Task 8 - Final Proposal

My group consists of Simone, Abbie and Myself. We have all agreed on the song we would like to do a music video for. This is Shuffle by Bombay Bicycle Club.

We have all agreed on the style and overall look of the final piece, which is rather convenient and helpful to the planning process as we have not had any disagreements in relation to the music video.

The song is somewhat passive and does not sound heavily either happy or sad. It is up to the listener to determine what feeling the song portrays to them. In my opinion, the song begins happily, and ends on a more sombre note, with elements of happy and sad throughout as the notes change. We have decided to make the video fit the song as much as possible.

The main concept of the video will be a journey of a couple’s romance together, starting off happily and ending with a kind of cliff hanger which will leave the audience wondering the fate of the couple. It will be a montage of images of their time together, some happy and some with more sad emotions shown. It will begin happily, with a short clip of sadness shown to make the audience wonder what has happened to this seemingly ‘perfect’ couple. As the note changes in the song, the mood will change to make the video parallel to the tune. As the song comes to an end, more sad images will be shown to make the audience wonder if the couple will be able to work out their problems or if they will break up.

The video will begin with someone playing piano, a close up of their hands will be shown playing the tune of the song. A montage of happy images will begin such as: driving in a car, walking along in a field, in the sunset, holding hands, hugging, kissing, lying on the ground together. It will then change to the girl being upset/crying with her close to the camera and the boy standing behind her. She will be in focus at first, then a focus pull will change to focus on the boy in the background, he will be unaware of her facial expression as he cannot see it. The connotations of this will be that he is upsetting her, but is not sure why/how. Perhaps he is being distant in some way.

Bombay Bicycle Club - Shuffle

Ideas for scenes to shoot:

Dosthill park 

Girl hugging him from behind – 8seconds

Holding hands

Driving to a place on a sunny day

Walking in a field - light-hearted fun

Lying in a field      

(flashforward) Focus pull girl in foreground upset, boy behind – 25seconds

Baking cakes

Letting go of hands (til its gone) -42seconds

(change of mood)

Argument

Close up of each face showing emotion, not with eachother – 1.45

(breakdown) Boy receives text?

girl driving alone

girl Meets another guy -3mins

Sees guy with another girl

Eyecontact as they walk past

Fast montage of everything - memories

Look back at eachother (till it’s gone) fades out with song