New Idea

Since my group received negative feedback for our original music video ideas for the song 'Haven't Met You Yet' by Michael Buble, we had to reconsider what type of genre of music we would be able to produce a video for most effectively.

Our three main ideas were as follows;

• 'Blanket' by Urban Species Feat. Imogen Heap
• 'Angel' by Massive Attack
• 'Into Dust' by Mazzy Star

Our teacher thought it best that we used the Mazzy Star song 'Into Dust' and supplied us with some great starting ideas and themes. This enabled us to create our own adapted thoughts and ideas about the music video that we would like to make for the song.

We sat down as a group to reach a mutual decision on what we wanted to include in the video, and discussed a theme, shot ideas (in terms of camera angle etc.), and people to include. After finding common ground and reaching a final idea, we began to develop it and put it into action by discussion the creation of a moodboard. We also printed off the lyrics to the song and came up with ideas involving these. This would create a relationship between the lyrics and visuals in the video, and would enable it to be considered more likely to be an actual media product.

One of our original ideas involves a female performer sitting on a stool in a run-down barn in a long flowing white dress, with a male seated, also on a stool, behind her, playing an acoustic guitar. We have discussed having 'old-fashioned' rugs and bits of carpets on the floor, fairy lights hanging around the area and a microphone on a stand at the front of the area.

In addition to the performance-based part of the music video, my group also plans to use a narrative-based part, to split the video up, as it is a very slow-paced song we need to be able to keep the viewer interested.

The plan for the narrative-based section of the video is going to be mysterious and confusing. It is not going to be so much a story or narrative, more like just shots of the female performer walking and running around the woods, that has balloons tied to the trees. There is not going to be an explanation as to where the balloons came from, and why the female is in the woods. This will hopefully create the desired effect that my group want to create.

After comparing the two different scenes, and discussing how they would fit and work together, my group changed the plan that the female would be wearing the white dress in the barn scene, and instead dressed her in this costume for the woods scene. This was due to the fact that after looking at existing media music videos, it is quite common or understood that in outside scenes, for example in woods, water, and beach, the female performer wears a long light-coloured dress.

So, before the filming can be started, and therefore completed, my group will need to make a decision on the outfit for the barn scene of the music video.

We plan to use the female mouthing the lyrics to the song, in a singing fashion, throughout the video, but not singing all of the lines. We are going to discuss how we feel, as a group, about the female singing the words to the song that are during the part of her in the woods. Do we need her to sing these words as well as the words that are sung while she is in the barn for the music video to look good and 'proper'? Will it look strange if she is not, or will it work better if she sings throughout? Will she need to sing all of the lyrics in the song or can some lines of lyrics be left unsung while the viewer is kept busy with the visuals given? In order to find answers to these questions, we will need to experiment during filming. By this is mean that we will need to double film sections or actions of the video. We will need to film a shot with the female singing the lines doing an action and then re-film the same shot without her singing and see which works better.