ideas for our video

Now that we've chosen our video and really researched into what the songs initial message was and what the video was trying to portray in the original, we decided as a group that over the weekend and during the next lesson we should begin to look at ideas for which we thought would be appropriate to adapt into our own music video. We looked into particular directors and aspects of videos which really caught out attention and which we personally enjoyed.

The overall idea which our group decided upon would be the basis of our story line would be the perspective of a young woman who is dealing with an abusive relationship, whereby her partner is a business man who comes home stressed from work and has a serious alcohol problem where by he returns from work begins drinking and the abuse starts. in the end we plan to have a sense of a happy ever after with the woman realising she's had enough and leaves.

I personally had several videos which i enjoyed to watch due to the direction and just the particular ways in which the director chose to portray aspects using direction and representation. The first of these would be the video of mine by taylor swift with a similar story line dealing with a girl whose watched her parents fight as a child and then grows up and enters into a relationship whereby an argument arrises and she expects to see a repetition of the events which occurred in her childhood however in this case the boy friend doesn't repeat the childhood night mare but instead he chases after this is the realisation that things aren't the same where by in Kelly Clarkson's we see her running back into the house and changing things her self so that there isn't a repeat. This video show a similar idea to that of what i thought of for our music video in that we see the story line and the artist as two separates the actors portray the actual story however the video also cuts to segments of the artist singing amongst a forest surrounded by images of all the memories of the characters within the story. This was an aspect i really liked and which we did discuss including within the video however it would be hard to include due to the need for a large amount of photos of the characters which would be rather costly. The link for this video showing these ideas is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPBwXKgDTdE

Another video which we agreed we all rather enjoyed as a group was that of Eminem "Love the way you lie" again the video looks at an abusive relationship however although we were rather amazed and interested by the editing aspects which were included within the video we was rather attracted to the way in which the video portrays the fight scene. The director seemed to use more creative movement techniques rather than an actual full on punch up. This seemed to add emotion and appeal which can lack in videos which and simply pure action and less emotion. As with our idea the video uses actors who are separate to the actual situation in the sense that we have the artists who sing the actual lyrics and who have their own inclusion within the video and those whom tell the story of which the artists sing portray are different actors and not the artists them selves. Here is the link showing the full video with the aspects which have been discussed included:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelHwf8o7_U/