Scripting V.2

I INTEND TO TRY AND DO THE VIDEO IN ONE CUT BUT FILM IT BACKWARDS AND REVERSE IT IN AFTER EFFECTS

This is how I will film the video. It is backwards and I will reverse it later.

Man is walking forward with small person and a 'God' placard in their hands

The man and the child part but we stay focused on the 'God' person

We then see the camera pan around to several other people shouting at the camera with other placards: 'Girlfriend' 'Friends' 'Work' 'Play' 'Life' 'Family' etc.

The camera pans around onto the man looking around looking concerned

The man walks away from the crowd and stops and looks around at the people. Camera moves behind him and then around the other side of him he turns again and walks away from the camera

He then starts running and the camera also goes a bit faster than him and pans infront. He jumps over some obstacles and moves around some people who are in the way

He barrels rolls across the field

He moves forward and gets tripped up by someone

Pulls himself up again and moves onwards

He gets water thrown at him and water pistols shot at him

Jumps into a rubber boat and gets pulled along out of sight

More water

Jumps out and leaps forward

Gets out a map and looks at it and then throws it to the ground

Sees someone with a sign pointing to home and follows it. THE SIGN FOR HOME MUST BE POINTING THE OTHER WAY

Moves his way through some more people

Little balls in buckets get thrown at him but still he moves onwards

Gets signs saying 'new' 'coming through' 'people' and 'friends' written on them

The camera looks at the signs on the floor before moving onwards

The man then crawls under a bush and the camera follows him through. **THIS MAY INVOLVE A CHANGE OF CAMERAMAN**

He then runs along with the camera behind him

Someone gives him some cardboard wings which he flaps

He then throws these away and carry's on running away. The camera spins around him several times. We see another sign for home. THIS AGAIN MUST BE POINTING THE OTHER WAY

The camera they stays put. We see the man fall over and lie flat on the ground

A group of people then come on screen and sings 'Ah!' like at the start of the music.

The video ends. With an abrupt cut to black.

THIS VIDEO WILL THEN BE REVERSED SO HOPEFULLY WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET A GOOD TAKE AND IT WILL ALL WORK TOGETHER QUITE WELL.

I will reverse the song and the cameraman will hold on to it as the video moves on

It will take a lot of organising but hopefully this should all work

I Think this video also works well with the music in the way that the man will start out being dirty from the tree and wet from the buckets of water and will be 'cleansed' as the video continues until he takes the hand of small person and he will be clean and as he should be. This is quite a nice image because of what we believe and God's ability to forgive sins etc.

I may try and experiment with maybe starting out the video with no colour and then gradually bringing the colour back into the video until it hits full colour as 'God' and the man take hands. This is also a nice image in the way that with God is the best place we can be so if the colour is not there at the start then it gives the impression that we're not meant to be without God

Audience Research Results!

So I've finally got my results from the questionnaires that I sent round to people at my church. I sent them round to a load of people I know with a range of ages from 14 - 48. This has helped to give me a wider view of what the people think about general music videos, new musical tastes and how much christian music videos they have seen. This is what I found:
The ratio of male to female people in this survey was 1:1
Here are the graphs:
So what can I take away from these results? Well it is easy to see from this that a huge majority of the people that took the survey do like listening to new music and the music that I will be using is pretty new so satisfies what the people want. I can see that even though a lot of people have seen quite a few music video not many people watch christian ones. This is good because it is exactly the problem that I am trying to address as I carry on through this work. It does seem though that a lot of people like to see a bit of fun in music videos as well as it being serious. This is what I am going to try and integrate into my music video. I think it may be a good idea to try and do something quite special too like trying to get the whole video done in one take. I could then also add some fun things into it.

Movements Scripting

THIS WAS MY INITIAL SCRIPTING FOR MY PIECE, HOWEVER, THE IDEA FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO HAS ALREADY CHANGED AS I NOW WANT TO TRY AND DO THIS PIECE IN ONE TAKE. I MAY BE ABLE TO USE MY FRIEND'S FIELD THEY HAVE NEXT TO THEIR HOUSE. I WILL ASK WHEN I NEXT SPEAK TO THEM. I SHOULD THEN ALSO BE ABLE TO GET MY YOUTH GROUP INVOLVED AS THERE WILL BE SEVERAL PARTS THAT NEED TO BE CAST IN THIS VIDEO.

HOWEVER, THIS WAS THE INITIAL SCRIPT:

See man in a field

Close up of eyes – open

Man gets up and looks around
Person holding a carboard sign (like a tramp) saying “Home →”

V.1

See a bird flying in the sky, move down to see the man running along

Running down the road

Crawling under a bush. Claustrophobic camera work, darkness, brush himself off as he is running

Stand firm as signs get thrown at him saying things like 'new' 'friends' 'people' 'coming through'

Signs on the floor as the man runs onwards

Little balls getting thrown in buckets but he still moves on through them (Andy Jones or Hoppers)

Chorus

Running down the road past some passer bys

Jumping over a hedge

??Car almost hitting the man and the driver getting annoyed??

Another person with a sign for 'Home'

Gets out a map and looks changes direction across the camera

Running towards the river

Jumping leaping slow motion

V.2

Splash into the water

Trying to move through the water stumbling getting back up again

Deeper, swimming through

Throw buckets of water at the man. See the people that are throwing the buckets of water.

Stepping out of the water and standing on the edge

About to be pushed in. Falling backwards – reverse and the pusher disappears

Tripped out effect. Twitchy video

Keep running

Chorus

Past the Abbey and into the town

Through the town. See what the other people's reaction is

Jumping over the middle of the market cross

Jumping over in slow motion

Bridge

Runs into a circle of people holding up the words, 'friends' 'school' 'girlfriend' 'sports' 'family' 'games' 'life' 'work'

Looking around all the people looking at him and shouting at him

Then he spots a smaller person and all the other people crowd right around the man

He pushes them out the way and the little guy is holding up 'God'

Takes hold of his hand and walks out into the sun

Screen fades out

SCRIPT NOT DESIGNED FOR ME TO KEEP TO

SITUATIONS WILL CHANGE AS I AM FILMING

Well Done Norfolk Schools Internet Providers!

Well... for the last week we have been fighting a battle against the schools internet provider. They decided that it was a good idea to block blogspot.com so have not been able to get on for the last week. But don't worry, it's fine now... thanks guys...

Online Internet Research

Before I went out to find actual locations I looked online to see if I could find some ideas for exactly what sort of scene I wanted to find dotted around. This is what I found for the settings I was looking for.

From this I have thought of some nice locations that may be suitable for the music video. For the river we have the river tiffey in Wymondham. There are plenty of country roads and fields around my house and it might be possible to borrow a caravan field that one of my friends from church owns. At this time there are no campers. I can use the back parts of the town for the darker kind of shots with the people with signs surrounding the main character

Character Ideas

This is what I think the typical main character in my music video could look like:

Now obviously my characters will probably not look like this at all. I think because theses pictures were found on the internet meaning that they have been set up to the inch and had their make up done a hundred times so my characters will definitely not be as clear cut as such.