After thinking long and hard about my music video, I feel my idea has become too stereotypical and isn't very original, I feel it incorporates too many sterotypical music video themes, such as 'drinking' and 'drug abuse' therefore I have decided to completely change my idea back towards the original idea I had. The original song of 'Alex Clare - Treading Water' gives me more of an open scope and allows me to use more original ideas. I have decided to go back to my original idea of water and want to have a music video based around images and methaphors rather than around a storyline, I feel this is a lot more original and will make my music video different to many others. The main theme which will be running throughout my music video is 'water' as the song is based around water and someone treading water and therefore being stuck and in a limbo state. I wanted to use many different shots of water and build up in impact, starting as a single drip of water and moving on to a big sea or river, showing the fact that everything in life in connected. A second theme I would like to include in my music video is the image of 'vintage' and creating an old fashioned feel to it, I feel I will mainly be able to create this feel through editing and possibly using 'sepia' or 'black and white'. Below is a list of some of the water images I wish to use in my video -
- Tap (dripping water)
- Overflowing Sink
- Rain of window
- Rain on umbrella
- Raindrops dripping from someones face (eyelids and lips mainly)
- Smashed vase full of water and flowers
- Water fall
- River
- Sea
I also considered using a contrast of water to fire but not sure if this would be effective.
- When heavy beat of the music hits have someone pushing out of a bath and the water from the bath splashing around the room, or the vase smashing in slow motion
- Lyrics quote 'Another chance' where I could role a dice representing chance and opportunity, I could do some over water to link it back to the main theme
