During the planning stages of our project we initially wanted to use a hospital for the opening for our music video. Using a hospital will set the theme for music video and establish the song. As the title of the song is “Who was in my room last night?” a hospital seemed the perfect place for our character to be woken up by a nun. Having him in a hospital indicates that he does not know what has happened to him the previous night.
As the first 40 seconds of the song is very slow with a small amount of sound it establishes the meaning of the song and why it has been wrote in this certain way. In the same manor we need to fit the music video into this, establishing what it is going to be like. Most importantly we need to get the audience interested and engaged with the video. Also we figured that the white walls and corridors in a hospital conveys the image of innocence and insecurity.
In order to use the hospital we had to arrange it through a friend who’s mother worked there. As time pushed on we were still waiting for an answer. We eventually decided to go location hunting again for the same scene using the same shots. We suggested thing like having the character waking up in the middle of a street, but we dint want to include housing estates. We also considered using an empty field for the character to wake up in but it would not have been as effective as we wanted it to be. After summing up all of our ideas I suggested using the boiler room in our school. It doesn't look like part of the school, but something unusual and ‘creepy’. Having white walls, mostly covered in heavy machinery this seemed our best bet. It was also very easy to get to as it was in school. We had to adapt some shots and improvise with the structure of the building. On top of this we also found a cart. What the site team use to transfer tables and chairs into the hall on. We thought this would make a better bed as it looks like the character has had a drunken/intoxicated night and found him self in the most ransom place he could possibly imagine. We were still able to fit in within the timing of the song and stick to the story line I had perviously planned out.
This is the entrance to the boiler room. We will see the nun walking from the left around the corner to the door which is on the left(opposite the lockers). The shot would be much better and more professional if the lockers were removed but I do not have the authority to move them, or ability seen as they were really heavy.
This is the door way where we will see the nun's feet walk out from. Although is is just a step we make it look like a door way/entrance. This will be achieved by taking the shot from the left so that you cannot see around the corner in the video. It will look like the nun has just walked through a door. This shot will replace the establishing shot of the hospital alongside the opening shot establishing the character 'Guy' is asleep.
The following two pictures are where the Nun will walk down. This will replace the nun walking down the corridor in the hospital. This has slightly changed the mood of the video. It was planned that the white hospital walls would create an innocent feeling which will be enforced y using a nun character. This location suggests a psycho, crazy persons hide out. Rather than being innocent we are using extreme controversy with the nun to confuse the audience from the very beginning.
(The nun will be steeping out of the step)
(This is the direction the nun will be walking in)
This is the room where the character 'Guy' will be sleeping in. When we use it there will be exams on so it will be empty as the tables will be in the hall. The mise en scene of this room really emphasises` the fact that the character 'Guy' does not know what had happened to him the night before, hence the song name 'who was in my room last night'.
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