Our storyline

For our story taking place in our video, we decided on the idea of using a good character and a bad character. This was due to the fact that we wanted to show the contrast between the characters and we thought that it tied in well with the lyrics and feel of the song. Additionally, because the song is about a perfect day, we concluded that to show two contrasting aspects of the two characters perfect days would be appropriate.

We had our actress in our video Charlotte wear different outfits and hair and makeup styles with each character, with her wearing a pretty floral dress and light makeup to give her an innocence of the good character. For the bad character we decided to make her wear all black with a leather jacket, smudged makeup and messy hair, to give her that bad girl persona. we feel that these outfits work with the mis en scene of the video and the song.

Filming and Location Shots

We chose to film part of our music video in a park location, we decided to use this location for a few shots as the setting fitted the piece and worked with the idea we had for part of our video. The lighting in the location worked particulary well as we filmed in the afternoon, this meant the shots turned out well as they were interesting and bright. The shots we decided to film in this location were part of the performance element and also we decided to include writing various little messages to relate to our video using different materials writing in the park.

Locations

When we tried to come up with idea's for the video, the main themes appeared to be outside in parks, and open spaces, so when we went out on our location search, we came across a perfect park and setting for the band part & singing for the video.

We felt the mis en scene fit in with the park area, and the background in the shots would look effective when it came to filming, our only problem with the setting was, it can be crowded when you go, and people walk through the shot not realising were filming.

Our other idea was to do to contrasting shots of our Protagonist walking out of two different different houses. Both characters exiting in a different way, giving a certain image to the viewers, Her outfits will be different showing two different characters, theese shots will feature somewhere near the beginning of the Video.

We decided for the Rebal shot of Charlotte we shall show her breaking into a car, we used Danielle O's car to do the footage using a series of different shots, which we place together using fast editing.

Perfect Day - Hoku

After much research and in-depth thought, the group have come to the conclusion that Perfect Day by Hoku, an very 90s influenced pop song, would be ideal for the production of our music video. It uses the conventions that the group agreed to be highly significant (female singer, pop genre, idea inspiring) and thus has set in motion a frenzy of ideas.

The structure of the song follows a simplistic pattern, which allows for a wider addition of ideas to be used within the footage, we believe, and this is very important with such a short time frame for the production of the video.

Hoku

The artist who sings our chosen song "Perfect Day" is Hoku. Hoku is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Hoku's debut single "Another Dumb Blonde" was certified Gold which made her a teen icon. In 2000, she released her self-titled, debut album. In 2001 she recorded the song "Perfect Day", which was used as the theme song to the film "Legally Blonde". Currently Hoku is rumoured to be set to release an EP in 2010.

First Shot list

This is our fist shot list, of ideas for the Music Video.

shot 1 - begin with a close up of Good girl at the bus stop, listening to an ipod and singing along, starting with a close up of her feet and gradually working upwards towards her face.
Shot 2 - camera will cut to a bus drawing into the stop
shot 3 - Close up of Girls face where she will smile, when seeing the bus
shot 4- camera will cut to a different bus stop were the background will be alot different. It will start at her face, with her taking a cigerette out of her mouth, then blowing smoke, whilst turning her head. The camera will pan down to her feet, which will be old boots.
shot 5 - the bus will draw in, where you will see the good girl, waiting to get off the bus and they will walk past each other.
shot 6, will be a mid shot of the good girl stepping of the bus
shot 7- cut to bad girl glaring at bad girl, as she smiles
shot 8, shot of her lips pulling into a tight smile
shot 9 , contrasting shot showing good girl smiling close up.
shot 10 - be a low shot of the good girl shopping, close up of the shoes and the girl trying to place her foot in them.
shot 11, mid shot of the girl looking at herself in the mirror.
shot 12 - close up of a t-shirt being shooved into a bag, then zoom out and reveals its the bad girl.
shot 13 - long shot of the bad girl runnning out of the store, down the esculator.
shot 14 - a homeless person sat on the floor, close up high shot behind the person, cutting to a mid shot when the good girl walks up to him.
shot 15, will be a low shot of the good girl placing money in the tin, and smiling as she walks off.
shot 16- a mid shot from the different direction of the bad girl, sneaking up on the homeless person and stealing the money,
shot 17 - cutting to a long shot of her running away.

Theese are just a couple of ideas, we have had, the shots and ideas may change through out the course, becuase we havnt tried any out yet. and some may become to difficult. For example the store shot, we may not gain permission to shoot in there. And may not find someone to dress up as a homeless person.