Before Starting to plan and create our own music videos, we were given the task to put together a music video, using the song by Annie Lennox, A Whiter shade of Pale.
We were given the lyrics and The song and then we had to plan the narration and shots. looking at the lyrics i thought of modernizing the downbeat song with a twist. We thought of the idea of a prostitute that has nothing else but making money through having sex with strangers. We then thought of ideas of how to portray this in a music video using Goodwin's theory, before constructing a storyboard of all the different shots.
the storyboard looked like this...
We then made a plan of how we were going to get these shots, organising actors, props, costumes, location and equipment.
Here is our plan of these things:
After getting all of the shots we needed, we used final cut express on the Mac, to edit the footage and this is our final product:
