Different music videos

This was a find by Mr.W and its similar in genre to ours. The black and white generates quite a simple impression, and makes the hollowness of the setting more noticable. I like the way the camera frames the artist..

Her emotion is shown through body language and facial expression, without knowing the lyrics, you can immediatly tell her unhappiness. I also like the way the camera is out of focus on the background imagery and only highlights the lines of her face and hands, it connotes a sence of solitude, as if she doesnt feel she has a place in her surroundings.



Alice then mentioned this recent video and commented on its setting and camera angles. She likes the framing of the starry night and quoted that it fits

"And I am here right beside you
The lights in the sky
Are waving goodbye
I am staying right beside you"

And to add to this, i found that the intro is also very fitting to what we wanted, with the low angle sequence of the lady's legs walking down the street. I think it introduces her in quite a steriotypical way, by panning up her body the viewer can see her figure, which objectifies her and immediatly puts her in the male gaze..

Location

I now have the location for our music video sorted, and i have tried to include photos that represent the camera angles we will be using.

Bathroom inspiration

The bathroom were going to use wont be as neglected as this, but the idea of squallar is similar.

Both alice and i are looking at camera angles which we think will be beneficial to the genre of the video. Close ups are going to be quite heavily used to frame to surroundings of the charatcer, and highlight the lack of repsect for her home.

This low angle shot of the female on the floor is really inspireing, and we will be including similar angles to symbolise the weakness in her mind and body, and also the feeling of being grounded and submurged by life.

Female Makeup and bath scene ideas

These are makeup ideas. We want smudged running makeup, to intensify the emotion and lackof self respect the female character has

This last photo is a perfect camera angle to capture the squallar she lives in, and added to the female character in a white dress its the perfect example of the scene we are trying to create.

Representations of decadant lifestyles

Both Alice and i have a strong vivid imagery of what we want our female to look like and the characteristics she is to adopt. Although no drug abuse is viewed in our video, we want the character to depict that 'type'.
Alice has already drawn on a strong current celebrity in the news ' Amy Winehouse '
I have now broardened our search by finding another celeb Courtney Love, who is a blonde skinny middle aged female, with a history of drug abuse. And a string of photos to capture her worst moments...

 The makeup is heavy and draws on her cracked lips and heavy drug abuse. From this i think to really bring out the features of our female character we should use heavy eye makeup to intensify the physical features of drug abuse.

Imagery

 This image strikes me as a very emotionaly engaging photo. The black and white contrasting against the very strong red, is an idea i wish to include in my own work. I think the contrast shows beauty in darkness and would be very symbolic when used to contrast the female against the beauty and power of love.

 This photo inspired a new idea for the video.
- females hand hanging out the bath
- water dripping off her fingertips
- extream close-up of ladybird crawling down the edge of her finger
- ladybird falls off the tip of her finger encased in a water droplet
"Watching you drownI'll follow you down"

Storyboard idea

Alice has already blogged our ideas for the storyboard and has left the ending open. This is what we have:

-Male and female break up
-female becomes intoxicated whilst out partying
- male is worried and constantly calling
-female suffers with depression amongst other personal issues
-female stumbles home one night (or day) after a partying, potraying a prostitutes life syle and appearance
-she takes off her leather jacket and boots; looks at her phone ringing and chucks it on the floor
-she gets in the bath fully clothed wearing a white thin under dress
-make up and body filthy and dirty; bloodied and scratched and bruised
-male keeps calling from his own flat
-female reaches out picks up her phone then drops it in the bath
-male notices that the phone has stopped ringing
-in the males flat you see all the photo frames with pictures of the couple
-he gets up and leaves (slow motion) hes running through alley ways and dark streets
-shes feeling weaker and weaker, she has consumed drugs
-she lights a cigarette and smoke hovers around her
-the bath water is muggy and dark
-a ladybird crawls along the rim of the bath
-he is running up to her house
-she drops the cigarette in the bath (she is dying)
-hes is running up her stairs
-her head is slowly going further and further down the side of the bath reaching the water
-suddenly her head is completely under
-he reaches the landing and opens the door
-he races forward and lifts her out

I think the ending should have some closure similar to the lyrics, and he should be holding her head out of the bath even though he knows hes too late and she has died. The night sky can be viewed from the bathroom window and the stars begin to go out of focus and the light slowly disapears.

"Watching you drown
I'll follow you down
And I am here right beside you
The lights in the sky
Are waving goodbye
I am staying right beside you"