I think that I would actually like to start with the 3 of the memories including the picnic memory, the memory of them walking through the park and the mormory of them running after one another first. This is because I feel this would be easiest as the locations in which we want to use are close by and easily accessible and can ease us into creating the movie easily.
We would then film the shots which would ivolve the use of my house as one of the locations as then we can do all these shots within the same day so it saves times moving from set to set which would be ideal. These scenes involve scenes such as the memory of watching a movie and play fighting together, the boyfriend drinking as he deletes his texts at the kitchen table and one of our most important scenes, that of him trashing his room in a fit of rage and ripping up what will be a photo but we will blue screen which will be particularly difficult.
We will do the first scene and the final scenes last as they will also be all set in the same place, mainly Shottery Park in Stratford-Upon-Avon and the housing estates around that area. Again this would be to save time as we can stick to the same area. So although we will not be filming chronologically like many people would consider, instead we are going to take the more logical approach considering our location and timing.
Friday, 12 February 2010
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Script of Action
Script of Action
• Opening Sequence (First minute)
• Shot of a sunset on a horizon
• At the meeting place the couple always went to, they are both familiar with the location
• The couple are visibly arguing as the camera zooms in
• We see close up shots of both the man and woman arguing and clearly upset/angry
• He storms off leaving her there crying. It’s clear they have split up.
• She stands there crying with her head in her hands as the visuals fade to black.
• Anger
• The man is upset by the break up
• Sits in his kitchen on his own drinking and running his hands through his hair and leaning his head in his hands
• He deletes all the text messages off his phone and we see him in anger and depression
• He has a memory of the couple back at the horizon place running together or playing some sort of game
• Girl walks up her driveway and into her house
• She sits on her bed and looks around, devastated about the break up
• Pictures of the past
• The guy – upset by the break up.
• Look at a picture of the two of them – gets reminded. (Having a picnic)
• Rips the photo of them together in two at the first scream
• Trashes his room.
• Place one of the pictures together – zoom in and becomes a memory of the two.
• Picnic Memory
• Sitting on the floor on a picnic blanket.
• Guy leans back on elbows.
• Girl feeds guy lovingly and puts some whipped cream etc on his nose
• She starts laughing, the camera zooms into her laughing face covered by her hands
• Kitchen
• Zooms out on girl in kitchen.
• Sitting at table drinking alcohol – drinking away her sorrows.
• Puts head in hands clearly upset by what has happened.
• Door Slam[1.44]
• Guy slams door as he walks out
• Girls slams cabinet mirror door in quick procession – looks at herself in the mirror, pills in her hand.
• Guy walks down the road – flash into a memory of the park with girlfriend in the play area on the swings.
• Cut to a deserted play area and then zooms out back to him on the bench.
• He turns from looking at the play area and takes a large swig from a bottle/can of alcohol to “drink away his sorrows”
• Girl leaves house (chorus)
• Girl looks upwards as lead singer says “Horizons”
• Girl puts coat on and puts pills in pocket then leaves the house.
• As she walks down the road she thinks back to her and her boyfriend walking down the road and then there’s a fast cut back to her alone.
• Boy Rage
• Stands up abruptly, looks at bottle/can and throws it in a fit of rage
• Walks away from bench
• Girl memory
• Back to girl walking and then she thinks about the time when they watch a movie whilst snuggled up on the sofa.
• They look at each other, she gives him a cheeky smile then throws some popcorn at him
• Play fight and then they stop and go in for a kiss, then cuts back to reality.
• Girl walks down a country lane and thinks about the betrayal
• The Betrayal
• At the party everyone dancing.
• Cuts to girl dancing with another guy – quite intimately whilst boyfriend watches from other side of the room.
• [Chorus] Boyfriend storms over in a jealous rage, punches the guy and grabs his girlfriend and pulls her away from the guy.
• Then they argue with each other whilst other people stare.
