After choosing my song and after the research I did into music video types and conventions, I started to plan out my ideas for the song. The ideas are mostly inspired my the other media that inspired me in this post. In the mind-map below it features ideas such as the concepts I want to incorporate, themes, types of shots, editing techniques and key features.
Music Video Type
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Video for 'Youth' by Daughter |
As the video was split into two halves, one half became the performance half with the singer featuring in a separate location to emphasise the performance half is different to the conceptual half.
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Video for 'Now' by Paramore Concept: Powder represents blood and death. |
Themes
The idea of smoke I have interpreted as the feeling of haziness and perhaps even confusion. It plays with the idea of disintegration, which in turn could represent the loss of memories or even death. The line 'There's a man with no face just a blurred out portrait' could imply the loss of memories in regards to the person whose face she cannot remember. Other examples are as follows:
- "There's three doors and no keys" - This could represent the concept that she can visualise her memories but she just can't make sense of it.
- "I'm losing again, I'm losing my friend" - The concept of losing memories of a friend, even losing memories of herself.
- "We're blind and slowly suffocating, we're dying" - The loss of memory is 'suffocating', over-coming her.
This concept of being over-come with loss of memory inspired my idea of using powder paint to show the singer being consumed by 'brain fog'. Throughout the video I aim to show the consumption by painting the powder on the singer and every so often adding to it to show the gradually disintegration.
Types of Shots and Editing


When slowing down the shots, anything that involves lip syncing would have to be filmed differently. Throughout the filming I will play the song to make acting and lip syncing easier. However for shots that are slowed down, the music will need to be speed up so that the lip syncing is still in time.
Reverse-shot:

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