Planning

Song choice - The song that the group and i have decided to chose is Nneka - Heartbeat (chase and Status remix). We have chosen this song because we had all agreed that it was a good song and related to all of our tastes, therefore we can all have a big input into the song and produce an amazing video. Another reason that we have chosen this song is that after a lot of research we had discovered that it did not have a video. The final reason that we have chosen this song is because of the diversity of the tempo and the overall tune we decided that there is endless possibilities for this song.

Initial ideas have made a document on word with pictures that best show the ideas that we have all had. as you can see in the top left corner there some lips, the reason for this is that an overall idea or theme that we want running through the video is not only the use of great video angles and movement but also an essence of graphics and animation, with that came one of out first ideas where we will film in on our actress' lips and as the music turns up in tempo turn them in to graphics singing the first section of punchy lyrics.

The rest of the pictures are other good idea that we all had going though our heads. As we all had the dimension of UV lights and glow sticks.

A number of other idea came from reading through the lyrics and trying to uncover what a lot of them mean. These are the lyrics to our song choice:
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 armed robbers, modern slaveholders

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


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

Can you feel, Can you feel my heart beating
you don't see my heart is beating

Chorus:
Can you feel my heart is beating
Can you feel the pain you're causing
Can you feel my heart is beating
Can you feel the pain you're causing
Chorus:
Can you feel my heart is beating
Can you feel the pain you're causing
Can you feel my heart is beating
Can you feel the pain you're causing
AS this song is a remix and had no video i had to go through the song and recreate what the lyrics where in order to discover what or if there is any meaning behind them, however after looking into the lyrics and having the knowledge of it being a remix there is no clear meaning from the works being sung. Furthermore saying that

Other initial ideas that we were playing with came from the inspiration of a video clip that we had seen by the band "Black Eyes Peas" and their new song " I gotta feeling". After watching this video a few times we managed to get a couple great ideas.
The first thing that we spotted in the video was the massive use of the UV lighting and UV paint, as all of us already had this sort of image in our minds we decided that it looked really good in there video and wanted to adopt that look of a party or rave. Secondly in the chorus of the video there is a really jumpy stage quite similar to a jumpy beat in our song, this is where we had our second big influence as it looked really good we thought that if it was possible we should use it to represent a fun and party like environment which will fit into our video really nicely.