Our idea is to convey a variety of annoying situations which would defiantly not make anyone feel good, but the irony of our video is that everyone smiles after the bad scenarios happen to them. We have also decided to include in our video various scenes of the band at the chorus of the song. This shows that the band is still pinnacle to the music behind the video. Although unfortunately due to the fact that none of our group could get hold of the appropriate instruments we decided to just make it one boy with his guitar.
Some ideas for the situations in the video include; Someone tripping and spilling everything from their bad; a bike hitting someone on the path, a girl falling over after seeing a boy she liked and so on.
We have also tried to include a sense of misdirection in the video, a slight in continuity. We got our inspiration for this from the MUSE video Hysteria. It tells a story which is easily understood but it is not in the chronological order in which the events should have happened.
Ours is not as extreme as theirs, but, we have tried to change a few scenes so they perhaps aren’t quite in the same place, and we have shot a few scenes of us walking in different locations to also create this sense of misdirection.
Despite deciding it would be interesting to make the characters smile we did want to have different people portraying different reactions. For example, when Vicky and I walk through the gardens we don't smile; even when Amy helps Vicky pick up her things from the floor she doesn't acknowledge her. This is another way in which we decided to mix up the the song, locations, plot and subplot of our peice.
Also we wanted to shoot the video in the local gardens; this is because we know the songs continual theme is nature. This we thought could be a good way of keeping some of the continuity from the song, but in a different sense. Instead of keeping it in the scenes or locations we thought the lyrics would be more effective and show a deeper side to our video.
Here is the link to the MUSE Hysteria video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7la0SndoCI
This is our video.
You need to look more closely at existing products and analyse and contextualise them and talk about how they relate, or not, to what you are doing. You also need more of your production materials such as story boards and filming schedule. You then need to move to digipak work. Keep working at it, you only have a week left.
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