Video Ideas

For my own music video I want to use stop frame animation to create something original that isn't often seen in them. The type of music video would be concept with a twist, because we will be using objects to tell a story. We didn't want to do a performance based video because most people would choose to do that. Our first idea involved using vegetables and taking them on a road trip, where they get stopped by the police for speeding and get sent to prison, and the story would have ended with them escaping. We thought this idea would be too difficult to actually produce so decided to stick with the car on its own going on a trip around a house. Something will happen in each room the car goes into in the house to create the story. The inspiration for this idea came from an advert which involves a gnome travelling around London, although this is not a music video, adapting it to create one will be an exciting challenge.

The car we want to use in the video is actually a camper van, because we thought this would add a quirky edge.

At first we were only going to include the camper van and not have a band feature in the video, but we decided it would be better to also use a band so the viewer can understand what is actually going on in the video. We thought that without the band, it would seem like we made up a random story to match a song we liked.

Obviously we couldn't get the actual band to be involved, so we are going to create our own band and have them 'perform' the song for us to film.

The scenes with the band in won't be stop frame, but actual video footage, so there will be a mix of stop frame and videoing which we think will work really well and match the theme of the video.