Ideas For The Costumes In The Music Video

Now that we have a good idea on what will be happening in the music video we decided to think of some of the costumes that maybe used in the music video.

One idea we were certain on was that we will try to keep the colours to a minimal and only use dark colours, preferable black. The reason for this is because the colour black is code for misery and sadness and fits perfectly with our track choice, Bring Me To Life.

We are not going to have very big, outrageous costumes...like Lady Gaga, as we feel it does not fit in well with our music video and the genre. We will have the main artists wearing normal dark clothing, with some jewelery, such as rings and necklaces.

The necklaces and rings would be suitable if they had some kind of gothic symbol on them such as a skull, bones or red roses. When we come to shooting we will insure that we check what every artist is wearing to insure it is appropriate because we want this music video to turn out perfect!

One more thing would be red or black nail varnish as this again is code for misery and a convention of the gothic, rock genre we have chosen.

Ideas For The Performance In The Music Video

Now that we have a rough idea of what will be in our narrative we decided to move on and decide what we will do for the performance side of the music video.

One thing we were all certain on was that we did not want the entire performance in one place or shot using only one particular shot.

We decided that we would film in three different locations:

• On a large open field. This is code for freedom and getting away from reality as we learnt while watching Eminem and Rhianna's music video, Love the way you lie.
• On some steps preferably outside. This will make the performance a lot more interesting because it would not all be shot with the singer standing.
• In a studio, or stage of some sort with a black backdrop. This shows the more professional side of the performance. Also the black colour is code for sadness, misery, upset, coldness and emotion.

Ideas For The Narrative In The Music Video

Before starting on a storyboard and rough sketch of what will be happening in the music video we decided to brain storm some ideas for the narrative of the music video.

We knew the initial concept of the music video and wanted to have a very clear division between the narrative and the performance.

Our initial concept for 'Bring Me To Life' is too base the entire video on one girls journey through her teenage life. We are going to strongly show the bad side of this teenagers life and eventually towards the end of the video we will show her committing suicide, one way or another.

As this is a very intense and emotional music video we need to have strong narrative concepts which would cause this event to happen. Below is a brain storm of the ideas which we did:

Initial Music Video Idea

Below are my very early music video ideas, I completed these in my own time while listening to the song found below. We may not chose to use this song as the final music video track however I hope to use some of the initial ideas when filming our music video.

I was initially interested in this song as it has a very easy to follow narrative. The beat of the song is also well done which will allow use to do very successful edits between the narrative and the performance. I also like the chorus of the song as I found it to be very simple yet very effective. 

Kate Nash - Merry Happy