Preliminary Task 2 – Mini music video

Planning

during our group planning we had decided on a happy and sad theme throughout our music video, we had to do some trial and error by listening to many different songs, but we had settled on the song “Everybody wants to rule the world” – by Tears for Fears. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGCdLKXNF3w

The reason for this happy and sad theme for the song creates a unique style to our music video, in our plan below, it shows how it goes from a upbeat happy vibe planning volleyball with friends during a late evening, then into a darker low level lighting scene of being alone, therefore making our music video distinct compared to the original.

What my initial ideas for the camera techniques would be for low level lighting in the individual lonely scenes to convey sorrow, and to have a higher level lighting in cheerful scenes

Production

We have decided to create a performative/narrative style of music video, because that is what our group have decided on creating as it best reflects the song we are creating using the song “Everyone wants to rule the world – Tears for Fears”

This is going to be achieved through the use of;

Illustrative: The visuals directly represent the lyrics and meaning of the song.
Amplifying: The visuals add new layers of meaning to the lyrics, expanding on the song’s themes.
Disjuncture: The story completely detaches from the song’s literal meaning to create a new, often abstract, interpretation.

Dynamic camera movement: Use of – handheld cameras, pans, and tilts to create energy and excitement

Lighting and Color Grading: Low-key lighting for moody, dramatic, or rock-themed videos, or bright, saturated colors for pop music.

For our production we needed to choose a location, the theme of what music video had best correlated with my home town at the beach with a volleyball court, this place is located at Milford beach or more specifically, at the end of craig road

This is the location of the recording spot