Actor and Actress (including costume)

Actors
We have choosen our actors for our music video, which come across with a natural feel to the both the visuals of the music video and the music.

Our first actor is Aaron Boswell, we chose Aaron to act in our music video as he has a a steriotypical male look to himself which will identify the normality of a relationship view, and how we can show that he was the girls lover in the music video.

For Aaron's costume we wanted him to be dressed in a casual, normal everyday clothing, making it come across more realistic for the audience. Bellow are photos of Aaron in his costumes for the music video, one costume is with Aaron in his underwear i would like to point this photo out as it may come across as inappropiate, the reason we had him in his underwear was for the bedroom shot, if we had him in clothing it would be less realistic and strange, as no one goes to bed in underwear, I just wanted to clarrify the reason for the nudity.



Our second actor is Martha Stafford. We chose to use Martha to be one of our actors for our music video as she has previous experience of acting which will help to create a more effective and well acted music video.
We had Martha dressed in casual everyday clothing to present the normality of the music video, this also flows along with the idea of a realistic view from the music video in common occuring situations which occur throughout everyday life, when couples seperate.

Shooting Location

For the location of our music video, we decided that we wanted our video to include a realistic view for the events which happen visually and sound wise to the lyrics and the music video we are going to create.

We decided to use everyday life and the countryside enviroment to portray the normal life and relationship the lyrics from the song suggest. We want to make a music video where the lyrics match with visuals so the storyline is easy and represents the normality of the relationship, the actor and actress are creating.
We have several places where we are going to film our actor and actress. These places consist of a natural enviroment and comfortablilty of a home, which is prefect to present the emotions which are continuely piut forward.
These places are:

- A field or park - scenes of the actors walking (reflection of memories and reality)

- Lounge - (refelction of memories and reality)

- 2 different Bedrooms - (1 room for the packing scene and the other room for the couple getting into bed and when the actor is in the bed scene), (refelction of memories and reality), (towel and tooth brush scene only)

- The stairs (reflection of memories and reality)

- Bridge at local river (relfection of memories and reality)

- Drive way from the house - (for when the car drives away only), (refelction of memories and reality)

- Bathroom - tooth brush and towel shots (refelction of memories and reality)

Story-board Draft and Final Analysis

Draft Story boards

These are our draft storyboards which have not been drawn accurately, and do not contain the correct transitions, effects and timings for each shot, as they were the rough ideas which we first thought of for our music video, and putting the ideas together.

Final Storyboards
These are our finalised story boards which contain all the vital information of timings for each shot, transitions, effects and shot numbers in order. As you can notice on these finalised storyboards not only are they accurate, but there are shots we have cut out which we did not need that we had planned in the draft story boards, this has created a more fluent and effective music video, as the shots all fit in accurately with one another .

Ideas for music video - Analysed Lyrics

Bellow is the image of the lyrics which we typed out and analysed together.

This helped to create and collect all our ideas before we started to plan our storyboards and gave us a rough idea as to what we want to include in our music video and to what ideas of shots we want to link with parts of the lyrics.

Goodwins Theory

Andrew Goodwin came up with a theory for music videos. The notes bellow are what I made for a short summary of his theory.

- A relationship with the music and the visual motion movie. The visuals trying to illuminate, amplify and contradict the music. The editing can be influenced buy the pace or tempo of the music video.

- Music with a particular genre may have their own style of music video or iconography, for example a heavy rock band making their music video of them on a line stage performance.

- Record companies are demanding that music videos include lots of close up shots on the main artists or vocalists.

- The artists can create a star iconography throughout their videos, which can then become their stage image aswell as music video image, for example Lady Gaga uses obscene videos but also on stage her style is still inappropiate style and unique.

- There is a good chance that videos use intertextual references to either music videos, films or Tv texts.

- In some music videos there is references to voyeurism , esspecially for treatement towards women, but also in the terms of systems looking, this is by use of the cameras, shots also screens withon screens.


How goodwins theory can influence Our Music Video
Goodwins theory can help us to figure how we are going to base and structure our music video. We can use Goodwins theory in our production as we can relate the genre and style of music to visual motion movie to go along with the song we choose. If the music is indie type we will base it on something more orangic themed with ideas of natural colours and scenery so the music matches the visuals.
When editing the production together we will focus on the tempo and pace of the music matching it with the editing so it fit in with one another like Goodwin has says, this will make the visual and music combine together easier for the audience to understand and watch. We cna also match the visual with the lyrics for it to link with each other. Creating a narative music video.