Justifying The Bag Situation

After our media feedback, one of our audience members was startled why my character dropped off her bag and kept on running.

Reason: we took inspiration from Kodaline - All I Want Part 2 where the protagonist left his bag at the end of the video. We looked at this video and realised that it would fit into ours as well. With my story, we wanted her to basically run as a free person, getting away from her problems and starting almost fresh.

The real reason: we filmed our running shots without it and then realised that I ran with my bag in early shots at other locations so we needed to show that I dropped my bag somewhere.

Here is the music video of Kodaline Part 2

Our Final Music Video

Horrahhhhh!

Wash by Mac 3

Sick of Losing Soulmates by Dodie

We watched this together and highlighted something that could inspire us for Ruby's Story. This video has inspired us to slightly change the narrative for ours and instead of having Ruby watching something liberal on TV, we decided to have her "parents" see her out with her girlfriend. Further considerations and planning will go into this over the next few weeks and how we can portray this. 

Audience Feedback

Showing the 30 second clip, we asked our class what they thought and what we should do to improve upon it. Taking their ideas, we have now decided to use more of an older character to portray my parents. Which means a lot of persuasion to my actual parents to actually argue with a camera in front of them instead of nothing at all.

30 Second Snippet

Before the holidays we showed the class some of our footage that we have iced together in time to the music. Here is the clip put together.

Sleep on the Floor by The Lumineers

I saw this video on Youtube a few days ago and I found some elements of our video in this.

This narrative music video silences the conversations playing the music over the script and allows us to symbolise the lyrics to their story; running away. 

Again, like our video it has the element of running but theres is more of a love story and how they are running away from their individual problems to be together and get married.

even though ours isn't like that the actual simplicity of the video is just allowing us as an audience to go through their journey together and hopefully we can do that with ours and show the two different satires just come together and forget about their problems (Use of Gratification Theory) 

New Idea Research

We finally have a different idea. Still keeping the same song but instead changing the contrast of old/young.
The two characters are going to be the same age but have two different reasons why they are running away.
1st = family breakdown
2nd = fear of coming out

Here is my research on reasons why the first character is running away and how the impact of family can make you think about everything and in the end, run away.

Here is the other research as why adults run away. The two characters are both the same age (17/18 years old) and still have parental support and still can be affected by their parents opinions/choices hence why the second character is scared to or already has told her family about her sexuality and therefore she runs away because of the answer they gave or they answer she thinks they will give her.

Where Is the Love by Black Eyed Peas

After the horrible events that have happened this year, the re-vamp of this song that first released after 9/11. Using people with different races, sexuality, beliefs coming together to make the world a safer and happier place. This video is very simple but having os many celebrities and families of the people who have had their son/daughter or someone taken away from them because of all this anger and hatred towards a race or sexuality they don't like. 

'Send My Love (To Your New Lover)' by Adele

Again another simple video in one location but it's Adele so it's great!

I really like the idea of all different movements of the same person at once and would be really interesting to see how it comes out if we was to do a taster of those kinds of shots.
It does confuse myself as well but it really captivates you and even simple music videos can work really well.

However, when I heard this live, I really liked the background screen whilst she was singing this song. With all letters and words scrolling across like she was sending a message, that would be quite cool to see how that would work over a white screen with someone lip syncing in front.
Also, her makeup is really simple as she normally has her eyeliner but this video doesn't have it so it's a very laid back video that can still be enjoyed by millions of people.

Here is the video

'Tears' by Clean Bandit

I saw this music video a couple of weeks ago and really liked a few of their ideas.

Given the fact they definitely had a bigger budget then we will but some look very easy to consolidate on.

I really enjoyed the powder colours coming out of their instruments. But if we had to use the colours (which I do like the idea of) I would use it in another way.
With that, the dancers coming together in the water was quite clever and if we was to do a performance video, I would recommend dancers in the first draft on our video ideas.

However, there was only one location the actual mise-en-scene was simple, especially the dancers but the nature (wind, fire and rain) was quite clever but I don't think we'll bringing fire into our video!!

Here is the music video

 

3 Favourite ECS Music Videos

1) 2016

I really liked this one because the story behind it, really represents what is happening right now for women. Also, their variety of shots and the song really match the whole narrative.

2) 2015
The use of projections and the other shots over the main focus shot is really clever and really reflects the song and it was quite good to see a school project to use a shots with a band, a common convention for a music video.

3) 2014

The scenes in the bedroom with the hospital gown were my favourite shots because the way it was edited in time with the beat of the music really captured the performance and is a good example for inspiration on whether to do a performance or narrative.