Since last week I had been brainstorming ideas for my music video. I decided to go along with the typical convention of an r'n'b video by using the narrative of a chase between a guy and a girl. I changed my idea because the setting for the music video would have made filming very difficult. I also felt that because the market would be busy the people that were working would be reluctant to take on a small role in my video. I wanted to focus less on the story of Cinderella and put the spot light on this so called 'prince'. After studying Rodger's and Hammerstien's Cinderella 1998 I came up with the story of a boy meeting up with his friends in Mc Donalds. He is very hungry and tries to take one of their chips. His friend quickly grabs his hand and says 'No'. They then spot thyis girl from the restaurant window, his friends then decide to give him a task which is that if he can get the girl they saw from the window then he will buy him a happy meal. This so called prince is a very cocky young and he then agrees to take on this task. By still focusing on the whole fairy tale theme the prince trying to get Cinderella relates to the original story where the prince is on a uest to find his true love. However my video mocks this idea because the prince is not looking for love but he is looking to get this girl because his friends made a bet with him. However this quest that the prince goes on does not go very well because obstacles get in his way which prevents him from getting to this girl that he is trying to meet. I remebered watching Usher's 'U remind me' video and saw how things always went wrong when he tried to get to the girls that he wanted.
That is when I realised that I needed to add more to my story. This is how I came up with the idea of obstacles getting in his way. For example when he leaves Mc Donald's he would bump into a Cancer research worker who will try and get him to sign up.
This week I went to Croydon to Film the beggining part of my music video, I took a Canon GL2 video camera and a Canon Deluxe 200 tripod to film the first scene. I arrived quite late and it started to get dark so I had to shot the first obstacle 1st. I couldn't find any Cancer research or British Heart foundation workers but I did find a man that was working for the NHS who was looking for people to take chlamydia tests. He agreed to do it and I filmed the protagonist walking out of Mc Donald's and the NHS man stops him. I had to shoot this scene multiple times using different shots such as long shots, mid shots and eve point of view shots because I wanted to developed my video by using a range of shots by using the handle of the tripod to move the camera around.
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