Rough Cut

Logo Ideas

Initial ideas

Developing First Ideas

Shooting Schedule

UPDATED Planning Costumes

To represent the emotions of the music video we chose to use dark clothing that conveyed how each individual felt, for example Caitlin, who plays our main character, is shown to be wearing mostly grey or black clothing. The symbolism of this tells the audience that she is feeling low and sad after the break up of her former relationship. Although her clothes are dull colours, we have still chosen to dress her in what would be a stereotypical feminine outfit; a skater skirt and a striped top. The black jacket goes as long with this outfit to highlight further her feelings, we added a rose pink backpack to show how our character is feminine but also to highlight that her life is not completely consumed by this break-up despite how it might seem.

To represent the inter-texuality of media texts in our music video we have made our costume for our female main character similar to those of 'Skins'. Most of the female characters were shown to have unstable relationships in the TV program, they often wore dark clothing in the time of feeling alone and sad about their relationship breakdown. It is a common genre convention when portraying heartbreak through a female character to show this through their costume. However, we did not want elaborate costume that our target audience of 17-20 would find difficult to relate to, therefore the costumes are mundane and everyday characters for teens this age.

 For our male character we wanted to emphasise that although his emotions are shown through anger he is feeling similar, therefore a like to Caitlin's character we have dressed him in black and grey too. This highlights their not so indifference of sad and low feelings about their relationship shown through the motif of costume. In the flashback shots, both characters are shown to be wearing brighter and clearly more happier colours, the most obvious is Caitlin's hair, it is bright pink in the flashbacks but in the present of the music video it is a dull blonde colour, this further heightens her feelings at this time.

Potential Images

I think the photos with the greatest potential are either one, two and three. These images are precisely frames and the composition is good in relation to what I would like to do for the album cover, however perhaps the bottom one is more suitable for the magazine cover rather than the album. The image is rectangular like a magazine publication and Finn's face is well frames slightly off centre meaning we could add text around him and the eye is drawn to this image. The rule of thirds is clear to see within the bottom image, this makes the photo more aseptically appealing and would be suitable for the magazine cover more so than others.

Visual Styles

Selecting Actors

In our music videos we will only be having two actors, including our artist performing (Finn Doherty).

Our female Protagonist 

We have choosen a fellow student, Caitlin Mapes, she has experience in acting having studied GCSE drama receiving an A grade and she also featured as the femme fatale character in our AS Media Thriller. We were confident in Caitlin's abilities and as she is the same age as us we know she will look right for the part as our music video will feature a lovers spat between two young adults. This is important as we needed someone around the around the age of 17-20 for both roles as that is our target audience, therefore we need actors of a similar age to appeal to this audience and for our music video to be relateable. 

Our male actor

Again, we have chosen a fellow student to play the role of our only other character, Pippin Casbourne, with acting experience within a school production of 'King Lear' we know Pippin has the ability to play a very dramatic role as he will be cast into the position of the 'angry ex boyfriend' that will be having an argument with Caitlin's character.