Music Video Brainstorm

To begin the initial planning for my music video, I created a spider diagram just listing my ideas and some details about what they would need/involve.

Here are the three ideas I came up with for my Music Video:

Idea 1 Narrative

The first idea was to do a video without any performance by the band at all. The narrative would tell the story of a man who feels he is being messed around by a girl he likes. I would want her wearing too much make up and not enough clothes, to show her low class. The man would look constantly fed up, as she drags him around and then dances with every other bloke she sees. The locations for this would be on streets and in night clubs, however, I would have to film at night when there are people out, to make it believable that she has gone out. I would also need a lot of actors to be the men she flirts with, as a girl randomly flirting with strangers could lead to complications. The meaning of this video is to show what the song is about clearly to the audience.

Idea 2 Narrative and Performance

This video would follow a similar storyline to the first one however be more simple as there would be less time to fill. For the narrative half of the story, I would shoot it from the mans point of view, so the audience can relate to him more, and show the woman for what she really is. It would all take place in one bar where the band would be performing in an "open-mike" night, to show they are not the global superstars they crave to be yet. The fact that they're performing in a bar shows that they are still in the early days of their careers, trying to spread their name.

Idea 3 Performance

For my final idea, I wanted to just do a performance video. These have worked well for many bands throughout the years, by using the band to connect with the audience. By just having the singer in the video, it would be as if he is singing to the audience, making the song sound personal to him. The video would either be filmed out in the streets with drunken happenings going on in the background, or in front of a green screen. To link the performance to the song, I would cut to short shots of what the singer is singing about, for example someone crying and mascara running when the lyrics "mascara runs down her cheeks" is sung.