PLANNING OUR VIDEO

Before any planning began, we were first put into groups, and my group consisted of myself, David Terhorst and Hannah Eames Owens. Once settled, we thought the best idea would be to choose a song to get a feel for what kind of music video we'd be shooting. Due to copyright laws; If we were to choose a song by known and signed artists, we'd need to acquire the rights to that song (Which would cost a lot of money) or not be able to post it online for the public to view, which even though it is only a university exercise; it would be nice to show people what we are capable of. To make this possible, David contacted one of his close friends (Dominic Kedge) who makes his own drum and bass music to help us. The advantage of using Dominic's music is it doesn't contain lyrics, giving us non-narrative freedom.


We then tried to decide what we would film to be in the video, and one of our first ideas was stop motion. Hannah used to study animation back in Holyhead, so she knew how to do it, but she informed us that it was very time consuming and would be a lot of work to do with just 15 weeks to do, so we dropped it. A few days after that, we found out the title of the song we'd be using was called "Start Over" which game both me and Dave the idea of a character wanting to start anew, but we were unsure of how to portray it. After a few sessions, we agreed on the use of time lapses (a video of something in motion sped up). Me and Dave both came from Yale college studying the same course, where we both learnt how to film time lapses. The best way to do this was to use a GoPro camera; a small, durable, HD camera that can record video and take a certain amount of images per second. As soon as we agreed on this, me and him planned out possible shots.

Once we planned time lapses, we then needed to pick a story for our protagonist. Hannah's friend back where she lives is an actress/dancer, and she was coming to stay with her for a couple of days, which started us thinking about a possible story of a dancer going for an audition, messing it up and becoming upset about it, then at the end she can have an epiphany realizing that every day is a new day and she can "Start Over". Once agreed on this, we began to film.