• Boyfriend starts shouting at people who are staring at them and gets dragged away by a bouncer
• Girl stands alone in the club in tears
• The End
• We see a text message saying “Im Sorry. I love you. Goodbye”
• The boy receives it, we see his shock and he begins to run through the locations where the girl has been as we see shots of her taking the pills
• Girl is found lying unconscious on the floor, the boyfriend walks next to her and bursts into tears
• He kneels next to her lifeless body and cries as the visuals fade out
• Opening Sequence (First minute)
• Shot of a sunset on a horizon
• At the meeting place the couple always went to, they are both familiar with the location
• The couple are visibly arguing as the camera zooms in
• We see close up shots of both the man and woman arguing and clearly upset/angry
• He storms off leaving her there crying. It’s clear they have split up.
• She stands there crying with her head in her hands as the visuals fade to black.
• Anger
• The man is upset by the break up
• Sits in his kitchen on his own drinking and running his hands through his hair and leaning his head in his hands
• He deletes all the text messages off his phone and we see him in anger and depression
• He has a memory of the couple back at the horizon place running together or playing some sort of game
• Girl walks up her driveway and into her house
• She sits on her bed and looks around, devastated about the break up
• Pictures of the past
• The guy – upset by the break up.
• Look at a picture of the two of them – gets reminded. (Having a picnic)
• Rips the photo of them together in two at the first scream
• Trashes his room.
• Place one of the pictures together – zoom in and becomes a memory of the two.
• Picnic Memory
• Sitting on the floor on a picnic blanket.
• Guy leans back on elbows.
• Girl feeds guy lovingly and puts some whipped cream etc on his nose
• She starts laughing, the camera zooms into her laughing face covered by her hands
• Kitchen
• Zooms out on girl in kitchen.
• Sitting at table drinking alcohol – drinking away her sorrows.
• Puts head in hands clearly upset by what has happened.
• Door Slam[1.44]
• Guy slams door as he walks out
• Girls slams cabinet mirror door in quick procession – looks at herself in the mirror, pills in her hand.
• Guy walks down the road – flash into a memory of the park with girlfriend in the play area on the swings.
• Cut to a deserted play area and then zooms out back to him on the bench.
• He turns from looking at the play area and takes a large swig from a bottle/can of alcohol to “drink away his sorrows”
• Girl leaves house (chorus)
• Girl looks upwards as lead singer says “Horizons”
• Girl puts coat on and puts pills in pocket then leaves the house.
• As she walks down the road she thinks back to her and her boyfriend walking down the road and then there’s a fast cut back to her alone.
• Boy Rage
• Stands up abruptly, looks at bottle/can and throws it in a fit of rage
• Walks away from bench
• Girl memory
• Back to girl walking and then she thinks about the time when they watch a movie whilst snuggled up on the sofa.
• They look at each other, she gives him a cheeky smile then throws some popcorn at him
• Play fight and then they stop and go in for a kiss, then cuts back to reality.
• Girl walks down a country lane and thinks about the betrayal
• The Betrayal
• At the party everyone dancing.
• Cuts to girl dancing with another guy – quite intimately whilst boyfriend watches from other side of the room.
• [Chorus] Boyfriend storms over in a jealous rage, punches the guy and grabs his girlfriend and pulls her away from the guy.
• Then they argue with each other whilst other people stare.
• Boyfriend starts shouting at people who are staring at them and gets dragged away by a bouncer
• Girl stands alone in the club in tears
• The End
• We see a text message saying “Im Sorry. I love you. Goodbye”
• The boy receives it, we see his shock and he begins to run through the locations where the girl has been as we see shots of her taking the pills
• Girl is found lying unconscious on the floor, the boyfriend walks next to her and bursts into tears
• He kneels next to her lifeless body and cries as the visuals fade out
Monday, 8 February 2010
Final Ideas
The Music Video
Our music video will be shown through a narrative. It will depict a very explosive realtionship break-up between a once devoted couple and show the many issues which people go through when experiencing this as well as looking at the good time back within the relationship. However we are also going that one step further by taking this topic to the extreme by showing the female lead commiting suicide which can be seen as quite controversial. Although it is not something we agree with we wanted to have the ability to send a message out to our audience and create a real impact within our video which would make it memorable.
We have also considered clothes which I will pull together and decide what they should wear but the general outline is that they will be trendy but understated so that they can relate easily with our target audience.
Our locations will be Solihull, Shirley and Stratford.
