Plan Light/Colour

The light and colour in our video is key, as we will be able to use it to represent different moods and themes throughout the whole music video.

At the start of the video, we will see the performer alone, singing the first verse. This should be lit well, but have a black background, as to show contrast, and that the focus is to be on the performer. We will use the drama studio, in order to use their big spotlights to cover a good amount of the shot in high key lighting. The way we will use the high key lighting however is effective, because as I mentioned before, we will point the lights at the specific spot we want to film, not the whole room.

Following this, we will see some natural lighting, and some high key lighting in narrative shots that show the couple getting on well. This bright colour will show that the mood should be interpreted as a happy mood, and therefore this will make it easier to contrast in colours later on to show the effects of the video on the colours.

Following this, there will be switches to more performance, some of which being in Dover, and that will be completely natural lighting. The natural lighting should be quite bright at the cliffs, and therefore will represent throughout the chorus, that the experience of this relationship, looking back on it, has enlightened him, and that this is not him 'moping' about it.

What will be very noticeable throughout the narrative side of the video, is the colours getting darker. As the theme of the narrative and the relationship within it, gets a lot darker, and we feel lighting and colours are a perfect way in which to help represent the characteristics of the atmosphere in the video.

So the video will revert back and forth between the brighter lights of performance, and the darker lighting with the narrative, this then shows juxtaposition, and emphasises the fact that the performer is separate from the negative mood that is shown to increase throughout the video.