R&P Post 16: Update on Our Music Video Plans!

Hi there! Welcome back to my blog! Today me and my group got together to begin planning our music video more thoroughly in terms of what shot types we want for different parts of the song and what will be in them.

So the day before we all listened to the song individually and began brainstorming our own ideas for different shots to be in our music video. Below you can see a picture of some of the ideas that I cam up with for the beginning of our music video:

All members of my group completed this task and in our lesson today we came together and discussed all of our ideas. For example, Lesley suggested for our opening shot we could have a wide shot of the boy sitting in his bedroom with the virtual reality (VR) headset already on, and then the camera quickly zooms into the headset, into an entirely different shot which is symbolic of how the boy is now in a completely different world. We are thinking that it will look something like the beginning of the music video for 'I Got You' by Duke Dumont which you can watch below:

The concept of this music video is also rather similar to our idea for our music video, potentially providing inspiration for us and our plans.

In this meeting today, we also came up with an outline of the narrative of our music video which is:

1) In the first verse we will have a variety of shots of the couple driving in a car, cuddling and holding hands with each other as well as some performance shots at the beginning.

2) During the first chorus the couple will rob a shop and steal some of their products but mainly just their money.

3) This will be the second verse and during this the couple will break into a house and steal things.

4) In this part of the music video the second chorus will begin and we will have many different performance shots of the artist singing on a rooftop and make it fast-paced to match the pace of the song's chorus.

For the end of our music video we are not entirely sure what we are going to do yet but we have made a vague plan to have a group of gangsters catch the couple and then the boy will 'die' in the game and the screen will say 'GAME OVER'. Then the camera will cut to a shot showing the boy in his bedroom simply taking off the VR headset, revealing that it was all just a game.

So there we have some updated plans on what we are planning for our music video. I hope you found it interesting and hope to see you again soon!