Concepts continued - Idea test

 As a group we created an experimental planning video which helped us to test out some ideas that we could use for our final video. We thought of the idea that George; our main male protagonist, could pose in pictures, possibly pictures from a polaroid camera, with a female that isn't our main artist to give the idea that he is a very sought after and popular person. We thought that this would create a conflict for the main female and cause her to become jealous of this person who is posing with the boy she wishes she was with, which will add to the concept of 'Spying' as she wishes she was with the boy but she has to watch him from afar because he is interested in other girls. We tested a tracking shot that we might use but in a different location which consists of the main character and a friend spying on the boy she likes, we used the fig rig to get a smooth shot of the two characters walking together and we turn to see the boy in the playground. The shot smoothly changes into an over the shoulder shot which shows the boy playing basketball and the main artist goes to join in. We thought that we could use a similar shot in our actual video which could consist of similar events but instead of this happening in a playground we could use a bowling alley or a restaurant. This fits in with our concept of spying because most of narrative parts the video will centre around the artist spying on the male character and trying to get his attention. Although we want to avoid concentrating too much on a narrative storyling and more on the image or performance of the artist. We thought about using backing dancers and we created a short sample of a dance performance that helped us to test out what sort of dance would be conventional for a pop music video and then we used performers that might possibly perform in our final video. This helped us because we got a chance to see how well the dancers could perform to the music and if they had the correct charisma to have fun in our final video.