Planning - Changing Direction

Our initial ideas for the music video we wanted to create for 'Dreams' was a very whimsical and outlandish video, we were going to include a lot of glitter and special fx make-up to really emphasise the 'dream' concept and make it really unique. Now, once we analysed the lyrics and tried to match images to lyrics we decided on a new, metaphorical concept based video. We are going to use Katie and Luke, two actors from The Duck Egg Theatre Company to be our actors. The new story is going to show a girl with a boy who is either dead, or dead to her, it is open to the audiences interpretation. We are going to do this through having him dressed in black clothes and fading in and out of shots, also by having photographs of them together around the bedroom we are using. We thought a montage of them together would help emphasise their relationship, but to link the shots to the lyrics 'players only love you when they're playing' we are going to start the montage happy but slowly get less happy with extreme close ups of texts saying 'sorry can't make it' and Katie being stood up on a date etc. This kind of story really links with the repeated lyrics, "what you had, and what you lost". I think this will also look more professional and will be more easily filmed and edited in the time and budget we have.