Genre and conventions

The genre of our video is going to be fairytale/fantasy. The existing genre of the artist is fantasy. we can see this through the video of New Soul that we previously posted, where the paintings came to life. We are carry on the theme and making the video very fairytale oriented.



The conventions; happy ending. romance. bright colours. mystical creatures. unexpected twists- far fetched story.

In order for our music video to fit with the song we also need to incorporate fairytale locations and props, such as a cute little cottage, and teddy bears!

Performance / Lip syncing

Our performance/Lip syncing will be done by Laura mostly, because as Chris P Chris O and Duncan will be ether camera man or in a bear costume although we will try to feature ourselves in the video and maybe will be singing as well. this will mean that Laura will need to learn the words for the song and practice lip syncing.

Da Funk

This is an image from Daft Punk's Da Funk and it follows a man in a dog mask and it is like our idea but it focus's on a different animal

The Science of sleep

This is still from the film science of sleep and it shows an idea that we had to use bears playing instruments this is a fantasy type of film and shows what it might look like.

Lip sync take three

Here is a change of scenery. chris busting some moves. Duncan doing some lalalas.

Lip sync take two

Here is a group go at the ol' lip syncing

Lip sync take one

This is our first try at lip syncing

Tactical camera substitute!

Seeing as we have the bear costumes for 4 days we have decided we shall be filming for all 4 of those days.
We can only use the college cameras for a maximum of 2 days, for this reason we will be using Chris O's camera and tripod as there is no limit as to the amount of time we can use them for.
Chris's camera also produces better quality videos and colours as well as a longer battery life.
We also don't have to worry about breaking the news of damaging college equipment to nick as he would be sad :( and that is not very good.

Timeline

Filming Dates

We have decided on our filming dates:

Thursday 2nd October: Duncan picking up costumes as early as possible. Filming from 10:50am to . Start of media lesson. Everyone can attend


Friday 3rd October: Filming from 1:50pm to as late as needs be. Start of lunch. No Duncan for filming.


Saturday 4th October: Filming from 11am to 4pm. Duncan and Chris O meeting Chris P in Cambridge then going to Lauras house. Everyone available for filming


Sunday 5th October: No filming.


Monday 6th October: Filming from 1:05pm to 4:30pm. Everyone available, but Laura has driving lesson. Return bear costumes before 6:00pm.

We are using Chris Ould's camera, as we will need the camera longer than we can get the college camera for.

Bear Costumes

Today, I went to Wardrobe on Sedgwick Street. Firstly, it's damn hard to find.

But more importantly, I have booked our bear costumes. I went along to have a look at them. I only had time to try on one of the suits on. I took some pictures.





This is the daddy bear costume. This is £30 to rent. There is also a "baby bear" costume. This is the same height, but the face is more cartoony. So unless they have another daddy bear head, they will be odd. The baby bear is £22 to rent.

Tomorrow I am going back to book them. I shall be doing them for the 2th of October, but this may be changed depending on our timetables.

If they are booked on a Thursday, then they need to go back for the next Monday. All the filming will have to be done very quickly.

Similar Music Videos

DJ Format featuring Jurassic 5: We Know Something

We are looking at this video because they also use animal costumes. In the video, the animals are used to replace the rappers, who weren't present for the video. So in this video, it is all random footage which is fitted to the music.

Bear Costume Problem

We have been looking all over Cambridge for a while now but we have had very little luck. Until now, we have recently called up wardrobe in Cambridge and they have two bear costumes in stock so Duncan is going to find out more information and take a picture for us. if this goes to plan and we can book the costumes then we will have two bear suits between the four of us for £17.50 each which is reasonable.

Here are a few possible locations for laura's house in the video.

Bear Costumes

I stopped by two costume shops in Cambridge today. At Wardrobe, they did not have any bear suits.

Shot List

Shot 1: Medium shot of Laura's bedroom door. Laura walks through door. Music opens up. 4 second shot.

Shot 2: Medium shot of stairs in Laura's house. Laura walks own the stairs, exit to the left of the shot. 3 second shot.

Shot 3: Medium shot of Laura's kitchen. Laura walks in, knocks a chair. 2 second shot.

Shot 4: Closeup shot of chair. Clearly see a shorter leg, causing the chair to be wobbly.

Shot 5: Medium/Close-up shot of porridge. Laura finds porridge. The porridge is too hot, so she leaves it. (Show heat through masses of steam.

Shot 6: Medium shot of Laura. She walks up to a window, and looks out.

Shot 7: POV shot of Laura. Camera zooms through window, and into a wood. Edit shot of a wood to be through the window. either use Final Cut or Photoshop.

Shot 8: Medium Shot. We are now in the forest. Laura now comes out from behind a tree.

Shot 9: Medium/long shot. Laura walking through the forest. Bears start popping out from behind trees. 2 BEARS.

Shot 10: Long shot. Laura is walking along a river/reservoir. 2 bears are by the side, sun-bathing. Oblivious to Laura.

Shot 11: Medium shot. Laura checks watch/phone, walks towards large tree.

Shot 12: Transition to middle of Cambridge. Laura walks behind tree, and vanishes

Shot 13: Transition to middle of Cambridge, Laura appears from behind Parkers Piece lamppost.

Shot 14: Long shot. Laura continues walking across Parkers Piece, bears are having a picnic on the grass.

Shot 15: Medium shot. Laura in the middle of town. Walking down Sidney Street, past Boots/Debenhams. Bear walks past, brushes Lauras shoulder, and another is sitting on a bench, reading a newspaper/magazine.

Shot 16: Medium shot. Laura enters bed store..

Shot 17: Medium shot. Continuous footage of Laura walking around bed store, sitting and jumping onto several beds.

