Music Video Idea

Our music video idea is based on a montage of a group of people lip singing to a song. We intend on creating a relatively amateur style to our video as we are aiming for the 'home-video' look. One of our ideas is the 'webcam style' look; as if the people in our video are singing into the 'webcam' to their audience.

As we have decided that our video will be performance based rather than a narrative video; we will be able to break down the fourth wall - having our actors look directly into the camera; creating an atmosphere that they are singing directly to the audience watching.

We are in the process of creating a cast list for our video, we have first created a list of people we know that would possible like to be involved and we will later create a definite cast list by asking the people on the list if they would like to be involved. We want to make this agreement formal, (although we want to have fun with the creating of our video) we still want to take the process seriously and make sure it is done to the highest professional standard that we can achieve, therefore we must ensure we are able to rely on our actors. We are considering having a written or email based agreement from each cast member so there is a defiant agreement to perform in our video - rather than a spoken agreement which can easily be forgot or not followed through. 

The majority of cast members we have agreed on are our friends and teachers from school. We like the idea of this style of cast because we want the video to be humorous for the audience.

We are considering various up beat song that are well known and somewhat comical. We intend on picking a pop song that is in the charts because we can guarantee that a wider audience will recognize the song (than if we were to choose a specific genre that may only attract certain ages.)

This video will be a long process of research and planning, we will have to plan out specific days for the specific people we want in our video, e.g. certain days for certain groups.

These decisions have been made by the group but wrote up by Francesca Harris for this blog post.