Planning: Pitch (Inspirations)

There are various music videos that have inspired our own, and the plans and ideas we have for it. Each of us have been posting videos, ideas for our own and editing techniques we could us and wrote about it. Here are some of them:

The first and main video that has influenced us is Ellie Goulding's video for 'Your Song'. It is very much the kind of video we want to shoot. The video is set around the same time we will be shooting our film which is autumn and the colours and costumes are very similar. Also the setting is similar to the one we want to use, such as forests, fields, parks and generally in nature. The difference between this video and our one is that our will follow more of a story, or so we have planned for the moment at least. We also like the way this video is edited because there are a variety of shots and sort of 'flashbacks' which is something we want to develop.

Having thought of maybe incorporating the idea of white card with lyrics or possibly photographs, I remembered this song by a new and upcoming artist (in Egypt), Hamza Namira. We really like the idea of having frames hanging up on a tree, but unlike in this video we want to show the artist actually hanging everything up and then at the end you see what it looks like. She will probably have photographs of the boy she loves and/or her, and possibly certain places she liked or bring back happy memories.

Another one of our many ideas is to go on an old fashioned route master bus and film some shots on it like the  and also by the river Thames. In the video 'For Tomorrow' by Blur and Adele's 'Someone Like You' both these scenes appear in them. It is also nice the way that both the videos are in black and white and we could possibly film some shots like that.

We liked the idea of our artist lying on the floor with a guy as it articulates unity and closeness, and considering the fact that our chosen song is about love I think that unity and closeness is something we should definitely depict in our music video. The birds eye view is a good shot to use while filming the beginning of our video where you will see the girl lying beside the guy. 

I really like the idea of holding the camera by hand to deliberately make it look handheld when we have a close up of our artist singing, which is an idea I got from this music video and is shown from 1:03 to 1:06. In the video, from 3:35 to 3:39, it shows a girl carving the initials of her and her boyfriend on a tree and then resting on the tree; although this idea may seem really cliché I like it as it depicts love which is what our chosen song is about. We also decided to make our artist wear a dress while she is singing in a forestry surrounding, like the artist in this video (Avril Lavigne) is wearing as it connotes freedom and devotion to some extent.  

We liked the idea of holding white card with lyrics on it but I also thought that maybe we could have photographs like this artist does in his music video. 

Because she is also singing about her and someone else (presumably a guy), we could have pictures of them together (without looking to clique or cheesy). I think this is a way of telling a story through three ways; the song, the pictures (that she would be holding in her video), and the video itself.

Throughout this video there is a lighting effect that I think will be nice to incorporate into our music video; it is an effect that is given by sun rays.