Notes on our initial planning and inspration for our music video

For our initial planning, we were always going to create a music video for a romantic setting, the reasons behind that we because, rather than editing a lot of special effects into our video, we wanted to create a clear cut product which the audience can enjoy and even relate to whilst watching the video.
Our inspiration for our planning came from music videos such as Rhianna- unfaithful and even a modern interpretation of Bon Jovi's - Always,
do create this we decided that we needed to create a music video for a soft rock artist or group who did not already have a music video for their song. Originally, we decided that we wanted to create an amplified narrative for U2- With or without you, as their original music video was a simple styled performance. After constant planning of our video we came to the conclusion that the video would start with an image of a guy and girl in love, then it will show that the girl had to go away, so the guy was going to get onto a train then and run away in the video, we decided that the whole video was going to be shot in black and white, in the end, we decided to reject this idea for the whole video as the colour of the parallel editing of Me and Bethan together would not be as significant if it was in a black and white filter, yet we did, in the end, decided to create some of the performance and one clip in black and white to keep to our original idea. we then decided that in the video, we were going to improvise and create Scenario’s which would make the main protagonist reflect the emotion that he feels out of place, then in the video, we were going to create a scene where he finds out his ex girlfriend has a new love,
this would upset him, yet throughout the video, there are images of people coming up to him and helping him out, they connote that people like him and how he is not on his own, yet he ignores all the help and walks away from the help, alone. There is then a cut scene to the protagonist in a deserted area holding a picture of the girl, who he once loved, the camera would then change focus from the shallow focus of the picture, to the deep focus of the girl standing right in front of him.
To create an original video, we then made the main protagonist walk away from the one he loves, this will represent his strength in life and how no one can ever become dependent on another person as they can always get over a tricky area in life.

In reality, our final draft of the video storyboard is similar to the original design, the reason for this is that we had a lot of different features that were entertaining and influential throughout the original storyboard planning, the main area we deleted in the original storyboard is the photograph being held by the main protagonist, the reason why we changed that was because we also decided that we wanted to change the song to the video, we decided that Ryan Star’s- Last Train Home was a more influential song for the style of video we were creating and we wanted to concentrate on having a scene on a platform throughout the video to illustrate the lyrics in the song.

By Michael Redmond