Research and Planning

As for the research for our music video, we looked at bands which are almost quite similar to our themes. When we came up with our first idea's for our music video, we were intially thinking of darker themes. We thought about the location in this music video and thought about having the band performance taking place in a very dark and gothic location. So in influence to this music video we thought about filming in a graveyard and we did try to this. However, we really found it difficult to do this, as we need to respect the actual location as it was a graveyard and the visitors who come there as well. We tried thinking of other suitable location and thought about our school drama room and a gothic cloths shop basement in London, which Louise suggested. She said parties took place there however she said she had heard there have been complaints in past regarding the noise. So due to the uncertainty of them letting us film there, we dropped it .As, for the school drama hut, we had big problems with lighting and a suitable background, so we dropped the idea as well.

Even though we had problems with Location hunting for our video, We still used the gothic theme for our music video. This was mainly influenced by the female lead singer in this video as in some shots with the band, she wears a black skinny jeans and boots. We were certainly influenced by this style and went for similar type of look for the two female guitarists in our band. At the beginning of this music video, we see the lead singer lying down in hay shaped like a nest, in a white dress. We used a conflicting look for our lead singer who wore a black corset top and a skirt for our video. When it came to camera angles for our music videos we used extreme close-ups of the lead singers and the guitars. The use of extreme-close up,was influenced in this music video as well as other ones we saw while doing our research. Unusally, we have also found out one of the guitars in the music video is also very similar to the one in our video.This video also made us think about using male band members rather than female. However, we had problems with casting our band members. In the end, we decided on having a all female band and dropped the idea of having a drummer. Having our drummer in our band was something we would have liked to have had, but due to casting and due to the location we had planned, we felt it would have been difficulty.

 


By Narmadha Kothandapani