Update on my music video

Our first plan was to tell a love story throughout as that is what the song is about. The original story line was that a girl was going to be sat on her stairs looking through a photo album crying, to show the audience that she is clearly upset. The camera would then show photos of her and her boyfriend during different times in their relationship, the camera would then pan into the photos which would then turn into a video as if she was reminiscing. At the end of the video the boy would show up at the girls house and the would make up creating a happy ending for the video. Below are some photos during the filming of the video:

 



However once we started editing the video the clips didn't seem to fit the music very well and didn't follow the normal conventions of an Indie video. We also figured out that getting photos to turn into videos is very hard to make look professional, which again ruined the fluency of the video and the music. The actors were also too young which made the video seem unrealistic and we were short on places for the couple to go to make it seem romantic.

 

Finally we decided it would be better to completely change our idea and start from scratch. Therefore we went for a different approach and rather than telling a story through the video, we decided to create a home made video of the 'band' playing their instruments in a studio. combined with them on a day out and in the pub. The homemade video idea worked well as Indie bands tend not to have a lot of money and therefore cant afford a big filming crew or special effects. The clips of the band playing along with the music means that it ran fluently throughout the video, it also created a better image and felt more like an Indie genre video.