Setting and Location

For our music video we have chosen 3 main locations to use for the 'dream' part of the music video.The beginning of the music video will show the character's normal (monotonous life). This will include a montage of her eating with her family,sitting in a classroom and sitting with her boyfriend on a sofa.The family and boyfriend parts will be shot in one of our houses during the day to use as much natural lighting as possible but use additional lighting if needed.Each location will be used in one section of the song, but in each section will be in a montage style.The music video will then move to her 'dreams' and the 3 main settings:

SpaceOur ideas for this location are using a small enclosed room and using tin foil to make it seem like a spaceship, or something out of this world. For this we would need to use an empty room with not much furniture to allow the characters to move freely in the space provided. We would use disco balls and flashy lights to make it more mysterious, but referencing the retro side to the setting as well.

Another idea for the location would be to use a completely white room/hallway. As seen in the photo below it would reflect more of a spaceship but we could use props and lighting to reflect a more qwerky side to the dream. We could also use glow in the dark paint/ neon paint to add some colour to the scene. We would use natural lighting but added artificial lighting to make the setting overly white and sterile looking.

What inspired us to use space as one of the locations is the film Gravity. Although it used expensive equipment and intricate special effects, the emptiness but freeness that the astronauts can move around in. Although this would be incredibly artistic and surreal to reflect the dream, it would be very hard to get right, well with a low budget and limited technology. A novel that also inspired the space location is 'The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy'. It's fun way of looking at the galaxy influenced me into wanting to reflect that in our music video.

When relating to Goodwin's theory the visuals wont have a simple relationship with the lyrics. We could use this location in the second verse with the lyrics:"I'm sitting on the rocks a thousand crazy eyesAnd everyone seems to be hypnotisedBy the golden sky passing byWhen the sun goes down we come back around"The characters could interact with aliens relating to the crazy eyes, and relating to the sun and the sky, we could use a green screen to show the earth passing round the sun with the characters in space.

BeachOur plan is to go to Cromer beach and take the montage on the beach and pier. We chose Cromer because it is a sandy beach which we can use to show some of the aspects of the dream. We want the character to dig for treasure and we can use the sand to hide it. As this is an on location shoot rather than in doors, artificial lighting would be hard to carry and use, so we will have to rely on natural lighting. If when it comes to filming, the lighting is bad, we will change the brightness, contrast and saturation in the editing process.

Another beach location we could use is Southwold beach because of the brightly coloured beach huts which could be a good background for some of our shots. Again the light would be natural but we could edit the brightness to give the scene a warmer, brighter feel.

Paint WarFor the paint war, we would need a large area outside to perform the scene. However it needs to be enclosed to show a lot of colour in one frame. We are going to film it in a woods so it doesn't matter about mess because the paint and chalk we are using is environmentally friendly and will just wash away without causing any harm. We had two main forest locations: Thetford Forest and Tyrrells Woods just outside of Long Stratton.

Thetford forest has many trees and is a big area so we can go deep into the woods, however it takes longer to get there and we would need travel arrangements to get there. Also we would have to walk quite far from a road with all the camera equipment to get into a heavily wooded area.

On the other hand, Tyrrells woods isn't as heavily wooded but has good open spaces like the one shown below, so we could use wide shots to show the paint war happening. Also it is only a 20 minute walk or 5 minute drive from Abbie's house which makes it more convenient seeing as the actors will be getting covered in paint.

This location will end the music video and relate to Goodwin's relationship between lyrics and visuals. The lyrics "the sun says goodbye" reflects the time of day we will be at sunset connoting the sun saying goodbye.For intertextual references, here are the blog posts relating to this:>>http://emilyorea2media.blogspot.com/2015/09/intertextual-references-influence-of-art.html>>http://emilyorea2media.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/intertextuality-references-influence-of.html