Planning for Music Video: Our Soundtrack

Originally we chose a 5 minute version of Skream ft Example - Shot yourself in the foot again and downloaded this to our hard drive. However, when it came to listening to the soundtrack in order to find a place to stop the music at an earlier point, this proved very difficult as the original artist's diction is not very clear and thus stopping the music at 3 minutes and 45 sec made it sound as though we had deliberately cut the soundtrack and not like a natural ending to the music.

So, I searched youtube for an alternative, as it is common for an artist to release two versions of a song if it is longer than 5 minutes, and I found the version that we have decided to use, which is exactly 3minutes 45, and works well with our original storyboard. This means we do not have to rearrange the order of our shots. The new version also solves the problem of the music suddenly stopping, because it has an instrumental which fades the music out. It also adds new meaning to our narrative. This because the beginning of our music video will start with shots of the surrounding area and cars, arranged with some establishing shots to coincide with the instrumental. The ending will then also drift out to the instrumental, showing our artist on the floor, surrounded with similar scenery and surroundings as the opening. This will subtly indicate a circular narrative, that the artist was hopeless in the beginning and through all the events of the night, he is still hopeless in the end.

(The shorter version of the song.)