Now everyone's groups are sorted out, and I am very pleased with who I am working with, we have begun to think of as many ideas we can for our piece. Firstly, deciding on a song was surprisingly easy, we all agreed that we absolutely wanted to do a fun and upbeat song, most of this decision came from seeing what was successful the previous year, those who had done faster song's videos tended to be more interesting whereas slow love songs were very tedious. We have selected Lolly's version of Toni Basil's cult classic 'Hey Mickey'.
We have begun to discuss what the overall narrative of the video will be, but also how we can break it up and edit it so that it is a fast paced music video, not a film. Our main idea is for the overall concept to be the star of the video (Lolly) to be a fun, charismatic and silly girl, who is getting ready for a school disco. Throughout this we cut to shots of her going on various dates in different settings such as a park, a diner, a boat trip etc... with different boys, however to her, they are all Mickey. We thought that the obvious story for the video would be to have one Mickey and show his relationship with the star. We thought this would be predictable and a bit unimaginative, therefore we decided that rather than have her heartbroken and cheated on by Mickey, we would have her as the 'player' and have her be playing all these different boy, who to her are all the same (all Mickey). This would all build up to a dance scene at the disco where she would be seen dancing with all the Mickeys and then have to choose who she wanted to be with, and then pick none of them and walk off leaving them all behind.
Throughout this, we would have shots of her performing this song and her band members would be played by all the Mickeys.
We want the video to ultimately be fun and enjoyable for the audience.
-So far our planning is going well and everyone in the group seems to be on the same wavelength which is a positive start!
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