20/9/11 Lesson Summary

Today we talked about ideas for our track. We began by brainstorming specific shots and ideas which helped us collaboratively begin to understand the direction our music video is taking.

Some of the ideas that we have come up with include:

• The use of bright colours - primary, very high contrast.
• The interchanging and intercutting of two narratives that are related to each other/parrallell universe style idea
• The use of Maidstone/North Tonbridge as a location
• An object falling in slow motion throughout the video with a climactic smash or break at the end - which would emulate a climax in the narrative.
• Use of narrative fuzz to varying degrees
• Vintage/retro feel, brown filter, high white balance etc
• Mix of slow and fast shots.
• 80's feel

Our current ideas for the track's narrative are:
There are two lines of action played out by one person, set in a vintage location (80's). One line of action represents the 'happy' or 'optimist' in the character, whilst the other represents his more negative side. We will use colours and mise-en-scene to juxtapose the two narratives, which the audience can follow as two parallel universes. At the end of the video, one of the characters dies, but it is left unknown which one.