The lyrics to our chosen song and meaning

The Shape Of The Earth - Alone In This.

All these names and people places, oh I’m not that sure, I’m not that sure, am I alone in this?
All around the world they tell us oh we’re not that sure we’re not that sure, am I alone in this?
I don’t know how to breathe oh I’m not that sure, I’m not that sure, am I alone in this?
I always try and work on this a lot,
What I have I’m sure you haven’t got,
I can only, only tell the truth….


This is a song about someone questioning themselves to whether they have someone looking out for them and in the same situation in life as they are. This is a soul searching song about someone who really wishes all these things because they don't want to be on their own throughout all their life. The song is about admitting that they feel this way as they didn't want to say it as it is a realisation of themselves and the people around them and it's a fact that isn't the greatest and it's one they wanted to ignore and try to think isn't the truth.

This will be good to link in with our music video idea as the lyrics connect with what it going on in the video and makes it more emotional alongside the images and the story that appears with it. The story is about a girl who is from a bad family and lifestyle as she was abused and bullies within her own home. She then decides to travel around the UK to get away from her life and escape. Along the way she meets new people that make her happy as well as seeing loads of places that make her feel free along with the travel. These lyrics link in as she feels alone in life and wants to find something other than this feeling. It also helps to have these lyrics with the music video because she is travelling on her own and the lyrics state that the person feels alone.

The Shape Of The Earth CD covers

These are the band 'The Shape Of The Earth's CD covers. There is a similarity between them all as they are all drawings and painting like pictures and font on the front. This is a very basic style that they have and it has becomes a signature thing for their band. This has been reflected and thought about in the production and research into our idea stage of making our music video to one of their songs, 'Alone In This'. We have gone for a simply but good storyline in our music video and a basic idea which reflects the image of the band and their theme running through themselves and their CD covers.

Another film inspiration

This film is called Into The Wild. this film inspired us as its all about one person travelling on their own as they don't like reality and will do anything to get away from it. We like the idea from this photo as it is a good picture to show him travelling with all of his belongings. We want to show our character travelling with all of her things too, but she'll be travelling through streets not the wild, but we want her to be walking through all different things to show she'll travel anywhere to get away from where she 
came from.



This picture is a great shot as it shows the audience that the character hasn't got anywhere to go so they will literally sleep/stay wherever they can. This shot is him on top of an abandoned van, in our video we will change this to our character sleeping on a bench or something like that just to let the audience know she hasn't got much else. When we video her sitting on something higher, we want her to be admiring the scenery that she can see so we can tell she loves where she is and that she finds comfort in it. 

We love this shot as it shows the main character from the movie doing something he admires in a place that he loves, this inspired us to do this in our music video with our main character. We want her to be sat somewhere alone, reading also so it shows the audience that she has a peace of mind where she is and that she is relaxed and happy. In the shot we want to capture a good part of the scenery to so we can fully portray her happiness now that she is alone and far away from her home.




In our music video we want a shot exactly like this where it shows a close up of the characters face to try and show all of the emotion they have. In our case we want our character to be looking out to an open field or scenic area and have tears in her eyes to show that she feels like she is where she belongs. We want this shot to be at the very end of the video, so we can show her looking a little scruffy from where she has been travelling for days, but we want her to be smiling and feeling like shes finally got to where she has always wanted.

Our mood board

This is our mood board for the sort of thing we want to show in our music video with the shots and the location that we are aiming for. We want there to be close ups on the main characters face as this focuses a lot on her emotion and how she feels at different stages during her journey. The start f the video is going to be in her bedroom that is quite messy and child-like to create the illusion that they are a poor family so they haven't been able to decorate in a while. We want her travelling around the country. We have a shot on the train within the mood board which is another shot that we are going to recreate along with the handheld effect in some takes to show her filming her journey and when she meets people to show her happiness more clearly and more close up without filming all steady shots of her face that become tiring to the eye for the audience of our music video. We want her smoking in the music video as shown by one of the pictures in this mood board as it indicates she leads a stressful life and is stereotypical for people that lead that lifestyle and who's house and family are in the same way the main characters is within our project.

Film inspiration

We have got some of our inspiration for the storyline and the feel of the music video from films. One of the big films that have helped us realise what sort of story and shots that we want in our project is 'On The Road'

This is one of the shots from the film that is good for what we want to show in our music video as it shows the main character walking along the train track with their luggage to show to the audience that they are travelling. We are also inspired by the way he is wearing dark clothing at the same time as the sun shining and making the location within the scene look bright and cheerful.

The light behind the main characters head in the this shot with the sun setting is a shot that we want to recreate for the ending of our music video as it shows the emotion as we want the camera to turn to face her and for her to smile with the sun shining behind her as it sets and then the music video ends. We feel this would be a good ending as it shows that she is happy in her own little way and she is at her happiest when she is travelling, alone.

This scene from 'On The Road' is perfect for our music video as we ant our main character to meet people on her journey that show her happiness. Her dancing would be a good shot to have with people as it is when people are at their happiest. The people around her shows that she is comfortable with them as she is able to dance and let go in front of them. Her dancing on her own shows that for that moment she is the centre of attention as well as her being alone even in the happiest of times to some extent.

This shot from the film is something we want to portray in our music video as is focuses on the emotion of the main character which is a big part of our project because of the song and our storyline. Showing how she is feeling throughout the music video at different points and in different situations she is put in within it helps the audience to know how her emotion changes within the stages so that the viewers feel the same way and get more of a vibe from it.

The scene from 'On The Road' where there is a close up of a women laughing is a shot that we want to show in our music video project. We want to show her happiness every stage that she smiles or laughs to really emphasis upon it as this is a big factor in our music video, her emotions and the change in it with different people and surroundings.

Budget

We have a budget for our music video which doesn't effect us greatly in how good the music video turns out but does have some restrictions. We have a camera already that we own within our group from one of our group members and the tripod that we would us for some of the shots is lent to us by the school that we can borrow over a period of time in order for us to get the filming in that we need to make our music video. The location that we want to film our project is in walking/cycling distance and this is how we are going to travel to the locations a majority of the time. The one cost that is going to be needed is a train ticket each as one of our shots is on a train and in the station. As this is a cost to us individual, we will then make a day of it and try and find more locations once at our destination from the train to film another scene. This will work out as our music video is about our main character travelling around and meeting people so every new place is a potential new shot.

Our Facebook page

Facebook is a social networking site that has over 1.15 billion users across all ages groups. This is a free site to make pages and profiles. These facts make Facebook the best social networking site to use to create a page for our music video to make people aware of what we are doing in the production stage and the final piece at the end. The main target audience of this site is women which is our audience preference for our music video, making it a perfect site to post on to target directly to the right people we are aiming to attract to watch our project of The Shape Of The Earth - Alone In This music video.




We created the page with the title of the song music video so that people knew straight away what the page was and what it was about. People could also search this way if they was a fan of the group or the song so they have an interest into how we are making this music video with this song. We also made a post to let the likers of the page know what the page was going to consist of and what we was going to be posting onto it in the near future all the way through the production up until the final product, being our music video. We are going to be putting our rough cuts, our ideas and pictures of the production and the storyboard so that everyone that looks at the page is updated and helps us to keep up with what we have done in the same way our blog does.

We have 16 likes on our page from friends and family which shows them all our page posts on their timeline and our pictures and videos that we post so they are always updated and in the know.  This page on Facebook has allowed us to put our music video and our research into the public and make our target audience aware to increase final video views and attention.