Our Initial Ideas and Chosen Song

The production team and I ended up choosing an uncopywrited song from the LGFL website called ‘Superman’ by Barrie Gleden. We thought that this song was suitable for our music video due to the captivating tune and the catchy lyrics. There was a hard decision between this song and another song, however we thought that this song would be much more appealing to our age range of audience, and it was an overall more upbeat tune. The song is about a girl trying to find her ‘Superman’; therefore she goes looking at different types of men. The group and I immediately came up with ideas of what to include in the music video which were very humorous and comical which made our narrative fun and exciting for all ages, therefore this was a good choice of song as our ideas were very open from all angles of the group.

Here is a rough outline of our initial ideas of what we could possibly include in the narrative of our music video. The acting of the characters is going to be much exaggerated to make it comical for our audience so it is more entertaining, which will result in it being more striking. This will also make the production of our music video more engaging for us as a production team.

- There is a girl who is looking for her ‘Superman’. So, she goes on various dates with a range of different guys whose style vary from gangster to punk to geek.
- The dates are all in the restaurant, however in each scene the guys change but the mise-en-scene stays the same so that it is easier for the audience to compare the differences in the guys.
- Obviously, the girl is going to choose the best looking guy, but as time goes on she begins to realise his egotistical attitude and his arrogance and eventually, she will come to realise that he does not even care about her!
- The geek is the boy that is hardly noticed, but as the music video will progress he will be noticed more and more and will slowly become better and better looking. He also really likes the girl, but as the girl does not give him a chance she does not realise this.
- After getting to know the good looking guy, the girl finally realises that she made the wrong decision. She notices the geeky guy and begins to really like him. She has recognised that he has gotten better looking over time which is what made her initially notice him.
- Lastly, she finally gets with her ‘Superman’.
- As a group, we thought that we could possibly have animation appearances in the music video to make the video appear slightly like a comic as the word ‘Superman’ is associated with comics generally. This will also reflective on the cartoon ‘Superman’ which is one of out initial ideas for this music video.