(Pre- Production) Beachcombing Ideas

Actors 

Due to our artists music being almost indie urban like we've decided to give our artist an indie yet vintage look. We want the artists style to represent their music and how they really are so we've decided to present the artist with some basic ideas to work from like the 11th doctor and fashion from areas like Brick Lane (where he regularly shops) to create an image that is what we think the audience will appeal to while also having the very unique look of our artist.


For the actress in our video we've decided to go for an attractive girl from the target audience so to allow the female members of the target audience to relate to the character and for the male target audience to be interested in her because she's attractive while also looking like someone they could know because they're all from the same target audience.

Locations

As far as locations have been considered we decided that due to the fact that our video occurs in multiple locations that we would want several easily distinguishable locations whether that be by color or architectural style. We want Robert to be in a basic school assembly hall which will play on the idea of him being young while also giving the idea of a person giving a speech about something to an audience, something that he is doing with his music giving awareness to Sea kelp.


For the scenes with the girl we know we want a scene in a bathroom where it would be her moment of realisation, as a visual link to her and Robert we feel that every other location should be slightly more cluttered and urban while the scene in the bathroom signifies her awareness of Robert we feel that perhaps the bathroom should look more plain,empty and sterile like the school hall Robert is in singing.


The bedroom the girl wakes up in will be the most disorganised and cluttered set so that as the song progresses and she gets closer to Robert each set gets plainer,emptier and more sterile; almost like a cleansing of her mind.


Scenes on the street should be done up in London to help attract a wider audience and also show how confined the girl feels, specifically in tourist attractions to show the negative side of her emotions however we will also show areas of Brick Lane to make the audience relate to the character and also give the character a fortress of solitude where she can feel happy.

Narrative

For the narrative we had decided on the idea of Robert receiving a letter from a fan talking about how she feels uncomfortable in her skin and then seeing the girls day to day routine through her eyes where we see how she starves herself,takes dieting pills and is bullied and influenced by the media.

Myself and my partner came up with the idea that the dual narrative between Robert and the girl should be visually heightened with the girls narrative being the fake side of the world with her being fat and having her bedroom floor covered with beauty magazines and cut outs of models while the floor around Roberts pianos are covered with articles about girls starving themselves and shows the negative side of the media.

Ideas we had for the narrative included a scene of the anorexic girl looking in the mirror to reveal her reflection being several stones larger than her self and shot transitions like her downing diet pills and having a smooth transition in Robert looking from the ceiling to piano or her throwing up in a toilet and as the camera tracks the vomit we transition to Robert skidding his fingers down keys on the piano.

Props 

We intend to use a piano, preferably a classic standard piano (,nothing too extravagant) because we want to keep it looking rather average and not out of place for our artist. We like the design of classic standard pianos because even without our artist they are already very iconic.

We would also like to have hundreds of magazines littered along the girls bedroom floor while for Robert we have hundreds of news papers to show contrasting imagery surrounding the idea of weight loss and dieting.

The only other major prop I can think of is the stage lights which will surround Robert and give his scenes a studio like atmosphere so we can clearly connote to the audience that this is the performance side of the narrative. 

Shots/ Influential products

I like the image of Alicia Keys on her piano because it's simplistic and iconic and instantly draws attention to the artist.



Further looking at pianos I really like Kanye Wests' video "Runaway" because of a high angle shot of him standing on a piano because it looks so powerful and gives a clear view of all that is occurring around him, it's a camera shot I'd very much like to create.

In Adele's video rolling in the deep I like the cutaway shots of the glasses of water because it's visually engaging while being beautiful simplistic. It was this shot that gave me and my partner the idea to do a visually interesting cutaway shot; this later became the idea for the magazines and newspapers on the floors of our artist and female character.

I like the music video for "Runaway" because it uses interesting imagery of ballerinas and simplistic staging to create a beautiful majestic video while the lyrics of the song and the footage captured from Kanye's performance make the song feel like a dramatic monologue or story. I would like to replicate the feelings this song creates with Robert's song.