Music Video Pitch

Together we have chosen track 4 : "The hill, the view and the light". We have decided to choose this song because we feel we can experiment with many different ideas and have a chance to use more experimental techniques which differs from our past work, so we can challenge. This song in our opinion allows us to use graphics but can also focus on a narrative, making it hopefully a more appealing music video.

Mise en scene

Location : Were going to try many different locations as its quite a slow song so we need to maintain the audiences attention. A lot of the lyrics include references to out door locations and situations such as the weather (sun,sky), hills and a lot about walking to different locations, in this case we are planning to do a lot of tracking following around the singer focusing on her. Were going to contrast the locations to costumes for example if when in a field or estate the singer would be wearing classier clothes. Here we have written a list of different possible locations :

- Park (close up shots of her on swing)
- Woods
- Walking through estates
- In busy areas such as the city center (we were thinking to have her stood still in a crowd whilst people are rushing by her (we could use a effect to speed up all the people around her - fast motion)
- Fields and hills (mentioned a lot in the lyrics) we were thinking to film at different times of the day showing different types of sky's as a lot of the lyrics mention looking up at the sky.

We want a shot similar to this to show not only the female artist who will be singing, but to show the sky and setting around her, as these are all important as they relate to the lyrics and we therefore want to make sure they are seen.

One of our idea of where we might set part of the music video is in the woods, similar to the picture as it creates an atmosphere and we want to have lots of different location in our music video to create variety and interest.

Narrative

The theme of the song is love, which shows in the lyrics and a lot of metaphors are used to represent love and we will use these to help us with the narrative and to relate the lyrics to what is going on in the video. We aren't having a fixed narrative as the lyrics don't specifically relate to two people. We were thinking that when the artists are singing there is lots of tracking of what they are doing and at the end they meet, which is what are main narrative will be based on.

Pace

The pace of the song is relatively slow to begin with however when the male vocalist starts singing the music and pace increases, this is when we would start to make things faster, and could be when we have people walking past the female singer or male in fast motion.

Goodwins Theory

One of Goodwins theories were that there is a relationship between the lyrics and visuals, we are going to show this is our video by showing what is said in the lyrics for example how the lyrics talk about sky and hills which will be included in the setting of the video. Also how the song is about love and at the end we hope to illustrate this by showing the female and male artist together.

There will be a number of different shots including a lot of close up on the main artist and this is how we are thinking to start our film with a close up of the female singer. This will be for both the audience and to help set the narrative and visuals to the lyrics. It is also likely that both artist will be singing directly into the camera which is a example of voyeurism.

Costumes and Props

It is likely that the setting and location of our music video may be a more run down area, therefore in contrast to this we were thinking we would have the people in our video dressed in a more classy, indie way but yet still showing the youth of the artists, as this fits the genre of music. The props will be fairly simple as we are going to focus a lot on graphics and the setting of the video, however the props we will use will probably be day to day things as we will be tracking the artists as though they are doing normal day to day things. Our main prop though will be a multi coloured umbrella which is a main feature in our video

This is what we imagine the artist will be dressed like, similar to this, however maybe slightly more colorful.So we are thinking Marianne will be dressed in a floaty prom dress in the field with wellies, then maybe converse and laddered tights for another location. The male artist will be dressed in skinny jeans and a smart suit jacket and then smart shoes. For another location skinny jeans again, more casual shoes either converse or high top trainers and then a casual jacket and top.

To make sure that all our products fit together as one package we are going to be using the colorful umbrella in all our products, such as: both the magazine cover and the digipak will have the umbrella included in the image, or we will somehow use the umbrella as an opening mechanism on the digipak. The umbrella will also be used in a few different shot's in the music video.