Tuesday 25 September 2012

Rough Shot List/Narrative Structure for our Music Video

First Verse:
Boy wakes up at 3:30am to the sound of heavy rainfall outside. A photo-frame beside his bed immediately establishes the characters as it contains a picture of a girl - his ex-girlfriend he wants back. High angle shots show weakness and vulnerability at this stage.

Second Verse:
An action shot of him leaving the house is synchronised with the music increasing in tempo. We see the main character walk out the door and into the street.

Third Verse:
As he turns the corner at the end of the street to go to the girls house, he also turns a corner metaphorically - he is more confident and the shot angle is now static to reflect this. The chorus starts at this point - the tempo of the song increases and is synchronised with the turning of the corner (literally and metaphorically).

Fourth and Fifth Verses:
The next two verses consist of the image of him walking to the girl's house (slowly speeding up as he becomes more determined) with flashbacks of the boy and girl's relationship fading into the background. There will be colour filters to reflect the different stages of the relationship. This also ties in with the name of the band - The Colours. This emphasizes the effect. The rain will also be slightly lighter now to show the slightly happier, more excited nature of the boy.

Yellow filter: The boy and girl getting together - starting the relationship. Yellow is associated with happiness, such as the happiness in this situation.

Blue filter: Blue is associated with calm and tranquillity, so this will reflect the next stage of their relationship - everything is fine and they are happy and content together.

Red filter: A red filter will be applied to the memory where the boy and girl split up. The red filter represents the anger in this situation.

Grey filter: The grey filter will represent the downbeat nature of the next part of the relationship. They have split up, and the boy is upset and depressed.

Green filter: Green is commonly associated with envy, so a green filter will be used on the memory where the boy sees the girl with a new boyfriend.

Orange filter: Orange is associated with determination, so an orange colour filter will be sued on the last memory to show the boy's new-found determination to win his ex-girlfriend back.

Sixth Verse:
After the last memory, the boy will start running as the flashbacks turn back into reality. The rain will stop, and low angle shots will now be used to show he is very confident and self-assured now. He will arrive at the girl's house, which will be an attractive home - it will have a well-kept front garden and porch as well as other visually appealing features such as flowers. He will meet the girl at the door, after either knocking on her window or the door, and she will let him in. The door will close and the final shot will be of the door fading to black.

2 comments:

  1. Well done for posting your rough shot list. i suggest you don't use too many filters otherwise your audience may get confused. Certainly experiment; blue filters conventionally indicate a darkening of tone/narrative, for example blue filters are a common feature in thrillers and were used in Animal Kingdom and in the Scandanavian noir thrillers, The Killing and The Bridge. High saturation can suggest nostalgia (hyper memory) or dream! Think about the use of high saturation in "The Wizard of Oz" and check out the opening to David Lynch's "Blue Velvet", these are good examples of filtering techniques.

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  2. Try this link Will to the opening of Blue Velvet; a strong intertextual reference to this film is made by Tarantino near the beginning of Kill Bill 1
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM975_Ld9S0

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