Revised ideas for Real Life section of Music Video

After filming recently with 6 actors for the film, we uploaded the footage to find it uninteresting and dull. We have decided to change the storyboarding of the real life extract of the music video to include less actors (1 boy and possible one girl). As the main target audience of this song appears to be gender neutral, we thought by having a male singer in the band, we could appeal to females sexually, and to the males with the characters style/talent.

Furthermore, we decided to also include instruments (acoustic guitar for the male lead) as this will relate to the song track strongly, and strengthen the genre within the mise-en-scene, as most indie/modern-folk bands include their instruments within their music videos, such as The Kooks or The View.

The male actor will be:
1. Tamas Dalmay.

And the possible female actress will be (if used):
1. Caroline Gooch.

These actors are reliable and suitable for the role, making them easy to work with to get the best footage possible for the scenes we have thought of. Also, the clothes needed to suit the band and to appeal to our target audience (who like boutique shops, TopShop and H&M) go well with these actors, and they already have most of the suitable costumes planned out in a previous post.

We have also decided to shoot most/all of our shots in a green-land or wooded area, as this mise-en-scene will link strongly to the animation parts of the video, as this depicts a wooded area with trees and woodland animals. It also can focus on mainly the artist and the instrument, which will help promote the image of the artist that we are marketing with this music video (also, similar bands as The Kooks etc, have videos in neutral places that aren't glamorous, and some even have scenes in woods, showing its a generic factor to these sort of videos).

Another additional thought process we had was to include a picture or representation of a wolf into the music video (outside of the animation) to create a stronger link between the 2 sections of our film. We thought that a wolf outfit could be interesting, for the band member/s to meet him as if he had come out of the animated woods into real woods, similar to an initial idea we had with the 6 band members. However, this proved difficult as we could not find a wolf outfit that wasn't gruesome for halloween, and we thought it may look overly silly and amateur.
We then came up with the mask idea, and integrating it with the band member/s. At first, the mask was going to be put on another actor, like the outfit would have, but then we thought that adding a mask to our actor, tamas, whilst he was playing the guitar or singing, could suggest that he was the wolf, and that he was in the animation world but came out and is turning human with the song and as the song progressed. This would be an effective and easy way to link the 2 sections of our film and we thoroughly liked the outcome after filming.

We did not know how to end our film, and came up with a few ideas of the actor going back into animation, or just a fading walk away. However, the end of our song ends on a strong beat, so we wanted a strong ending that went with that beat so the visuals linked impressively with the audio. Our final decision was to have our actor Tamas waking up from the sequence of animation and real life, cross fading the wolf mask over his face. This would connote his waking up, and that the music video had been a fantacy. We also wanted to show that he wasn't just dreaming of it, that he was an artist, so we included him getting up, picking up his guitar and leaving the room with a band member (played by myself). This was a good ending because we will be able to synchronise the door shut/slam with the end beat of the song, creating a linked ending between them.