The song is one of my own called 'Reach Out' and is all about childhood and people being afraid to speak up and share their problems with the world. I have mind mapped some of my ideas today:
The reason why I wanted to get some footage of a ballerina in a jewellery box is because the song starts off with the sound of a merry-go-round and actually reminded me of a ballerina in a jewellery box. I think I may have one, however if not I know people who do so can easily get some footage. This is what I mean:
I love the above image of the merry-go-round and ideally for my final product if I decided to film some footage of one, I would try and visit Brighton, as I know a perfect merry-go-round that looks exactly like this on the beach. So, I may have to add Brighton to my list of things to do this summer...it's an excuse for a holiday anyway!
I wanted to film all of the narrative in black and white to give a desired effect of memories and looking back on things. Also, to highlight the darkness of problems that people may hide from others. The black and white theme links in with the KT Tunstall video, which is good as it's linking to my research.
I mainly wanted to use ideas that I had for my final product as I wanted to test to see if they'd work and see how difficult they were to produce during production and post-production, so I will get a feel for that over the weekend during filming and next week, during editing!
I wanted to use a similar setting to the Colbie Caillat video, with the corn fields, however it's not the right time of year for that, so I have found a poppy field near where I live which I am hoping to film in on Friday night. Here, I will have someone film me singing and playing my guitar and I will actually play the song on iPod speakers, rather than play it on the guitar, as I want to get the timings right for when I actually sync up the song during editing.
I was planning on using myself singing just for the chorus', however I might film some footage in a poppy scene and then some in a woodland, walking between the trees and add that in between the narrative.
So, my research is linking in well with my 'mini music video'. I am not sure how long I will make this yet, however I am aiming for a minute. If things go well though, I may just get carried away and film the whole thing!!!
I am unsure as to whether a storyboard would be beneficial for the planning stages, however I will need to show my camera operator what kind of shots I want etc, so I think I will sketch out some drawings tomorrow.
It'd be nice to hear feedback on my ideas...so, what do you think?
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