A level music videos_cns: Planning for the third Sail Away With Me video

Planning for the third Sail Away With Me video

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Treatment/ Pitch
Sail away with me is a relaxing summer time song, however as winter takes over and the nights come sooner Amy and myself have had to come up with plot which encompasses a perfect summer day within a dreary winters setting. How I hear you ask are we going to achieve this? Well we will set it inside of course.
The original video was supposed to be set on a beach and after two shoots and allot of discussions it was decided that the narrative wasn’t strong enough to entertain our audience for a sustainable amount of time. So we went back to the drawing board and created the second Sail Away with me idea. This time the video reached editing stage before we decided to alter it. Whilst we were cutting, changing and manipulating our material we became aware that the narrative was confusing and unstructured. Also we noticed that although we had filmed some very strong performance footage within the drama studio, our outside Elm Hill shots were shaky, poorly lit and unbalanced. All of the footage can be seen below please remember however that it is still raw and unedited.
The outside world
We will be recycling the tracking shots filmed during the previous videos shoot. However instead of having a pair of microphones as the opening shot we will be using an amp which will link into the performance shots.
Drama studio
The drama studio will house the two performers who will be pretending to play Sail Away With Me. Ruth Bewsey will be played by Freya Manthorpe.. Cameron appeared in the original video and has kindly offered to step in as the lead guitarist. We have chosen not to use Julian again for the simple fact that we needed a female performer. Freya has singing and performing experience and can lend her time to the shoot. She is energetic and can be relied upon to bring her all too each and every shoot. A variety of camera angles and shot types will be used to create focused narrative whilst providing the audience with diversity, as we found from our previous shoot, if a performance is shot correctly it can be a very effective way of connecting the audience to the artist whilst remaining interest.
The Bedroom
The other part of the song will be filmed in Amy Nolan’s bedroom. This is the narrative which will be shown interlaced with performance shots. Freya will be shown preparing for a trip, packing her bag, trying on clothing and generally preparing to leave her home. The narrative will be shot mainly through close ups to add an enigmatic quality to the scene. We have chosen this narrative as it ties in with the songs lyric ‘Sail away with me baby’ it’s also reminiscent of someone preparing for a holiday. People are always elated at the thought of going away and so monotonous tasks such as packing a suitcase always seem less tedious. Freya will be proving this statement by acting animatedly and sanguinely. Eaton Park or another tree lined path The final shot will be of Freya walking away pulling her suit case along with her. This shot is being used to leave the video on a cliff hanger, where is she going? Why is she alone? From our very first discussions about the video we have never wanted to take the narrative down the conventional route of girl meets boy as we felt it has been overly used.
Annotated Lyric sheet

Props and costume
Drama room

For the performance Freya will be wearing a black and white dress. We wanted Freya to be femininely dressed because of the, soft, relaxing, peaceful nature of the song. The dress will be black and white because of the colour symbolism. The white represents the pure innocents the song portrays, whilst the black hints at the modern culture from which the song originates. Also this outfit will allow Freya to move to the music.

She will also be wearing high heeled beige suede shoes, an anklet and a pair of silver earrings. The heels add to her feminine appearance and elongate her body. The anklet symbolises a different culture and also is once again a very femin

ine accessory. The anklet also defies the Urban legend that prostitutes wore them to show whether or not they had an STD, and highlights that they are now just a contemporary accessory. The earrings draw the viewers attention to the performers face and neck giving them a connection to the performer.
Cameron will be dresses in a grey t-shirt and jeans. We wanted the main focus to be on Freya and for Cameron to be portrayed as an enigmatic character as he is not in the other narrative and we did not want the audience to believe he was Freya's love interest. Cameron will be placed in the background sitting down with a guitar covering most of his body so his costume will be barley visible.
Where would a performance be without ins

truments?
The main instrument for the shoot will be Cameron's guitar, however Freya will also be using a microph

one and tambourine.
The guitar we will use is going to be acoustic as not only is the the guitar that is played throughout the song, but also an acoustic guitar is less threatening and more relaxing than an electric guitar. As well as this the acoustic guitar fits in with the genre of the music. At first it was deliberated whether to just have Freya playing the guitar

sitting in the room alone, however it was decided that she should be able to move around throughout the performance, and also that music is all about society, bringing people together. So instead of the guitar Freya will be using a tambourine allowing her to create the music not just with her voice but also with an instrument. It also gives her a prop to use to interact with the audience and provi

des her hands with something to do so they don't just look static beside

her body. The microphone and stand gives Freya a main point in which to stand but also allows her to detach the microphone and move around the setting and of course where would the song be without a voice. An Amp and a stool will also be used. The amp is going to be part of the opening scene and will lead the audience into the performance. Bedroom scene
For the bedroom scene Freya will once again be wearing a dress,and also a skirt a t-shirt as she will be changing her outfit. All of the outfits such as in the performance scene will be feminine and girly. She will also be wearing the silver earrings again to create abridge shot between the two settings.
Her main prop will be her suitcase but she will also need a hairdryer, hairbrush, makeup bag- mascara, lipstick, clothes, paper boat.
Storyboards

The narrative for this video will be a mix of performance and story. The two different plots will be shown in amongst each other. Lots of close up will be used in each of the scenes. For the performance Cameron and Freya will be shot from many different angles which will cut between one another very quickly. This will be the same in the bedroom scene, all of the shots will be faced paced using lots of close ups and extreme close ups.
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