Finishing off with Luke

Luke said that the song that we have chosen (Sail) is too well known and the fact that it has a music video makes it harder for us because we have to try and compete with that music video which we cant do because if you compare the budgets, they are too different. The song we have chosen as a back up is

X Ambassadors, Jamie N Commons - Jungle

The reason for this is because it has the same meaning to Sail, this is good for us because it means that we don't have to change anything else of the video.

Filling in the time line that Alex started

Another Pitch to Luke

We pitched what we thought our final idea was to Luke who understood the concept of the idea about it being in reverse and he loved the song. The criticisms he did have was that for the smashing up scenes he thought they wouldn't last very long, this means that we would have to have loads of things in a room to smash up, because A, it wont look like a room without lots of stuff in and B. because otherwise we wont have enough visual image in the video to fill out the 3 minutes 15 seconds. Phil also said that we didn't have to make the narrative interesting and didn't have to worry about linking it up. 

Luke made us have a look in the studio to see if there would be enough space for 4 back up dancers and a main singer in there, The picture below is of the studio and we though that there was enough space. The picture doesn't represent all of the space available.

For the performance of the video we were told by Luke to draw on A3 sheet like you can see in the picture exactly where everything is going to be. In our case it is where the singer will be, where the drummer and the drum kit will be and where the pianist and the piano are going to be. We hadn't thought that through yet but i presumed it to be like a diamond formation where the leader will be at the top and the piano and drum kit in line with each other behind.











I think that we wouldn't need to have a narrative, this is because the song is so good that we can do so many interesting things on camera that we can make up enough time for the whole video. For example the dancing and the cool things done in reverse.

Looking at girlfriend and boy friend fighting in the car park

What we learnt from this is that we can get lots of really cool shots. This has encouraged us that the idea can be filmed very well. The pushing and the shoving looks visually appealing to the audience. If we are going to have a couple fighting then this is what we want it to look like.

Final idea

This is our final idea and we are not gonna change it. The idea contains of three strands one being a lip sync where we will just have the main actor who is Freddie's brother singing into a microphone in a studio or either singing in the rain, this might be hard as the cameras could get damaged. Another strand is the main singer singing with like 4 girl dancers around him in the studio. The 3rd strand is cool things in reverse like what i have posted in the previous blog post. The main theme of the video will be that it is played backwards starting with a man rising up out of bed to him seeing a smashed room and we show how he smashed the room up in reverse with cuts from the lip sync and the dance along with other cool things done in reverse. The video ends with the main singer burning up a letter which will be reversed as well. The significance of the letter being burnt is because that letter is the reason why the man has ended up smashing up the room but we don't know what is in the letter.

Things that look good in reverse

Ideas for cool things to do in front of the carmera

We have decided that the third element to the video is to reverse stuff, we came up with an idea of pouring paint out in a mixture of different colours and reversing it, this will look very visually appealing. Another thing that looked cool when reversed is pouring some liquid into a glass, this is because when it is reversed the liquid in the bottle will gain more volume and the volume in the glass will get smaller.