Shot 1: In this shot we decided to have Marina (Alicia Keys) dressed in white, white is a colour which symbolize's purity and innocence, and this is how we wanted her to be portrayed. We then had colorful beautiful flowers placed in her hair. The reason we did this was not to only show her more or less 'happy' emotions in the video but to yet follow the conventions of an RnB video when it gets to that point in which the main artist looks at their best.
Shot 2: In this shot again we decided to dress Marina in white again to present her as more calm, relaxed and innocent. We had her swinging on a rocking chair as she has her eyes not looking at the camera and shes constantly swinging, the reason as to why we decided to do this was to show that she is lost in her own world and cant't stop thinking about this boy.
Shot 3: In this shot we wanted to present Marina as more sad and depressed, also to show that she is more caught up in her emotion we did this by dressing her in all black. This also helped to show the story of the video because the main point is throughout the video that the boy she has fallen in love with doesn't know her name. This shot focus on Marina only as well as the way she is feeling, this is a convention that would you tend to see in an RnB video as the shot just focuses on the main artist.
Shot 4: In this shot Marina is surrounded by beautiful red flowers, flowers help to symbolise things such as love & peace, these are themes that we wanted to make evident throughout the video. In addition to that this is the part in the video when she blows the flower petals into the camera, in slow motion to show that a dream is about to take place, this helped to make it look more dreamlike and made it clear to the audience that we are enter something some what not in our world.
Shot 5: In this shot we wanted to get a sense of location, the first time that Marina meets this boy was in a supermarket. I feel this some what challenges the conventions of a RnB music video as we more often than less will have the first time the 'lovers' meet in a bar or maybe a restaurant. But we decided to chose a restaurant as we re-created the video in our own style and how we wanted it to be.
Shot 6: In this shot we were trying to focus on the camera work as well as editing, we made sure that we could see the whole of Marinas body in this shot as she was spinning around, we then edited it in slow motion. We decided to do this to show how Marina is feeling as her emotions are going all over the place.
Shot 7: In this shot we were aware of the location, camera work as well as the was the way we presented Marina to the audience. The location was a lovely green park which had a variety of flowers around which relates to the themes of love that we were aiming to make apparent throughout the duration of the music video. We have dressed in all black, this color was chosen to reflect her mood and also had her hair out of her face.
Shot 8: This shot is one of the key moments of our music video, as it is that part we see Marina dreaming that she is on the phone to the boy she fell in love with. She is smiling and we see her at her happiest point throughout the duration of the music video. This is a typical convention that would be seen in an RnB music video, just a girl and boy on phone in a bedroom in love and very happy laughing and smiling as they speak to each other.
Shot 9: In shot 9 we decided to have Marina against a black background and she is also dressed in black, we decided to dress Marina in black to reflect her sad and dull mood that she sometimes has during the song. We also have her looking away from the camera in this part of the video we did this as a way of showing that she is afraid to show how she really feels and to hide her true emotions.
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