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Monday, 2 December 2013

Music video ideas

Music Video Ideas:

After much consideration, I decided to execute my initial idea concept one. When i first wrote it out, this was the summary: 

"This concept tells the story of an individual who is embarking in a deep thought process. Feeling confined he starts on an aimless walk to clear his head and goes a long distance. Interweaving with this story line is the tale of another character (antagonist) who receives a message with a picture of the other man’s face, he then starts preparing himself to go and kidnap the man. As both narratives progress through the story, they collide and the walking man is dragged into a van and taken in to the distance. He is brought to a desolate, abandoned location and then the camera fades out. Upon the ending of the video the kidnapper then receives a photo of another person’s face."

This idea was inspired from the videos 'Duquesne Whistle' by Bob Dylan and 'Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?'. In the Bob Dylan music video, the protagonist is captured by mobsters and taken to a warehouse where he is brutally attacked, whilst interweaving with this story is Bob Dylan walking through New York at night. In the Arctic Monkeys video, it features primarily mid close up shots of the Protagonist walking through Sheffield at night. I decided to incorporate both of these ideas into my video and add a little twist. 
Therefore I decided that there would be two interweaving story lines; one of the Protagonist, who is walking around the city, and one of the antagonist who is builds up a plan to capture him. Then the protagonist and antagonist meet and the protagonist is dragged into the back of a van, taken to a desolate area and the ending implies he dies as the camera fades out. Upon the end of the video the antagonist receives another message, and the video implies that he is about to kidnap another person. This produces an unconventional ending, meeting my genre convention.
The costume for the protagonist will connote innocence, featuring colours such as white and grey. Whilst the antagonist's costume will connote evil and corruption, consisting of predominantly black. This creates a narrative convention of antagonist and protagonist, but this convention is broken as the protagonist does not overcome the trouble he faces.

My intended video idea deconstructed:
Upon the opening of the video, there will be multiple shots of the video sped up, then it comes to an immediate stop of a still shot of a street with the sound of the street in the background. The protagonist (played by Jack Marley) will then walk on from the side into the view of the camera, initiating the music of the video. There will then be multiple cross cuts of him walking in different areas, creating the sense that the background is changing and that he is embarking on a long walk. The video will then cut to the antagonist (played by myself) receiving a text message (with or without a picture of the antagonist). The scenes featuring the antagonist will be dimly lit to enforce the fact that he is the evil character of the narrative. The antagonist then gets ready and leaves his house. The video will then cut to the protagonist walking down different streets again. After several shots of the protagonist walking down streets, the video will cut to the antagonist getting into a van and starting it up. The video then cuts to the protagonist walking down multiple streets again, but this time the background changes on every snare hit of the chorus. 

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