Here is our music video.

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Here is the inside panel of my digipak album cover.

Here is the inside panel of my digipak album cover.

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Tuesday 7 November 2017

R+P Post 20: My Music Video Timeline

To plot out our music videos rough structure, we created a timeline. On this, we broke down the music video into timed sections, noting down our ideas for what will happen in each of these sections, including some preliminary shot ideas to help represent the action that will take place in these sections.

Here is our timeline:

Our Timeline
We decided that our basic structure for our music video would be the have the narrative be intercut between band shots, as well as solo shots of each of the band members, predominantly close ups/mid shots of the lead singer Casey singing.

We solidified our narrative whilst making the timeline: a girl dreams that she is visiting her brother, her best friend and her ex-boyfriend who appear as nostalgic characters that are important to her. We see how her break up with her ex leads her to comfort herself with her favourite things (Singing' in the Rain, Beatles etc.). In a short piece of narrative after the song ends, she gets a text from her new girlfriend Lucy, hinting that the future has more excitement in store.

The end of our timetable: here we decided on the closing of our narrative, deciding that to properly finish the story without contradicting the upbeat tone of the final chorus, it was best to add a few seconds of narrative to after the track ends
Creating a timeline helped us because it allowed us to organise specific timings for each of our proposed shots and set ups; we broke the timeline into two second long intervals, and noted down when the verses and choruses began and ended, allowing us to then work our set up ideas from our lyrics analysis around them. It helped us understand how the narrative of the video will flow, so we knew what would follow each scene.
The middle section of our music video timeline: the thick lines on the line signify where each chorus and verse begins and ends, the long lines are where we noted set ups and shot ideas, linking them with the lyrics at those moments
It helped us understand how the narrative of the video will flow, so we knew what would follow each scene.

We also got a better understanding on how the tone in certain moments in the song might contradict our preliminary ideas. For example, we first wanted our bridge to be an upbeat, colourful moment to lead into the party scene, but after making the timeline, we realised we needed to create a better scene to follow on from the break up between 'Alice' and 'Scorpion' in the previous chorus. We decided to intercut the colourful band shots with 'Alice' coming back to her apartment sadly and comforting herself. We found that this improved our music video as it transitioned between the parts of the song well, plus it better matches the intimate tone of the instrumentation during the bridge, which drops in texture and volume.

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