Georgia Wilson

INITIAL IDEAS

IDEA ONE Music video

“An exploration of youth via an elderly perspective.”

Elderly people in a social event that suddenly erupt into a reenactment of today’s youth. A shot of a clock will be shown with the hands of the clock moving backwards (sped up.)

It should example them reminiscing their youth but portraying the antics of today’s youths.

Influences: Hoppipolla – Sigur Ros.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L_DQKCDgeM

Song we would like to use: Dayvan Cowboy – Boards of Canada.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4

CONVENTIONS

Youth:

Making fire

Driving

Making music

Vandalism

Games

Teenage romance

Drug use

Consumption of alcohol

Clothing

Weapons

Elderly:

Reading

Scratch cards

Tea

Clothing

Board games

EDITING

• Slow motion- fits with the music

• Backwards motion – clock

AUDIENCE

• Target audience: ages 16-25, also interested in genres such as downbeat, ambient and trance. Enjoy making music, socializing and exploring new concepts i.e. art, religion, culture, etc.

• Has to have a big appreciation of the whole ambient scene.

MAGAZINE AND CD COVER

• Simple images with simple text. Warm, old colours, type writer text. Reflects the ambient scene.

• Boards of Canada text in white against coloured background. Very minimalist.

IDEA TWO

• TIME LAPSE MUSIC VIDEO

• After viewing a music time lapse video I like the idea of trying this. We found them to be really atmospheric and so captivating.

• I like the idea of the video not needing a narrative structure and I would like to portray the coming together of nature and man, and showing the we are all connected.

• Influence: A time lapse video on Vimeo.

AUDIENCE• For many time lapse videos they are used for advertisements, so people who like going to

cinema and watching TV.

• People who appreciate the beauty of the world.

EDITING

• Saturation of the colours so they look more vibrant.

• Slow motion

• Stop motion- achieved by a good camera

• Fast motion- time lapse

CONVENTIONS

• Unconventional music- Many time lapse videos use obscure sub-genres of music such as ambient, down tempo and house music, this is usually the reason for the video to be so atmospheric.

• The time lapse effect we hope to use is a convention that is most important. Shots of the sky (clouds moving) is very popular in these types of music videos.

• Panning is a typical camera movement in these videos, although it may be hard for us to use as these videos most likely use timer devices which we don’t have, and hand panning will turn out very shaky.

GENRE

• Ambient and classical music are the most appealing genres of music for this type of video and I think ambient would suit more for the idea.

• The song will have to be atmospheric and preferably not well known as it adds to the atmosphere of the video. It adds to the surprising factor when the audience enjoy an unfamiliar song.

• Alt-J is the artist I am leaning towards as the music would fit perfectly for the idea. It is calming yet energetic at the same time.

IDEA THREE

• Short film

• The idea came from a news report about a new drug. We began to think off how things like that start off.

For this film we would start off with a government warning that will display that the video is top secret and property of the UK government. We’d have two actors sitting in chairs looking ragged and worn down. One of them will go to turn on the camera to symbolize that this film is almost like a documentary about their time testing this drug. Dayvan Cowboy- Boards of Canada will begin to play between flashbacks of things working well. Then, the music stops. There is a beat of silence. There’ll be a shot of their eyes and the pupils dilate. Which, is when the video will take a dark path, along the lines of a horror film.

Anti-drug video.

MAGAZINE REVIEW

• Ratings

• Opinions

• Affects on audience

• Bias accounts

• Actors

• Budget

• Premiere reviews

AUDIENCE

• 16-25 unisex.

• People who surf the net, i.e YouTube and Vimeo users.

• Aspiring video makers.

• Those who enjoy documentary/ scary style films.

• The idea of this short film is that it would look amateur to make this account look like a true story.

• Although, in editing to make this video shocking, which is what we want the audience to take from this video, we want to make the pupils of the actors dilate and many more effects that would take the audience back.

EDITING