Update

Just a quick update about how the project is going. We have 3 ideas planned to present to Thom Southern, and 1 storyboard ready, with 2 being finished off, that we can send to him along with the text plans for our ideas. We'll hopefully have that all sent off to Thom soon, and get a response about which idea he wants us to go ahead with shortly. Then we'll get our proper storyboard made, get actors, props if necessary, and scout for locations. Should be fun.

To update the update, we're currently waiting for Thom to tell us which storyboard he wants us to do. We're currently expanding on the shots and techniques within the current plans to save time when we find out which one we're doing.

Ideas to be pitched to Thom Southern

First Idea.
Begin following a male lead looking across a street at the female lead sitting on a bench, reading. Male lead is wearing a mask. Cut away to a band playing the song. Everyone is wearing a mask, and dressed plainly, trying to keep them looking as though they could fade into the background. Have the band playing in....a garage would work well. After they have played for a while, they leave their instruments and walk out of the shot.
Next shot returns to the lead, the band now walks up behind him, and follows him as he walks across the road. As he reaches the other side, the girl gets up and walks away. He sits down, the band standing about him.
Return to the band playing, male lead, now the singer, with them. Fade out after a while, to the male lead by himself outside a pub or shop. The girl walks by him now, but he makes an obvious show of looking away when she walks by. She doesn’t take any notice, and as she disappears he slides down the wall/window of the shop etc and sits on the ground dejectedly.
Cut to shot of the band and singer walking down a street, houses all about. Male lead lip-syncing to the song as they walk.
Final shots will be the male lead walking down a crowded, moderately busy, street. Girl is in the distance. She stops and turns. He keeps walking alone then stops in front of her.
Cut back to the band playing. They pull off their masks as they finish playing.
Cut back to the girl and guy staring at each other. He reaches to take off his mask. He stops, turns and walks away. Zoom out on the girl standing by herself on the street. Final shot the band together with their masks off, guy with his mask on.

Second Idea.
Uses Savage Garden-Truly Madly Deeply as inspiration. Start with him walking down a leafy, autumny road, probably in a park. On “figure of imagination” he sees her sitting on a bench, maaybe reading a book. When it says I want you to know, he starts quickly toward her, trying to reach her. Before he manages to reach her, she gets up and leaves (EH, EH). Has him trying to catch her before she leaves, but being too late. He follows her and a one points tries to push through crowds to get to her (Like end scene in the butterfly effect?) Any time it says “i want you to know, i need you to show” he gets really close to her, but then loses her again. At one point he reachs her, they turn round and look at eachother for a second, maybe he gets knocked into, so looks away, and when he looks back to her, shes not there.

Ending could be like either of the butterfly effect endings, one being that they look at eachother, and share a “moment”, but he’s too insecure to say something- that’s why he’s in disguise.

Or could be like the “happy ending” in the butterfly effect, where they start talking, and walk off happily together into the sunset.
Possibly have the idea of masks. (kind of half stolen from alex, but he has the band playing with them instead.) Everyone had masks on apart from the girl and perhaps the boy. We could either have everyone else with the masks on (in disguise) apart from the girl, and at the end he takes off his disguise. Or we could have both the girl and the boy both in disguise.

Third Idea.
Opens from black looking up at the sky, POV character lying down. Stay in POV as the character is getting up. Then new angle, character looking around about him/her. On a street, hopefully a grey drab day. Make him/her unnoticeably transparent. S/He looks very confused, and sees someone walking towards him/her. They run up to the other person and try to talk to them (of course we just see they’re mouth moving, no sound). The character is ignored, begins to become infuriated, can be seen to start shouting. The other person continues walking on and the character stops following. They begin to walk off randomly, trying to find where they are. Stops at a sign post, but all the letters and directions are blurred out. Looking very confused, scared, the character runs away and comes across a crowd of people outside a building. Starts running around, shouting, trying to get everyones attention. Throughout all this the character gets very very very very slowly more transparent. After being ignored yet again they stumble off, crying. They walk around streets, people keep walking past, ignoring them, no one sees them at all.
End the video with the character becoming so utterly distressed they run out into the road in front of a car. Film the car coming up then move out to film the car driving through the character. The character beings to fade rapidly, the film fades to black and white, use the old film look effect too.

Influences in our ideas

At the minute we have three music videos/scenes from films that have been an inspiration to us.

I have included clips of each of these influences.

Savage Garden-Truly Madly Deeply

The idea behind this bit is that we would open with a

similar style shot. It would open to our lead singer walking

down a road, perhaps autumny, and we would take a few

shots from different angles.

