Original ideas.

Although we know that this is very late into the planning process we both decided that it would be a good idea to post what our original ideas were for the video and to explain why we did not carry them out any further due to errors and faults in our plans.

Gig.
We originally wanted to do a gig scene as the performance aspect of our music video. However, we soon came to the conclusion that it may indeed be too difficult to get a big amount of actors to be the audience at the gig and to have them all be avaiable to shoot on the same day and at the same time. People can often be late as well and re-shooting could have also proved at big problem. Plus, the only places that we could shoot a gig scene would be chuch halls and function rooms and there is almost always a hire fee to use these for any kind of event. We concluded that this could make the shoot quite expensive and were not willing to spend so much money, especially if a re-shoot was necessary.

Superheroes.
An idea for the narrative aspect was that the lead singer of the band was a superhero and a girl was his rival. We were planning to have the band completely unaware of the vocalist's real identity and for the video to end with a fight scene between the two rival superheroes and both of their identities being revealed and finally, an innocent victim of a tragedy. But we realised that portraying the two characters as superheroes would be too hard to put across without some form of dialect which is very rare in music videos and may have been difficult to incorporate. The effects we would have needed to show the superheroes may have ended up looking tacky and cheesy and not very genuine.

Death.
The idea that we decided was our final one for our music video includes a death. We originally wanted this to happen to the drummer of the band, Rob and for it to be carried out by the stalker girl, Heather. We soon came to the conclusion that the height difference between Rob and Heather was too much and that a small heighted girl could end up looking awkward and odd killing a tall boy. We finally decided to have Heather kill the lead singer, Dan. We originally thought this but was worried it would be a too obvious outcome but in the end we had to go for what was more pratical and what would look best on the camera.
The type of death was also a little tricky to decide on. We were both quite happy with a stabbing, however this would be too difficult to act out with a knife and a lot of blood. We also felt it could end up being too similar to our horror films in the AS side of the course last year and agreed that we wanted to try something different this year. We eventually decided on Heather strangling Dan in the park.

Safina and Siobhan :)