Costume

When planning our music video we wanted to base the costume around a typically alternative, indie acoustic genre. They way in which we achieved this was to look at similar artists to our band and look at how they dressed. We focused on Bombay Bicycle Club (http://www.bombaybicycleclubmusic.com/) and their lead singer, Jack Steadman as well as Luke Pritchard from the Kooks (http://www.thekooks.com/).

Jack Steadman (Lead singer of Bombay Bicycle Club)

Luke Pritchard (Lead singer of Kooks)

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Would Michel Maffesoli and Dick Hebdige agree?

NEW Shot List

Due to dificulties with arrangments and timing Charlie and myself decided to change our planning.
1. Etreme long shot of Alice walking from vanishing point towards camera (Similar to the closing shot in 'A Third Man') (Location: Eaton Park)

2. Low close up of James walking through fallen leaves ( Slow-mo) Cut back to 1

3. Extreme close ups of trees , focused, pull to foreground ( Slow- mo giving a dream-like feel)

(ALL HIGHLIGHTED RED cut between each other until 0:25)

4. Close up of james sitting in bath, slowly slips under the water... fully submerged.
 
5. Same shot as in 4. but Alice rises from within the bath water with a shock (Using cross fades)

5. Extreme close up of James waking up (startled)

6. Close up- James throwing pictures over- Angry

7. Extreme close up- slow motion- pictures falling to floor (after James has destroyed them)

8. Medium close up - door slamming in time to beat

9. Medium shot- rule of thirds- James standing amidst a crowd- speeding up shot- giving effect of isolation

10. Fast cuts between Alice and James- walking through the market place

11. Cross fading between close up of Alice standing isolated and James running through market from vanishing point (slow motion)

12. Strobe Light- Band- extreme close ups on guitars, drums & James on vocals

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Shot List

SHOT LIST

- Voyeuristic slow mo’ shot (OF WATER)
- Pan round to bottom of GUY’s feet
- Pan up legs to face
(GIRL behind him)
- GIRL fades
(LYRICS: and now she’s gone)
- Pan around GUY’s head- EXTREME CLOSE UP
- MONTAGE
GUY & GIRL together (holding hands, laughing etc.)
- 0:24 MULTIPLE shots- GIRL FALLS INTO WATER
- 0:30- main guitar riff starts
WAKE UP- BAD DREAM- GASP FOR AIR
GUY- destructive (pictures-notice board full of sketches, images, articles about the GIRL/kicking stuff over)- GUY & GIRL arguing MONTAGE
- MONTAGE- extreme close up of guitar being played/GUY ripping down pictures… generally being destructive
- Medium close up (GUY singing lyrics- (LYRICS: we met on the stairs))
- GUY walking down the stairs- OVER SHOULD SHOT (GIRL on 4th step)
- SPLIT SCREEN- 1. GIRL and GUY talking 2. GUY talking to himself
- POINT OF VIEW of GUY talking to GIRL- Extreme close up GIRL talking, playing with hair, laughing etc.
- BACK TO SPLIT SCREEN
- (COME OUT OF SPLIT SCREEN- SINGLE SHOT)- Low angle Close up- GUY talking to himself
- CLOSE UP 1:00- SING into camera- EXTREME CLOSE UP- Ooh the haunting sound, of the rustle on the ground, Cemetery darkness, you wouldn’t let go. We’ve never been apart, we’ve never been alone 
- BAND PLAYING- extreme close ups (guitar, bass, drums)- STROBE LIGHT
- CEMETERY- EXTREME CLOSE UP- pans upwards from extreme close up of feet to a medium close up of GIRL (rule of thirds) gliding towards camera
- Long shot- GUY frantically searching for GIRL- voyeuristic/slow mo’ – LANES OF NOWRICH?
- GIRL collapses (CEMETERY)
- BAND PLAYING (STROBE/INSTRUMENTS)
- GUY looking (not slow mo’)
- 2:00 you’ll never be happy if you don’t let go 
- Low angled long shot dress in fore ground and boy in distance.
- GUY finds dress (that GIRL was wearing) on floor – Over the shoulder shot.
- Long shot of boy holding dress middle image ( rule of thirds)

- As music fades the camera will pan out/upwards towards the sky

Fade to black

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Location Ideas

We liked the idea of using Gentleman's walk in the center of Norwich because it is a heavily busy and bustling place due to the market and many highstreet stores. The busy street will be filled with people walking through, contrasting with James who will be standing completely still, giving the impression of isolation, like in Leftfield's Afrika Shox music video.

As we were looking for possible locations to shoot our music video, we walked towards Elm Hill. We liked the cobbled streets because it gave it an eary feeling and we could use good voyeuristic shots with vanishing points, like those in the film 'The Third Man', where the streets represent that of a concrete maze, and a sense of being isolated and lost, which is an element we are trying to represent in our video. James is searching constantly for Alice, the girl that is a figment of his imagination.

We found a lovely bridge not that far from Anglia Square which would be good for reflective shots of the river and voyeuristic, extreme close ups.