Planning our Music Video

For our Music Video, we took the lessons we'd learned about Goodwin's theories and tried to plan our music video around them, in order to make a semi-professional looking music video. Since it was our first attempt at a music vide, we were given a song at random - the songs were all classic like "Feeling Good" and "Magic Moments," with lyrics that were fairly easy to decipher and make a story out of, or just a video that corresponded to the music and lyrics somehow. They were fairly well known by most of us, so it was a decent selection of songs that we had at our disposal.

Our group were given the song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head", by B. J. Thomas. The general gist of the song was an upbeat look at the life of an optimistic man, whose life is filled with misery, but through it all he keeps on smiling, looking on the bright side of life at all times. Since we were aware of the fact that another group may be doing the same song, we decided to make our video contrast to the lyrics somewhat. We agreed to make the video about a teenage relationship that goes sour, and ends with the main character killing himself. It was a pretty dark concept, but we thought it was pretty far away from the lyric, and therefore was a good contrast to the happy, light feeling of the song.

We immediately drew up a basic idea of what we wanted to do, and elaborated on one idea a little further, adding a quick storyboard so that we knew exactly what we wanted to do with it;

After our initial planning, with the basic ideas and shots noted down in detail, we made a series of storyboards to illustrate what we hoped to film. After making a short list of the main shots we wanted, we drew the storyboards and took photos of them to upload to our blogs.

We used these storyboards to get a basic idea of what we wanted to do with the music video.

In short, the idea was that the main protagonist would be dumped by his girlfriend at the beginning of the video, and the rest of the video would show the events that take place afterwards. The protagonist would be left completely miserable,