We were originally going to concentrate on using a wide arrange of symbolic references. This included a scene with a long alleyway representing our characters journey to death after he had been stabbed in the real world. In this scene we were going to include someone dressed all in black to represent death itself, but instead of a wearing black robes for a more traditional 'grim reaper' look, we wanted him with more casual clothes (hoody, trainers) to give it an modern urban edge. Here we would have him relentlessly follow our main character giving him no chance of escaping death, as his time has come.
This idea was heavily influenced by the music video of our song 'Getting Nowhere' which included a lot of symbolic references as well. The reason why we decided to scrap this idea is that it was hard to pull off and actually make sure our audience would understand the symbolism. We learnt from this mistake last year when making our thriller, as audience feedback of our final film told us that some people found our story hard to follow, and therefore we would not want to repeat this mistake this year. Also when showing our media presentation of some of our initial song choices to our class, some of our classmates did not understand the symbolism of the video 'Getting Nowhere' and found it slightly confusing.
Another reason for the change in the story was filming the scene where our character is attacked. We decided that this just wouldn't look right and fit the conventions of a music video. This was the same with the chase scene leading up to this. We wanted to do deviate from this as it almost felt like we were filming another thriller from last year.
We are instead going to concentrate on something more basic which our target audience can relate to such as youth culture. We are going to focus on making our video look more captivating and interesting to watch rather than giving it more of a deeper message. We still plan to keep the video about our character and the struggles he faces in the area he lives such as drugs and violence. We are also contemplating on keeping our video non-linear (e.g.the start is the end) like our initial story but show it very clearly so our audience will understand. We are very keen on this idea as it is something different.
By Christian Sheen
This idea was heavily influenced by the music video of our song 'Getting Nowhere' which included a lot of symbolic references as well. The reason why we decided to scrap this idea is that it was hard to pull off and actually make sure our audience would understand the symbolism. We learnt from this mistake last year when making our thriller, as audience feedback of our final film told us that some people found our story hard to follow, and therefore we would not want to repeat this mistake this year. Also when showing our media presentation of some of our initial song choices to our class, some of our classmates did not understand the symbolism of the video 'Getting Nowhere' and found it slightly confusing.
Another reason for the change in the story was filming the scene where our character is attacked. We decided that this just wouldn't look right and fit the conventions of a music video. This was the same with the chase scene leading up to this. We wanted to do deviate from this as it almost felt like we were filming another thriller from last year.
We are instead going to concentrate on something more basic which our target audience can relate to such as youth culture. We are going to focus on making our video look more captivating and interesting to watch rather than giving it more of a deeper message. We still plan to keep the video about our character and the struggles he faces in the area he lives such as drugs and violence. We are also contemplating on keeping our video non-linear (e.g.the start is the end) like our initial story but show it very clearly so our audience will understand. We are very keen on this idea as it is something different.
By Christian Sheen
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