Brainstorming ideas

Now that we have made our song choice, we have moved on to the brainstorming of ideas. We have been looking at videos from similar genres for ideas that we like and that we can adapt into our music video.


An idea had for the video that Raja liked was the beginning sequence (the man on the bench) and the end (when the audience see the man sat on a bench again). Its a loop, this video shows the man starting his day by the pier and and again finishing by the pier alone, a idea that we can use for our video as the narrative for our song is being heart broken and love.

As the song is called Red we decided to use Red lighting for shots of the lead character singing as we also thought it would go with the narrative of the song. We also chose to include A LOT of lighting for the shots. We also thought to have someone painting a beautiful picture/mirror red as this goes with the lyrics. 

We used the lyrics to create a narrative of the video as we found that this is a common convention for most music videos an example being Lil Wayne - How to Love music video, its just a story being told and the story  goes with the lyrics.


Some ideas we had for the lyrics are:
"You took something perfect and painted it red" if she likes someone else, he could be referring to him and her being the perfect couple. "I cant be somebody else you took something perfect and painted it red" a guy really liking a girl and he thinks she likes him but really she likes someone else.