Vitoria S.
Inspiration for 'It's about us'
Split
Camera effect
two way mirror
This two way mirror is a great way to incorperate props into the story and it also reinforces the idea that the protagonists are made for each other even before the audience really knows what is going on. This will also alow for great technical directing and filming.
Since we want to make our charaters appear like they trully belong together the use of the split screens is perfect to indicate that they are one. We want to have a section with half their torso each and also half their faces in another shot.
This couple dancing scene from 'Another Cinderalla Movie' is an in camera effect. There is actually a large mirror inbetween them and the camera and when the camera films from the side it emphasises that the two charaacters are from completely different words. We also want to portray this feeling of separation, so we will incorperate a scene where the character are physically seperate but as if they are together. We woun't be able to do so with an expensive set but our editing will have to be exceptional.
Transitions
Here we see really interesting transitions and I fell like they will interpret well in our story. Moving transitions are my favourite to film and edit because they give the footage a cleaner edge as if it is a single take. They make the story fit in better together and they aren't too tricky to make. We will need a track and dolly to create the smooth movement and too make it really work out seamlessly technical filming will be very important because things will have to somewhat match. So match on actions and match on shape will be essential to creat the seamless transitions.
Music videos as inspiration
Taylor Swift's 'Blank Space' gave us cinematography ideas and also help us to develop our methods to film and edit the boys 'posh' house.
The feedback we got from our first pitch all agreed that the trory should not have a happy ending. So from Beyonce's 'If I were a boy' music video we thought about the scene where she is flirting with other men. We tought that we could end the protagonist's relatioship by making one of them jealous that the other was always surrounded by the the other gender. This would be a simple way to end it but not realistic to the charater's personalities that we had created. so we have scrapped this idea.
Rihana's 'We Found Love (in a hopeless place)' is a love story which ends in a break up. The images of the music video tell a sweet teen love story. There are many casuals acts that couples do and it shows their closeness to one another. This music video also makes muted red its prominent colour. Subtly hinting the love and lust between the two, but later simbolising their break.
Story inspiration
At first we had the idea to have a happy ending, conforming to all the cliques of romantic flics, but with the feed back from our pitch we then concluded it would be too much.
We were going to have the lovers split up because their families and friend were in extreme discordance with the relationship, like in the 'Graduate'. But then they would end up runnig away together and I had the idea of replicating the very end of the graduate because it is a great film and this would help inforce the music video's genre and intention.
Our story is very much like a modern 'Romeo and Juliet' romance without the tragedy! We want to focus on the love of the protagonists and also emphasise the fact that in the eyes of their relatives they should not be together.
The subtle camera movements and angles will help tell the story instead of having to utilise any dialoge or extemely obvious scenes.
'It's a a lot like love' is a story that sees two people who are meant to be together but their lives split. They then find each other again and we see how they trully are meant to be together.
This was my idea on how to end the music video, having them break up due to their parents and friends not agreeing with the relationship, but then we see them years on finding one another again and realising it was a great mistake to let eachother go.
Love, Rosie' became an plot inspiration to us. In the story the two protagonist are bestfreinds but Sam is frindzoned and therefore not allowed to be with the one he loves, Rosie.
This made us think about incorperating the idea that our protagonist were not going to be together at the end because one was loved much more than the other.
From our pitch feedback we got many sugestion that a dramatic death should take place. And we wresteled with this idea for a while because we wanted to take their opinion into consideration, but in the end we concluded that killing off a character would be too intense for this song and it's mood.
Whilst we were contemplating the idea I was inspired by the sad love story in 'A walk to remember' as I watched the movie I was paying attention to how the filming was done after the plot twist that she was dieing. The camera movements became much more subtle and the cinematography emphasised the sad story.