who will be involved?

The people that will be involved in my media project shall be:

Myself as director 

Tom Greenwood as the main character

Dan Gaughn, James Campbell and Tom Greenwood as the band members  

Location ideas

Throughout the course of my chosen song for my A2 project i will have a figure traveling from place to place with lots of different locations. some of the locations i have thought off so far are:

The wolds around Tealby which offers good areas to do some wide landscape shots, willingham woods that give potential for lots of interesting angles for example in trees.

For more urban shots i will use Lincoln as is is near and easily accessible, some of the areas i have considered using are the big hill in Lincoln, the high street and the train station.

Other interesting shot locations i will likely use are Thornton Abbey in East Holton, which is the ruins of an abbey that is open to the public. 

Inital ideas

My initial ideas for the song "send me on my way" by Rusted Roots" was to have a figure continually moving in the same direction at different locations, with different shot types and angles to add plenty of visual stimulation for the audience. 

The figure will be moving in the same general direction coming from the left hand dside of the camera to the right hand side to show that the figure is moving i the one direction from the start of the song, getting form point A to point B over the course of the song.

02/07/10

I have now changed my idea so that the song will have a better story, my new idea is to have a business type person who is very uptight, who is then knocked by a free spirited type person. The businessman then goes ape and sees his reflection in a mirror the reflection of himself is distorted and disfigured to represent him as a person behind the flesh.

The free spirited guy then hands the businessman a card saying "Breathe" on it (which is a reference to the message that John Lennon received from Yoko Ono)

Then as the song continues the businessman is traveling through the urban environment seeing the word "breathe" where ever he looks such as posters car number plates etc, and as he progresses he gradually removes some of his clothes (i was inspired for this idea by the Visa advert for the 2010 world cup)

The businessman then has a moment of self realization and as he walks past a lamp post and the location then changes and the figure emerges from behind a tree dresses in lose comfortable clothes. then the figure moves more freely through the rural environment and gradually puts on his old clothes as he is enjoying his new mentality and state but not changing who he is just how he lives his life.