Inital Ideas

After listening to the lyrics and choosing our song, we jotted down a list of both of our best ideas that would be suitable to include in this type of song to form a music video and flows and has themes that link throughout. (shown above)

we then took these ideas and created a skeleton script of the more refined ideas we had to for the music video. We did this in order to achieve a rough idea of what out video would look like in context, putting different shots into sub categories what were the verses and the refains of the song. (show above)

Show below is the is an example of storyboards we used to plan out in detail each shot of the music. Included in the storyboards are details of shot numbers,length of the shots, Sound, cuts and cues in the music, directions for props/actors, camera directions such as camera movement, type of shot, use of lenses, focusing and lighting. Our team stuck to the storyboard in general, changing ideas at some places in the storyboard and also cutting shots that did not fit in when we were on location filming.






After looking at other videos from the band Feeder I noticed that there are a few things in common.

These are things like

• use of unnatural speed, for example slow motion, and faster than normal motion.
• sudden changes in mood. many of their videos change to the mood of their lyrics.
• use of monologue and building a connection with the audience

We came to the conclusion we wanted to make a video to 'Who's the enemy' because the song is generally slower and more anthemic which gives a nice contrast and portrays the band in a different light then normal.

Here are the lyrics to the song:

We're running away
Further away 'cause
We won't take this
Losing my way
Knocked to the ground
I lie beside her

You know they're telling us
Nothing's ever gonna change
You know they're telling us
Nothing's ever gonna change

We're running away
Further away so
We might make it

Let's forget
Don't think about it
Let's forget
Let's forget
Don't think about it
We're fighting with ourselves but
Who's The Enemy?

Tear in the sky
Choking the world
That cries before us
It's time to decide
We can't here all
Sit alone in silence

You know they're telling us
Nothing's ever gonna change
You know they're telling us
Nothing's ever gonna change

We're running away
Further away so
We might make it

Let's forget
Don't think about it
Let's forget
Let's forget
Don't think about it

We're fighting with ourselves but
Who's The Enemy?
Who's The Enemy? (x9)

We're running away
Further away 'cause
We won't take this
Losing our way
Knocked to the ground
But we might make it

Let's forget
Don't think about it
Let's forget
Let's forget
Don't think about it

We're fighting with ourselves but
Who's The Enemy?

Let's forget

After listening to the song a few times and studying the lyrics I have come up with a few initial ideas what would work well in this video, from looking at other music videos and combining them.

there is a 13 second introduction which is instrumental. In this time we could possibly include some establishing shots with the main character in. also some more personal mid shots of him eating breakfast for example to build up a relationship with the audience and just get to know him a bit.

After the intro, I came up with the idea of having two different locations in the music video to keep things simple but effective. These are a busy location, for example, London. we had the idea of getting the main character to stand still for a long period of time miming the words slowly, the speeding the film up to make it look as if the character is singing normally but everyone around him is in fast motion. this is a good technique that is often used in music videos.