Planning the Music Video: Blog 1

Here I will show and tell what I have done for the first stage of my music video plan. The music video I am planning for here is the 'Them Heavy People' by Kate Bush, not 'Fluorescent Adolescent' by The Artic Monkeys. I have completed a storyboard for my chosen video (which could hopefully be made) with elements of allegory; characters; settings (mise-én-scene) and location that I have drawn through just over 4 pages of 3X4 storyboard frames to be able to feature the typical three-part 'narrative' of a typical music video. NOTE: This is a post that was made for another intended video, not 'Human' by The Killers.

 

Analysis of the Storyboard

 

       The two main locations that I have chosen for this video are the forest (or just a wooded area) and the room of a house (I drew a kitchen because of the osition of the furniture to be able to pull off one certain scene involving a mirror. The completely different locations are because the forest resembles the actress's state of mind and the world inside her own imagination. The kitchen/house is used to juxtapose with the imagination as the house is intended to be filmed in a more darker tone to correctly oppose the brightness of the imagination and the darkness of reality. The actress is pulled out of her imagination and back into her house (reality). Of course, this would require some quite complicated editing as I intend to throw her back to reality via two shady suited men who drag her through the forest and slumped onto a chair, which is randomly placed so that it resembles her view o returning to reality through a chair. It reflects her state of mind along with the lyrics of the song. As the video plays on, the 'story' becomes clear that the actress is being driven more insane by the real world, which is told with accompanying cross-cuts to a slinky being pulled taut and snapping; the slinky being her mind. Despite the dark undertone of the storyboard, the lyrics do imply these tones on occasion, so the inclusion of a third cross-cut setting is used to show the actual instruments in the song being played and the song being sung by the actress. This is a typical feature in most music videos; where the camera cuts to the band/artist performing the song, as though 'breaking the fourth wall.'