Planning: Costume

Thinking about costume, myself and my group have come up with different ideas of what the star could be wearing in this video. In a music video, it is important for the star to wear a minimum of three costumes and words such as ‘wool’, ‘warm tones’, ‘autumn’ and ‘earthy’ have inspired the costumes that we will use. Therefore we all decided on a simple dress; winter clothes such as, winter coat, scarf, boots etc; and casual wear. We want to portray our star as being simple and natural.

Planning

During our planning, we decided to use mirror shots which would allow us to improve on our camera and editing skills. What we did was use YouTube to look at the different mirror techniques we could use for our own music video.

Stars Persona Influence

Our star image for this music video has been inspired and influenced from a range of British pop folk artists. Predominantly, from the likes of Laura Marling, the runner up for the song choice, her soft earthy look is similar to what I believe we want to produce for our singer. Laura wears a small amount of make up which looks natural and elegant. Another person we looked at to take influence is Florence Welch from Florence and the Machine. Unlike Laura’s simple and natural look; Florence combines a vaster range of colours and a wider range of textures to her image. Despite their differences, we have used these two because they both have the genuine ‘British look’ and they both exemplify the stars image that we will strive to achieve. In the case of Florence, we will take her glamorous looks however, tone them down to make them more subtle and approachable. 

Contacting the Star

We had contacted Sarah Blasko in order to get her permission to use her song for our music video. We used the social networking site Twitter to message her and we will also be using Facebook and other networking sites to do the same thing. While using Twitter we came across a problem with composing a message. Unlike Facebook, you have a limit to how many characters you use, so we have to make 3 different messages to compose a decent length message for her.

Planning: Song Choice

In groups, we started to look into the possible songs for our music video. During the lesson, we used YouTube to show the other member’s the songs that we could use. We looked at about 10 different songs, but were able to cut them down to a final 6.This is the list of our final 6 songs that we will now decide upon.
 No Doubt- Just A Girl

Lucy Rose- Scar

Best Coast- Boyfriend

Modest Mouse- Float On

One Republic- Say (All I Need)

Laura Marling – Night Terror

Lyrics Analysis

We Won't Run - Sarah Blasko

Pages turning,

lights are burning,

see what you could not see.

As plain as the day,

the night makes you pay,

for what was hidden underneath.

Longing to leave,

but begging to feel,

that something will make you stay.

You gotta believe,

that this all leads,

to somewhere we've never been.

We won't run,

we can fight,

all that keeps us up at night.

There is far,

to go now,

let's not waste a minute more,

in denial.

But I always thought,

you knew yourself,

better than anyone.

But the season was lost,

when you started listening,

to everyone else.

Cast in this devil,

I've got the metal,

the means to make things right.

Tired of guilt,

tired of being sorry,

haven't we suffered enough?

We won't run,

we can fight,

all that keeps us up at night.

There is far, x2

to go now,

let's not waste a minute more.

But oh,

that our eyes, x4

will be open.

We won't run,

we can fight,

all that keeps us up at night.

There is far,

to go now,

let's not waste a minute more.

We won't fear,

we can fight,

all that we can bring to light.

There is far,

to go now,

let's not waste a minute more.

We won't run,

we can fight,

all that keeps us up at night.

There is far,

to go now,

let's not waste a minute more.

Of our lives,

our lives, x2

our lives.

My stanza analysis:

• Learning something new
• Facing reality
• Wants to move on but doesn't have the courage to do so
• She thought he was different as he had stood out the crowd for her
• She is fed up of blaming herself

In this song, the story tells us about a girl who was in a relationship where her partner made her feel guilty about something or that something happened in the past that hasn't been solved. Now after time, she has realised that it was her fault and is fed up of putting up with his grief. She is now ready to face reality because she can now see what type of person he really is and wants to move on, however he is not. She wants to feel happy again, and to do so, she leaves him behind despite her reluctance to forget the past.

Planning: Moodboard

I decided to create a moodboard on all of our ideas that we had come up with.