Treatment

For our music video we are going to have three storylines along with the performance scenes. The performance scenes are going to be the base of the music video so if we have the problem of storage of footage we will be able to rely on the performance scenes as a back up to fill the blank scenes.

The first storyline is student who is played by me, Myrin Hall. He receives a grade F so he works constantly until he gets an A*. The second storyline is basketball player who is played by Nathaniel Prince, he loses at a one on one game but works on this technique tirelessly that eventually he wins the basketball match the second time round. The last storyline played by Terry Boateng is about a performer who is never chosen to perform so he practices and finally performs at a concert. The performance scenes are also played by Terry Boateng, the performance scenes will turn into the performance scenes of the performer’s storyline

In our music video there are many themes that are included and represented but there are three main themes that will stand out in our music video. The first theme is determination; each storyline portrays the theme of determination because in the students storyline he is determined to his A* so he works hard until he gets it. The performer storyline he is determined to become an excellent performer which he does as he turns into the performer of the music video. The basketball players is determined because he wants to make sure that the wins the basketball rematch so he practices to win.

The second theme for the music video is success because all the storylines achieve the tasks that they set out to do. So they were all successful because they come up on top so they accomplish what they need to. The third theme for the music video is dreams because in all the storylines the characters, are dreaming about them accomplishing so implying that everyone not matter what dream can achieve their dreams.

To introduce the music video we are going to have a mobile phone playing the song. After that we are going to have an introduction to all the characters and an introduction to their narratives. We are going to have the words don’t give up appear on the screen which is symbolizes that the characters are not going to stop trying and that they will accomplish what they set out to do.

In the middle we are going to be doing jump cuts of the four different parts of the music video. We are going to match the words to the meanings so for example humiliation will be show through Nathaniel losing at basketball.

To end the music video we are going to rewind the main scenes of each of the storylines to portray that it was all a dream but showing that people can achieve their dreams, it also shows that if you want to achieve your dreams you got to work towards them.

There is going to be a mixture of editing paced speed because of the different changes in the beat. The beat of this music video is a strong beat so when the beat increases so will the pace of the beat because we want to do on beat editing.

The lighting of the music video is mainly going to be bright because we was trying to portray through the lighting that through the struggling that each character is going to through the brightness is there to signifier that the characters will be successful. We use bright lighting on the performance scenes because the brightest draws the attention to the artist which adds to the performance effect of trying to show the skills of the artist.

We have made the music video black and white because the black and white is there to depict that the characters are trying to break through into colour so into success, so that at as the music video progresses and the characters get closer to achieving their goal they become more in colour showing that they are improving.

In our music video we are going to use a variety of camera angles on the performance scenes we are going to use a variety of camera angles to show that he is a good performer. For the basketball storyline we are going to have at lot of medium long shots as we would be trying to include all the action of the basketball match, also we are going to have close ups to show the facial expressions when he loses and when he wins. We are going to have a lot of close ups on the students storyline as we want to show the facial expressions as he struggles to get his grade up and then to show how much his expression changed when he gets that A*.