The Pitch

Once in our group, me and Faye decided that we were going to create a music video. This appealed to us more than making a short film as making a short film is almost the same as what we did last year and making a documentary didn’t seem too interesting as me and Faye wanted to be creative in whatever we decided to do and making a music video seemed perfect for that. We also decided that our music video would include both performance and narrative, as most music videos follow this format.

Next we had to do decide on what song we were going to use for the video.We discussed a range of songs we could use coming up with ideas for a music video for each, some of these include:  

• You Me At Six – Save It For The Bedroom:

A music video based around a band perform and narrative of a stereotypical teenage house party, with scenes of drinking games, dancing, kissing etc whilst focusing on an ex- girlfriend character who tries it on with her ex- boyfriend but he openly rejects her after hearing about all her antics but the lad eventually finds a girls he likes with the ex girlfriends jealously being 

seen throughout.

• Biffy Clyro – Machines

Due to the sad and delicate tone of the song the idea for this was about a young couple who are in love but the boyfriend dies in a car accident. The video would have such scenes as the girl visiting his grave, crying herself to sleep and looking at old photos of them wishing he was still there. It would have a depressing tone to it. The video would also include performance of the male playing acoustically along to the song whilst lip syncing. 

Final Proposal: 

Eventually we decided that we were going to use a song by Katy Perry as she is an artist which we both immensely enjoyed listening to, having both us seen her in concert multiple times. We decided not to use a song which she had already released as we were afraid we would find it hard to think of ideas for the video as we would already know the original so well. We ended up on choosing the song ‘Not like the Movies’ from her ‘Teenage Dream’ album. This is a song which we both emotionally connected too and had ideas flowing for.

Once we decided to use that song we needed to come up with the concept for the video. We mind mapped various ideas and carefully listened to the lyrics of the song so that our narrative could go alongside it with actual meaning linked up together. At last we agreed upon going with the narrative of a young couple who had recently broken up and the girlfriend almost dreaming to get back with him. The video would follow the girlfriend’s heartbreak over the break up. It will show her reminiscing of times gone by with her ex-boyfriend, both good and bad. Whilst including performance of the girl lip syncing throughout.