Song Lyrics

I have put the lyrics of my song on my blog to refer to when planning camera shots and the scenes I am going to do. When designing my story board, Jodie and I had to keep referring back to the lyrics seeing how long shots are going to take and what scene to do on which particular line or verse, or even chorus. When going through the lyrics, we have noticed that there is a lot of echoing, so when Ne-Yo repeats certain words. This is important because when we do film, we need to make it look like Adrian is being echoed, rather than just saying words twice.

When going through our lyrics, I was completely cautious to whether the shots we have decided on would work with the scene. I am confident that the close up shots of Adrian will work as they will capture his emotions better rather than long shots. Ne-Yo's fans will notice the similarity of this and how Ne-Yo typically dresses in his videos too. I think wearing a suit broadens his audience. He looks handsome and extremely smart. His obviously dressed in this particularly way for a reason. And the reason behind this is that he looks extremely sophisticated and appealing.
When Adrian smashes the frame of a picture of himself and Danielle at a happier time is our symbolic code of destruction. To capture this key moment in our video, we will have a close up of the smashed frame on the floor. The mis en scene will only show the frame as we do not want the attention anywhere else.
One of the mid shots we have is when Adrian and Danielle are lying in bed and Adrian tries to put his arm around her. It is important that we have a mid shot at this point so the camera can capture both of these characters. It not only shows their facial expressions but also their body movement.It is extremely important to show how these characters interact with each other.