This presentation compares my original plan and what's changed, what's stayed when I look at my final music video.

1. My initial plan and now–
what’s changed?

2. The plan – What changed, What didn’t
• Firstly, my original proposal for a music video was to use more than sport in
the story. I originally wanted to create a narrative in a football and rugby
theme, but the average songs length is between 3 and 4 minutes long. So
this already created a challenged before I started recording. I had to find a
way to tell two stories with different actors in 3 minutes 40 seconds – and
for me, who isn’t really experienced in music videos and camerawork,
didn’t think I could tell two stories in little time. This however, resulted in
changing my ideas for my music video.
• I changed my idea of creating two stories in two sports into having one
story to tell in only one sport. I chose to theme my music video around
football on the bases of me playing the sport, following the sport and being
inspired by existing football themed music videos (beats by dre “The game
before the game”).

3. The plan – What changed, What didn’t (2)
• The song has a duration of 3 minutes 40 seconds. We intend to use nearly
all of this allowed time to make sure our music video has a strong storyline
and makes sense with the lyrics.
I stuck to this objective of using all of the song to make sure that my storyline was clear to
my audience.
• We don't intend to use a lot of cuts and transitions between clips as it
interrupts the flow of the song and storyline. But we will make sure the
transitions between clips run smoothly together.
I also stuck to this objective of not using a ridiculous amount of cuts and transitions
in my music video. I tried to record as much of it as possible in one or two takes, as
this helps in the editing stage and making it easier to piece together. I believe that
my music video doesn’t include a lot of cuts and transitions, and that my storyline
tells a story and with the song, its flow together perfectly.

4. Locations – What changed, what didn’t
Original proposal
• The locations we plan to use to record our music video
are:
• The School playing fields
• Blandford camp
• Sturminster Newton Football Club
• We intend to seek permission to be able to film on
these locations.
• Why we want to film there:
• The school playing fields offer us the choices to use
the two football pitches and the rugby pitch. All the
pitches have the posts, the correct lines and flag
markings, that make it as real as possible (i.e.
compared to professional football stadiums).
What changed
• Of the original list on the left, we only used
Sturminster Newton Football Club – as their pitch
provided a perfect surface, their goals were looked
after and the facilities offered me realistic shots,
something that is key in my football theme music
video.
• We also used Clayesmore AstroTurf on a Tuesday
night football league, where a lot of my friends
compete in. I thought it would be a good
opportunity to record P.O.V footage (to have footage
that allowed the audience to be in the actors
shoes/perspective) of gameplay/competition.
• Finally we used a friends house and bedroom to
record the actor waking early to train.

5. The final verse and chorus – What changed,
What didn’t
Original proposal
• The final verse and chorus will include both
sportsmen and will offer a summary of their
actions. They will both end up on a positive way,
resolving their problems in
failure/disappointment and this questions the
lyrics.
• " Run away, run away, never come back No way
I'm going down like that"
• Challenging the lyrics we wanted the video to
end positively and tell the audience through the
video's actions to, 'keep trying, don't give up'. We
feel as though the negative ending, but a positive
beat will give an encouragement to the audience.
What changed
Now that my final music video only includes one sports
theme and not two, the final verse doesn’t include two
sportsmen summarising their issues with their sport.
However my final music video does end on a positive note,
some sort of closure, where we see the actor’s journey of
under-performing at the start of the song, then progress
throughout the song – and the audience follow his journey,
which is what I initially wanted.
What stayed
We still were challenging the lyrics at the final verse and
chorus, where lyrics such as; " Run away, run away, never
come back, No way I'm going down like that" didn’t show
effect in my music video, where the actor turned a new leaf
and started performing better, so challenged these lyrics.