Weather Forecasts

We plan on filming on Sunday, so we need to find out the weather forecast to see if it's suitable. So far, Sunday looks like a good day for filming according to BBC Weather, but that could change so I'll update later in the week.

 

Character List/Photographic Documentation of Actors

Oliver Cooke, who will play the video's protagonist and the vocalist/electric guitar, and will serve as an editor.

Alex Hodgkinson, who will serve as director, cameraman and editor.

Jay Kaye, who will serve as cameraman and editor.

Sian Woodland, who will play the secondary character, the protagonist's wife.

George Mugglestone, who will play a guitarist in the band.

Ellie Spindler, who will play the drummer of the band.

Narrative and Performance Ideas

Our idea so far is to have a music video with a narrative section and performance section entwined. Both will follow conventions of the indie genre. The performance section can all be done in one large, empty room such as in a warehouse or on a stage with no crowd to create the effect of emptiness and loneliness. The narrative section will largely be the same, with the protagonist being alone in an empty, urban environment. The narrative section will be split into two, with one half focusing on the relationship the protagonist once had falling apart and in a state of confusion, with the other half being the aftermath of such, being darker and lonelier in tone and appearance, which we will achieve through mise en scene and editing.

Story and Narrative

The narrative section of our music video is focused on a man looking back at his life with the woman he loves, with half of the section focusing on flashbacks of his life and the other half focusing on him wandering across abandoned places such as fields and down roads to emphasise loneliness and confusion. At the end of the video, we see what could be the woman walking towards the camera at the end.

Logistics Planning

We plan on using secluded areas so as to not have things in the shots that we don't want. Certain areas, such as hills, grasslands and warehouses around our local area can be used to create a successful atmosphere for our music video. Hardly anybody uses these areas and we have easy access to all of them.

All we need is smart and casual clothing to create the needed atmosphere. As of yet, we only have my overcoat, but finding these clothes shouldn't be difficult. We can create the dark atmosphere through editing, so few props are needed.

Risk Assessment

There are very few risks with our opening. The biggest risk is probably slipping down hills that we're using, especially if it has been raining, but even this risk is small. We just have to be careful where we walk and hope that it hasn't been, or isn't, raining.

Intertextuality

Intertextuality is when a homage or reference is paid to something in a piece of media. Music videos often incorporate types of intertextuality as references such as homages and parodies. Popular examples of intertextuality in music videos are 'Losing My Religion' by REM, 'Telephone' by Lady Gaga and 'Walk' by the Foo Fighters.

For our music video, we're making reference and taking influence from many conventional indie videos, with the indoor band shots being a clear homage to music videos such as 'Wonderwall' (Oasis), 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' (Nirvana) and 'I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor' (Arctic Monkeys). We've taken little to no influence from other forms of media.

Focus Group Results

We did a video for our focus group to get feedback on our ideas and sent out a questionnaire to thirty different people to find results. Below is the questionnaire used:

Questionnaire Template - A2 Music Video Coursework

Applicants ticked the boxes that applied to them and answered verbal questions to help us form data for the music video. We also created a sample answer from one of the results:



We presented this slide show to our primary focus group to evoke reactions and hear where we could improve:



Here is our focus group's reaction and response to the slideshow:



Focus Group