Narrative (Revised)

After much discussion we decided that our narrative and shooting locations plus the ability to get all of our original cast in one place at one time was too complex. We decided to change our locations but keep the initial love story in the video.

The plot is now as follows:

A boy is sitting at a fire looking at a photo of a girl. The shot then cuts to a flashback of when the boy and girl first met. The story is of a couple, who were together but since have split because the girl has to move away. The film is from the boys point of view of flashbacks of the times they had spent together, and then comes back to the present when he is alone. We thought the idea of flashbacks would make our film more interesting and add an element of originality as none of our class mates has done so, although the use of flashbacks are frequently used in films such as; Pink - Family Portrait. We have chosen just to use 2 people to make it easier to organise and so we can get a range of more interesting shots with close-ups and split screens with the editing. And the varying locations were easy to get to and plan to go to with a smaller cast. We will try to tell the story of their love with present and past with interesting features, locations and styles of filming to make the video the best and most interesting we can make it.

Visual Narrative For Original Idea

Here in bullet points is what is happening shot by shot in our music video.

• Medium shot of the sea, sand and sky, with only the sound of the waves crashing in on the beach to connote the tranquility of the beach and how quiet and sucluded the setting is. The lighting will be naturally of late afternoon/early evening trying to capture a sunset. The camera will start to pan around to the first shot when the song starts.



• Panning shot around the lighting gets darker and stops at the artist with a guitar in his hands and he is standing by the fire, with the rest of the cast sitting around the fire. This is when the song starts. The lighting is darker than the first shot.



• A high angle shot of the fire and a girls feet, this is to add some mystery to the shot as you don't know what the girl looks like, who she or what significance she has to the music video. The camera then pans up her body to the girls face.



• Close up of a girl's face (2 seconds )



• Cut to an establishing shot of the artist and the cast around the fire.



• Cut to artist walking slowly towards the camera whilst playing the guitar and singing the song.



• The next shot is of a long shot of male actors arriving at the beach.



• Cut to low angle shot of the new arrival at the top of the hill/dunes with the sunset in the background, this signifies the love theme.



• Tracking shot of the boy walking towards the group.


I would have finished this post, but half way through writing it. Our group decided to change our idea, so I will write one for our new idea/video

Costumes. - Original

Guitar Player & Guys - Board shorts/Jean, collared shirt, hoodies, trainers.

Girls - jeans (skinny or slim fit), flip flops, mens/big hoodies, loose hair, bikini under clothes to indicate high street fashion and popular culture, these sorts of clothing would be available in popular high street stores.

We have picked our cast to be dressed in this way as it connotes a beach look at night, when the good weather has faded and goes with the natural sound of the acoustic track we have chosen as they are in relaxed and casual clothing. We also chose this as the setting of the music video is a casual one, and the clothes are fashionable and modern, which also goes with the style of our music video.

To begin with we were going to dress our actors in clothing that would be expected of a day at the beach, but after rethinking we realised if we were going to a party on the beach at night we would dress warmer and less like we were going to a beach as the weather would be worse and it would be colder than during the day. Here are photo's of what we intially thought our cast would look like.

Props

Fire wood - the fire represents the light shining relating to the title of the song & the sparks of the fire act and connote the sparks between the two lovers.

Fire lighters (a lighter/matches)

Deck chairs/beach towels/picnic blankets - for the group to be sitting on around the fire in the middle of them.

Acoustic guitar - for the singer to be playing in the video.

A digital camera (for characters to be using in the video)

Crate of beer - represents the group of friends having a laugh involving alcohol as it is a sterotypical item that you would expect at a teenage party.

Photographs of the props will be added to this post soon, once we have started filming.