The document discusses initial plans for a music video including choosing a song with inspiring lyrics that tell an emotive story and have a strong beat. It will tell the story of a protagonist struggling with dual personality disorder, depicting her depressed/angry and outgoing personas. Locations discussed include a pub for a scene of her drinking alone, a boat graveyard for performance shots due to its isolation, and various indoor/outdoor locations. Concerns addressed are gaining full actor commitment, availability of locations, and lighting/safety issues. A filming schedule is created to keep the project on track.

1. Initial Pitch Ideas

2. Reasons for choosing this song:
• It has strong and powerful lyrics
which tell an emotive and
inspiring story
• The lyrics are also easily relatable
and transferable to any situation
or storyline which was useful
when coming up with a narrative
for our video
• It is a familiar song to people but
the original music video isn’t too
well known meaning people can
watch our music video without
any prior assumptions or images
in their head of how they think it
should look
• It has a distinct and strong beat to
the music which provides a good
guide for editing and is effective
and engaging to watch

3. Synopsis
• When thinking about the concept for our video we were torn about what the
'fight' or struggle our protagonist would face should be. We didn't want to do
the generic getting over a breakup struggle, or similar issues, and instead do
something more serious and complex. We have come up with the idea of our
protagonists' fight to be an inner struggle with herself. The idea is that
she suffers from a dual personality disorder where she is constantly fighting
between these different sides of herself.
• The narrative would be solely focused on her and told through her body,
emotions and personality/image transitions, as well as how her differing
personas deal with similar situations. The culmination of these two opposing
sides will come at the end where we reach a resolution of sorts where she
becomes at peace with herself.
• The two extreme personalities are a depressed and angry persona, contrasted
to a out-going and social, preppy persona. In between these two extremes
there is just the protagonists' true self who is struggling to cope with her
illness and frustration. These binary opposites will be shown through changes
in mise en scene such as lighting and camera angles, as well the costumes and
makeup the protagonist wears and her body language and emotions.

4. Character
Profile
Name: Sierra
Age: 19
Birthplace: UK
Gender: Female
Nationality: British
Hair colour: Red
Eye colour: Blue
Occupation: Singer/songwriter
Our chosen actress for our music video (other than
being one of the only people who would get in
front of a camera for us) is Imogen Husk as she has
experience and is confident in acting. Looks wise
she fits our character profile and looks as though
she could be the age we are portraying her as.
Issues we may come across is getting our actors
to understand the importance of this video and
acting sensibly by taking it seriously. As they are
doing this as a favour to us they don’t really get
anything out of this, but as it is the core aspect of
our coursework it is important that they try hard.
We only have one main actor in our video,
however at two other points we will need a
very minor character for a few frames. Who
this will be hasn’t been decided yet but it isn’t
crucial as we will just use whoever is in the
vicinity as the character isn’t fully revealed.

5. Fashion
Throughout our music video the protagonist will display almost three different
characters, all of which have their own different characteristics and thus different
costumes needed for them to distinguish and showcase their differences.
• For the depressed and angry side of her personality the clothing will be mainly
dark colours and heavy clothing such as a hoodie, jeans, boots etc. This will be
accompanied by dark, gothic makeup and messy hair that signifies her angry
and violent nature.
• At the other end of the spectrum, for the happy and bubbly persona, our
artist will wear light and smart clothing, portraying a more preppy and social
image. Her makeup will feature lighter colours with colours such as pink
creating a more ‘girly’ look
• For the final representation of
our artist is that of her ‘true’ self
where her hair and makeup will
be very natural and minimal. She
will wear a simple white dress
,which has connotations of
innocence and purity, and will
show her real self as she
struggles with her two other
personalities fighting to be

6. Location-Pub
When storyboarding and planning our music
video, we came up with the idea of one of
the scenes of our artist be filmed in a pub,
where she is portraying her sad/violent
persona and is drinking alone. Luckily one of
us works at a local pub and the landlord
gave us full permission to film here. We will
have to plan a good time to film as we want
the bar to be empty which won’t be
possible on Friday, Saturday or Sunday as it
is open all day. Therefore it will have to be a
weekday before or after the lunch shift.
Props that we may need in this scene will be
a shot glass or tumbler, and water inside
which will represent alcohol. We will also
need a minor character in this scene who
acts as the bar tender but we can either use
one of us or any staff hanging around who
would be happy to do it.

7. Location- Purton Boat Graveyard
This will be the location for the performance aspect of our video. I
think this location would work well for the performance elements
of the video as it is quite powerful and I think the connotations of
a wide and empty expanse of countryside works harmoniously
with the ideas of loneliness and isolation. It is dramatic and
unique while also providing text-image-cohesion by tying in with
lyrics such as "Like a small boat, in the ocean". It also holds a
slightly somber mood due to it's derelict nature and isolated
location. This would work very well with the overall storyline and
idea we are working with for this song.
Issues we may come across while using this setting as our
location is the decision of what time of day we want to film
at, which specific parts of this location we will use and then
the general health and safety concerns that always need to
be a consideration.
https://youtu.be/kea5tcqX8YM - Sony camera testing of location
https://youtu.be/H1b612kN2bQ - GoPro camera testing of location

9. All Other Locations
Inside House- Quite a few of our scenes takes
place inside the house which is good as we
can manipulate the surroundings and props to
our liking. An issue we may come across,
however, is the problem of having enough
natural lighting and/or making the
surroundings dark-depending on the mise en
scene we are aiming for.
Campfire- This may be hard to pull off and throws up problems
such as lighting and health and safety. Also, the time of year
isn’t ideal as it will be very cold at night. A friend of ours has
offered her garden for us to use so now it just comes down to
finding a date that suits everyone to film there. We chose this
kind of location for a scene as it offers an atmospheric and
intimate way of showing our character with friends.
Lookout- This location is the place we are using for the scene
where our character drives up to and starts to write. We have
chosen it as, if timed correctly, we could get some amazing sunset
shots. The problem we face with this location is that it is very
open and can be quite busy thus it may be difficult to film without
interruptions.

10. Scheduling our Filming
We have created a filming and editing schedule
that begins from this Sunday when we do our first
lot of filming. Having this schedule will help us
keep on track with when and what we need to be
doing and allows us to then contact our actors
regarding if they’re free.