Blog 5: Initial ideas
- luhoward
- Nov 13, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 18, 2024
We first come up with the song stan. The lyrics are particular in action, leaving a little space for us to give in-depth content.
The song is about a fan called Stan writing to his idol Eminem, whos too busy doing stuff and not responding. Stan was quite depressed and got drunk, put his pregnant girlfriend into the trunk of the car, drove out of the bridge, and fell into a river. Eminem was sad to know this and wrote this song.
We will face problems with not having enough shots, not making the video attractive enough, and not being able to produce scenes of a car crashing into a river.
We had a minor dispute in our group about what to do. Louis was kind of into making funny stuff, while I'm a pretty dark kid who's constantly thinking about death and the meaning of life.
This is a very good song. Louis got this idea popped up from his mind. Awaken is a theme song produced by RGM in 2019 for the LoL 2019 cinematic show. Because it's music for a short cinematic trailer, this is a film pop music.
"The As you stand upon the edge, woven by a single thread
And fate may fall down upon you
While the devil is knocking, right at your door."
The lyrics clearly include heavy fantasy images, which means that it is kind of tricky for a group of three to complete such complex scenery that fits entirely with the lyrics. We might also mess up with footage that is not visually striking enough, thus making the final product very awkward to watch.
Imagine watching Louis walking down in the school astroturf and sing "The As you stand upon the edge, woven by a Single Thread" While music sounds like it's a World War 3....
We did not further conceive the storyboard. For me, I might choose to film the scenery in Louis's bedroom, and using some intensive though top lighting to emphasize the depression of Louis. "Stand upon the edge". This is clearly the most complicated thing to deal with and that's why I give up the song awaken. The lyrics are far too concretized, and we do not have enough ability to make up the scene.
I'm pretty interested in the Sound of Silence that, in fact, I was kinda forceful when coming to decision that I almost announced the choice during the prelimiary. The SOund of Silence do give me a lot of space to create
We devide the storyline into A roll and B roll. A roll is basically Louis sitting in front of the camera and sing, performing. B roll is telling a story that louis's friend have died. And we goanna burn some fire to symbolise that.
If we do this for the final production then It might be a good choice since we already had enough footages.
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