More possible location shots

Finished Brief

This is the new updated brief for the narrative part of our music video:

We want it to make it over the top to match with the comical theme. The story will consist of two main characters, one will be a stereotypical 'nerd' and the other will be a bully. We will show clips of the conflict between both characters, some parts may be humorous. The 'nerd' is a huge fan of comics and takes inspiration from them, we are shown this by clips of him reading comics and having comic posters in his locker, etc. After getting more inspiration from his comics, he starts thinking of what it would be like if he was a superhero.

We are shown clips of him designing his superhero persona and designing the bully as a villain. The drawings he created will take up the frame and change from a  drawing to real life film- showing his imagination in action. We will switch between reality and his imagination (what we see in the drawings- the hero defeating the villain). We will use some sort of filter so you can tell that the imagination parts aren't actually happening and can tell the difference between them both.

Eventually the 'nerd' really likes the idea of being a superhero and standing up for himself so he tries dressing up and making his imagination a reality. However, (we will make sure he dresses deliberately bad/ridiculous)  it does not compare to his fantasy and the reality of it, he looks very strange. For comical purposes, we will have many clips of him looking stupid, (for example, having his cape blowing in the wind- its getting blown by a visible fan and the cape blows over his face)
Others around him keep giving him confused expressions and laughing at him but he ignores it.
Eventually he goes over and stands up to the bully but the bully eventually walks away because of how stupid the whole situation is, making the 'nerd' think its a victory and he has stood up for himself.

Throughout this, there will also be clips of the performance part of the music video with the singer singing parts of the song, which is a common element in music videos. He will not be part of the storyline, he will be filmed in a separate location.


Afterwards we will create a storyboard to show all of this narrative in more detail.

Casting

Another difficult part of the planning is finding people to actually play the roles. We've asked quite a few people already and still no positive response. We are going to properly write up our brief soon so that we can actually see how many people we will need and the exact roles of them as we have an overall idea but we want it to be as accurate as possible. Apart from the actual narrative characters, we'll need a male singer for the singing parts, we are going to ask a few people that do performance/music in school to see if anyone would be interested. Over the weekend, we have a huge list of people to ask if they'll be in our video, we'll give them a description of our music video to see if they are interested. We want to start filming straight away after the weekend so hopefully this goes well. Once we find people we will take pictures of them and put them in a post alongside a description of the role they'll be playing in the video. We may also need pictures of them for our ancillary task later on where we will be making a digipak and a  music video/cd poster.

Chosen Song!

Eventually we found a song we could use, we feel like creating the music video will be much easier now as we can get extra ideas from the song and can actually feel motivated to start filming.
We could've started filming without the song but it would've been rather tough because we wouldn't know whether we would be changing parts of the storyline to fit the chosen song or not. We will be changing a few minor things just to keep it to the comical aspect and to fit this song better, I will talk about the changes in a separate post.
I like the lyrics of this song as although they don't exactly fit, if you look at them differently, most of the lines could fit as its about changing someone. The song is very catchy and I can imagine lots of fun shots from it.

Costume

Whether we change the storyline or not, we will be keeping the superhero aspect of it at least. We have ordered capes and masks etc. and since it's going to be comical we're not sure if the rest of the superhero outfit will be deliberately bad/funny or not. I will draw an overall comic styled costume design later, as its what the character in the video will be drawing when he/she's imagining themselves as a superhero.

Possible location shots

Choosing a song

We have been trying to find a new song as quick as we can and although it seems like such an easy task, it's actually really hard to find a song to fit an already created storyline. It would've been easier to choose a song first and then create a storyline from it but we like the general idea of our storyline so are going to try and find a catchy upbeat song that can match it.
A few we have been looking at are:


We like them because they are catchy and fit the atmosphere but we don't think they are completely right so we have to keep looking.