1. After much deliberation the final
song we have chosen is...
Corrine Bailey Rae – Put your
Records on
2. The reasons behind choosing this song
• Before choosing any video our group decided to brainstorm
some ideas and themes we would like to incorporate in our
song.
• We were sold on filming the majority of our video outside to
engage with the outdoors and use several base tracks as
opposed to just filming in a house
• Initial ideas that popped to mind were large fields with lots of
overgrown plants with powerful colours
• Floral and retro style clothes
• The idea of having a focal object or point such as a guitar, or
records etc
• Something that went against a typical stereotype
3. We managed to whittle this down to a
potential 3 candidates
• Corrine Bailey Rae – Put your records on
• Ellie Goulding – Your Song
• Katrina and the Waves – Walking on sunshine
• I would say that choosing out of these three proved the
trickiest out of all decisions we have had to make so far.
• Taking audient into consideration was a big thing for us so
we decided that this would be a good opportunity to do so
• The only way we could decide was to do a mini pitch to
Mary (Media Teacher) with all our different ideas for our
music videos and asking some of our peers around college
4. Our final decision
• Was to choose Corrine Bailey Rae’s – Put your
records on
• She was enthused in our initial ideas concepts
and places to film.
• We firmly believed that our music video would
keep to our initial ideas and contrast heavily
with the original as we look to add a quirky
touch to the innocent music video
5. Original Music Video Ours Concepts for the Music
Video
The focal point of the original Our focal point for our music
video is the use of bikes video is the use of vinyl records
The main base tracks including Main base tracks include places
the chorus and most verses are such as a canal, field, disused
of Corrine Bailey Rae riding a train track, Vinyl shops and
Bike overgrown autumnal areas
The main theme and setting is Our main theme is the
the country side/mountainous autumnal/90’s/hippy theme
area
All shots were token in the All filming would be done in
Summer and there is lots of autumn to match our setting
light and motif
There is a sense of illustration There will be a mixture of
in this video which mainly illustration and disjuncture in
projects happiness and sunlight our music video
There are only a few locations There is more than one
etc the fields and long road location in our music video
7. Video Link for music video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkEeNpWMvgk
8. Although our music video will be completely
different to the original we found some similarities
that we could also incorporate in our video
Similarities Differences
One of the main reasons why we chose this There would be more than one scene in our
song is the way women are portrayed in the music video. We feel this would give our
video. The lyrics are inspiring and go against music video more depth and dimension and
Laura Mulveys stereotype of some music test our creativeness and filming abilities.
videos. We would like to incorporate this in
our video
Another thing we would want to incorporate We would switch through scenes frequently
is the out doors theme. This matches the to show a sense of disjuncture whilst still
fresh feeling lyrics and would be most managing to create a motif of autumn
effective
Our main character would be a Girl/Woman Orange, red and other floral colours will
to uphold the main message stand out in all scenes reminiscent of what
people used to wear in hippy festivals such
as woodstock
