In the beginning, the ideas we were both coming up with were varied as our music video had not yet been finalised. we had not chosen our music track. When we both heard 'The number One' by Stenchman, our ideas became similar as we both gathered that the theme should be lonelieness and isolation.
These theme became apparent within the song as the track itself has a very dulcet tone to it which was mostly because of the bassline which had a sub frequency added to it which made the song as a whole very dark and melancholy. When gathering ideas for the music video, we had set an initial idea that we should represent people as alone, isolated and deserted from society.
We were thinking of ways to achieve this and then I remembered I watched a film a couple of weeks before called 'Cash Back' and there was a distinctive scene which stayed in my mind for quite a while.
This was the opening scene to the film where we are introduced to a young couple arguing. The camera is supposed to represent what each character sees. I found this scene very powerful and imaginative.
You can view this scene in the video below and can be found at 1 minute and 10 seconds.
We want our audience to relate to this scene as we know many of them would have probably been in an argument within their relationships.
The image below is a shot of the scene we are referring to:
These theme became apparent within the song as the track itself has a very dulcet tone to it which was mostly because of the bassline which had a sub frequency added to it which made the song as a whole very dark and melancholy. When gathering ideas for the music video, we had set an initial idea that we should represent people as alone, isolated and deserted from society.
We were thinking of ways to achieve this and then I remembered I watched a film a couple of weeks before called 'Cash Back' and there was a distinctive scene which stayed in my mind for quite a while.
This was the opening scene to the film where we are introduced to a young couple arguing. The camera is supposed to represent what each character sees. I found this scene very powerful and imaginative.
You can view this scene in the video below and can be found at 1 minute and 10 seconds.
We want our audience to relate to this scene as we know many of them would have probably been in an argument within their relationships.
The image below is a shot of the scene we are referring to:
The facial expressions that both the male and female express are very compelling as even though we can't hear the girls narrative, we can understand that she is very angry with the way she uses her eyes and movements of her hands while arguing.
This shot is a deictic sign of anger and discontent as the shouting and anger of the girl has a direct connection with her emotions. When the girl chucks the vase of roses at the door in anger, it not only represents the 'ending' of their relationship but can also be seen as a symbolic sign as the red roses and the colour red are both representatives of love and romance, however, the fact that the vase is being destroyed, mirrors the same effects on their relationship. We decided to use this pastiche in our music video to stress the anger of the girl in our opening scene.
