After several lessons of storyboarding we decided on the themes we wanted to create within our music video (tragic love story) and that lead us to a particular genre of music (alternative/ indie rock). Lana Del Rey's début album stood out for all of us as a set of songs which suggest the themes we wanted to pursue. We then set out finding a song which had reference to strong relationships and found a song also released as a single "Born to die".
It was much easier to storyboard and get our ideas into some sort of format once we had the song for inspiration. The storyboard was not set in stone however as we had a few different ideas on how to order elements of the story. What we did agree on however, was that we wanted to start and end the video with the same shot of a girl in a bath tub fully clothed shown mid way through some kind of suicide attempt due to a break up. Leading on from this, obviously the video had to incorporate some kind of fight between the couple and also a scene showing the strength of the relationship pre-break up.
With regards to editing we decided that special effects would not really be relevant and would take away somewhat from an otherwise very serious subject. We did however want to leap backwards and forward from past to future, we wanted to show this by switching from black and white to colour footage. Other than this slight diversion from straight forward editing we decided on keeping the video quite simple because the music adds another complication to the video anyway.
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