1. Treatment sheet
Keane – Sea Fog
Concept
The song that I have chosen for the music video has a slow tempo rhythm. It sounds very
gentle and soft and that will lead to long shots and slow movements. The song speaks
about sadness and to quote from the lyrics ‘sorrow’, based on bad times that can appear
out of nowhere the song is based upon the sea fog and mist. Overall the song has one
meaning and one feeling that is visible throughout. Seadog suggests an uncertainty and
unpredictability about life, I think that is why the grey skies are used to show that life is
not just good or bad that they are sometimes different shades for grey in between that
you might not see coming. The way I use the use of camera angles, lighting, locations will
be key in this video to making the video look as the song suggests and allowing the song
to play out within it
Narrative/performance
The meaning behind the song is a sense that life can be rolled a long, that they may be a
time where you are not in control or it does not feel like you are in control of your life,
that things can change and things can come up that alter the direction or speed f your
life and I think that it is this that the sound is talking about. The lyrics are interesting
and really express the meaning of the song by lines like ‘ missed my turn in the road’
suggests that a person has missed a chance or chosen the wrong way and ‘can anyone fly
into these grey skies’ suggests that that person wants to get away to somewhere he is
meant to be’. My narrative in the song for my music video will be that ‘jack’ the lead
singer in the performance will play the lead actor in the story part. He will be really
down and upset after his wife has gone. (I will not be clear what has happened to her
yet) they will be shots linking to the lyrics in the song such as the ‘magpie’s’ and ‘flying
in to these grey skies’ and miss my turn in the road’ – these will all directly relate.
2. Locations that I will use are
- House (window to see birds) – (for the sun bleeding in)
- Field – drone images (can anyone fly in to these grey sky’s)
- Street at night – street light- on bike (miss my turn in the dark)
- Forest (I’ve strayed too far from the road)
- Beach – (I wont fight though the rising tide) water shots
- Theatre – performance area – chorus parts – projection and lights
Lighting
The song displays emotion through its use of lighting in the video. They have linked the
meaning of the song to the use of setting and lighting. Most of the video is mainly lit by
natural daylight. In my music video I will try and represent the song though other means
as well such as street light, theatre lights and projection these I believe will provide a
greater understanding to the song as I will try to create beams and spots to show
contrast to the clouds and sun light. The use of haze and smoke machines will bring out
the lighting in the air to show great and impressive Ariel effects. Projection will play a
key part of the performance of this song, linking the narrative to the performance area
by using clouds and rain videos on a large screen behind on the stage. The area for
performance will be the theatre. I will fill the surrounding floor area with a red fill show
the emotion of the song as well as relating to the meaning. The main singer on the piano
will be in the centre of the performance area and in the centre of the projection screen
and he will be illuminated by 4 spots coming from each corner, and the surrounding
perimeter will be covered in fernel lighting fixtures with will produce many beans all
facing to the centre of the room which will add with the feeling and will make the room
look different and also more intimate.
Camera
Their will be many camera shots involved in this music video mainly to represent the
lyrics and what is going on with in the song. There will be a wide range of different
3. angles and elements used such as a bird’s eye view for the performance area. There will
be a range of panning shots for the different places that filming is taking place. There
will also be a tracking shot for the person going down the street on the bike at night also
for that scene there will be a dolly out shot where the bike follows the camera behind
showing the person riding in a mid/long shot. When he comes past a joining road and
misses it and that’s the road that his girlfriend is on and he passes it this relates to the
lyrics at the time when it says ‘I missed my turn, In the dark I hear your voice’ because
he has missed seeing his girlfriend but does hear here voice but he does not turn down
the road and continues on the road he is on. For this there will be a mid shot of the girl
as she is signaling and shouting at him to turn in and a mid shot of the person on the
bike looking around as he hears a voice. For the ‘I’ve strayed too far from the road’ there
will be a shot of the cyclist coming of the road and into a wood.
Performance
The performance will play a massive part of this video, because it has many sections
where it links to the lyric of the song. This song is very challenging in a performance way
because it talks about how moments of darkness can appear out of nowhere and that
grey clouds can roll in and fill up your world but yet in the darkest of moments there is
still rays of sunshine and beams of hope that get though even when times are tough.
Most of the section that are in the video will be acted with little lip syncing involved, the
lip syncing part will come from the main chorus part where the lead singer will be
playing a grand piano, this including the lighting and visual effects. The performance will
come from the singing part where we will have the piano, but there is a good argument
for saying that the music video as a whole and the way in which it has been designed
captures a particular performance element. The performance sections and information
are mentioned below.
4. The will be a section where at the beginning the lead singer will walk into the
performance theatre with no music playing and using only ambient sounds he will then
sit down at the piano and I think this is a good way of introducing the theatre before
starting the song.
Theatre – for chorus part – this will be the main sync that will happen in the music video
consisting of getting the piano and lip timing right on track with the song.
House – first verse – this will include many items that think with the theme e.g. darkness
and emotion. So there will be a very high need for real deep acting to represent the
feelings needed. Smoke will be used to show the relation to the rolling waves and the
feeling of the song
Field – first verse – the whole point of this part of the video is to show some real
representation back to the lyrics, and seen as there is no other design methods that I
have found to get a camera that far in to the air to make this shot possible I have decided
to use a drone to capture video footage of the lead singer on the field floor, this is a
major technical element of the performance work of this video, linking it back to the
performance, the movements and state of the performer will have to be quite direct and
very big in order for the camera to pick him up from a distance away.
Street – second verse – this is a further representation of the song where by there is the
lead singer on a bike heading down a street. The girlfriend that he used to have and the
girl that he is upset about is walking down a road that links on to this other road and she
spots the lead singer and is shouting in a miming fashion at him but be misses the turn,
he knows that he could hear someone but he does not know who and what direction
from. The next bit is where the lyric read I stray to far from the road, this is where the
cyclist veers of the road and the path and in to a wooded section. So in this apart there is
a lot of performing involved.
Beach – second verse – the beach part is a very interesting part of the music video that I
have created for this keane song because it is going to incorporate a flash back in time
and this I think will give the story and the video that extra meaning and give more
understanding. It will mainly focus on the lead singer and show him going down the
beachfront by his self, looking sad and lonely. The flashback will be back to a moment in
time where the lead singer and the girl that he lost where together and happy and full of
life they will follow the exact route that the single person did but walk together holding
hands. There will then be a cut back to jack alone. This I think shows the meaning of the
son g all in one go by presenting happy times with equal sad times.
