When we were presented with the various task options my first idea was to create a music video for the song "Boston" by Augustana. The original music video by Augustana features the band on a beach littered with broken pianos. Throughout the video the band members are sat at various different pianos on the beach playing and singing along and the tide is coming in, which is symbolic that time is running out and change is coming, a meaning echoed by the lyrics of the song.
My idea was to film a young girl playing the tune on a piano to start with and to represent her as being bullied by other students for her talent. As the song progresses I would show the girl's progression to an adult who is famous and celebrated for her musical talent. She would be popular and be living the life of luxury, which I would show with a sequence of shots of the girl getting out of a luxury car with an attractive boyfriend and walking up the red carpet whilst the girls who bullied her are dressed as cleaners in the background. This was the actress that I would have used to play the older version of the main character.
Unfortunately I have had to change my idea to creating a short horror film in it's entirety instead due to the difficulties of filming. The most prominent of these were the problems with actors previous commitments which would not fit into my filming schedule and finding a young girl who could play the song in real time speed on the piano. I changed my idea because I think that, not only will I find it more enjoyable to create a horror film, but it will also be easier to find actors, more fun to film, easier to schedule and I will be able to experiment more with conventions, stereotypes, camera angles and narrative.
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