Concept Development
The music video will contain a narrative which will involved some performance, the actor playing Bruno Mars will not be projected to the audience as the main feature of the video but will in the narrative as a singer or waiter etc.. We are using Dyer idea of the star image: being absent but present at the same time.
We have found several locations in which we can base our narrative these are as followed;
1 - Church in Five Oak Green
This location is accessible to us and easy to get to, therefore makes it a great location, however the age of the church doesn't fit with the image of the song as it's not bright enough. A reccie maybe needed to test if this is a suitable place or not for our video.
2 - Park area
We have looked into many different settings for our video (the romantic parts) one of our ideas was a park or woodland, woodland areas are normally colourful and full of life therefore fits with the convention of our track with its upbeat tone.
3 - Camber Sands
After our reccie at Brighton we decided against pebble beaches as filming on the pebbles was difficult therefore we are looking to perform a reccie at camber sands to see if the images are better in any way
Characters
We are yet to find a 'Bruno Mars' styled boy, we concluded that we needed some performance based narrative in our video as the convention of Bruno Mars video is that he appears in it several times. However the image of Bruno is hard to find and is key to fit with the lip syncing. Our ideal boy would fit this image.
The girl in the narrative is going to be either of the girls in our group, depending upon chosen boy who fits with him. The Boy who the girl falls in love with is a easier pick as he has no set image to fit but only the created image by our group, this would be; Longer hair, big eyes, tanned skin and preferably tall.
The general plot of the video is as followed...
1- Girl is in B/W film old fashion most likely to be 1970's look. She is based in a bedroom in which she gets into bed and falls asleep
2 - This goes into a short black out as though she is closing her eyes and then re-opening them but when reopened she awakens to a Modern room and the colour is bright and glowing (dream??)
3 - The girl then goes outside to where she goes to a bus station and meets a boy (this is the lover boy)
4 - They then go through several stages of love in different locations, the convention of a romantic film etc.. ( this will be where the meat of the narrative and performance will take place)
5 - The day draws to an end and night comes fourth to which the end of her dream draws to a close, she awakes again in her dull room
6 - She goes through her normal routine of going to the bus stop
7 - The boy in her dream is there and a fade of colour washes the screen
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This is a basic outline of what we have come up with so far, most likely subject to change.
Techniques
The main conventions of a Bruno Mars Video is a over usage of Close up shots and POV. Therefore in our video we will be use as many Close ups as possible, also most of the shots with be in POV.
The colour of the video will need to be bright, therefore in post production the saturation of the shots must be high to get this bright playful shot which we are trying to achieve.
Handi-cam is a must as we are going to try create a home movie effect as though the filming was done by the boy in the video.
