My Idea

Music:

The music video i will be making will be of a song in the acoustic genre. The video will follow conventions of acoustic music videos but will also have its own style. The examples of artists that are similar to the artist i am using are people such as: Bon Iver,  Ben Howard, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Lewis Watson

                                                                                                         
 I have found an Artist who i am going to make my music video for, he is called Josh Beattie, he is my friend so it will be easy to organise parts of the production with hm and get his permission. This is a link to some work Josh has previously done under a different name.
The music will link to the video in some ways. The song is winter related which links to the video because it will be shot in winter, the lyrics will link o different parts of winter, such as the ice and cold.

Video Idea:
My video won't have a narrative or story to it, apart from the small links in the words it will be a more visual and aesthetically pleasing video. Because the video won't link to the music strongly with lyrics another way i am going to make the video and music link is by trying to get the shot changes to match the beat of music when it can, I'm hoping to achieve this more in the chorus of the song, when there is more shot changes because of the quicker pace. I feel like matching the beat of the song and the video gives a good effect and makes the video work better together as a whole. The music video won't have a lot of quick shot changes it will mainly be nice slow long shots, slowly panning around and taking the time to change but not on the screen for long enough that the viewer gets bored. I would like to include some nice slow motion shots in my video especially of some water because i think the effect of slow motion and water looks really good. I will try not shoot a lot of quick fast paced shots because it won't match the speed and tempo of the music. One shot i really want to include is a timelapse shot but the shot slowly panning which means i will still keep the effect o the long slow shots. Im hoping to mainly achieve a professional sharp look to my video, we have the equipment possible to achieve this and i believe this style of filming will fit the video better and look very good. I am also thinking about an alternative to the professional look and instead giving the video a more handheld shaky rugged messy style. I might mix the two of these styles because i believe that different parts of the video will fit each style. My video will be shot in the UK and also Iceland as i am fortunate to go their in  the tim i am filming the video.

Iceland - My idea for types of shots and things i will film in iceland are mainly aesthetic shots. I will try get shots that look really nice by using different techniques such as shallow depth of field. I want to shoot a lot of blues because this colour connotes to cold and winter and is a little thing that will link the video together a bit more. I also want to get some footage that represents a journey such as in a car looking out the window.

UK - In the uk i will be getting more footage of the artist josh, this will include performance footage and other stuff. I have visions of footage in a cold frosty car, iced lakes and in forests. There will be a little bit of performance in my video, mainly in the chorus section. The performance will be done outside and fit in this the rest of the video. The performance will be in nice looking places such as in a forest of by a fire at night. The performance will be completely stripped down so it is just Josh and a guitar.

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