Updated Creative Ideas

Following research into existing music videos and analysis of the lyrics here is an update of my ideas for the video; -

• ·      We had discussed using powder paint to match the visuals to the lyrics “paint you with the colours of everything I ever was”. After my individual research into existing music videos, P!nk’s video, Try, effectively used powder paint so I discussed this idea further with my group and we have decided to pour a bucket of powder paint over someone’s head for the video and then over-crank it as we feel that this will work very well. We could also break up this shot using editing by putting other shots of the star lip-synching then back to the paint shot.
• ·      Another idea that came from an existing video, One Direction’s Little Things, was the dollying shot type. At first we thought this would be nearly impossible as we don’t have the equipment to do it, but after I researched behind the scenes of the video, one idea I had was to create a makeshift dollying device. If we could find a completely hard flat surface, we could use a simple shopping trolley to film in and push someone around in it. Although it is possible for us to do, I don’t know whether or not this shot type will work for our genre so we may try it but I cant see it actually being used in the final product.
• ·      As for costume, we had already discussed the simple idea of Morgan wearing a little black dress for the video. However, after thinking more deeply into this, some ideas that have emerged from discussion are the use of several black dresses that we could buy cheap from a charity shop to burn or rip in the video. If we could get a shot of Morgan burning a little black dress in our music video, it could express the anger portrayed through some of the lyrics. Also, we could film Morgan wearing a worn, ripped, tattered old black dress in some shots where it fits particular lyrics similar to the dress worn in P!nk’s video.
•             I looked at some setting ideas and lighting techniques in Bastille’s video for Pompeii. I got some good ideas from this video such as the idea of car lights in the dark directly onto the star. This looks very effective and can easily be done. I’d also thought of using a shot similar to that seen in Birdy’s video for Skinny Love, we could film a shot of Morgan standing in front of a window with the light coming from behind her so that it gives a silhouette effect.