Characters

LEADING LADY

Ellie Blancke starred as our leading female in our music video, playing the role of 'Elle' who is a mixed individual due to her paranoia over of her boyfriend who she suspects is cheating on her. This leads Elle  to go on an all night/day alcohol binge which results in her boyfriend Harry throwing her out of his house after a high tempered rowel.

LEADING MALE

Harry Painter played the role of Elle's boyfriend in our music video. Harry breaks up with Elle due to her insane jealousy, Harry is not is cheating on Elle as she thinks he is. Harry and the 'other girl' are only friends, nothing more.

OTHER GIRL

Sarah Brushett (myself) plays the role of Harry's friend, but in the eyes of Elle she is the girl that Harry is being unfaithful with. I am not featured a lot within the video as the friendship evidence between my character and Harry is not required as the video was shown from Elle's point of view and therefore the only scene I was featured in was the scene where Elle arrived at Harry's house and attacked me. My name did feature earlier on in the video when Harry received an incoming call from me which was shown to trigger Elle's suspicion.

Filming Location

Our first filming location was located at Ellie's house ('Elle's' house in our music video). The house is located in Hextable. We filmed in Ellie's bedroom, upstairs bathroom, hallway and stairway. Ellie's house was good to film in as there was lots of natural light and was adequately spacious to flim in. Ellie's house was also extremely assebile as it is only 5minutes drive away from our school and a maximum of a twentie minute drive from any of the group members houses.

ELLIE'S HOUSE

The second main filming location was filmed on Rollo road in Hextable, it was just around the corner from Ellie's house and therefore equally acessible. Rollo road is just off Hextable High street but the road itself wasnt too busy with vechiles and pedrestrians so the filming wasn't corrupted with vechiles and pedestrians  getting in the way of the shot. A perk to this locatin was a large white wall which we filmed Ellie/Elle against and it looks very effective as it makes Ellie really stand out against the plain white background.

ROLLO ROAD

The third main location was filmed at Eynsford Castle located in Eynsford. It is an English Heritage listed castle ruins open for all of the public to come and see for no charge. We filmed there as we required a rugged brick walls with open outdoor space and that fitted the demand perfectly, Eynsford is also where I live which therefore makes it acceible to film at. The scenes we filmed at Eynsford Castle where those of 'Elle' binge drinking vodka straight from the bottle and chain smoking ciggerettes.

EYNSFORD CASTLE

Finally the last main location of where we filmed was at my house in Eynsford which is Harry's house in the video. The scenes filmed at my house was the memory scenes of 'Elle' and Harry when they were happy and in love but my house was also the location for Harry and Elle's big argument/break up. We filmed in the living room, kitchen and hallway of my house.



Filmed Camera Angles

Sarah Biswell drew up two sketched plans of the camera angles the scenes were filmed at in Ellie Blancke (Elle's) house.

The variety of different angles in our video adds interest to the video as it mixes things up, the audience won't know what to expect. Also as our film consists of short cuts it is therefore crucial to have a variety of camera angles filmed to make the shorts cuts look effective.

Broadcasting Channel of our Music Video

Like all directors of music video's, the band itself and the bands management want their music video to be broad casted on the best channel alongside the best music to be apart of the top department of their industry.

Sarah Biswell researched into music videos and came up with this:

  "MTV plays all sorts of music from rock to dance, to hip hop and rap. This would be the best music channel for us because it has such a wide audience range. The target audience for MTV is generally 16-25 year olds so this would definitely be the right channel for us if we were to do this idea."

Props

In our music video we feature various props, they are included to bring more interest to particular shots or in particular scenes. Props exaggerate or make the mood of a scene a lot more obvious for the audience to recognise.

VODKA BOTTLE

I feel the most useful prop featured in our video is the two vodka bottles. In the top right photo of 'Elle' just about to wake up, yes she looks rough with her smudged make up and messy hair and still wearing the clothes from the previous day/night but by having her still grasping on to her empty vodka bottle straight away suggests that she drunk that to herself last night which already then tells the audience that she is in a messed up state and has been out on an all night binge. In the bottle left photo is a screen shot of the scene where 'Elle' is on another binge with a fresh bottle of vodka in broad daylight, drinking it straight and from the bottle and being all alone when doing so. The scenes shows anger and depression, drinking her feelings away and expressing her stress with excessive chain smoking. In the other two screen shots 'Elle' is not drinking the vodka but is always shown with the bottle that again suggests to the audience that she isn't totally sober and she is walking around in broad day light with a large vodka bottle which portrays a clear messed up picture of 'Elle' to the audience.

THE LIGHTER

Even though the lighter has a physical use of setting the picture a light, there is scene where 'Elle' just flicks the lighter and watches the flame I feel that shot symbolises anger and danger to the audience showing how angry she is and that she is ready to something about it which she does as she sets alight to the picture and angrily confronts Harry at his house later that day.

MOBILE PHONE

The phone also had a function, the function to take pictures of Harry and Elle and to receive calls from the 'Other Girl'. The phone is also another way of symbolising the past and present as the phone is featured in both the past memories scenes when Harry and Elle are happy together and loved up but the phone is also featured in the present scene when the other girl is calling Harry in Elle's company which kicks off Elle's suspicion which then leads to her great jealous rage.

Copyright Letter

Sarah Biswell a  member from my media group wrote on behalf of all to the group to 'Warner Music Group' asking for permission to use the Paramore song, owned by them.

Here is a print screen of the message.