This past week our group has been behind in deciding a song. We're lacking in ideas and the only one we seem to have a narrative for is Eagle Eye Cherry's '"Are You Still Having Fun?". So, it has been chosen as our choice of song today.
Lyrics | Eagle Eye Cherry lyrics - Are You Still Having Fun? lyrics
From the lyrics, we came up with three narrative plots lines that would be integrated with the performance. This included a couple's decaying relationship, a wealthy "daddy's girl" who struggles with her drug addiction, and as mentioned before in my stop animation research, a young boy imagining himself as a monster whilst playing. These three ideas will be edited alongside their related lyrics, which are "With all the drugs you take you can hardly stand" and "This was your mistake and your master plan". This way, our music video conforms to the conventional music video that shows narrative and performance.
To avoid scheduling and reliability problems with band members, we decided that it would be efficient to have one male performer with an acoustic guitar (most likely performed by Jack). The setting could be early evening, and the performer will stroll down a street playing towards the camera. For multiple camera movements and smooth editing proposes, the frame would pan to the left or right, and zoom towards a window where one of the three narrative plot lines would be shown. By the end of the performance, it would be night time and the singer will move past the camera and enter his own house, the door closing in the camera's frame.
It would be difficult to edit the narrative scenes in without having to jump-cut after the camera zooms to the houses' windows, however we could resort to green screen for this matter. Or, (as we cannot use houses that belong to randomers) we could use our houses (three, conveniently) and use a "fast forward" effect when filming the performer walking past our houses so it uses less film time. This way, there are many opportunities to use interesting effects whilst editing and in result giving the video very stylised visuals.
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