Cast
There will only be one cast member in the video. The profile for the actress will be a pretty, laid back, young fun teenage girl. The role is being filled by
Rebecca Wood, who has been chosen as she is similar to Ruth Bewsey in looks, with blonde hair and a slim build. Also Rebecca is reliable and able to dedicate time to the creation of the video. Previous experiences have indicated that though using people from within the media group ensures reliability it can be hard to both act, edit and produce and creative criticism along with self criticism can cause group members to slate there work due to the personal emotions they feel towards watching themselves on screen.
Costume
The costume will be neutral, bright and simplistic to portray a relaxed fun character image; the girl will be wearing a plain white summer dress. This then takes the focal point away from her fashion and instead leaves the audience to watch the video action. Also neutral colours are often used within folk-pop genres to emphasise the sense of purity, peace and warmth. Colour symbolism suggests that whites and ivories are used to draw focus to other colours, it also suggests that white is a representative of good, such as in the case of the virginal bride who wears white on her wedding day. Taking this into account having Rebecca in a white portrays her as an innocent virtuous character, so that when she is acting out childlike qualities the audience is not shocked or confused.

Rebecca's makeup will be simplistic and natural to once again emphasise the pure innocent image create by her dress. Also this will help to create the characters image by showing she does not conform to the stereotypical makeup covered, styled teenager. It also draws the audiences focus away from Rebecca and instead portrays her as being a ‘prop’ for the song. The only makeup she will have are bright red lips, these will be used to create the image of the ‘English rose’ reaffirming the innocent character type. Also red lips are a universal symbol of beauty so that if the video is being shown abroad people will be able to make a connection to the symbol no matter what nationality they are. However red also connotes anger, aggression and danger, but the combination of the lips alongside the fresh neutral face will counteract the idea of aggression.
Rebecca’s hair will be down with a hair band or ‘bando’ in it this style of accessory is currently in fashion due to its retro, feminine, hippy appeal. The bando also links the character to mainstream fashion relating her to the ever-growing fashion conscious teenage generation.

Props

White paper boat

The paper boat will be used in two separate sequences of the video, One will be during a chorus when the boat will move along and across the sand, which will be placed in mounds to represent the rise and fall of the waves. It will also be shown again at the end of the song when it will be placed in the ocean by Rebecca and left to float away. Paper was chosen due to it's fragility and availability, to suggest that the boat was a creation of last minute thought rather than a premeditated act, and connotes that the act of creation was performed by Rebecca. This contradicts the videos synthetic creation inducing a sense of reality into the watcher. Finally the boat supplies a visual image to the lyrics 'sail away with me baby' giving the words a literal meaning with the symbol of a boat, however it also provides a metaphoric meaning to the lyrics, in that as soon as the boat enters the water it will disintegrate suggesting that the lyrics are a formation of the writers imagination instead of a formal suggestion.

Pebbles-

The pebbles like the paper boat will be shown during the songs chorus. They will be moving by using an single shot technique, to give the impression of inanimate objects moving by themselves. Rebecca will place the first pebble on the ground and then the shot will switch to a birds eye view of the pebbles moving simultaneously by themselves. The reasons that pebbles are being used for this shot is to provide continuity because they would be found naturally on a beach, assisting the voyeur to understand and not question the choice of object as might of been the case if say a hairbrush or recorder had suddenly appeared on screen. Also, this means that due to the beach location, and the commute by bus and train both cast and crew will have to make in order to reach the shooting destination, there will be less props to carry as the pebbles can be collected and left on location.

Ice cream
Like the pebbles the ice cream has been chosen as it fits in with the seaside location. Rebecca will be balancing on the edge of the promenade with the ice cream in her hand, which will 'accidentally' fall to the ground. The camera will pan down to show the ice cream and then pan back up to reveal Rebecca laughing, in contradiction with the situation. This shot will coincide with the non diegetic lyrics 'and its a great, great place I'm in' to show the audience that nothing can dampen her mood and reinforce the meaning of the words.

