For our music video, we, first of all, start to write all the ideas from all the team members. We decided to include the best ideas that each has because this process is also about team working and we wanted all to have an equal contribution o this. As I am staying alone, we decided to have weekly meetings at my place after school or at the weekend in order to make significant progress in the planning process.
We created a script with all of the verses divided and added ideas for each one based on the lyrics and time. We had multiple meetings where we were just listening to the song and stopped it after each verse and gather ideas, this way we managed to putt together our views and create a final script. The script is composed of the ideal image that we want to construct for our music video, each verse was reflecting us a different shot, angle, movement, colors, lightning, all of them creating and inspiring us to fell the same vibe, atmosphere, and energy
You can read our script by clicking on the link below:
The planning can be found on the blog in another post, however here are some examples of our ideas for the video that can be found in the script :
"The plot we have for the music video is loosely planned, however, the major idea for the story is that we want to include the songs use of metaphors and irony about how licorice is ‘sweet’. In the song analysis, we talked about how this idea of licorice being sweet can be used in our music video to show how people are different - they can even be like licorice - you either love them or hate them. We wanted to create a music video based around a group of friends, all different yet all extremely close because they understand how it is to be judged because of their differences. The storyline is about a group of friends wondering about a city, drinking, talking, and just having a good time.
We also decided to include a divided screen - one showing a group of friends in Timisoara and another showing a group in Cluj, this idea works better as this way it isn’t strange to just see two different groups with no context. The divided screen is inspired by A$AP ROCKY’s Praise The Lord music video and so in a way can be considered an homage to that style.
IDEAS:
In the beginning - a clip without music showing the 2 groups talking and possibly trying licorice with one group enjoying it and the other disliking it.
In the end - one shot from Timisoara - someone throws the licorice pack behind them and it ends up/enters the Cluj shot and someone picks it up and eats some licorice (sits down and eats them)."- Maria Pop ( my teammate ) perfectly described some of the basics ideas that we gathered.
As we nearly finish the basic planning for the video we figured out that we don't need necessarily to create a storyboard as we are opened anytime to new ideas from each member and that it is inevitable that along the process to don't come up with chances, as we will practice more and we will acquire more and more knowledge and experience, this process makes our horizons bigger and let our creativity develops the filing process. Moreover, we thought that the models will have also new ideas to add and make the whole process more complete. So we decide to plan everything in writing and to invest the time in which we could work for the storyboard, into planning, finding the locations, the characters, props, and to think about the mise on scenes we want to portrait in the video.
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