Initial Ideas

Above, you can see a mind-map I have made for all of my initial music video ideas.

As you can see, the four genres i'm interested in are: family, drama, documentary and romance. I believe these four genres are quite closely related as they can all be tied together by the subject of relationships. I know I definitely want my music video to create meaning and show the importance of relationships therefore the songs I have chosen are generally quite heart-warming and uplifting.

I don't want to include just romantic relationships in the video as I think that's quite stereotypical, I want my video to be original and different, including platonic relationships too.

I think showing many scenes of these people in the different forms of relationships just hanging out would get boring, there is no strong narrative in that idea. Because of this I would like to incorporate Todorov's narrative theory of moving from equilibrium to disequilibrium to a new equilibrium, I think it would make the narrative more interesting to have an unbalance in emotions at some point.

In order to do this, I think showing troubles different types of relationships can go through is a good idea, for example showing a daughter moving out, or a relationship beginning to fail perhaps due to cheating, or even relationships becoming distant due to insecurities. However, to end the music video on a high I think the music video should include how these issues were overcome.

In terms of types of shots, I want them to be artistic as possible, I also want to be 100% focused on the narrative so I think it would be better and more effective if there was no live performances, however in saying this I do have an idea that one of the people in these relationships will be writing a song about how her relationship makes her feel - the music video's song, and there would be shots of her  producing and recording it. I feel this may make the video slightly complicated however I am not ruling it out.