Goodwin stated that music videos always demonstrate genre characteristics which I thought was very important when looking for influences, as seen below.
Opening shot:
It's a common theme within rock and alternative bands to begin their music videos with an opening shot of the band members coming on to set and/or getting ready.
This also allows the audience to become familiar with the band and associate different members with their instrument and persona.
Establishing and master shots:
By cutting away to the cyclorama it sets the scene and begins to introduce our concept of technology slowly taking over although it firstly raises questions in the audience's mind such as 'where is this?' and 'why is the paper moving?'.
These shots reflect our infinite white background that we want to create in order to create an atmosphere of isolation and the second shot shows a male singer alone which is what we want in our music video.
Our conceptual shots:
We have decided that in post-production we will use after effects to edit the stacks of paper moving up and down in rigid, rhythmic format - similar to the drums shown below. This will reflect the steady pace that technology is consuming us in and as Luke will seem unaware of the papers moving around him it will also demonstrate how we are immune to the effects.
Our other conceptual aspect is the face paint, hence why we have included different shots representing artwork done on the face. The shot on the left is a visual demostration of how the face can be used to evoke drastic emotions from the viewer as it is quite an unnerving shot, especially for a music video. On the right is the kind of style and look we are going for witht he face paint as we want the look to be very pristine and solemn.
In between all of these shots we will constantly cut away to the performance which is taking place on a rooftop so the shot included of Matty Smith playing an accoustic song on a rooftop demonstrates the idea we are going for however our style will be a lot more edgy and we will consider putting it into black and white in post.
Chorus:
The chorus will be filled with fast-cuts as Vernallis says that the editing will match the beat and be very obvious so as to draw attention to itself. It will also include angry performance and conceptual shots so that the audience can be drawn in and emphasise with our lead singer. The paper stimulation we have placed in our steal-o-matic is a visual representation of how gradually throughout our video, Luke's anger will escualte until he can't take it anymore and ends up throwing and kicking paper around everywhere.
The shot of the band performance really demonstrates how the lead singerof Nothing But Thieves throws himself into the song just like how we want Luke to do.
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