Similar Music Videos!

As previously mentioned before we have decided that our music video will be focused mainly on the psychopathic behaviour of our female character and does no hold a specific narrative as it is more a visual viewing of her stages of mental illness. So we wanted to capture our concept through the use of lighting, mise en scene, cinematography and obviously editing and while creating more ideas as a group on what techniques we should use and finally filming the scenes we wanted I found similar concepts in other relevant music videos.

 Rihanna was the main artist that I researched first as I knew she only recently released a music video to her single 'what now' taken from her latest album unapologetic which, when watching again, has very similar characteristics to our music video. She uses similar mise en scene to us such as the stereotypical white room and dull, plain clothing and the contrast with another scene with dark clothing. Also the same demented feel is captured and conveyed through the video as we have tried to capture in our room shots. Like rihannas video where they only shot her scenes in two locations a black and a white room, we also kept it simple by sticking to three locations, an open field, white room and forty hall so we could focus more on capturing our characters emotions than busy surroundings. Also in her video she uses overlaying shots a lot which we have used to create more effect and relate to her mental state more.





Also two of Rihannas older music videos, 'Disturbia' which was released in 2008 from her album 'good girl gone bad: Reloaded' and 'Russian Roulette' released in 2009 from her album 'Rated R' also share the same similarities bwteen the concepts of the music videos. Using Rihanna to act in psychotic ways and convey her as disturbed or on the verge of insanity. Again using similar qualities such as the dark, dreary colours and white rooms, quick shots and flashing lights which we have also included in our music video. The use of the overlay shots really works in all three of these video and adds a sense of disorientation, as does the flicking and flashing of lights, in our case we used strobe lights to add this effect while filming, which we have also wanted to capture in our video and have been making progress with while editing. These videos have been really inspiring for us and given us even more ideas on what we could do and add to our own music video.

New Idea!!

So for our new idea we have decide to use hannah as the protagonist who is mentally ill and has a psychological problem which is highlighted through all our shots. We have two main locations, the first location is in a large field, it may sound unoriginal and quite stereotypical but we all decided that this scenery would work best for the shots we wanted, the field was also flooded.. just what we needed as you will see later on. Our second location is in my bedroom which we are currently painting white and turning into a psychiatric ward like room and will be hopefully filming there on wednesday when its all sorted. Below are some pictures from our first filming session, we should be finished filming by next week which gives us enough time to edit all of it even though we have already started editing what we have filmed.

Hannah before filming..

and after..

Alicia pre filming..

The muddy conditions we needed to film in..

Rudimentals music video.

This is Rudimentals original music video to this song however this is 6:19 long so we have decided to use the radio edit which is only 3:28.

Lyrics for our new song!

Rudimental Right Here

(feat. Foxes)

[Verse:]

Late at night when you realize you're on your own

I know the feelings inside you start to grow

[Per-Chorus]

Please tell me that it's alright, alright, alright

I wanna know

Please tell me that it's alright, alright, alright

I wanna know

Please tell me, tell me

[Chorus x2]

'Cause everybody's got something

Something they can't hide

Let it out into the open

Right here, right now

Oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh

[Verse:]

When you turn up the light and you're all alone

Cold as the shapes and the shadow's gone

[Pre-Chorus]

Please tell me that it's alright, alright, alright

Tell me that it's alright, alright, alright

I wanna know

Please tell me, tell me...

[Chorus x2]

'Cause everybody's got something

Something they cant hide

Let it out into the open

Right here, right now

Oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh

(everybody clap your hands now)

Oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh

(Everybody clap your hands oh oh oh oh)

Oh oh oh oh

[Chorus x2]

'Cause everybody's got something

Something they cant hide

Let it out into the open

Right here, right now

Oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh 

(Everybody clap your hands now}

Oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh

(Everybody clap your hands oh oh oh oh)

Oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh

(Everybody clap your hands oh oh oh oh)

Big Change!

So this is our vlog on how we've changed our whole idea including the song and why we've decided to change all our ideas so late in the day but no worries, we've got this!

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!

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!