrative very clear to our audience.
Katy Perry- Thinking Of You
The narrative of this music video is about a female who has lost her partner in the war, and even though she is with someone else now, she can’t stop thinking about him. The music video is about her looking back in time at the memories they shared together. This is an idea we would like to apply to our own music video, where even though the male isn’t dead, she looks back at the times they shared together. One aspect of this video we both liked was when she was in the frame, whilst she was looking at herself and the male character in the past. This shows the audience that the artist is reminiscing over the past. We were also emotionally influenced by the sequence of both characters laying on a picnic blanket and them both riding the same bike as it shows a strong connection between both of the characters.
Ideas for our artist and bands
By creating the mind map above, this helped both of us to cut down our choices from the five and to pick just one of the songs to use in our official music video. Firstly, despite originally picking Snow Patrol’s ‘Set fire to the third bar’, we came to a joint decision that this band is far too famous and popular, meaning our individualistic and unique ideas for our music video would be overshadowed and restricted as we would be far too influenced by the band and their original video. We were then, therefore left with four songs to choose from. Our next discussion was on the song ‘Tik Tok’ by Kesha. Again, we felt that this singer/song writer was vastly renowned for the music she produces as well as it being a difficult task to get her permission in order for us to use one of her songs. Regardless of us both liking the song ‘Better Together’ by Jack Johnson, we both agreed that we are more influenced by female artists and can relate to them more, therefore we removed him from our list of options in order to make our music video of a higher standard. We were then left with just Kina Grannis’ song ‘Valentine’ and the song by Paper Aeroplanes, ‘Lost’. After listening to both songs repeatedly and after a lengthy deliberation, we both agreed that we can create more distinctive ideas and could visualise the formation of our music video by using the song ‘Lost’.
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