Basic Idea for Music Video
I'm now going to run through a basic scene by scene of the music video Jess and I are planning.

• Firstly we thought we'd start the video off as a basic everyday shoot of the lead singers life and the background to it all (Not played by the real lead singer of the band) This will include footage at the house and maybe in an outside environment (Yet to be confirmed)
• This would let the audience have an in sight to the generic aspects to the genre of music and also set the scene and the type of audience that would listen to this kind of sound.
• Throughout the music video we planned on having flashbacks to a nightmare the lead singer had the night before. This will include a girl standing in a darkly lit bathroom and we are going to create a dark setting around her. Although the lyrics to the song are all about staying young and living forever, we were going to go against that and contrast the lyrics with the action on the screen. Condradicting what the song says as we thought this would be more interesting for the audience and suggest underlying meanings to the song. 
• Although the flashbacks throughout the video are just images from the lead singers nightmare, we were thinking of having a plot twist at the end, where you see the lead singer walking down an urban street, and the girl from his nightmare walks past, not recognizing him, but the lead singer realising who that was and turning to look back as she is carrying on walking. This would then suggest to the audience whether he was imagining the nightmares or whether they were real flashbacks.

Dora Nadine - Stay Young

My idea for this song:

• The lead singer (played by my brother) is filmed with a typical day in his life, but with flashbacks to his nightmares that linked with the lyrics. (Dark lighting etc) The plot would slightly link to the lyrics sang in the song, for example "Bite my tounge" would be linked to a scene with a girl standing in a dark room with a pair of scissors. (This would be a part of the flashbacks to his nightmare) Therefore within the video we have connected surrealism and reality together, which would be created through editing and lighting with the action on screen

• I have also included inter-texuality within the video, which would be linked to a music video within a Your Demise song (the scene in which he is standing at the mirror sorting his hair and trying on different shirts which was one of the inspirations for this video I am creating.

Your Demise - The Kids We Use To Be.

 This first music video is by a band called "Sleeping with Sirens" who are an American post-hardcore band. The song is called "If You Can't Hang". The reason I am using this video as an example, is because this certain genre solely focuses on the band and their image rather than trying to tell a story behind the song. They are promoting the band by shooting the music video around the band. The background to the music video is dark, with shining bright non ambient lighting, highlighting the fact that as post hardcore isn't a very popular genre, compared to pop, they are more isolated. The use of water as an effect creates a more interesting video to watch, so when the camera zooms out and is shooting the whole scene it makes the floor reflective, making it seem likes its being shot outside and in an urban area. The mise en scene of the music video is quite dark and dismal, apart from the main singer, which has been done deliberately to make him stand out from the rest of them, who are blending into the background. This music video compared to others is very low key, only really focusing in on the band and their music.

Crystal Castles - Baptism.

This genre of music is much more electronic. The type of music in the video is much more alternative and less well known in todays society, which links with the whole idea of the music video being very random and unstructed. There is no plot or background to the video, it is basically just a lot of shots of Alice Glass (The Singer) with added affects to make her seem double etc. I like this as it fits with the song. The video highlights how you should feel whilst listening to the track (Presented with Alice Glass dancing whilst singing) Its going against what is normally put into a music video, as it has no back story apart from the short image we see of the baby being baptised which links in with the name of the song, but other than that the video has no link between the song lyrics and the images shown. Like the first music video I selected, again it focuses on the main singer, making them stand out from the rest of the video. This one does inco-operate the other band players but having them wear masks makes them less important compared to Alice Glass. The editing and camera work is quite chaotic which compliments the song as this has a fast beat too it.

Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah.

This last music video is one of my favourites as it uses a different effect that is not normally found in music videos, and has a plot line to it. The 3 split screens in the video allows them to tell two different stories and shoot it in two different locations allowing the audience to compare them together. Allowing contrast within it. Even though the video does focus in on the singer it also includes a story to back the lyrics up within the song. The camera movement of the story is handheld, making it far more rough which I like as it makes it seem more life like rather than being shot for a music video, compared to the professional camera work which is very sharp and bold, when filming the lead singer. The colours in the split screen also contrast each other, when focusing on the backing story, the mise en scene is much more city like, with dark colours and bright flashing lights. When shooting the lead singer its much more light and gives the impression of a recording studio.

Song Ideas.

My first idea for a song that we could use to create a music video around is by Hayley Chillcott. She is a young song writer who plays guitar and records her own songs and covers in her spare time. She is based in Bristol. She has yet to be signed as she hasn't yet tried to send her songs to a music producer. The genre she bases her songs around is mainly acoustic. First Song - Something Second Song - Stay

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