Inspiring A2 Video!

This amazing music video just proves to us how much you can achieve when you put you stay focus and on such a simple on idea! The simple concept of the video alongside the complexed editing skills captures your attention throughout!

Even more amazing is the fact he was able to shoot this all in one day, one area and with one character which just makes you realise how much editing he would have done to create such a great video. Also proves how much material you can get out of filming for one straight day and what you can make of it.

The slow motion shots and the shadowing shots have really inspired me and our group to use these techniques in our own music video! Also taking his advice on board 'Start early and plan. Be ready to re-shoot and re-edit'.. We better get a move on!!

Video Inspiration

Maroon 5 released a song in 2012 called 'one more night' and created a music video that has alot of relation to our music video. In their music video it focuses on his relationship and his boxing whereas in our music we will just be focusing on the boxing itself. However this video has some great shots that we will hope to recreate in our own way in our own music video.

Vlog

  

This our first group vlog of us throwing our ideas out there. As you can tell we have made a few changes and once again changed back to going with a more serious concept. We have decided to just stick with the boxing and just follow a boxers journey leading up to a match. So we will be basically just filming the build up including practice and different skills and try and get all the emotions through his facial expressions into our music video.

Boxing Video

So we've come across this video on youtube and the first few minutes of this video are basically what we are basing our music video on now. We are trying to go for the simplicity of a day of boxing so this video has inspired us and helped us see how our ideas of the shots we are hoping to get will look in our music video. I love the use of slow motion every now and then even of the simplest skills like him stretching and in our video hopefully we can get footage of more skills used in there training and finish with a match also using slow motion throughout. Hopefully we will stick with this idea now as we are all settled with it but obviously there is bound to be changes made but this video has really helped us to visually imagine what our music video will look like at parts.

Mood Boards!

Here are our groups mood boards!

Song choice

So after a lot of rethinking we have decided to use Swedish house mafias song 'save the world' for our music video. Even though it is male singers the song goes well with our concept and strong characters and the two contrasting ideas to or music video of professional fighters and superheroes. For this reason as well we don't mind lip syncing a male voice as with our video concept we feel we didn't need to stick to a female singer.

     'Save The World' lyrics

Into the streets, we're coming down
We never sleep, Never get tired
Through urban fields, and suburban life

Turn the crowd up now, We'll never back down
Shoot down a skyline, watch it in primetime
Turn up the love now, listen up now, turn up the love

Who's gonna save the world tonight?
Who's gonna bring you back to life?
We're gonna make it, you and I
We're gonna Save The World tonight

Ohoh oh oh, oh oh ohoh oh [x9]

We're far from home, it's for the better
What we dream, it's all that matters
We're on our way, united

Turn the crowd up now, We'll never back down
Shoot down a skyline, watch it in primetime
Turn up the love now, listen up now, turn up the love

Who's gonna save the world tonight?
Who's gonna bring you back to life?
We're gonna make it, you and I
We're gonna Save The World tonight

Ohoh oh oh, oh oh ohoh oh [repeated till end]

Permission Email

This is our email to Polydor Records asking permission to use Swedish house mafias song. Also informing them that we have no intentions to sell our video on anare aware of copyright infringements.T

Changes!

So we've had quite a few ups and downs with our video concept and our choice of song! We had decided to go for a more serious take on a music video and we were going to attempt to create a fairy tale like story in out video but a modern take on the story, a bit like 'Naughty boy- lala' video where he has introduced a modern take on wizards of oz through the use of characters, so we did think about using red riding good as a base to go off.. That didn't last very long, we then decided to go back to basics, sit down with a cup of coffee and rethink our whole idea! So just from jotting ideas   decided to go back to our first kind of ideas of a more fun humorous take on a music video..  To put it basically there will be quite a few costumes, over exaggerated acting and most probably a cringey old pop hit.. We still haven't fully decided on a song because we want to have a song that will fit our concept and that we all agree on.. We have some strange ideas that we hope will work out and another idea was to make some of the video look home made but well shot. I will be posting our storyboards and final ideas and song in the next week!