Song and Concept Idea (2)

We decided recently to start from scratch with a completely new concept and song, as we felt that we were going round in circles trying to come up with a strong idea that we believed would work to our previous song 'Changing', and were getting absolutely nowhere! So, our new (and hopefully final) idea is to work on an idea for the song 'Riptide' by Vance Joy. Our current plans are to focus on a female protagonist, but from a male's perspective, in which we will follow the story if her mental state. We will portray two sides to her, one being her upbeat and happy self which will quickly be contrasted by a dark and crazy side to her as the beat changes. The message we would be looking to portray here is the effects mental state can have on a relationship, and we would show this by being from the point of view of the male in the relationship. Here is the original music video to the song:

Brainstorm and Lyrics

This is a brainstorm of our initial ideas, nothing is set in stone so far, as we are still uncertain about our song and have many ideas that we have been discussing as a group. The song we are currently working on is 'Changing' by Sigma ft. Paloma Faith, which contains really strong lyrics that would be effective to work with if we could come up with a strong concept (which we are currently struggling to do). However, we have brainstormed a few of our ideas, as shown below, focusing on one particularly strong line in the song "I won't live my life through you", from which we are developing a character that is currently breaking out of a rough or dark past. 

Song and Concept Idea (1)

My group have been discussing our song choice without being able to agree on an idea for the past couple of months, but we have finally chosen the song we are going to use. Firstly, we picked the song 'Budapest' by George Ezra but couldn't think of a concept to go with it. Then we thought of a concept for 'Afterglow' by Wilkinson, and picked our final song to this concept. The song we have decided to make our music video to is 'Changing' by Sigma ft. Paloma Faith. The concept, which i will blog about separately, is coincidently about a characters life changing after a dark period in their life, and therefore this song is perfectly fitting!

Prelim

Our group had so many ideas for our prelim, but as usual we picked music videos that would be too complicated to replicate, for example, 'All I do is win' By DJ Khaled:



We then moved onto a simpler music video of 'Black Velvet' by Alannah Myles, however this turned out to be too complicated to edit as we didn't plan our editing with the pace that the shots changed at, therefore the lip syncing and music weren't in sync:



In the end, we used a couple of our friends to film our prelim, using 'The Lazy Song' by Bruno Mars