Treatment

To the song Blag it by Mikill pane I have the idea of directly linking the lyrics and on screen image. I have watched many videos from different, similar and the same artist and have thought of the best way to intrigue the audience and portray the song to its potential. There will be a main actor which will be playing the role of the artist and singing the song whilst walking and moving from scenes. I will match the lyrics by having scenarios going on and interlinking with the main actor for example the lyrics says “I sneak whiskey, through the door, as we go clubbing” to this I will have a set of a nightclub entrance and the character will sneak a bottle of whiskey through whilst singing the lyrics. This is an example of how I will make the lyrics and the on screen shot match together. A reason as to why I have chosen this style of shooting the music video is that 25 people out of the 27 questioned for my survey said yes and sort of too there needing to be a relationship between onscreen image and lyrics. I also feel that this would fit in the style of the artist and his other previous music videos.

The edits of the music videos will be done by the use of doors. Where the actor will walk through one door after a verse or a scene and then cut to another scene where the actor will walk out the door and continue with the song and another verse. The way this will be done, will make the video seem like its one long take, however it will be an assembly of different scenes and sets.

There will be a lot of use of props and sets during the production this is due to trying to match as many lyrics into the video as well as this there will also be the need for lots of characters and extras to make each scene and set come alive they will also walk in out of the shot to make it seem like the singer isn’t really there or isn’t noticed. There will be two main sets which will be a make shift bar and a corridor or a warehouse, with an open space to have enough to walk through.
As I’m going to a gig where the artist will be actually playing I will try to record some footage and incorporate this either at the end of the video or at the beginning so that there is some footage of the artist still in the video. For this it would be done on my phone rather than proper filming equipment. However it will add a fans point of view to the video.