Ancillary Products
Digipak
I want this to portray the band themselves as they already have a large fanbase in which would potentially attract a wider variety of people. I also want it so that it relates to both the music video and the magazine advert so that target audience can find each product more easily recognisable. It will also have the standard track listings on the back and each side of the digpak will also link with one another so it looks smart and professional.
Magazine Advert
This I particularly want to link with the word "Horizons" which is the album and single's title and make it look interesting and eye catching. Not everyone will have heard of Forgetting Gravity or this song straight away reading the magazine, as with a music video and CD (within the digipak) you are listening to the song and so we know that the owner must know about them and assume they are fan. I do not want to be naive and assume that everyone who is reading the magazine has heard of this new band and therefore I want it to link with the other two products so they are easily recognisable and make it interesting to attract a wider audience. It needs to be simple and straight to the point and must include the band name, album name, and where it is available.
Our music video will be shown through a narrative. It will depict a very explosive realtionship break-up between a once devoted couple and show the many issues which people go through when experiencing this as well as looking at the good time back within the relationship. However we are also going that one step further by taking this topic to the extreme by showing the female lead commiting suicide which can be seen as quite controversial. Although it is not something we agree with we wanted to have the ability to send a message out to our audience and create a real impact within our video which would make it memorable.
We have also considered clothes which I will pull together and decide what they should wear but the general outline is that they will be trendy but understated so that they can relate easily with our target audience.
Our locations will be Solihull, Shirley and Stratford.
Ancillary Products
Digipak
I want this to portray the band themselves as they already have a large fanbase in which would potentially attract a wider variety of people. I also want it so that it relates to both the music video and the magazine advert so that target audience can find each product more easily recognisable. It will also have the standard track listings on the back and each side of the digpak will also link with one another so it looks smart and professional.
Magazine Advert
This I particularly want to link with the word "Horizons" which is the album and single's title and make it look interesting and eye catching. Not everyone will have heard of Forgetting Gravity or this song straight away reading the magazine, as with a music video and CD (within the digipak) you are listening to the song and so we know that the owner must know about them and assume they are fan. I do not want to be naive and assume that everyone who is reading the magazine has heard of this new band and therefore I want it to link with the other two products so they are easily recognisable and make it interesting to attract a wider audience. It needs to be simple and straight to the point and must include the band name, album name, and where it is available.
Treatment
Working Title
Our Working Title will be "Horizons Forgetting Gravity Project"
This title has been chosen as it is fairly memorable and straight to the point.
Format
Our format will be for the main product - a music video - will be digitally filmed and then edited on iMovie which will be good for this type of work.
For my ancillary products I will use Corel Paintshop Pro as I find it has some good tools in which to manipulate images. I will also consider using photoshop to help progress my ideas.
Synopsis
Our song choice is of the electro-rock sub genre of dance music and therefore we are going to interpret that in our video. We are going to have to consider the fashion trends of the people related to this genre of music. The general outline of our music video will follow someone on their way to a Forgetting Gravity gig. There will be a clash of reality and non-reality in the video which will question representation and stereotypes.
The ancillary texts will relate to the music video with the front cover and main image being featured with the videoas it is common within album releases and will help tie everything in as a whole.
Rationale
I feel this will be easy to do as we already have an idea of some of the locations which is key to getting the video right. We also have the bands permission in order to both use their song and themselves within the video so we are ready to start as soon as possible.
Resources Required
Alex - in my group - has an Apple computer so we are able to use the software on there aswell as being able to use the facilities at college.
Budget
We will not need a huge budgets as we will already have some things at home in which we can use as well as the college providing some facilities.
Deadlines
Our deadlines are already listed but we will also make our own individual deadlines if we find it neccassary.
Our Working Title will be "Horizons Forgetting Gravity Project"
This title has been chosen as it is fairly memorable and straight to the point.
Format
Our format will be for the main product - a music video - will be digitally filmed and then edited on iMovie which will be good for this type of work.
For my ancillary products I will use Corel Paintshop Pro as I find it has some good tools in which to manipulate images. I will also consider using photoshop to help progress my ideas.
Synopsis
Our song choice is of the electro-rock sub genre of dance music and therefore we are going to interpret that in our video. We are going to have to consider the fashion trends of the people related to this genre of music. The general outline of our music video will follow someone on their way to a Forgetting Gravity gig. There will be a clash of reality and non-reality in the video which will question representation and stereotypes.
