Costume and Props

We believe that in a folk ( winter music video ) it is alwys best for the female to have a bland look about her , eg: not a lot of makeup, plain and fresh faced. , this would then fit in well with the emotion which we want wihtin the video.

In our music video the emotion is sad and lonely; therefore we are not going to dress our actor/tress in bright colourful costumes when it then wouldnt fit in well with the emotion that we want to get across.

We believe the following items are what we are going to need in our music video:

Time Line

Storyboard

Shot List

Establishing shot
Long shot
Close up of the face
Close up of the face
Guitar shots , different parts of the guitar close up
Close up guitar
Close up guitar
Panning shot , when standing up
Panning when walking around the hills
Long shot from actress behind, staring at the hills
A dissolve or fade shot then as the actress is sat on the fence with her guitar, this is then a mid shot
We then go to a birds eye view shot of the actresses feet
Dissolving into another birds eye view of her feet yet in a different location, (friar street)
Panning the camera up her body from a good metre back
Camera once panned up the body , is then focused on the actresses face , with a close up shot
Dissolve onto a long shot
Tracking shot of the actress coming towards us
Mid long shot as the actress swings round the lamppost 
Closeup shot as boy and actress come face to face
Dissolving into actress and boy sat in a bench , this is then a mid shot. 

Audience.

When making our  music video we intend to try and have an effect on the audience that they show concern and compassion for the girl as she clearly seems distressed walking around on her own and they way her body  language makes her appear sad.
However we don't want to have a negative effect on the audience that when they watch the video they themselves start to feel sad and emotional as they wont want to watch it again.We would also like for them to be intrigued as too why she is upset and feel involved whilst watching our video.

Following the cultural studies approach carried out by David Morley we hope that when audience watch our video that they have a preferred reading of our video and they understand the point we are trying to make and enjoy it.
However if they have an aberrant view then they do not understand the view we had when making our video and our confused by the meaning we are trying to express therefore our planning and research obviously wasnt very good to portray the right image in our video.

Audience Profile.

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Ideas

We decided that to make our music video and CD covers more original we would create a  "fairy" theme using the woods to create a magical woodland feel which would intrigue the audience. 

We would get our actress to wear long flowing material clothing to create a magical and mysterious appearance to herself as she wandered through the woods.
Using the trees and leaves around her to create the woodland effect of  somewhere completely different and unknown to the audience.

However after we talked about the logistics of creating this we realised it may not be as effective as the audience may not understand the "fairy" element and be confused.  Also we would not be able to transform the woods into looking that different without intruding on the habitats within the woods.