My Final Proposal

My final idea for a music video, and the idea I have decided to pursue, is the song "Half the World Away," performed by Oasis. I think that this paticular song would most likely feature on the music channel "MTV2." MTV itself is a more recent updated channel, but this song was first published in 1994, and MTV2 is a more dated channel and is more likely to show older songs, possibly from the nineties, perfromed by bands such as Oasis. Oasis can be described as an indie rock band and have a vast fan base spreading from males and females in their late teens to their late fourties. I think that Oasis appeal to the working class man. Liam and Noel Gallagher, the constant faces in the group, were brought up in Manchester in very working class backgrounds and this I think appeals to many of their fanbase.
I have noted in general that the majority of music videos and songs are based around love between a man and a woman. I want to show a different kind of love. The love I want to focus on is a love for a certain lifestyle, a love for youth and a love for friends. I feel a successful music video needs something different and this may just be it. My idea in general is to focus the video around a leading male character who is achieving great things in life. The character’s name is David Moore and he is about 14 years old. In this case, David has then grown up and become a great musician, and is spending his time at different parties and basically living the high life. Despite all this action, glory and stardom, David is not happy in life. This is because all David wants to be doing is playing football on the streets with his friends like when he was 14, because it is in fact these times where David was happiest.
Part of my reason for wanting to produce a film in this manner was because of my studying of the song lyrics. “Here I go; I’m still scratching around in the same old hole.” This line is very ironic because how I interpret it, the hole David is scratching around in may be grotty, but it is his home and it is where he feels happiest. “You can’t give me the dreams that are mine anyway.” The way I interpret this is that it may be everyone’s dream to be a rock star and people will be telling him how wonderful it is, but David thinks that once in this showbiz lifestyle, his dream is to be back kicking a ball around with his friends.
My general idea for filming is as follows. At the beginning of the music video we see David playing the guitar, running around the park with his friends, playing football and being a happy person. This then all changes. Filming showbiz and stardom will be a tricky thing to do, so I plan to film a poker scene where David loses all his money and a car and this shows how far he has fallen. He then takes drugs and ends up on the floor of a house and he has lost everything. It then goes back to David being happy when he was younger and the video finishes on that note. In my eyes, it is up to the audience to decide whether the happiness he goes back to is when he was a child or after breaking free from the curse of fame.
This video would be described as performance and narrative. I plan to have certain shots with David playing the guitar as a child showing that he has a talent and is happy. It will then go back to David in his showbiz lifestyle. Using the idea of a poker game, I would like to show drugs being handed over and losing money due to gambling. I want to show things really going downhill for David and his life becoming very dangerous. This will then add emphasis to the importance of David’s childhood. It is everything David has ever known, and is everything that is safe and secure for him. I would like to end the video on a happy note with David playing football again with his friends. This is a general overview of the shots and camera anglesI plan to use in my music video, and also the themes behind my thoughts. The distinction between David’s very different lives should be clear as I plan to have David wearing a suit when filming his scenes as a rockstar and then have him wearing tracksuits when filming his childhood life.