Treatment:

For our treatment we decided to split it up into the four mains parts, that means that each member of or group are able to portray our ideas in their own written style. For my section of the treatment, I will be covering the costumes for both the narrative and performance aspects of our music video.

For the performance aspect of our music video we have decided that we will be using a small 4 person band, the costumes for each band member will be very similar but they will differ slightly. The main theme for the costumes of the band are jeans, dark tops with flannel shirts over the top. The lead singer will differ slightly in colour in attempt to draw more attention to him and to showcase that he is the more important band member. We want our band to look conventional of the indie genre but still modern, we chose these minimalistic costumes to try an achieve this.

For the narrative aspect of our music video, we will be having 2 characters which are a couple. The male will be wearing casual clothing which fits in with the style of the current fashion, resulting in a closer connection being formed with the male target audience. The overall look of the male character is going to be modern but muted, due to the actor being a tall, pale and thin brunette we feel as if this look would really suit him and tie in with the indie genre. For the female character, we want her to look very unique enabling the audience to understand the males attration to her. She will be styled in mom jeans, doc martins and a muted coloured shirt and jacket, we have chosen this style because we want her to subtly look vulnerable to fit in with our narrative but we also want her to look attractive. The muted colours and oversized jackets are very conventional of the indie genre and also are very fashionable currently. Danielle

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Lighting

Performance

In the performance part of the music video we intend to have the members on a small stage/ low platform in a minimalistic room. For the lighting we want to use a mixture of spot lights and stage washes for the stage area, the spot lights are going to be used to introduce each band member and as the song introduce there instrument they will be illuminated using an individual spot light . When the song starts to pick up we will use a stage wash to illuminate the whole band a merging them together instead of individual spotlights. The lights we will use to do this are some source 4 spot lights to do the individual spot lights.

For the stage wash we will use a industry standard theatre light called a Fresnel which comes with barn doors allowing the light to be narrowed down onto our small stage/platform to give a more realistic performance environment. These light will be mounted behind and above the camera to make the angles and position of them correct for a performance area and also so there is a full coverage of light on the individual band members, these lights are a older style light as they are halogen light bulbs instead of the modern day 21st century LED lighting. These lights will produce a warm white light (golden white) which is the stereotypical light colour for a minimalistic, indie/pop artist stage lighting, we are also having this colour to give a warm and closeness felling to the performance element, the colour is made possible by using the old style of halogen lighting. Contributing to this lighting we potentially are going to have a row of lights behind the band point out towards the crowed to give the representation of the performance element and to make it more realistic for the viewer that they’re performing on a stage. For this we will use either use old fashioned par 56’s halogen par can with long noses on these will produce a warm white colour the same as the spots and Fresnel’s, however with these lights we have the potential to change the colour using a coloured plastic filter called a gel. If we are uable to use the Par 56’s we will use the modern day equivalent which is a LED version which used DMX control to change the colour so which we can use to make a similar colour to the halogen Par 56’s or a different colour like we would using the gells. Below is a picture of the effect these lights would create, we intend to us different colour to what the picture shows. To run all the lighting we will have the use of a dimable circuit board so we can get the right intensity of light this will be controlled by a DMX unit. Below is a diagram of how it will all be connected up and the lights- Jamie

For our treatment we also have to think about the setting in which our video will be shot. There are two different aspects of the video which we have to think of; the performance and the narrative. With the performance we want it to be very simple and naturalistic we want it to follow conventions of indie and have a low budget stage/performance area. To try and create that minimalistic vibe our stage will just be a raised platform rather than a big stage which you would see at big festivals for pop and rock bands. The performance setting will have guitars, drums, keyboard and microphones with an emphasis on the idea they are performing. We decided on 4 band members all of which won’t be fully conventional, we will have a female drummer which isn’t common and challenges stereotypical ideas that all drummers and rock musicians are male. The settings for our narrative will be slightly more complex, it’s common to see flashbacks in indie music videos and we really like the idea of using flashbacks. Therefore we want to have the happy flashbacks which we have decided will be in a happy setting for example a beach; specifically the seafront. Also happy memories in normal, common places like walking down roads, woodlands; taking the dog for walks. For the flashbacks of the darker, harder times for example we were thinking of using a hospital/doctor type setting to represent the difficult with the relationships and the deterioration of the girl’s mental state, suggesting she may have a mental illness. By Abbie