The new idea guys :)

So, after having the feedback and being very very grumpy over the review, Abbi and I had a sit down to talk about how we could improve, when we came to the conclusion that we're were stuck and doomed! Just kiddin'. We thought about how we could make the video more entertaining and relate more to the genre and the song. 

So, using the title of "Sleepy Head" we came up with the idea of having the whole video based around a dream... why we never thought of that before i don't know. 

Basically, the idea is to have him waking up as he did before, as if it's just a normal day and the audience are looking in on this boy's morning routine, but adding editing techniques like the stop motion of a shoe (was a sock but we had to change that) following the boy out of the room as he walks out, the days passing by really quickly, rewinding as if he's living the dream over and over again and jumping from one room to the other. This will require a lot of time and patients for us in the editing stage, but we need to make sure we get it spot on; lighting, distance and height is key for when the boy jumps out of one room into another. 

Abbi took inspiration from the song Run Away by Kanye West, which she informed me about, she liked the idea of having girls running over when they heard music. We thought of how we could use this idea in our music video, when I came up with the idea of having the boy play a recorder and instead of having girls running towards him, have toys in stop motion coming towards him, this is because the theme of dreams would match very well with this. Also, we have many toys in our music video to show the genre and gender :) In a way we linked this to the Pied Piper with him and his rats.  |

We also wanted to have some link with the name of the album this song is from, which we have named "The Old School Hates Clowns", so within the dream we want to have clowns or maybe mimes, if we're unable to do the clown make up. This will again add to the dream like state the boy is in, as we're using stop motion again to show how the clowns have moved around the room next to him.

For the party scene, which we could never get rid of, we want the boy to step out of one room to end up in a corridor towards the party area, again slick editing will have to be used for this.

We also want all the people who are attending to be wearing masks to make the music video a bit of a nightmare, as you cant see their identity.

Once inside the party, we want it all to be crowded and like the skins party we have previously talked about in a post. We must make sure that we have the whole crown clap to the beat, as in our feedback people thought the clapping in time to the music was really really good and fitted in well with the feel of the video.

As you can hopefully tell, we want our music video to have many aspects of dreams, the deja vu of reliving a dream, spooky sides of dreams, the weird dreams that are just so so random and the dreams you don't want to wake up from. But what about the lovey dreams?! Well we've made sure we have that involved too. We intend to have a girl in a eye mask in the middle of the room, who the boy will see. He tries to take her eye mask off but she runs away, this would link to dreams when you wake up before you know what happens.

We want to have these two at the ending too, as we want the girl to drag the boy outside to give him a gift and whispering in his ear. Using a close up of her lips saying "wake up" into his ear, we want this to be the first thing that the audience realise to be a dream. Then we want her to push him back, for him to then fall onto his bed back at home, showing that it was all a dream. Shame. But... the gift she gave him (which is going to be a bracelet) he has round his wrist, which will leave the audience wondering "was it really a dream?!"