The ancillary texts will relate to the music video with the front cover and main image being featured with the videoas it is common within album releases and will help tie everything in as a whole.
Rationale
I feel this will be easy to do as we already have an idea of some of the locations which is key to getting the video right. We also have the bands permission in order to both use their song and themselves within the video so we are ready to start as soon as possible.
Resources Required
Alex - in my group - has an Apple computer so we are able to use the software on there aswell as being able to use the facilities at college.
Budget
We will not need a huge budgets as we will already have some things at home in which we can use as well as the college providing some facilities.
Deadlines
Our deadlines are already listed but we will also make our own individual deadlines if we find it neccassary.
Initial Ideas
• We are considering relating our video to the lyrics of the song which overall is about the break up in a relationship and the grief it has caused.
• "You took my dreams so far from horizons." we will perhaps take this in both the metaphorical and literal sense and try and use a horizon as a setting within our video and I would also like to use this within our magazine advertisement and digipak cover.
• I would like to use a couple within our work as they can represent the two sides of the relationship and we will tell the story about the break up drawn from the lyrics of the song.
• At the beginning of the song it shows some regret about breaking up and so through this I was considering showing past events of the relationship and the happy memories as this would help tell the story.
• Then anger is shown as the person “wash your smell out of my clothes,
And wipe your kisses off my lips” as they try to get over what has happened and therefore we need to portray this in some way.
• I would also like to use a lot of tools within editing to make it some more like a “love story” perhaps so that the audience can get a proper idea of the theme as we want to make our ideas clear.
• We will consider using the band within our video as people like the band to be involved and it will also help the audience realise who is actually singing the song.
• "You took my dreams so far from horizons." we will perhaps take this in both the metaphorical and literal sense and try and use a horizon as a setting within our video and I would also like to use this within our magazine advertisement and digipak cover.
• I would like to use a couple within our work as they can represent the two sides of the relationship and we will tell the story about the break up drawn from the lyrics of the song.
• At the beginning of the song it shows some regret about breaking up and so through this I was considering showing past events of the relationship and the happy memories as this would help tell the story.
• Then anger is shown as the person “wash your smell out of my clothes,
And wipe your kisses off my lips” as they try to get over what has happened and therefore we need to portray this in some way.
• I would also like to use a lot of tools within editing to make it some more like a “love story” perhaps so that the audience can get a proper idea of the theme as we want to make our ideas clear.
• We will consider using the band within our video as people like the band to be involved and it will also help the audience realise who is actually singing the song.
Horizons Lyrics
This is the lyrics for the song in which we have chosen and from this we will be able to get a better idea of what to include within our video and produce our intial ideas.
Look at me now,
You need to get through my mind.
Fingers crossed and arms wide open,
Waiting for you to come back to me.
Gotta find a way out of here,
You took my dreams so far from horizons.
Horizons
Look at me now,
I cant believe a word.
Ears bleeding, eyes watering.
Im gonna wash your smell out of my clothes,
And wipe your kisses off my lips and hope that;
You wont ever really change
Gotta find a way out of here,
I wont let you invade my dreams anymore!
Horizons
The best part of last year was being so close,
I wouldnt change it for the world.
We're dying out to say;
this aint enough,
I wouldnt change it for the world.
Enough of this poetry,
Why did you want me to come?
Jest with my heart 'til i bleed,
'Til I say that im yours?
Well, look what you've done to me,
Look what you've done!
Look at me now,
You need to get through my mind.
Fingers crossed and arms wide open,
Waiting for you to come back to me.
Gotta find a way out of here,
You took my dreams so far from horizons.
Horizons
Look at me now,
I cant believe a word.
Ears bleeding, eyes watering.
Im gonna wash your smell out of my clothes,
And wipe your kisses off my lips and hope that;
You wont ever really change
Gotta find a way out of here,
I wont let you invade my dreams anymore!
Horizons
The best part of last year was being so close,
I wouldnt change it for the world.
We're dying out to say;
this aint enough,
I wouldnt change it for the world.
Enough of this poetry,
Why did you want me to come?
Jest with my heart 'til i bleed,
'Til I say that im yours?
Well, look what you've done to me,
Look what you've done!
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