Pitch For Our Music VideoBy Ellie and Katy

Heaven By Beyonce

Writer: Asher & KnowlesProducers: Boots & KnowlesLength: 3.50

• Narrative based music video• Slow tempo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyOok1myLjw

NarrativeOur final choice for a song is Heaven by Beyonce. We

originally chose White Noise by Disclosure as it is a lively song and quite energetic, but we thought that we would be able to get a clearer narrative and better representation by using the

song Heaven. This is because its original story line is quite heartfelt and we thought it would be good inspiration for our

music video. The narrative in her music video is based on Beyonce having a miscarriage and loosing her child and

therefore we wanted to go with a similar theme of loosing someone because we believe it will be a clear story line for

the audience. In our video we want to bring in a positive element to contrast with the negative and emotional aspects

of the video.

Storyboard

We decided to use an online storyboard maker as we thought we could reflect our ideas clearly on here instead of drawing them as well as looking more professional.

We didn't make this an official storyboard for our music video as we thought there would be too many shots to replicate therefore it would be more efficient choosing the

main 6 scenarios that we will re-create instead of repeating the same shots.

Shot by Shot Breakdown

Shot 1Shot 1 is going to be set in a scenic

setting either in a field of forest as we thought this would give the video

some range in shots. We got the idea of this from Leona Lewis video "Run" which we thought look effective as it

makes the artist look quite vulnerable and isolated which run with the

theme of the song. To show these emotions we would use a wide range

of shots and angles including close ups, mid shots, extreme close ups as

well as long shots to include some parts of the scenery.

Shot 2 Shot 2 is set in a traditional church as we thought it would extremely effective. In the original video for Beyonce's "Heaven" she was shown in a church surrounded by few other people who looked upset. Beyonce is shown crying in the church and we thought it would be good to reflect a bit of her video in to ours to show that we thought about the original video and used it to influence our video. Some ideas that we thought of included having some kind of performance element in the church either the artist singing or another character dancing with ribbons perhaps to link the words of the song to the video.

Shot 3 Shot 3 will be set in a

graveyard/memorial of some sort. We don't want one too

dark as we don't want the whole music video to be

really depressing. The clips in the graveyard will not be too

prevalent throughout the video as we just want

snippets of it throughout of the artist grieving or

reminiscing. I think we will use mainly pans of the scene

which include the artist.

Shot 4 Shot 4 will be the artist sitting on a stool in a dark room or stage. We got this idea from Whitney Houstons "I Will Always Love You" as we thought it would be simple and effective to just have the dark room and the artist on there own singing. This ensures we have the performance element in the music video. I think it would look most effective if we had the camera panning around the artist in the middle. This could be used with a tracking device or a dolly.

Shot 5Shot 5 represents all the

happy elements throughout the video,

as we didn't want every shot to be sad so we thought it would be

good to have flashbacks of when the artist was

happy. We don't want it to be too similar to the original song so we are

going to create a different flashback that

we could use such as going to a party or

being with a partner.

Shot 6 Shot 6 is supposed to be a scenic shot similar to the one in Alexandra Burke's "Hallelujah" where the artist is standing performing and in the background there is lots of candles or people holding handles/lights. The main reason for this idea was to bring some light into a dark situation and to show that there is hope.

Issues• There are some issues of representation when using

this song because Beyonce is mixed race and we are having a white artist in our video. This could mean that

the voice could look strange compared to the artist. We are going to research into covers of the song and

see if we can find one that is more appropriate.• Another issue is the time to film all the footage we

need & transporting all the equipment.• The nature of the song is a sensitive subject there for

we wanted to shine a positive perspective on the music video.

Costumes & Props

Equipment & Crew

• HD film camera• Tripod• Dolly• Hand held camera

Camera women- Katy GopsillDirector- Ellie DeRome

Target Audience

• 14+ females.• However we feel Beyonce has very universial

music. • Could be a sensitive subject/can relate to it.

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