Name: Yasmin Simmonds
|
What is the title of the
song and artist you have chosen for the video?
Bonfire Heart
by James Blunt
|
|||
|
What genre of music is the
song from?
Chart
|
|||
|
What are the conventions
of music videos from this genre of music?
(clothing / performance
style / setting / narrative / grading)
Clothing
– All the people in my
music video will be wearing casual clothing. Like jeans, t-shirt, etc as
that’s the codes and conventions of Chart music video’s.
Performance
style – This is a happy
song, I want to give over the impression of time going by eg growing up.
Settings
– Everyday places like
parks, Brighton, the street. Casual places with casual/ typical young adults.
I will film many different places that show a journey/ moving on. This means
that I will have to introduce the theme of a journey at the beginning.
Narrative
– I am creating a short
story with the song as you will see the people moving on and growing up, you
will see the journey happening.
Grading
– I am going to start
off with black and white. I will then introduce colour mid way through the
pictures at the beginning. This will link with the ‘time moving on’ theme.
|
|||
|
Highlight the style you
have chosen for your music video?
(As live, Performance, Narrative,
Concept, other or a Mixture)
|
|||
|
Why have you chosen this
style of video for your music video?
I have chosen a narrative music video
because I wanted the challenge of telling a story through the filming and
lyrics. In my opinion, I think it would e easier to control the mood of the
audience in a narrative music video because the audience can relate to
realistic stories. I want the audience to feel happy and feel like they have
been with the character growing up, I want to create a connection. For this I
will need to use star iconography so the audience knows whom the main
character is, I can do this by focusing close up shots on them.
|
|||
|
Highlight the term which describes how your music
video relate to the lyrics?
(Disjuncture, Amplification or Illustration)
|
|||
|
Describe with examples
from the lyrics and your idea for the video of how your music video links
with the lyrics. If you have chosen
disjuncture please explain where you got your idea from for your video?
My music video links with the lyrics
because the song is about looking for love and finding people that mean a lot
to you. So in my music video I want to show the audience the people that mean
something to me.
“People
like us, we don’t
Need
that much, just someone that starts,
Starts
the spark in our bonfire heart”
Those lyrics tell me that the main
character is looking for people that mean the most to him/ her and their
search for “the one”.
“And
I’ve been looking at the stars,
For
a long, long time.
I’ve
been putting out fires,
All
my life.
Everybody
wants a flame; they don’t want to get burnt.
And
today is our turn”
This tells me that he has been looking
for the perfect person and doesn’t want to be hurt (burnt) again by the wrong
people.
The title ‘Bonfire Heart’ tells me the
music video is about finding people that keep you happy, the people that “starts the spark in your bonfire heart” I
am going to be the main character in this music video.
|
|||
|
Who is the cast of your
music video and what are their individual parts?
I wont know who will be in my music video
because each section will show my friends and family. This means that I will
plan my shots however I wont be able to fully explain what will happen in
each scene. I have a range of short clips as well as a range of pictures to
emphasize time going by. In these clips and pictures I will have the main
character for star iconography as well as close friends and family to show
the love theme.
|
|||
|
Where will you get your
cast from and how will you source them?
My cast will be close friends and family.
They are all easy to get to and film which is great.
|
|||
|
Describe the clothing and
style and image of the performers in your music video? You can copy and paste
images in here of the clothing, hair etc you wish for your cast to wear.
     
My outfits are casual everyday outfits. I
chose this style because my music video is short clips of the people who are
close to me, so I want to film the clips as if it was replaying a memory. It
would look unnatural if I replayed a memory of going to town when everyone is
dressed in ball gowns.
|
|||
|
Include some screengrabs of the types of shots you
wish to include in your video?
Write underneath the type of shot and why you want
to use it?
Which shot types are you including to promote star
image?
My First Setting is in the woods. I chose this because it is quiet
and a nice peaceful, relaxed setting to start the journey off.
The next shot is a bedroom scene where I
will be looking back at old pictures. The bedroom is a personal place which
goes with the personal images.
Another shot is me and my mates in
Brighton. This shot shows me and my friends hanging out and gives the
audience a chance to see who my friends and I are at a more personal level.
Other shots are just casual everyday
shots to tell the audience who my close friends are and showing us all
together, having fun. The following pictures are examples of the sort of
settings I’ll be aiming for.
     |
|||
|
What mise en
scene will you need for the setting of your music video? You can add images here of the setting and
location you envisage for your music video.
My shots will be in Brighton but mostly Crawley.
 
I have chosen these because they are easy to get to, I can easily
picture how and where I will film the shots and it’s a change in scenery if I
film in two different towns.
Brighton will be a good casual meeting point to show all my mates
just hanging out and chilling. However Crawley will be more of the pictures
and family clips. Crawley being the past and Brighton being the present.
|
|||
|
Paste an image below that best communicates the
grading or colouring you wish for your music video. You can use some adjectives to describe
your scene too?
Start of the music video will be a
black and white recording which will show me growing up.
  
After that the next scene will be pictures entering in the form of
a canvas, starting with oldest pictures (young me) in black and white to
recent pictures (me now) in colour. The rest of the shots and images will be
in standard colour.
|
