Artist: HAIM
Song: 'Don't Save Me'Director: Jake Hughes
The video I plan to create will mostly illustrate the lyrics. Its focus is the protagonist, a boy aged 17, who is depressed, because he's feeling as though his best days are behind him, due to the pressures he's starting to endure as he's getting older.
The video will be shot almost all in split screen, so I'm able to show what the boy is like now, and what he used to be like. The inspiration for this came from the music video for the song 'Make Her Say' by Kid Cudi.
The video will feature the boy waking up, leaving his house, encountering people and eventually ending up home. During this journey, the different versions of him come up against the same kind of obstacles, however they tackle them very differently. For example, they meet a girl in the street, and the old him talks to her for a while, the new him just says 'hi'. Another shot I aim to include are one of the alarm clock which wakes the up at the beginning of the video. The present one will be set at an early time with a depressing tone, the past one however will be set at a more leisurely time, with a nice soothing tone to it.
The video will feature the boy waking up, leaving his house, encountering people and eventually ending up home. During this journey, the different versions of him come up against the same kind of obstacles, however they tackle them very differently. For example, they meet a girl in the street, and the old him talks to her for a while, the new him just says 'hi'. Another shot I aim to include are one of the alarm clock which wakes the up at the beginning of the video. The present one will be set at an early time with a depressing tone, the past one however will be set at a more leisurely time, with a nice soothing tone to it.
The feel of the song is quite light in the verses, which opens up the possibility for some humor during these parts, like when the boy meets the girl. However the chorus of the song is much more atmospheric, which means that the humorous parts of the video may not seem appropriate if shown when it's playing. I will instead use the chorus for some close ups and extreme close ups, which show more of the emotion of the boy's face. I think the video needs this, as the song itself does have a deeper meaning. This will be done in both split screen and without. The extreme close ups with split screen could show his eyes and mouth, or his face and then in the other screen a long shot at the same time. It could also be done without the split screen, which will just plainly show his emotion.
The video will not just be set in one place, it will have to feature different locations. It will begin in the boy's bedroom, which I think will be an actual bedroom, not on a set. The rest of the video will be set on the way to the town centre, then in the town centre, with the character doing a loop to end up back in his room.
I don't think that the video will work that well if it were to feature lip syncing, due the rthe protagonist being a different gender to the one of those who are obviously singing. It rules out having a performance based element of the video. It could be used if the boy is muttering the lyrics as he's walking, which would give off the impression that he is relating to the song, not that he's created it.
In order to make it clearer that the other person in the video is the old him, I took inspiration from the music video for the song 'Seven Days' by Craig David. In the video, he steps out of the scene, manually rewinds the video and then steps back in. This could be done at the start of the video which features only the current character, who then rewinds the video to the old him laying in bed. He then proceeds to get back into bed and the song begins.
I can see how this might be done using the green screen, however I don't know if it's a realistic idea or not.
Had to do this on the app and didn't know how to make a comment, so my techniques are the Craig Dabid idea, and split screen.
