Take Me To Church:

Our main ideas for our Music Video are:

• Black and white effect throughout the video
• fire
• fighting
• love/hate
• emotional
• Smoking shot, but use alcohol instead

These ideas are all included in the music video 'Take Me To Church' we only saw this video after creating our idea and story board therefore do not what to be seen as copying it but putting our own prospective on theses ideas.

The opening shot is of a fire, this particularly was of interest to us as we have shots focused around the burning of a fire.










We would like to include a shot like this but instead of smoking of our main character drinking vodka to show clear facial expressions and emotions





When the tempo of the song changed, the shots became faster and the actions within the shots showed suspense and urgency. The slower shots showcased the love towards each other and the faster ones showed panic and violence.

We thinking that a black and white colour scheme creates a gloomy tense atmosphere, in which we want to create. Futhermore, this video uses a black banner above and below we would like to replicate this with our video as we felt it made a darker feel towards the audience with we found powerful. We might refer back to this video when filming for inspiration on effective shots. 

Ideas for Artist Names and Album Names:

We have decided the artist is going to be called Tobias Kane as the other names did not achieve a positive feed back when we asked our target audience.(for example: Tobias Berberich did not seem like a pop stars name)

We were really not sure in which album name we prefer. Therefore, we asked 15 different students aged 17-18, and 5 young teachers. These were the results

BLUE /////

FLAME /////

ALIVE ///

EXISTENT///

SHATTER

IMPACT////

We also considered keeping our album self-titled. Therefore, the front cover of the digipack will only showcase Tobias Kane (our artist) on the front title. We like this idea and may use this instead as we could not figure out which one worked well underneath the name. Self-titled albums are normally used by new artists or already established artists. We feel this is very appropriate for our song and genre of music, which focuses on the music rather than the promotion and extras of creating an album.

Therefore, our album will be self-titled.

Our Actors:

These are our actors. Due to our idea of burning pictures of them, we tried to collect some pictures of them together that are already available. However, we need to organise a photo shoot to create more pictures of them resembling more of a relationship. We have decided to organise a time to take photos of them together, with different props and costumes in each picture to make their relationship look like a long, serious relationship which has been through many experiences together.

 

Props, Costumes and Equipment:

Tobi- For all the shots we would like Tobi to wear casual clothing (e.g jeans or tracksuit with a t-shirt). The only prop Tobi will be having is the phone, for shots 7,8 and 16.

Emma- For shots 2,3 and 4 we would like Emma to wear a dress, symbolizing she is coming home the next day from a party and is in a bad state. In these shots, Emmas make-up will be all messed up due to us wanting it be look like its from the night before
For the rest of the shot, we would like Emma to wear casual clothing (e.g a top and jeans). The props Emma will be having is a Vodka bottle for shots 2,3,4,5 and 11, and pictures of her and Tobi to burn in the fire pit in shots 10 and 15.


Fire Pit- As none of us have a fire pit available, we have decided to buy one from a local scrap yard as buying a brand new one would not have the same effect as an old worn out fire tin.
This is an example we took from google of what we want it too look like.

 


  
Phone- We have got an old phone we are able to use for filming shots 7 and 8, for when our actor receives messages from his girlfriend. This is also second hand and able to ruin and throw into the fire at the end (shot 16)







Make-up-We will use make-up when getting ready to film. But also, the actress may attempt to put more on when drunk looking in the mirror. This is stereotypical and will make the actress look more vulnerable and more of a 'drunken mess'. This will be used in all shots with our actress in.



Cranberry Juice-This isn't necessary a prop, but was essential to buy in order to fill the bottles of something that will be good to film with. Not only this, but when using wine bottles, it may look similar to wine.







Wine/vodka-We collected wine and vodka bottles in order to smash for our slow motion shots which create a tense, damaging environment. The smashing of the bottle reflects the nature of there relationship; violent, toxic, poisonous and slowly breaking down.








 Equipment: 

Permission Forms:

For our music video, we need to get permission from our actors to ensure that we can use them in our music video. As we are using two main characters and extras will are going to include them all on one form. The permission form looks like this:

Location Pictures:

Garden 

We will shoot in the garden for scenes involving the fire pit, and closeups of our girl actress. This is because we feel the lights already in this garden will look effective and provide an attractive, emotional environment which will connect to our song and story. 

  The front door location may be used briefly within the video. 

The mirror location will be used in the shot of Emma (our actress) when she looks at herself, this is because the light will provide a interesting reflection on Emma for the audience.

The road location will mostly feature in the beginning when the actress is shown to be drunk walking down the street. This location is in Bushey. A limitation of this location is the lighting and therefore we will try and overcome this by using street and car lights to our advantage to create a gloomy light beam on the road and actress. In addition, we could use a flashlight which would not look realistic but would look alarming and dangerous.

Furthermore, we will use this public location of Harrow Viewpoint as our establishing shot. This location looks very good in the dark as the lights of harrow, however in the dark it will look extremely dark and visibility will be low. This may be effective for some shots , however we may have to overcome this by shooting in a earlier, lighter time of the day and using darkening effects over the top of the shots. In addition we could use car headlights on our actor.

Finally, we will film in this location within our school's boarding room. In order to use this location, we got permission from the owner. This is a good location as we are using it to film boys playing playstation, in which it is used for normally everyday which makes the whole scene look natural and not set up. The location is well lived in and not fake for filming in.

Locations:

We are also using Harrow View Point, which is a public place therefore we do not need permission.