Pitch For Music Video.

The song we have chosen for our music video is 'Where You Go' by Au Revoir Simone. We have had lots of initial ideas for this video already and have decided to opt for a very girly theme to match the theme of the track. An idea we are keen to use in our video is stop-motion - which is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object or person appear to move on its own. The object or person is moved tiny amounts between each individually photographed frame, creating an illusion of movement when the series of images is played as a sequence. We are also keen to integrate some doodles, using stop-motion, and other hand-drawn images into our video, to create overall a very cute and girly theme. We would like to use one main character as the singer, preferably a vintage looking girl in a summer dress, who will perform throughout the video. However, we are also planning to use a lot of extra's to add to the video at some points to make it believable and more dramatic. There will be a range of locations used in the video - at the moment we are considering a garden or park scene, a town scene and also a party scene to match the lyrics at one point. We have gathered a lot of images and other video examples already, some of which are shown on our blog, and would like to integrate a lot of these ideas into our video but make them more unique and individual.
We have had many ideas in relation to the girl's appearance - we want her to look very summery, so need to take account of the weather whilst filming. We would like her to be vintage looking, so again need to take costume requirements into consideration and find out whether they are realistic or too ambitious. Also, we need to consider the likelihood of getting as many extra's as we need together at any one time in the same place and being able to get a successful scene. Things like this may need to be reconsidered should we run out of time on our video.
We have researched the band to gain as much background information on them as possible, so we can create a realistic and professional looking final product which is relevant to their music.
We are keen to experiment as much as possible with this video to make it as unique and interesting as possible, but want to avoid being over-ambitious as it may make the video look tacky. We are looking forward to working to our full potential so we can produce a video that we are all very pleased with.