The Idea!

The Idea follows along the lines of ...

•  Feet shots of a boy and girl walking towards each other (may I add both strangers to one another in the video) 
• They bump into each other and the girl is so beautiful the boy instantly falls in love. 
• After giving a flirtatious smile she walks off, and he pauses before deciding to follow her.
• Unaware the girl travel to her destination, knowingly/uknowingly (you decide) that the boy is now following her, desperately trying to catch up with her
• After a series of shots, transitions and effects the bridg in the song occurs and another one of our infamous time lapses may occur, however this time night to day, and this is where the lip sycing comes in, half of the group- Hannah and I believe all four should lip sync however the other half- Alicia and Leanne believe it will look odd as there is one singer. Me thinks we should have an open vote with the public to see which idea people like the best, as we are in a democracy. 
• Basically, in the end the boy thinks he has caught up to the girl, she turns around and... its not her but very similar, he looks across the road and sees the correct girl. 
• She smiles a bus drives past and she is gone!

Now I have just thought maybe we could go all deep and question whether the girl was a figment of the boys imagination or just say that he lost her in the crowd, maybe there may be three votes/questions we need to ask. I will propose it to the group when I see them and see what they think of my idea. Another thought is maybe the girl is a ghost who he once loved and she had died in that spot by a bus and that's why he follows her and she dissapears in that exact spot, maybe its not the first time he has followed the same looking girl think she was real, to find out its his mere imagination from grief, loneliness or mental health or maybe it was all a dream. Okay, maybe I'm running away with my thoughts a little, but the main thing I'm trying to say is that this simple can be made complex and genius by developing the idea and you an do a lot with this one song.

I do like these shots and this could tie in beautifully with the initial idea we have at the moment:

                                             

We have chosen Libby to be our beautiful model like girl, however we still have the problem of finding a boy! But we don't need to worry about that too much. The main thing is although she will be seen as a BEAUTIFUL girl (and I have put it in italics as beauty is within and people have different perceptions of beauty) we do not at all want to portray her in a overly sexualised way. Which is how MANY women are portrayed in the media. This video was shown to us in lesson last Wednesday and I think it has a strong message and highlights how we should not degrade women in such a way, and we will make sure we don't do that in our video!
               


Miley Cyrus's - Wrecking ball has many of these degrading feature, and some people argue that there are deep messages hidden behind them, however I believe you can find deep messages behind anything, from walking the dog, to drinking some water, but that should not be an excuse to conform to the stereotypes in such a way. And our group will Definitely not be swinging naked on a ball or licking a hammer any time soon in our music video's so don't worry about that.

                               
Beautiful song- Just an inappropriate video. It seems like I have a personal vendetta against Miss Cyrus as this is her second Music Video I slated. But its not the songs that are the problem, they are catchy and have a nice tune, but its the degrading and outrageous video's that are causing me stress 
and I don't know why. The change she has undergone in such a short time has caused me shock and I 
prefer the old Miley's personality but the new Miley's songs! Oh well its life!

Back to the topic in hand, I think its the same for the boy in our music video, we don't want him to adhere to the stereotypes of an overtly handsome boy, with perfect features, expensive clothes, a womaniser and have the perfect body. Our main focus is to show the determination and effect love can have on us and how we will go to very extreme and long lengths to be with someone who we do have a crush on and love. Again I'm going very philosophical but these are just some ideas and thoughts I have thought of on the spot and I'm hoping to see more inspiring video's !