The Final Idea Planning

Music Video

I have come to the conclusion that I am going to create a music video. This now allows me to look into the different genres I may want to use and/or the different songs I may use to produce a music video and begin the process of creating it.

Song Idea 1 :
Calvin Harris - Flashback



I like this song and the idea behind the music video a lot as it shows intention to create a story connecting to the song title 'Flashback'. Playing with the song title 'flashback' is a clever theme that could indicate looking back in time and maybe looking at something you are not proud of which seems to be the idea for this video. So my idea, if I were to choose this song, would also connect to the song title but not in the same way. I love the idea of looking at a image and creating a flashback to where the image was taken, so for my idea I was going to create a party atmosphere with pictures being taken though-out the night. Then as my main actor wakes up in the morning, laying on his bed, feeling rough, the house and bedroom are covered with the images from the party the night before. This almost creates a flashback and helps the male remember the night before, as we can all assume he was under the influence of alcohol at the party and may not be able to remember much.  

Song Idea 2 :

Florence and The Machine: You Got The Love

I find this song to be very passionate and could almost be put to any type of situation due to the fact that 'love' can be shown though many different way. This is what I like most about this and this makes me believe that I could create something creative that would look great as a music video for the song. The music video itself is very basic and just included Florence herself on a sparkling moon flying in the air. This is obviously very difficult for myself to copy due to the lack of money and material and skill. But this is seen as a good thing to me. This shows that I would not be able to copy the music video and only ever be able to create something that is individual to me and my own ideas.

I would have a female as my main actor and would copy the look of the fiery red hair due to the great fantasy style that the song generates. I again would like to create a party atmosphere and would like to put it in slow motion to create that build up to the chorus. My idea for the chorus is to find couples and gives them card boards with the words 'You got the love' on and have loads of couples together to create that line as it is sung in the song. I find this to be very personal and also adds character as the individuals will be real couples that are really in love. I hope for this to bring a sentimental feel to the music video as the lyrics are emotional. But the tune to the song is dance-like and so the parts of the music video that is the slow-motion party clips to connect with the dance tune.