Original Music Video Ideas

Today, Carmel and I got together to come up with some ideas for our music video. While we have already made a mind map considering things such as location, audience, location etc, we knew we had to confirm these in much more detail. In our original mind map of ideas we decided to have a narrative in our video, however we decided we would do both a narrative and story running side by side in our music video. 

Our main idea, is to have auditions for the music video taking place within our music video. We aim to film six or seven people singing different parts of the song, with one person being chosen as successful. We will then incorporate the successful candidate into the narrative of the video. We aim to film the auditions in colour, using the same background for all candidates and have them all wearing similar clothes. We're aiming for natural shots in the auditions, where they go wrong or sing the wrong line, to make sure we're making it as natural as can be. We're then going to edit the narrative to black and white to ensure we're still staying on track with the theme of the artist.

We think the costumes in the narrative should be simple, mainly black and white. The costumes in the auditions may be slightly more colourful, to show the individuality of each person auditioning. We will also style the character who gets the role to be in the music video, as similar to what will be in the video and similar to the style of the artist. This will show the character and how they have thought about the role before auditioning.

The audition shots will all be interior shots and filmed in the same place, against a plain wall, with a clapper board at the start or each scene. The narrative shots will mainly be outdoors, possibly in a much darker setting, filmed in late evening, to ensure some genre conventions are identifiable.