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Setting: Set in a room/garage where the band play, this room will contain loads of clocks or an illusion of clocks on the wall.
The music video is based around a couple, the main male leader and a girl. When listening to this song it gave me an idea on the theme of clocks/ a flame burning out portraying that his time is running out with this girl he is in love with. There will be shots of the band playing and singing, and the man male singer, close to the microphone.
The image to the left is similar to what I want the band to look like and set out. They are a young male band, there a four of them, in a garage.
There will be close ups of the main singer like the image to the left.
Costume: they will be an all male band, they will wear greys/dark clothing.
To add a different quirky idea to this music video, instead of seeing their faces, for their costume idea they will be dressed as a normal band, with a clock head/ clock eyes, like the following image below...
Prayer in C (Robin Schulz Remix)-Lilly Wood & The Prick and Robin Schulz
The concept of the video consists of no narrative element, however there is a theme running throughout the music video. It begins with a young girl with no paint on her face looking in the mirror
Setting: Starts off with shots and videos of London/town/city in the morning to the night (in fast mode) we watch the streets go past and use effects to show the sunrise and fall. Shots of people going by and cars.
There is no narrative to this music video, I just want to show how alive London becomes as a city during the day and the night. There are many different camera shots we can experiment with, including go pro.
There can be fast edit shot of the sun rising in the morning, to the sun falling in the evening to show time passing by. As they say 'time flies by when you're having fun'.
After the effects of the sunrising and falling I want to show the nightlife of London of a group of boys and girls going clubbing and dancing. I want the video to portray young and free young people drinking, and having a good time. There could also be shots of the daytime, of them in the car on a roadtrip.
Costume: Both the girls and boys will be wearing loose fitted, fashionable, indie clothing.
The lyrics to this song tell a narrative tale, which is based around poverty. It tells the story of an unknown person who suffered from poverty. There a clues in the lyrics about the plot of the story and I thought of the idea of:
A family of three, a mother, a father and their young teenage daughter. They live in a small rented apartment, that is unclean and not fit to live in. The mother of this teenage girl divorces her jobless, alcoholic husband, forcing this young girl to have to quit school in order to take care of her dad. This girl grows up into an adult, and leaves her hometown with her partner in the hope of making a better life. The girl falls into the cycle of poverty, as her life begins to mirror her mothers: her partner is unemployed and becomes an alcoholic. She is left alone in the house while her partner spends time drinking with friends. Overall, she has to come and face poverty instead of chasing empty dreams that aren't possible.
It's a tragedy portraying poverty, and the idea of this song is to try and raise awareness, but unfortunately its hard to get out of poverty.
The music video for this song definitely has a performance within the video. The setting should be set in an old abandoned house/apartment, where there are only a few basic rooms, with dirty surroundings and not much food or water. The film should start by showing the young teenage girl walking down a desolate long street, portraying her being alone in the world, although she can't escape from her misery and metaphorically showing that the world keeps on going on which seems like forever and she cannot take another route, she is stuck on the same road till the end.
At the beginning of the music video, I think there should be an establishing shot of a young woman playing the guitar in an empty, desolate room, with nothing but her sitting on her chair. They'll be close ups of her fingers playing the guitar, and close ups of her face. As well as the idea of the young woman playing the guitar, I think there should be a story to go with it as well and should keep cutting back and fourth to the woman in the room and the family in poverty, as though the young woman in the room is the narrator.
The costume should consist of natural colours, to convey the misery of poverty. The clothing of the family should be worn out clothes, to show they are poor and only really have the clothes that they are wearing.
The props will consist of the guitar that the woman plays, the alcohol bottles showing the dad is an alcoholic.
