Mood Board

We wanted to portray a sense of fear, confusion and the concept of fantasy vs. reality through our moodboards. It links directly to our final idea, and shows the way in which we want our music video to go.

Animatic

When we started to finalise our idea for our music video we drew out a storyboard depicting the shots and images we wanted in order. Once we had drawn out the storyboards we then used final cut to create an animatic of our storyboard, to form a fluid rough idea of what sections of our storyboard would be suitable for what section of our music.

Changes to the first verse

Our teacher was enthusiastic about the second pitch, however she didn't like the idea for the first verse, as it doesn't seem to correspond well to the rest of the music video. So our group came up with an alternative idea for the First verse:

2) First Verse - We see the girl from the woods emerge out of a tree draped in streamers, she walks along a path and sees a clown holding balloons beside her, the shot is very close to her side so you can not see the arm farthest away from the clown. She watches the clown till it is out of sight then turns to the camera, the camera pans to the side where her arm has been cut out to show her arm holding a balloon, she looks in curiosity then turns back, point of view shot - the clown is gone. Cut to a shot of her sat on a chair strapped to the chair with streamers wrapped around her body the clown emerges slowly standing up from behind her, and covers her face with its hands as she struggles.

I think the idea links better to the idea of the clown being fantastical, and taking over her body, indicating that she has some kind of split personality disorder. I think this idea is more interesting than the first two ideas, and will have a more captivating look to it.

Second Idea

After deciding to change our song choice to the more upbeat and erratic 'I Can Talk' by Two Door Cinema club our group had to develop a new idea for our music video:

1) Intro - As the song begins with the vocals 'A, O, A, E, O' there would be close up shots of faces with different expressions, at different angles - profile and side profile. The faces will change with fast paced cuts that mirror the rhythm of the vocals, with a haunting close up of a clown face flickering in and out between the cuts of different faces. Then as the song breaks out into a short instrumental piece there will be a handheld shot following a girl running through a wood looking over her shoulder in fear, some of the shot will be adjusted so that she is running backwards, and will cut between different size and angled shots.

2) First Verse - As the first verse begins there will be a shot of a girl sprawled over a guy on a large double bed, the camera will pan around to find a clown in the corner of the room watching the bed. Then as the camera pans back to the bed the girl will be sat on the bed with her head down while the male does up his trousers, he will throw some money on the bed, then there will be a close up of the girls face with tears in her eyes. The male leaves, once the door to the room is shut the clown walks to the bed picks up the money adjusts the girls bra strap then opens the door and another man walks in.

3) Chorus - On the chorus we will return to the footage in the wood of the girl running and looking back, she will find a man slumped against a tree with blood on his stomach. The camera pans around to find the clown with blood on his hands, the girl screams and runs away, the slumped over man lifts his head and we see he has a clown makeup on his face, zoom into red lips.

2) Second Verse - Zoom out of red lips of the girl from the woods, she is putting on makeup in the mirror in a large public bathroom, she turns to her friend who gasps. Point of view shot of her friend seeing the girl from the woods with her face covered in clown makeup, point of view shot of the girl from the woods as her friend screams and runs out of the bathroom. The girl from the woods turns back to the mirror and her face is made up normally in the reflection, the clown is beside her in the reflection now but she cant see/ignores it.

3) Chorus - Further shots of the girl running through the wood, with point of view shots of the woods. Then a shot of the girl stood on a street still, with people walking around her, the shot will be adjusted so that it plays fast forward. The shot will flicker between her alone and her with the clown possessively wrapping his arms around her.

4) Instrumental - At the beginning of the instrumental section it is slow paced, then the pace begins to increase, we will have a montage of random shots from throughout the music video as well as other images that we might find when filming that we can not fit into the video. Then as the instrumental section reaches its climax, and we return to the 'A, O, A, E, O' there will be a shot of the girl stood opposite the clown, the shot will move from seeing her face around the back of her head so the audience can see the clowns face, and then the clown will remove the mask and the audience will see that she is beneath the clown mask.

5) Chorus - Rapid shots of the girl struggling to remove the clown mask from her head, images of her running from the clown. Then on the last note of the song the girl removes the mask and drops it then disappears, as a new hand comes into shot and picks it up.

Lyrics

I Can Talk - Two Door Cinema Club

You won't believe what I tell you,
White coats and clever minds will choose
You get a lot from thisLoose tongue and arrogance
It's not appropriate
Don't think that this is it

Now I can talk, no one gets off
(I know how you like to)
Now I can talk,no one gets off
(repeat)

A longer sentence brings no more
Than one that I had said before
It's hard to compromise
When I see through your eyes
It's just a common view
I guess it's lost on you

Now I can talk, no one gets off
(I know how you like to)
Now I can talk, no one gets off
(repeat)

instrumental

Now I can talk, no one gets off
(I know how you like to)
Now I can talk, no one gets off
(repeat)