Planning

Hello!

Our group have spent the last week planning and researching many existing music videos in order to acquire a general grasp towards the style of music video we will be filming. We spent the first weeks essentially brainstorming ideas that we could use for our music video and what direction we would take it. We felt that part performance and part narrative would be most effective for the song we have chosen as this would allow us to narrate the lyrics which would engage the audience more by giving them something they've never seen and by keeping the performance we can market the band by using close ups of band members and give what we feel would be a close interaction with the fans as they would essentially feel close to the band. We want the video to have a fun feel to it and to portray the serious aspects of relationships and gender stereotypes but in an entertaining way, in this case we want our audience to enjoy the video, not have to think too much about the stereotypes of gender and the issues of relationships.

One idea we had to use the basis of the video 'Drunk Girls' by LCD Soundsystem. It is an entirely performance based music video in which the band are attacked by people dressed as pandas. We will incorporate elements by getting girls to 'attack' members of the band as they are performing.

We discussed Yussras idea of using one single continuous take of the lead singer following a women, lusting after her, but we thought that one single take would be too hard to construct and would be less feasible.

We are also looking at using this as well as a narrative which relates to the song, however we are still considering ideas to use for this.

The group liked the idea of having a 'female dominance' attitude towards the synopsis of the video using the line 'the female of the species is more deadly than the male'. The song relates alot to gender and a sense of control that we assume men typically have over women. we decided that we could flip the stereotype and this way engage our audience with something they perhaps haven't seen before.

George and Tom