This is Maria Page and Charlie Frazer, who we have chosen to act in our preliminary task music video. We knew who we wanted to choose without auditions as firstly we are very limited with a short time frame and secondly they both had the look our group wanted to achieve. Charlie and Maria both look much older than our age group which is exactly what we wanted as we wouldn't be able to afford a professional actor so we wanted our age but looking older. If they looked younger the plot of our music video could be slightly unrealistic as it is unlikely a teenage couple would face the type of situation the song seems to be about.
In the end I am happy we used Maria and Charlie as Charlie does a level drama and wants to go onto acting as a career in the future so he was really committed and focused, likewise we picked Maria as she is a very confident girl which worked well when filming as she wasn't embarrassed to act.
Final roles:
In the end, I took on the role or organising such as organising the actors and days of filming as well as writing the blog posts with Hannah. Liv was in charge of filming and making sure we had all the footage we need. Lastly, Tommy took on the role of editing all footage together into a music video as he has previous knowledge ands experience using editing software.
At the beginning of our narrative music video a boy and girl meet in the school café in the queue where the girl knocks over her drink and the boy helps her clean it up, the drink will fall in slow motion to empathises the importance of them meeting and how time has stopped as they notice each other and feel a connection instantly. The couple then go on a series of dates and everything is looking good. They then go for dates on walks such as by the river and in the woods. Also, we will use a split screen to show the male and female individually sitting at home on their phones texting each other and looking really happy and smiley at their phone. Next time the couple see each other they're on a walk through town holding hands and they walk under a ladder, after that everything spirals down hill. Their relationship goes wrong and there's lots of argue and shouting, here we will focuses greatly on their body language and capturing the couples facial expressions that show their emotion. Then everything rewinds backwards, all the way back to where they first met at the café at the end when the lyrics say "baby if you could would you go back to the start".
This plot fits with our stimuli of walking under the ladder brings you bad luck, as everything is lovely and happy and they're in love and then they walk under the ladder and everything goes wrong with the relationship as it falls apart - which is the bad luck.
We plan on using a range of locations for our music video. To start with the video will show the boy and girl meeting in a café when the girl knocks over her coffee and he helps her clear it up. They then go on a range of other dates such as walk along the river Tiffey and a date to the courtyard café in Wymondham and we will show a split screen of the couple texting from their homes in their bedrooms. We have chosen to pick locations that are all in Wymondham as it makes it easier to organise days with the actors, ts alsp less expensive and time consuming. In town the couple will walk under a ladder that's lent up along a wall (which brings them bad luck). After this we will show them argue at different places e.g. on a walk in Wymondham and in a house.
If we use the Courtyard Café in Wymondham we would have to get permission from the cafe owners to film, all other places are outside in public areas so its easier to film as we don't need permission.
For our music video idea to work we need a male and female. Preferably we want characters around the age of 20 rather than people our age because it would look more professional and realistic than people our age because often teenagers around the age 16/17 aren't taken seriously with their relationships.
As we were presented with the task four days ago, we are just beginning to explore plot ideas. Tommy came up with an idea that a boy and girl meet and begin to fall in love - we are not sure which point to take this up to, whether they go on dates or as far as moving in together. At this certain point we are going to make it appear that the couple fall out of love, arguing a lot. The idea is to then have around a third of the narrative shot and reversed which has particular relevance due to the song frequently mentioning going back to the start. Because of the stimulus walking under the ladder, we could make it so that when the man walks under the ladder, the filming reverses from that point onwards. We are also looking at the possibility of a time lapse at some point, if it would fit in.
I printed the lyrics out to Biblical and as a group we looked and annotated the lyrics.
Baby if you could would you go back to the start?
Take any fresh steps or watch it all fall apart again?
Play another song here, then you can leave
With your delicate wings, I used to weave
Maybe there's an undertow here
Or maybe this is stuck up in the air
I know how it looks but all that glitters ain't gold
You gave me magical, I gave you wonderful
Cut that invisible cord or I'll starve you
Of what's understandable
Let's make immeasurable moves to the left
Or the right but not central 'cause
[x2]
You gave me magical
I gave you wonderful
Let's make this biblical
And hang from our invisible cords
Baby if you could would you go back to the start?
Take any fresh steps or watch it all fall apart again?
It could have been a wonderful year
Instead we might not make it to the end
Everybody cares, but nobody knows
You gave me magical, I gave you wonderful
Cut that invisible cord or I'll starve you
Of what's understandable
Let's make immeasurable moves to the left
Or the right but not central 'cause
[x2]
You gave me magical
I gave you wonderful
Let's make this biblical
And hang from our invisible cords
[x2]
Baby how can you walk away? [x8]
The lyrics are really deep and meaningful, such as "you gave me magical, I gave you wonderful", due to these lyrics I think the music video should be a narrative video and it should focus on one character and all his emotions so the audience synthesises towards him. As we have to use the stimuli walking under a ladder gives you bad luck I want the video to show all his bad luck and how its getting him down. Likewise, the tempo is rather slow at the beginning however it does build up at times, this tempo shows the up and downs of the mans life and therefore show these moments in our narrative film. Lastly, I think the genre of Biblical is alternative rock. We can tell that it is about something to do with love and relationships. It feels as though it is related to a broken relationship so due to this it is likely that we will use a couple, a male and a female, for our music video.
After researching further into the song Biblical we have decided to do a narrative music video like the existing video to the song, we thought it would make the video seem more real to engage the audiences emotions as its quite a sad slow song. Also, after looking at the lyrics to Biblical we researched into other songs with similar lyrics and a high majority of them also had a narrative format, which all worked effectively.