Shot 18: Medium shot. Laura finds comfortable bed (single). Bear approaches her. Try to make bear look annoyed.

Shot 19: Long Shot. Laura runs out of the bed shop. Transition to field.

Shot 20: Medium shot. Screen flips from Parkers Piece to field. Transition to field.

Shot 21: Long shot. Laura walks from edge of shot to middle of the field. Looks around, looking bloody lost.

Shot 22: Medium shot. Laura in the foreground. Cottage in the distance. Laura walks towards cottage.

Shot 23: Long shot. Outside of cottage. Laura walks up to front door, and proceeds inside.

Shot 24: Low medium/close up shot. Laura walks past living room door. Bear feet can be seemed propped up on table.

Shot 25: Medium shot. Laura making cup of tea.

Shot 26: Medium shot. Laura returns to lounge. Sits down on between both bears. Music dies as Laura looks at both bears. Starts laughing. Fade out


This is an extremely rough shot guide. We might include other clips, or even take some of these out, depending on weather and time

Whittlesford.. (possible location)

Here are a few pics i took earlier, just to show the amount of fields etc. Sadly it was a little too wet to go into the woods and get some pics.

Feedback from class

Lauren loved it...
People seemed interested in our idea.

Use cornflakes/weatabix instead of porridge?

Set it in the county but use technology to make it up to date

Further Ideas (First Draft Of Shot List/Locations)

Laura bedroom (waking up)
Bear walks past (dark figure)
Exit bedroom
Laura's kitchen
Wobbly chair
Porridge
Exits to middle of Cambridge
Walking about town
Bears busking
Bed shop
Trip to the park
Bears are having a picnic (in the background)
Going home (travelling shots)
Laura going through front door
Shot of bears in living room: Feet up
Chair breaks when sat on
Laura walks into living room. See bears
Everyone is happy

What We Will Be doing In The Video!!!!!!

Rough idea....

Laura listening to ipod singing the song. In various locations, this is a boring idea... so we are going to include bears in the shots, sometimes subtle and sometimes obvious.
we are also subtly change Laura's hat.

Extra little ideas

Fairy tail land!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eats porridge for breakfast too hot, goes out etc etc, playing on Goldilocks and the three bears.
Bed shop??
Mistakes?? chair breaks? clumsy allways getting things wrong? does not get the happy ending.

Our original plans

When we first heard the song "New Soul", Laura immediately came up with he thought of punting along the Cam, with a mix of interesting and wild hats.
However, this was dropped after we watched the video released by the artist, which seems fairly similar to our thoughts.

Our second collective thoughts were to go ice skating. It would be easier and more appropriate for this time of the year. We then added to this by having a girl (at the moment Laura) listening to the song, and weird and wild happenings going on around her, though she acts oblivious to her. So we expanded on this, by possibly having people in bar costumes being around her sub-consciously.

We would like to keep with the bear thing, but we might move from skating to being in more locations. This could be around Cambridge, but maybe also around London, and on the trains in between. However, some of the problems that may arise with this plan is our money flow. Ticket to London are £25 each. Then there is hiring the costumes, which we don't yet know how much.

We are trying to come up with a few more ideas.

We hope to be able to cut out parts of places, and clone bears through post-filming editing.

LYRICS

I'm a new soul
I came to this strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit bout how to give and take.
But since I came here,
Felt the joy and the fear
Finding myself making every possible mistake

la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la...

I'm a young soul
In this very strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit bout what is true and fake
But why all this hate?
Try to communicate
Finding trust and love is not always easy to make

la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la...

This is a happy end
'Cause you don't understand
Everything you have done
Why's everything so wrong?
This is a happy end
Come and give me your hand
I'll take you far away

I'm a new soul
I came to this strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit bout how to give and take.
But since I came here,
Felt the joy and the fear
Finding myself making every possible mistake

I'm a new soul... (la, la, la, la,...)
In this very strange world...
Every possible mistake
Possible mistake
Every possible mistake
Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes...
Take take take take take... take a mistake
Take, take a mistake
Take, take a mistake
(oh oh oh oh...)
[fade out]
(oh oh oh oh...)

Possible Locations

Train to London?
Oxford Street
Outside train station
Outside the London Eye
Regents Park?
Hyde Park?
Big Ben
General streets


Camrbidge -
Parkers Piece
Kings College
Streets
Grand Arcade
Apple shop
River

LAURA'S HOUSE!
Woods
Fields

Email to Yael Naim

To Ms Naim,

We are students at Long Road Sixth Form College. We have been given a project to produce a music video. We have chosen your song- New Soul.

We are contacting you to ask if you could add any information about your song and tell us what your thoughts were when you were writing the song.
If there are any links or special lyrics that you want to be shown to stand out then please let us know.


Any ideas would be very helpful.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Parnell
Chris Ould
Duncan Dennis
Laura Durrant

Idea

Bear outfit!

We plan to get 2/3 of these for people to wear in the background because its a happy, cuddly song and bears are happy and cuddly!

For Laura's costume we are going to get a blue dress.

Current music video for New Soul

This is the video that already exists for this song.

Our original ideas were pretty similar to the current video, so we have changed them to make a more exciting video!

THE START

THE PEOPLE
Chris Parnell
Duncan Dennis
Chris Ould
Laura Durrant

THE ROLES
Laura Durrant- Leader/Singer/ Storyboard Artist
Chris Parnell-Director/Bear
Duncan Dennis- Editor/Bear/
Chris Ould- Producer/ Cameraman/Bear

However we will all be involved in all the elements.

THE SONG
Yael Naim- New Soul

THE REASON
As a group, we all found that we could come up with inventive and unusual ideas in our head whilst listening to this song. We also all preferred it.

Welcome to GROUP 43