Looking into more detail to technical aspects of the music video initial thought

During this lesson, Phill (media teacher) made us realise that every music video has an element that the audience look forward to, a build up through out the music for the main drop, beat of the song that represents at the best the artist, genre and style chose for the whole project. We looked into more details of the music video, clarifying in detail the first set, as we are 100% sure about it. Lighting, the smoke machine, dancers and the main character we thought it may have looked to over whelming so I used of my old shoots that worked well as a test shoot as it has all the elements we are looking for and the same sort of style, however I have only used blue lights as I believe wouldn’t create a good combination, instead I would change it to reed as purple lighting would be the final result.

My own pictures

Changed colour of lighting we want to obtain

We changed the colour pallet into black and gold thinking of creating a contrast between black of the first set and the gold into the second focusing onto the furniture that could be painted and put into a trash location like an abandon building (common factor see in many music videos of the same genre of music). We also believe that the red ribbon is going to be the crucial elements of the whole music video, although out with genre and too theatrical, in comparison to the rest of the style, we will do a test shoot to try out the whole concept and in case occur some changes to it.

Black and gold are the typical colours used for a digipack or anything relatively to the genre gangster/indy, the additional red would just add something innovative and appealing to look at, the red could appear after that several times to incorporate it more into the actual music video, and established it into the colour pallet.

We then listen carefully to the lyrics and thought about any possible narrative elements that we could show, or additional elements, but we believe that the drummer should be kept, because of the beat of the song that fit perfectly with the song, plus it gives us more to play with and more choice for post production.

We then discuss about a possible time line for our video, thinking clearly each second what is going to happen in the music making us realising what is missing and if it will come out too repetitive or confusing or any additional problems.