My First Video Idea

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Now that I have a choice of two similar songs, I am going to plan out my music video and give a brief description of exactly what I want to include over the duration of the song. I will begin by explaining the scene and scenario.

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Scene / Scenario

The music video will be set in a broken down street, with run down facilities and dysfunctional people who seem to just live in a life of crime and create doom and gloom for everyone else. This will create a dark mood and make the audience think that bad things are going to happen within the music video, when actually there is going to be a complete contrast which will introduce the happy side to the music. The beginning of the music video (as the music builds up) will show the scenes and what goes on within them, whilst a character enters and begins to change the tone.

Now that I have set the scene for what is going to happen, I will try and explain as best as possible my idea of what I want to happen within the music video, and what theme I am going to try and create overall.

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In-depth Description

The video will begin with a car door slamming done with a medium shot in order to show the characters hand closing the door, rather than just the door itself. This will help to create the mystery I want until the time is right. As the scene progressed we are faced with long shots and medium shots of the surrounding areas, showing both people and buildings to get a feel for the doom and gloom that is present. The camera will follow from behind the character occasionally switching from what the character sees, to what the camera man sees (who isn't present). The character will walk past the slums until he finds a suitable spot in which, he will burst into spontaneous dance. At this point, I am going to switch the scene multiple times in order to show that he has done this in more than one location. This way I will get the best contrast as the audience will not get bored with the same scene as well as it will show how the character has traveled to different locations to try and brighten up the gloom. The video will progressively become more upbeat until the bridge (which applies within both of my selection) where the music starts to dim again. I like this effect because it allows me to take a break within the music and stop the dancer from dancing to take a break to reflect on what he has been doing prior to the bridge. This will also add humor to the scene as it will allow the scene to once again go serious, in preparation for more insanity as the dancer begins to dance once again when the beats re-enter. It will continue to do this until the end of the song, in which (after the music has ended) the dancer will stop dancing, walk back to his car, get in it, and begin to drive away.

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By adding the extra scene at the end, we can give the effect that he is going to do his dancing elsewhere and create happiness elsewhere. I would love for this video to be remembered as an official music video as I think the idea could work if I do it rightly, although this may not be my final idea. I am going to have a think about what else could work simultaneously to the music in order to get an equally as good effect, so if I gather any more ideas before I go into my final planning, I will post it here on my blog.