The setting is almost equally important as costumes and although most of the video will be filmed in domestic situations there will be scenes outside of that. We decided as a group that those places should be specific for the characters;
The gym would be a good location for the 'Hunk' as it is a place for show off's, and since he is supposed to be arrogant- strutting his stuff in the gym seems appropriate.
The Geeky guy gets to go to the library since that is the image mostly associated with geeks in the media so the audience would relate to this setting.
And where else for the 'Goth' then what could be considered goth central- Camden. Its where you are most likely to find a heavy eye-liner-ed, dressed in black goth/emo and it would be foolish not to put our goth character there.
Location, Location, Location.
Costume Design.
We have looked at the costumes for the four main characters; The Girl and the three dates as they will be important if we want to get their image across. We discussed how they would have to be quite stereotypical when it comes to the date to make sure that there is a noticeable difference between the guys.
Reena Chadee came up with these character montages;
For the Girl;
'Through the study of semiotics, the personality of this character is apparent. This is shown by her casual clothing which reflect her cool attitude. Moreover, like a majority of female teenagers it is obvious that this character is interested has interests in fashion. '
For the 'Goth' Guy (me);
'This character pursues the role as a punk. The black garments embrace connotations expressing a sinister appearance. On the other hand, the heavy make up acts a disguise which suggests that the this character is not confident.'
For the 'Geeky' Guy;
'This character would be categorised as the 'geek'. This is because of his old-fashioned style, which mirrors his personality and lifestyle. Nevertheless, these traits change throughout the video as he is motivated to be more confident, hence the Superman costume.'
For the 'Hunky' Guy;
'At a first glance this character appears to be similar to the female protagonist, this is because of their fashionable clothing and modern style. However, the various designer items have connotations of an arrogant attitude.'
Whose in it?
The decision of who is going to be in our video is based on factors such as; the ability to stay in role for a long period of time, availability, and general image but then also we have decided that as a group we should all make cameos in it, with that in mind and the fact that the characters should be aged between 10 to 19 in order to relate to the audience this is the list of characters;
1. Female - Reena Chadee
2. Boy Date (Punk) - Me- Robyn Oliver
3. Boy Date (Hunk) - Mike
4. Boy Date (Geek) - Krishna Mootoosamy
5. Young Boy- Cameron
6. Devil- April Mckay
7. Screaming Girl- Laura Fredericks
Even More Storyboarding...
Now we have the timings for our video we needed visuals, by using a storyboard template we began drawing the 'Blink182' and 'Powder' inspired beginning.
As a group we have decided that any information relating to the camera angles, movements, transitions and timings should be written last just in case we decide to make changes, it will be a lot simpler to change them if we haven't got them recorded for permanent referral.
The storyboarding continues...
We have finished the outline of the storyboard, so now we know exactly what is going to be filmed for our video, obviously allowing for changes, since we have already made minor changes to the plans we did yesterday.
Here is the rest of the timings;
The storyboarding begins...
With a lot of random ideas our group discussion started as a mess of everyone's personal opinions of what should be in the video, it didn't seem like an effective way of getting our storyboard done so we decided that we should go through the song and decide what should be happening in measure of seconds so that we have accurate and precise shots.
By doing this we know exactly what should be filmed for every second of the video, however it is a very tedious job and it takes a long time to go through a 3-4 minute song second by second.
Here is what we have done so far;
We will continue and hopefully finish the storyboard when we meet tomorrow. (20/10/09)
Further inspiration for our video.
Blink 182- Always
This video constantly is changing images, splitting up into three parts and showing three versions of nearly the same story but just with a different guy each time.
This would be a good idea for when we want to show the three dates that the female character goes out with to show how different they are, for example; concentrating on the Goth's lip piercing or on the Gangster's heavy jewellery to get their own personal identity across and to allow the audience to recognise the characters.
The actual video has a similar idea to ours as well, since there is one girl and three guys and they are all in the 'same' situation, however the song is a lot more negative then our song and the point of view of the narrative is from a male which is the opposite to ours.
