Beth's side (edited by me with hindsight)

Locations

• Ogden Water/ Saddleworth Moor
• Cinema room
• Car
• Road
• Plain room

Saddleworth Moor

We are going to use Saddleworth moor for some of the memories and flashbacks as it is quite a secluded place with not many people around. We think this would work well as the couple in our video can be shown happy here with no one else around to interrupt or interfere with them. They will be shown being cute together and having fun here as though nothing else matters for example like in Calvin Harris and Elllie Gouldings I need your love shown below. The good views can also be used to make the video more aesthetically pleasing. 

The road up to Saddleworth moor can also be used in our video as it is a quiet road so will again show the couple together on their own being happy. Some of the performance shots will also be done here as there are no other distractions to take the audiences attention away from the singing.

Ogden water

When considering our locations more practically we realised we may have quite a few problems filming at Saddleworth Moor. Being so far away in such a remote location we are now considering filming close by, when driving around getting our car shots we drove to Ogden water and realised it would work just as good for a location. Ogden water has a three level natural car park with benches over looking the lake and also has a pathway through a forest down to the lake. This is a very natural and aesthetically pleasing setting for our video. Being only ten minutes a way from school it is ideal to use this location as any re shoots will be easier to do. 

Busy city

We are going to use a busy city centre such as Manchester as there will be many people, cars and lots of things going on. This will contrast with the shots done on Saddleworth moor and will show the couple being not as happy when other people are around and there are people to interfere with their relationship. 

We will speed up the shots done in the city centre to show time passing as the girl in the video is waiting for the boy to leave. The speeded up shots will represent this while also showing how busy the city is.

We didn't use this location in the end. Instead we decided to use time lapsing to create the same effect of time but with more natural things such as the sky with clouds. We did this due to busy weekends and practicality meaning it would be difficult to get to these locations and fulfill the shots properly. I am, however, pleased we substituted this location as it may have drawn the attention away from the narrative and natural theme. 

Cinema room

A room with a big cinema screen will be used for when the girl is watching her memories back. She will be watching memories of her relationship when they were happy together. There will be cuts throughout this to shots of clocks showing time passing as she is waiting for her boyfriend to leave.

We also substituted this shot as it didn't add much relevance to our narrative. Instead we did a more natural performance shot of our artist laid on a bench blinking, this exaggerated more how the artist was reminiscing and not watching a film. We thought the blinking would work better and allow us to use the artist opening her eyes at the end for a more obvious start, end and narrative for our video. 

 

Car

We will use a car for some of the performance shots. Close ups of the girl singing in the car will be juxtaposed with long shots of the outside of the car to show the outside location aswell. We have taken inspiration from the music video Time by Chase an Status for this. 

These performance shots will be in between the memories to show her reflecting on them and the close ups will show her feelings and expressions towards these memories. This will tie together the memories with the lyrics and make the narrative make more sense for the audience. We will also film some shots in the wingmirror to add variety to our music video. 

We successfully used shots in the car, these are some of our favourite shots in our video as, sped up, they show the impact of speed and time which ties in perfectly with our narrative and song title 'Time'. Although quite difficult to film we successfully got our shots on a sunny day of countryside and surprisingly all went to plan. 

Bedroom

The bedroom loacation will be used to show the couple changing clothes, this will be sped up to again like the busy city show time passing as they are waiting for the boy to leave. This will also show the couple together again.

We didn't use this shot, we figured that stock motion would be very time consuming and instead concentrated on our already successful and practised techniques such as time lapse and quick cuts. 

Stage

We are going to use a stage with one spot light on the girl singing for our performance shots. This will be intergrated throughout the entire video with cuts to the performace shots the whole way through. This will show that the lyrics are important to the song and the narrative fits with the lyrics. 

Instead of using the stage we put our artist in the forest, laid on a bench, in a plain room and a torch lit room. These performance shots had a consistent theme and linked well with our narrative. Although a stage would have been effective it would have meant we probably needed just one type of performance shot throughout to keep consistency, we instead chose a variety as we wanted to exaggerate the personality of our artist and how she works in different settings. 

                           

Costume

For the shots of the boy and girl together the girl will wear simple clothing to show that nothing else matters when they are together. This will also make sure the audience focus their attention more on the what is happening rather than what she is wearing. 

Some examples:

Black shorts

                                                                         White jumper

Black ankle boots 

                                                             skinny jeans

The boy in these shots will be very muc the same, wearing casual clothes. Examples:

 

Jeans

                                                                                                                   Casual top

In the performance shots the girl will be more dressed up to show variety in the video and also sticking to conventions of music videos. However, she won't be very dressed up as his will again detract the audiences attention away from the song and the narrative of the video. We also want to show a difference between the performance shots and the narrative shots to keep the video interesting for the audience.

Examples:

Black disco shorts
 White top









Red heels



 Pink top

 

 Props

A clock will be used throughout the video as the song is called "time". In the narrative the couple are waiting for the boy to go away so the clock will symbolise this and show they are waiting. There will be cuts to the clock throughout the whole video with the time getting nearer and nearer to the time that the boy has to leave. 

A rose will be used as this symbolises their relationship. Flowers are temporary and don't last forevor, similarly their love is temporary and will end up breaking down in the end.  

        A lemon or another fruit will be used to also symbolise their relationship. It will show that love is bitter but sweet like the fruit. These objects will be cut to throughout the video to symbolise thier relationship and help explain what is happening in the narrative.

Our artist wore a variety of clothes in shots. She wore a plain black top in plain room performance shots and a coat and plain vest in shots with our actor. This was not necessarily intended but practise shots showed that plain clothing emphasised the artists photogenic face and this worked really well. We then asked our artist to wear plain clothing for the following shots so we could work on her identity and how she came across as natural and raw to the audience, not manufactured. Our actor was also asked to follow this and so he wore a plain long sleeved T shirt and jeans which worked in the same way. 

We improvised a lot with props but successfully used a flower, lemon, clock. We did however include random shots that we thought would fit during the editing process such as trees and nettles which just seemed to fit as we pieced and edited our video together.