Initial Idea's for Music Video

Over the past week, me and my group have been planning initial ideas for our music video. We have chosen our final song:
New York Fund - No body Home
We found that this song had a good beat and interesting lyrics, which has the ability to give us good idea's for making a strong narrative, which is the reason we chose this song over The Shining by The Alps, as as a group we came to a decision that the lyrics were far to competitive and grew boring. Furthermore, the genre of the New York Fund is Indie Rock, therefore for our film, we will try and find actor's to personae the band, however we need to find serious actor's so it doesn't come across to the screen that we just found a "bunch" of sixth formers to play in a school gym, as they wouldn't work at all. Or, instead of finding a band which may be hard to find, me and my group are considering finding a protagonist which links are narrative to a storyline. For example, an Indie man just strumming a guitar on the street, such as a busker.
Arguments Against using a band to impersonate the New York Fund would be that:

• The band would most likely be in a setting of a garage, making it hard to link the narrative of a man chasing a woman, and the man walking across the screen at a garage when he walks past the band "looking for a girl."
• It would make editing very difficult, as we would have to time the bands miming with New York Fund perfectly, as a result making the music video look not as effective.

So far, our ideas are raw and the storyboards will be completed after a few days when our ideas have developed to create a strong storyline. Firstly, we decided to base our music video on the theme of film noir, i.e. giving our film an authentic atmosphere; basing the narrative on a storyline of a man and woman's relationship. We thought that we could use the narrative of the boy chasing the girl, and them ending up at a train station and the girl running away. As a group we came to the decision that we could have two narratives playing at the same time, one storyline following the girl running away, while the other focusing on the man chasing her. As a way to portray this across the screen, an idea of editing our music video into split screen could be a possibility. As a result, this will make an effective mise en scene, and the black and white of the music video will give the video a quirky effect.

Below are images of Film Noir, which is what inspired the theme for our music video:

Furthermore, below is a link to a website which shows the type of split screen we can use in our music video. This website explores most type of split screens which will be possible to make.

http://www.splitscreen.us/