Initial Response to Track

Here are some of the basic ideas that Rob and I have had. At the moment, they are just initial plans, themes etc:

• Voyeurism - This is conventional in music videos but me and Rob want to take it further than just the obvious use or mirrors etc. We would rather use reflection and be more subtle with the idea of voyeurism. CCTV and Television for example.
• Speed cutting - We have seen other videos where quick cutting has been successful. We have not yet decided what we are going to use the jump cutting for but we think it will be a good recurring theme throughout the video.
• Camera movement - We want to use 360 shots and maybe some POV shots. We will experiment with the camera before we start filming and hopefully this will give us some ideas for our video.
• Text - We have discussed inserting text onto the screen in the video. We do not want to do lip-synching and we think that text on the screen will compensate for this.
• Camera shots - We think that we will include quite a lot of close-up shots of our actors face. We think that this adds a bit of emotion to the song and after studying other music videos, we think that this is a successful technique.
• Star persona - We do not feel like our video will be constructing the star's image very blatantly. The band will not be in the video, only the guest vocalist, who's voice is Richard Ashcroft. The actor will remain quite emotionless throughout, as we feel that this is unconventional and will grab the audience's attention. It will also make the video more interesting and the emotion from the song will be drawn from elsewhere, like the camera work and the background along with the mise-en-scene.
• Editing - We will do the editing after filming but we want to leave a lot of ime to edit so it is vital to film as early as possible. We will use slow motion and other editing techniques to create different feelings on-screen such as speed.
• Sound - We will use little or no non-diagetic sound in our music video. We may have a point where there is our actor/singer speaking over the top of the music.