Music Video Planning: Music Video Ideas

Performance

1. With a performance video only being of the band playing, I have decided instead of having a live session video of the band playing, I would have a performance story. Looking at the lyrics of the song I find that the meaning of the song means that they have gone to fast and need to head back to the begin. Through this theory the idea was made that the band should perform the song on an old stage with no one around. This is to give the feel of it being the start of their career again, going back to the start. The actors them self are still in fashionable clothes to show they have changed from there ordinary times. Within the camera shots they will be long shots so it fits the how band in to give them there equality within the band. There will also be close-ups but they will be of the instruments to show that the music is what’s important to them; and from this it gives off the idea that bands are changed by material things, and they are trying to go back to the start.

2. Another idea for a performance video would be having the band performance not in and indoor place but outside in nature. This is to capture the feeling of going back to the start, which is pure and can link with nature. Also with my idea with Bombay Bicycle Club from my mind map I linked them with bike rides that can also link with nature. With the band not being in a stage location it shows that they are not in it for the performance, it doesn’t matter where they play. This idea can come from my research with Lights and Sounds video where they are on the beach and singing about life. Within this idea the shots will be passive shots to show that the band is indie because they’re not framed shots; always moving. With the passive shots they can be moving left all the time like they are going backwards. Close-ups of the instruments and the lead singer will be used. A problem with this idea is betting the music equipment to these places.

Narrative

3. Looking at part of the lyrics of the song it says “but you hate how he looks at life” gives me the idea that the narrator is talking to or from a women’s point of view in the song. With having 2 genders within the lyric I took up the judgement of thinking that it was about a relationship. From the lyric in the relationship the women’s thoughts are that the man is taking something too far and she wants it to head back to how they were. Through this idea it will be a story from a women’s point of view in a failing relationship of arguments and sadness. With that idea I would use fast action shots because of the tenseness of arguments. Also within shots they will be mostly long shots to show space, and the loneliness but a lot of close-ups to show her sadness. The story will also follow things that happen within their relationships and flash backs will pop up of times when things were happy.

With this idea I wanted to use the camera shots with mainly using a point of view style to it. I thought that use a point of view shot will give off a new idea of a music video and would interest the audience. With these point of view shots it will follow the life of a teenager in his life where problems will occur; but it all focuses around a bike ride. But because the shot is just one shot and doesn’t have any more I will have to add other shots and angles to make it more intriguing.

Extra things that can be added to any of these ideas are a clock that is going backwards; this gives off a better idea of tome needing to go back.

Combination

This idea was contemplated in my group from several things added all together. We looked at Red Hot Chilli Peppers music video of Californication where they are trying to run to a destination; we liked the idea of this, and thought that it could link in with the picked song. The idea is that the band members in the music video are in 3 different locations, to show that it doesn’t matter where you are it’s the same. The band members are meant to be running away from their problems to find the solution, and the only way to find it is to go back. The actors in the narrative are the band members in the performance as well to show that the story is about them. There wouldn’t want me to be any transitions in the music video because the shots want to be fast. When the lead singer reaches the same point he started it goes into the performance side of the video to show that they have learnt the lesson and are starting again.

With all the ideas, they can’t all be made into a combination of both performance and narrative , and this will probably make each idea better if it was.