General Musings of Group Planning

The lyrics for 'Nobodys Home' are all about a man who wakes up and cannot find a woman, for this reason we have decided on two different narratives running side by side would be nice and enable us to use different shots like split screens. The narratives are from the point of view of the woman and the other of the man.

The beginning of this song is much like Paolo Nutini's 'New Shoes' song (shown below):




However we have decided that going with the norm of getting out of bed has been done thousands of times and sometimes is not very effective but boring! So we are going to do something a little bit different, if you want to see what we have planned you will have to look at the post called Storyboards, and labelled Planning music video.


As a group we have played with the idea of filming live footage of a band to integrate into the plot line, however we do not know the actual band and making a different band sing the song and lip sink it successfully is incredibly difficult, so instead to root this video to a music video we have decided to come up with a motif that does the same job, also we intend to have a few words to lip sink said by the main protagonist played by Tamas Dalmay, just saying the lyrics 'Nobody's home' as that is the title of the song as well.

We had originally planned to use masks of Izzy's face to haunt our main protagonist played by Tamas however we cannot make masks that are overly convincing and that don't look lousy. I made a few specimens and have taken pictures of me wearing them and an outfit entirely black which is what the cast would be wearing also (Shown below).

Face on view of the mask, this just doesn't look right because it does not fit the shape of the head, reflects the light, and is not as spooky as the look we are trying to convey.Side on view of the mask, we would not purposefully be trying to film to side of the peoples heads but if it did come into view it would not look great but whatever we do with masks this is going to happen, however if we use hoods as well with the new type of masks that will give a great contrast of the black hoods surrounding the very white face.

Instead of the masks shown above that are very mediocre we are going to use proper theatrical white masks that look like this:

After filming some of our footage we have decided to change the narrative a little to create a more interesting mysterious plot. Within this change we have decided that the use of masks should be discarded as it does not fit with generic conventions of love songs and they are more widely used within dance routines, which is not the look we are going for.

Our narrative now runs thus:

• Man and woman


• Man is suggested as dead


• Woman does not know


• We have a ghost of the man


• Memories

For more information on the Narrative Structure view Post entitled 'Narrative structure'