Music Video Production Treatment The Plastic Dots - Velvet Cafe
Hayley McCarthy A2 Media Studies City College Norwich
Velvet Cafe - The Plastic Dots
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I stood beneath the floating waves At the old velvet cafe I thought you might come back that way So I stayed.
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[Chorus] I don’t want To waste your time I just want to go wherever you go tonight
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She drinks purple lemonade That I wanted just to taste All the trouble that you’ve made When you stayed
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She put on her favourite memory and as she wears it everyday stood in the entrance to the velvet cafe
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[Chorus] [x3] I don’t want To waste your time I just want to go wherever you go tonight
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Where you go tonight [x2]
Each using double exposure between background shot and performer unless stated otherwise Audio: Music and Lyrics
Time
Images
[Intro]
0:00-0:14
• 4 repeats of the melody, 4 possible cuts as to keep with pace of song. • Cut between two characters, performer and person which narrative is about. • Set tone for video - first two shots of performer (main focus), then cut to character, then two shot of them both - background relaxed, summery scene
I stood beneath the floating waves
0:15-0:19
• Time lapse of seaside/waves, motion added afterwards (similar to Ken Burns effect w/still images) • Literal illustration of lyrics, high angle of sea, preferably choppy • LS - waves enter from above
At the old velvet cafe
0:20-0:23
• MS of performer, LS character walking inwards • Play with upside down shot - rooftops w/white sky flipped vertically over MS of performer • 90º turn close up rooftops
I thought you might come back that way
0:24-0:27
• LS zoom out of back of female walking away from camera, deserted road
So I stayed
0:28 - 0:30 • Time lapse of sunset, preferably with something silhouetted in foreground (e.g. building, tree)
I don’t want To waste your time I just want to go wherever you go tonight
0:31 - 0:43 1:31-0:45 2:02-2:16 2:17-2:31
• Performer spinning one direction matched with (overlaid image) pan in opposite direction, cut to character spinning in same direction and performer in landscape continuing lip-syncing • Time lapse of clouds passing • Footage of tree branches + over exposed sky • Performer and character placed back to back, footage of travel behind (tracking shot) •
She drinks purple lemonade That I wanted just to taste
1:01-1:09
• Body of water • Tank of water, purple ink dropped in, ink clouds (overlaid onto character who looks upwards to ink drop) • Action match to performer, move head upwards as mouth opens for ‘taste’ enveloped by ink cloud.
All the trouble that you’ve made When you stayed
1:10-1:16
• Fast moving tracking shot (e.g. in car) paired with worried performance (use of hands) • Two shot - character walking towards performer
She puts on her favourite memory And she wears it everyday
1:17-1:25
• LS Character, upside down tree to form dress structure, cut between CU and MS of various trees
Stood in the entrance to the velvet cafe
1:26-1:30
• Multiple shots of performer in same clip - two CU and one MS in middle, performer and character together in cityscape, zoom out.
Where you go tonight
1:07-1:11 2:32-2:35 2:36-2:39
• Idea of character walking away and leaving performer