30 Seconds to Mars- From Yesterday

The element of this video that is relevant is the idea of masks.

The title of our song is "In Disguise", and so we thought it

would be an idea to perhaps have everyone apart from our

lead characters in the video in masks, and perhaps have the

lead singer, and the woman with who he is to have an infatuation

with, without them. Either this, or have her not wearing one,

and he is, until they properly meet, and he takes him off and

takes off his "diguise". We are playing about with both of these

ideas. Another possibility is to dress everyone else but the main

characters in black, so that our attention is always focused on the

main characters, and she stand out very strongly to him, and in a

crowd.

The Butterfly Effect- Happy Ending

At the minute we are visualising some sort of an ending.

We thought that maybe this one could be a possibility, or

the one underneath this. The one above is more of a happy

love story ending, and the one below is more focused on

insecurity. The one below fits in with the song well, as the

person singing is talking about how they are "in disguise".

This could be interpreted as meaning they are insecure, and

their disguise is a way of hiding themselves. With the ending

below, he tries to find her and catch up with her, but when he

finally does, his insecure makes him so nervous about rejection

that in the end, he decides not to talk to her.

The Butterfly Effect- Open Ending

Soggy Bottom Boys

A video we found relevant for World Don't Shine.

World Don't Shine

Alex’s Plan for video.

Position a camera in certain areas of the school at different points of the school over the course of the day. Speed up the footage we have so that people blur out. Filter the video for effects. Play around with colour etc.

Charlotte’s idea for video.

Filmed outside, down by St Annes. Have someone walking, with a focus on nature in the video. Or, go to the music department and try to do the thing with the four different screens, with instruments. This would be good for our actual video.

Lauren’s idea for video.

Guy playing guitar, zoom in on fingers playing guitar, Split into atleast four boxes and then start to ‘jumble’ boxes and flash colours. Show drums playing in one box, guitar,

Expand to more than four boxes in actual project.

Final idea for video.

Have introduction with four screens gradually coming in, as each instrument plays. Have four boxes.

Intro

Gradually boxes in from solo guitarist, a split into the guitarist and a close up of the guitar (20 secs), split into 3 with the guitarist, guitar close up, and a drum kit (30 secs), split into four with previous 3 and a singer.(50 secs)

(1 minute for the intro piece of video)

Taking different angles of the singer in a small room singing. Switching to low and high shots and circling the singer. (15 seconds long)

At 1 min 25 take POV shots walking under the trees looking up to the canopy. Be slightly unsteady, but not overly.

At 1.50 green screen the guitarist in front of somewhere, i duno.

At 2.00 take a profile shot of the singer singing into a mic, probably take a few extra shots.

From 2.10 take a close up of the guitar being played during the solo.

From 2.20 have the singer walking down a tree lined path. Use mid and long shots and some tracking shots.

From 2.40 film birds flying above.

From 2.55 use cue cards in the style of the bob dylan video. “World Dont Shine” etc.

Around the end at 3.20 use effect to make the video shine as the last cue card falls. End about 3.24

Bob Dylan- Subterranean Homesick Blues

When we were discussing ideas for the music video, we felt this would be a very classic, inspirational video to reference.

The idea of the cue cards really applied to us, as it (if done correctly), can look extremely effective, We also realised,

after talking to a number of people about it, that Thom Southern's voice is actually quite shockingly similar to Bob Dylan's,

which I think we can agree, is a huge compliment towards Thom Southern, who I'm sure would be only too happy with the

comparison. After seeing the Bob Dylan video, we though it would be a great video to credit throughout our video, perhaps

every chorus, or every time they say In Disguise. We definitely think it's a rather artistic technique, and it is an idea we will

definitely come back to.

A few ideas that are bouncing around the line.

We have not yet begun to plan our video yet, but we have discussed ideas and techniques that we may be interested in utilising. We have confirmed that we will be using "In Disguise" by Thom Southern and the Band.

One of the techniques that we would very much like to use would be green screen, something that we have been toying about with on Final Cut. It was difficult to get to grips with the program and the technique at first, but with more practice I feel we will be able to use it quite successfully in our music video if we do choose to use it. We feel that this could be very useful in a music video that has pretty much no budget.

We have also been using the time and speed options on Final Cut, teaching ourselves how to reverse time and slow it, which has been immense fun and could produce some very interesting effects in the video.

We would also like to see if we can use the band themselves in the video. That is only a possible idea that could very easily be discarded.