Group Discussion

Today, we had a group discussion about our ideas and concepts that we would possibly like to use for our video. Our concept is going to be narrative and performance based with flashbacks to the character as a child and as himself now, telling the story of his life with a performance of the song. We're thinking of making the video very casual and relaxed, showing him playing a guitar to show the audience his musical talent. For the costumes we are thinking of going for the casual look; jeans, shirts etc. We have also talked about some techniques we would like to use. A particular technique we are interested in is featured in James Morrisons' song 'You Give Me Something', the technique used is to have the sun behind the character so that it frames them and gives a warm glowing effect. We have also discussed possible characters we would like to use in our video. We were thinking of having two young children, a boy and a girl, around the age of 8. The boy will be feeling unwanted and unloved due to his workaholic father. He finds comfort with his friend and for the majority of his childhood life he spends most of his time with her, growing ever distant from his father.