Development of Ideas

Below are photos of me and my group discussing possible ideas for when we film our music video. Here we are in Starbucks, and as we were drinking coffee we have come up with certain techniques and hooks to make our music video more interesting to watch, as we have decided that our music video will be based purely on narrative.
We have decided that we shall use different movements within our video. For example, as part of our narrative involves our male protagonist walking down a street in his search for our female protagonist, we could have him walking backwards down the street. From this, we developed an idea of our male protagonist being shot lying down on a cobbled pavement, and then we film our actor through a panning mid shot of him walking backwards alongside the pavement. With the masked idea, we have also begun to think that to add a warped affect to our music video, we could have the odd mask appearing from time to time throughout the first verse of the song, to increase the spooky feel.

Furthermore, throughout the rift part of our song, we thought that in the location of a church yard, (which there is a photograph of in another blog post further down) we could have our male protagonist being invaded by about ten masked creatures, and as they circle around our male protagonist he could faint and perhaps even black out in the middle of the circle, which will be shot by a birds eye view shot if possible. If not then we shall shoot this scene through a long shot.

Finally, the next idea will become more clear through our storyboards, but as an idea we thought that at one particular point in the music video, we could have our male protagonist actually punch the wall in his frustration as he can't find our female protagonist. We thought that this could be achieved through perhaps editing this into slow motion to add to the effect that he has lost hope. This would be filmed through a close shop, and then the shot will cut into a shot of broken glass and our male protagonist hand bleeding. This would signify our actors pain and suffering and feeling of desperation.
The genre of our music video is "Indie" which although is a diverse and large genre, it is also one of the biggest currently in the world of music.