Planning 22/09/09

The song that we are going to chose to make a music video to is 'Heartbeat' by Nneka (Chase and Status remix). We decided to chose this song because we believe that it had potential to become a really good music video. We also liked the song so decided that it would be good to do a song that we are passionate about.

The lyrics to the song are:
You said you'd be there for me
In times of trouble when I need you and I'm down
And likewise you need friendship
It's from my side pure love but I see lately things have been changing
You have goals to achieve
But the roads you take are broad are heartless
That wants you make another way
You throw stones
Can you see that I am human I am breathing
But you don't give a damn

Chorus:
Can you feel my heart is beating
Can you see the pain you're causing
Can you feel my heart is beating
Can you see the pain you're causing

And now the world is asleep
How will you ever wake her up when she is deep in her dreams, wishing
And yet so many die
And still we think that it is all about us
It's all about you
You sold your soul to the evil and the lust
And the passion and the money and you
See the same ones die, people hunger for decades
Suffer under civilized armedrobbers, modern slaveholders

Can you feel my heart beating
No no no...you don't

Chorus
Can you feel my heart is beating
Can you see the pain you're causing
Can you feel my heart is beating
Can you see the pain you're causing

Chorus
Can you feel my heart is beating
Can you see the pain you're causing
Can you feel my heart is beating
Can you see the pain you're causing



Before the song starts when there is a piano playing in the background I have an image in my head of a woman sitting with her back to the camera playing a white piano. She is centred in the middle of the shot with people around her raving waving glowsticks. The crowd around the outside of her are blurred as if there is a slow shutter speed on the camera while she is completely in focus, the array of colours is prominant and the contrast is high. This is show as a contrast as she is relaxed. It also gives an idea of the two diffrent genres that are included in this song, Dubstep and a more relaxing, mellow genre.

This shot goes on untill line two, 'And like wise you need friendship.' I still get the feeling on here that the woman is isolated from the group and was thinking about having shots from diffrent angles, maybe one from the side showing the side of her face to capture her emotion while still having a crowd dancing around her, like she is invisiable to them.


I plan to have the chorus amimated. By this part we will have seen the girls face, she is very pretty with bright red/pink lipstick on. When the chorus kicks in there will be an extreme close up of just her mouth. When her mouth opens to sing 'Can you feel my heart is beating' there is a transformation between real life footage and animated footage, the camera enters her mouth and we travel to the back of her throat to see her heart beating inside her body. This gets the woman intensly involved with the viewer as we are seeing her heart, which is percived to be the center of her emotions. The camera then comes out of her mouth and back to her lips when she finishes off the chorus 'Can you see the pain you're causing'.