A rougher than rough idea...

This is a more detailed and comprehensive summing-up of what we have decided or deliberated over thus far.

We wish the music video to have a loose and not entirely self evident narrative, which might require more than one viewing to understand (thus ensuring a greater number of times the song and video is played.) As yet we have one main character, a girl. She spends much of her time playing alone, making things, drawing and doing other childlike activies, such as net fishing and hopscotch. There may be vague evidence of a former playmate having been around a while ago, but no longer. At some point she dresses very carefully in fancy dress too large for her (as a child might put on her mother's clothes to look glamourous) and meets a boy (whether or not this meeting is arranged is not explained) who offers her flowers. She walks off, leaving him alone with his rejected gift. This fits with the song title, "I don't want to see you anymore".

Genre and Use of Conventions.

Camera Obscura describe themselves as pop/ melodramatic popular song/ alternative. This makes the genre as such difficult to confine to a definitive set of conventions. In a sense, we could take "alternative" to mean that we should offer a more original and unique take on a music video. We plan to approach our project artistically as well as serving the usual functions of a music video, creating themes and symbolism within the piece as well as a narrative reflecting the lyrics and general atmosphere the song evokes.

Performance and Lipsyncing

In previous projects we have experimented with and practiced lipsyncing, and to practice filming a performance we recently filmed a band in concert, Cazooga (Kazooga?) in order to make an advert for them and to gain experience. Some performance will be included in the video, with the girl (in her role as both main character and singer) singing part of the song. We will try to merge this footage with the narrative in order to give the music video a more natural, fluid, not regimented feel to it. A lyrical-visual link is created through lyrics appearing in fridge magnets, drawings and other playthings.

Camerawork

We wish our shots to resemble the work of director Wes Anderson in that they will include a great deal of symmetry. A colour-enhancing filter will be used as well as softening and increased contrast, to create a dreamlike atmosphere. We plan to use a wide variety of shots showing our locations, props and performer off to their advantage. This will also serve to maintain our audience's interest throughout the song, and is essential as a slow edited piece may bore some viewers without a variety of interesting shots and angles.

Editing

We will create an audio-visual link with long, slow shots cut to the beat with possibly a few effective fade-throughs, to reflect the soft, slow simplistic nature of the song. If possible we wish to use the editing technique known as (???), where footage is cut to reflect the natural movement of human sight.

This is just a rough plan of course. We will blog in further detail under the above headings as and when more details can be added or are replaced with better ones.