Once we had our song sorted, we started to make a mind map of everything that we need to take into consideration, such as mise-en-scene, shot types, narrative and costumes. We thought hard about what the narrative of the music video will be because we did not want it too cheesy, but we wanted it to be like a fierce relationship where the man is to be seen the most dominant one. The narrative is going to be about a relationship between two, however the man becomes distant to his girlfriend due to his dedication to sport, he then gets injured but the woman still loves him in which she does all she can to help him. We chose this type of narrative because its based upon true events, things like this happen in reality and we wanted to show the power of love, however not in a cheesy way.
Me and my partner started to properly plan out our music video, in which we completed all Treatment, Location, Risk Assessment, Costume/Props, Shot List and Shooting Schedule. When completing all of these sheets, we agreed together to create a vision of what we will expect for an outcome. We want to make the shots change with the speed of the music. We also want to get as many shot types within our music video as possible. The biggest threat that we have is when we get time to shoot as our main location is London and we both have weekend jobs. We both decided that we will try to take as many days off as possible to make this music video successful.
This was the day that we began filming. It was a very cold day but had a very nice sunset which is why we chose this specific location. We was able to get a few shots as the football match that we was filming was real and we was not able to interrupt to get the best shots we could have. We got very nice group shots, skills, meetings which would set the story line well. We tried many different angle and shot types and they were all very successful. Our next goal was to create our own football match where we was able to get involved ourselves.
As a group, me and my partner arranged a date to meet the two actors we have asked to be in our music video, however the dates that they can do, we cant, so this became a huge problem for us. We decided to change the story line and start again that can not only fit around us, but to fit around the time schedule too. We came to a conclusion that I would lip synch for our music video and we would fit the music video around the beat of the music. As the music is very fast paced, we had an idea of filming a football match and capture as many shots as we possibly could. The storyline would still fit in to be a footballer having love and passion for his sport, where he loses a very big game of his. We decided to narrow down the story line as we wanted to focus on the shots more than anything. We looked up some adverts and music videos that may have used football within. We came across the Fifa 15 advert which we analysed and came to a conclusion that our music video would have to be very fast paced. We also looked at Grimes-Oblivion music video which gave us many ideas that we were inspired by and may add some of them into our music video.
We arranged for a few people to come and play football for us to film, however not as many people turned up as we would have expected. Because of this we focused on one person who is very good at football and decided to make a story out of him. He was our main focus and captured many videos of his skills and we also used the GoPro camera to capture point of view shots. We also focused on getting as many singing shots as possible so we could fill up spaces if we needed to. We also got a lot of movement and reaction shots of the artist to also make a better storyline to our music video.
