Ideas For Music Video

We chose between 4 songs for our music video:
Use Somebody by Kings Of Leon


Bright Lights Bigger City by Cee Lo Green


Lets Go Surfing by The Drums


Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5



However, as soon as we heard the song Moves Like Jagger, we knew we wanted to do it as we wanted to do a very fast song to make it interesting but also challenging. Also, it is a contemporary song that is very popular and would appeal to older teenagers, just like ourselves, so we would be able to think of ideas easily. We straight away got planning the type of people to use, the costume, the setting, and other aspects of mise-en-scene.

Narrative
We only want a small part of our music video to contain the narrative, however we shall have clips throughout. We will switch from reality to dream. The reality is that the main character is a Mick Jagger wannabe, and practices singing and dancing like him in an empty theatre, while wearing similar clothes to Mick Jagger.

Performance
Within the performance, we are having the main character lipsyncing and dancing on stage while other characters are dancing around him. For the start of the song, there is whistling so we are doing close ups of different girls lips so they will also be lipsyncing.

Costume
Mick Jagger had a very unique fashion taste, for example wearing very skinny jeans so we want to recreate this in the Mick Jagger impersonator he will be wearing claret skin tight trousers and a fur coat to fit in with the 'American 70's' look.

The girl dancers will be wearing 'American/Retro/Vintage' clothing such as baggy vest tops, high waisted shorts, etc.

Settings
For our performance we want to get a theatre, so that it creates the right atmosphere and shows the contrast between dream and reality. We want to start with a bad stage that is empty and dead, and then transform it to look really impressive to fit the narrative.

We also want to shoot the ending scenes in London, as it is vibrant and lively, so it will create the right effect. We are planning to shoot in Piccadilly and Covent Garden. This way we can have real life crowd reactions from the general public.