Favourited elements in Electro/Dark/Storytelling Tracks

Ideas for final product

Typical conventions

Costume: Teenagers tend to listen to tracks like Chase and Status at parties or festivals. This therefore means the clothing needs to relate to the audience. Casual clothing (e.g jeans and a top) would represent a normal situation however with this sort of track the character is prehaps having a bad day and has resulted to drinking conotating going off the rails. With this track you could also show a hung over sort of state from the night before so could wear clothing such as a party dress but have mud on knees and make up down face.
Lighting: Due to the track being a partylike song, lighting effects such as strobes could be involved. Strobes are also a useful technique to represent to the audience how the actors are feeling in a drunk or drugged state. It is also likely to be dark as the lyrics reflect going into a low time of yourlife.
Actors: My anaylis of Skins shows what audience I aiming my track at. Those who enjoy getting drunk, doing drugs and off the rails as entertaining to watch. Therefore my actors would reflect this.
Movement: Due to the music being based around someone going off the rails I want the camera to reflect how the actor is feeling. This means there will be elements of furantic moving and calm depressing screens. eg. when shes drunk the camera will be wobbly, and when shes on a low the camera will be still.
Props: Elements of drug use and excessive drinking are portrayed throughout the song therefore bottles and pills will feature widely. the song is about loosing things therefore there will be little props as she has nothing about her any more other than the dependance in drink and dugs.
Setting: There will be many different settings in which my character is featured. Blocks of council flats ihn oxford is a key location for my video due to them being very derilict and isolated relfecting her own feelings. My character will also feature happy as there will be flashbacks of her childhood at home. She will also feature at home when we see the brink of her collapse in life when she argues with her parents causing them to kick her out.


Symbolism
Throughout my video I would like connotations of depression and feeling down to be jotted throughout the video.
Taps: sucicide- drowning himself,
Water: symbolises freedom, something that she wants to feel.
Toys: a happy childhood.
Dark lighting; reflect her mood
Flashbacks: contrast to her life now
Rewinding of clips: Wants to go back how her life was
Flashing lights: Drugged.
Smashing glass: life shattered before eyes. (close up shot)
Red: Anger