Initial Planning Ideas

My group members are: Drew Wyllie, Jenna Van-Bergen and Rhianna Macleay.

Within our group discussion we considered songs, artists, narratives and ideas. The artists that we considered were Ellie Goulding, The XX, Florence and the Machine, Laura Marling however we were extremely inspired by Nina Nesbitt. We researched into Nina Nesbitt's music videos such as 'Stay Out' and 'Way in the World' to gather a sense of Nesbitt's style. We had already decided that we wanted a song that was quite upbeat, however we wanted to stay away from dance tracks. We were intrigued by 'The Apple Tree' because it was upbeat but still maintained an acoustic feel. We were originally going to do 'Stay Out' however we felt that the official music video fit the song so well that it would be hard not to copy it. However, the music video to 'The Apple Tree' is an amateur video made by Nesbitt herself, therefore because it isn't a professional music video we won't be distracted by it and will be able to create our own idea for the song.

We printed off the lyrics to 'The Apple Tree' and listened to it repeatedly in order to gather a rough outline of our video. We want the video to evolve around break up between a couple, therefore be more of a narrative/concept based music video rather than entirely performance based. We had this 'memory theme' idea where we could play, in fast motion, a montage of memories and moments that the couple shared as the chorus picks up. This could possibly have a slightly aged affect. We will use a few performance sections that will be set in the present day and we will keep alternating between the present and the past relationship.