Location
In context with the song the video will be set at the seaside. Both Lowestoft and Southwold will be shooting locations. Beach huts, piers, the sea and promenade will be the main settings. These settings have been chosen to co inheres with the song’s lyrics and, also because it’s a summer time song and the beach epitomises the summer season. With the British public flocking to the sea shore in masses each year whenever the weather gets hot, and a force of nature that in other seasons can be volatile and aggressive changing into a peaceful and welcoming haven the seaside has become a popular holiday destination. Also the location needs to invoke a positive and happy reaction in the watcher, because of the genre of the song, being folk pop the target audience would expect these kinds of reactions from their music.

Storyboards
'I’ve got sunshine on my face
Rain aint falling around here
Birds are singing the same song
Feeling chilled aint nothing wrong'

The film will begin with a shot of the sun in the sky. Through the camera the sun beams scatter across the screen. This shot will be a wide angle long shot from a worms eye view perspective. The camera will pan through the air then proceed to drop down in a panning shot to reveal Rebecca sitting on the sand drawing a sunshine with her finger the non diagetic 'I've got sunshine on my face' will be playing above the action. Rebecca will be shown through a medium close up. The camera will then proceed to do a reverse pan firstly travelling directly upwards and then sideways until the camera is on the sun again, once again the sun will be shown through a wide angled long shot from a worms eye view. The camera will then do two rotations in the air and drop downwards in a straight pan to reveal Rebecca standing out to sea this will be a wide angled long shot Rebecca will run directly forward until she goes out of shot then reappear suddenly from the right hand of the screen in a medium close up she will laugh and reach out to the camera to cover up its view.

'Chorus
And it’s a great great place I'm in
Why don’t you come on over here and …
Sail away with me baby
Sail away'
Rebecca will take her hand away from the camera and be standing in a new location she will be shown through a medium close up.will She will bring her hands up to the camera and reveal a handful of pebbles. The camera will then pan down to a birds eye view close up of Rebecca placing a pebble on the ground. As the line 'Sail Away With Me Baby' sets in the action will cut to a high angled close up shot of the sand using single shots edited together it will appear as though a group of pebbles are moving on their own they will come on screen go round in two circles one clockwise and one anti clockwise then move in to the shape of a boat and travel across the screen.

'I’ve got sand between my toes
How I love how this feeling grows
Kids are playing they are real near
No where else id rather be than here'

This sequence will cross dissolve in to a shot of Rebecca walking away from the stones in a medium wide angled shot. The action will then cut to Rebecca still in a medium wide shot walking towards some beach huts. To match the growing tempo of the song a sequence of shots showing Rebecca posing in different positions in front of the beach huts will flash on the screen each one lasting less than a second. To make a transition a shot of the sea beating against wave blockers will cut in. Also this shot will shock audiences as it won't be expected.

'And it’s a great great place I'm in
Why don’t you come on over here and …
Sail away with me baby
Sail away
Sail away with me baby
Sail away'

The camera will cut to a panning medium wide angled shot of Rebecca balancing along the promenade edge with an ice cream in her hand the ice cream will 'accidentally' drop and the camera will pan down to follow the fall then zoom in to an extreme close of the ice cream on the floor. Then the camera will pan back up to show Rebecca laughing suggesting that nothing can dampen her mood. The camera will then cut to another series of single shots showing a paper boat moving across the sand through a close up the sand will be in mounds to replicate the movement of waves. Like the shots of the beach huts to bring up the songs tempo again, still shots of Rebecca posing in front of the pier poles will flash across the screen. These will be long shots.

'Saying buh bye
Saying buh bye…
Saying buh buh buh buh buh buh buh bye
Buh buh buh buh buh buh buh bye

Cause we’re sailing, cause we’re sailing away'

The still shots will continue to change each time Ruth sings 'buh buh' until the song reaches the line 'Cause we're sailing...' At this point the shots will cross dissolve to a shot of Rebecca placing the paper boat into the sea, in an extreme close up. The camera will pan round to follow Rebecca's footsteps in the sand, as she walk away until a wave comes in and washes them away, at this point the camera will pan back around to face out to sea in a close up to reveal the little paper boat bobbing in the waves.

Shooting maps