Final Ideas for Costume

Main character:
I have chosen a combination of a crop top, wet look leggings, converse and a large green coat.
The crop top together with the leggings gives her a 'slutty' look as it is revealing. This look is the same throughout the video suggesting the consequence of her going out and partying means it continues for days. This is common within drink and drug use as many people tend to loose track of time and go days and days without sobering up. The coat will be worn within outside scenes as I feel that it shows her only comfort when she is out in the cold, it also hints that her Dad still cares as he leaves it out for her to have.

Father figure:
I have chosen the father to wear upper class clothing consisting of a shirt, V neck pullover and cream trousers. I feel like the hint of the upper-class will contrast to the Daughters lifestyle revealing her as the true tearaway from the family

Final decision for Locations

Heyford Park

Heyford Park is a good location for my music video as due to being an ex army base it is derelict. I believe this environment will make my character look lonely and vulnerable, exxagerating the characters drunken state.The isolation of the environment will also reflect the characters feelings creating empathy from the audience. It is also within easy access of my house (2miles) meaning I can easily get there to do any reshots after the editing period.

Home environment

I have chosen a home location as it is a good place to show the father and daughters relationship as this is where they are present together. This location will show the girls lack of respect for her family due to the state she is in here. I have chosen to use my own home because it is practical and easy to get to. If there are any problems within my filming or editing i can easily re-film.

Dream Casting

Main character: Jaimie Winston

Ideally I would like to use Jaimie Winston as my main character. Winston has featured in films such as 'Kidulthood' (2006)and 'Adulthood' (2008) demonstrating herself with the ability to act as a teasr away. Within these films she has drank, taken drugs and got pregnant therefore I feel she would be effective in my music video.

Father Figure: Mark Harmon

Ideally I would like to use Mark Harmon as my father figure as in 'Freaky Friday' (2006) he adopts the role of a Dad effectively. Mark Harmon also has a posh look to him reflecting on the lifestyle my character would of had growing up.

Dream Locations

London estate
I feel this would be a good location for the scenes in which the music is softer. It is very direlict here and the houses are in poorer condition. This will reflect her circumstance of depression. London is very hard to access and to get permission to film there.

House Party-
A house party feauturing strobes and flashing lights would help represent the drunk state the main character is in. During the drops and the chorus in the songs the scenes would need to be fast moving. I will look rounf potential housesd for the use of this. Ideally i would like a run down house but it may be hard to find somewhere like that willing to have party scenes. However, this may be tricky due to finding a house for it to be hosted in

Posh Home environment-
The begining of my track is much slower than the rest of the song. Here I will feuture her home life detrioating as a consequence of her actions.We will see her in the hall way (for when shes removed from her home life.) I would like the home settings to be grand and welcoming to help contrast to what the girl has turned into. The rich house would be effective as it will contrast to her character showing her as a true tearaway.
Streets-
The streets would reflect how alone she is and the seeking for thrill.

Fish eye lens effect

Putting It All Together

Step 1:
Pop the lens out of the glasses. Apologize to grandma if she sees you doing this with her favorite pair of glasses.
Step 2:
Tear off two pieces of electrical or masking tape long enough to fit around your glasses’ lens, then stick ‘em onto the top and bottom edge of it.
Step 3:
With the tape ready for action, carefully put your newfangled fisheye lens over your camera’s lens, the same way the eyeglass lens normally would be in its frame.
Step 4:
With the tape, secure everything down so that the eyeglass lens ain’t budgin’ from your camera’s lens.
There ya are!

Shot inspiration

Bonkers by Dizzee Rascal helps show elements of a 'crazy' lifestyle simular to what I hope to portray in my own music video.
at 41 seconds and 1.34 min we see the use of a fisheye lens. This helps show a delusion look on life therefore inspiring me to use the same camera technique to help show the characters deviation from a socail norm.

Within my music video I hope to use the fisheye lens to show scenes of partying, i hope by using a disorted lens it shows the influence of drugs etc.

Themes of time

By looking at other alternative videos i have felt a sense of time. I feel this should be a main theme within my music video as time going on have caused her to have a breakdown.

Alt J- Breezeblocks helps show time by having the whole video in reverse, this makes you consider what happens in the begining to have such a tragic ending.

As my character worsened in her state I hope to do some reverse shots to make the audience consider time and what it would be like if she didnt go off the rails. I particularly liked the 'smashing bottle' reverse clip, I felt this gave a sense of ruining.

I would like to do something simular the character ruining herself, whether this be drinking or the use of drugs. A reverse shot of her taking drugs may be effective to differ from the original

I will also in cooperate bath scenes throughout showing what she has done cannot be turned back. These clips will be shown throughout keeping the audience engaged to know whats happened to her

In cooperating 'flashbacks' through the use of home videos will also help distinguish the characters change to herself now. By doing this the audience will be able to reflect on her life now in comparison to what it was.

Medias representation of Youth

This is EnglandClick to watch trailer 'This is England' is a film produced in 2006 by Shane Meadows focusing on skinheads growing up within the 80's. Here Shaun a young boy adopts the ways of other members of the group causing havoc to occur within the group. 'This is England' percieves youth to be portrayed in a negative light due to the activities they get up to. I wanted to inccoperate ideas of medias perception of youth within my music video, exploring the conept further through music rather than just TV and Film.

Misfits
Click to watch an episode
'Misfits' is a programme featured on channel 4 exploring the lives of five ASBO teenagers who come together to under go community service. This programme sheds a negative light on youth as it focuses on the tearaways who have all commited a crime. The characters experience a storm in which they get super powers, with these powers they fight the distrubing happens within the programme. Again, I wanted to explore the perception of youth in the media by using these characters to make my own.