Reflection of Storyboard

Our storyboard consisted of a series of small, hand-drawn images with captions explaining the shots and context underneath. I believe our storyboard does a good job in clearly explaining the structure of our video and order in which the shots we film will be edited into.
While we have an idea of the order in which we will film and edit, we decided to keep our storyboard fairly simple in order to give ourselves creative freedom when it came to actually filming. We were then able to expand on the basic shots we had come up with, and used them mainly as a starting point to go off of.
The voiceover recorded by Phoebe was extremely helpful as it allowed Phoebe to give more explanation for certain shots, for instance what angle it would be from and whether it would be a close-up or mid-shot etcetera.

Music Video - First Plan

This is our very first original plan for our music video, showing corrected lyrics and annotations of our ideas for the narrative, our costumes and specific shots.

Band Logo

Here is our band logo - we decided to stylize it as all lowercase, using a vintage font and bright pink background colour.

Behind The Scenes

Band names

Me and Phoebe discussed many band names, including  "CAKE" - this was originally what we planned to call our band and wanted to create a cake smashing photoshoot around, before deciding on something fits our branding more.

We liked on this name as not only did we want something simple, but a deeper meaning is that cake is something sweet, but stylised with capital letters is implied as being shouted rather than just said, which symbolises how our group is intended to be celebratory of typically "sweet" feminine things (lipstick, glitter, the colour pink) but also have a strong, aggressive edge.

Additionally, through our teacher and further research, I found out that cake is a type of drug - while this was an unintended link, it fits in with our video, which has very psychedelic/trippy shots, and use of a kaleidoscope. Additionally, both mine and Phoebe's performances are intended to come off as slightly deranged, which is a further link.

CAKE was a suggestion I made, and was originally inspired by the line "I want to be the girl with the most cake" from 'Doll Parts' by the riot grrrl band Hole, as well as the song 'Cake' by indie/punk musician FREAK (whose name is also stylised in all capital letters).

However, after realising that we had no imagery or lyrics relating to cake in any way, we changed our name to "CAN'T SLEEP" - again, we decided to stylize it with capital letters.
We decided that this fitted our brand more, as not only do we show a sign in our video that says "I can't get no sleep", but as previously mentioned, we as band member's act in a deranged fashion, and Phoebe's character is given a deliberate messy/sleep-deprived look (smudged makeup, messy hair etc).

Previous names suggested include

Blush
Cake Slice
Lonely Hearts Club

Timeline of annotated lyrics

Love is just a spinning wheel - Kaleidoscope scope lens, close up of Lucy's mouth
cacti shot
Turning like the tumbleweed - Kaleidoscope lens, close up various face shots
Alcohol bottle shot
Burning in the cobwebs of my heart - Kaleidoscope lens, close up various face shots
Cacti shot
Take all that you can from me - Shot of Phoebe in lounge
Reveal the room - and Texas backboard
I will not pretend to be - Tracking shot of the floor in the lounge 
Any one who owes another love - blurred lens shot of Lucy smiling
Sequin fabric and some quotes and faces shot, in focus/ out of focus
If I went back to yesterday - Lucy miming - various shots of her face
Shot of Phoebe's room
Savouring the sorrow taste - Lucy miming - various shots of her face
Phoebe's room
I'd pick up the pieces and rewind - Lucy miming - various shots of her face
Turn on the TV with the remote
On the beat, zoom out to reveal Lucy on the TV
Split screen of both screaming

Instrumental - Phoebe stumbling up from the coach, knocking over bottles and beginning to dance


Love is just a spinning wheel - Shot of Lucy and the backdrop
turning like the tumbleweed - Phoebe dancing
Burning in the cobwebs of my heart - Lucy singing
Take all that you can from me - Phoebe singing this line 
I will not pretend to be - Shot from behind Phoebe dancing with Lucy singing on the TV screen
Any one who owes another love - Shot from behind Phoebe with Lucy singing on the TV screen 
If i went back to yesterday - Shot of Lucy singing focus on the backdrop 
Savouring my sorrow taste - Shot of Phoebe drinking
I'd pick up the pieces and rewind - Lucy throwing glitter towards the camera and it rewinds

Televisions going insane 
Televisions taking my brain
Television wont you say my name
Whole section - Cuts between Phoebe's hand going into the TV screen and Phoebe smashing the TV

Instrumental - On the beat Phoebe take out her hand of the TV and it is covered in glitter - holds it to her face and screams.
Smash bottles filled with glitter and reverse it

Love is just a spinning wheel - Phoebe clutching the TV with Lucy singing on it 
turning like the tumbleweed - Close up of Lucy singing (with passion)
Burning in the cobwebs of my heart - Phoebe dancing
take all that you can from me - Close up of the quote
I will not pretend to be - Shot behind Phoebe with Lucy on the screen 
any one who owes another love - Lucy singing it - body shot

Instrumental of smashing glitter bottles, the TV smashing and lucy and phoebe winding down from dancing

Visual Timeline Of Lyrics

Phoebe created this interactive visual timeline for the lyrics to Spinning Wheel, showing which shots we plan to have at specific times.

Three tracks

I suggested to Phoebe three songs - for each song I had a vision of the aesthetic we would be going for in the music video.

Buzzcut Season - Lorde
For this song I envisioned using light in various ways to create a very neon-inspired, conceptual video. I had a particular idea of using stop motion and makeup to create a sequence in which a painted scene on the main subject's face would move around.
We both eventually decided that while there were some strong ideas we could use, the song itself sounded very stereotypically apathetic and would require a cliché "moody teen" persona, which we wanted to star far away from.

White Teeth Teens - Lorde
This song had similar connotations to Buzzcut Season, in terms of using coloured lighting and stop motion sequences - however, this song also made me think of outdoor shots, such as a teen and her friends on a bus or train, travelling to somewhere like Brighton or Camden.  While I did like this idea, it is quite a cliché concept for a music video, and would not have stood out at all.

Spinning Wheel - Black Honey
Being familiar with the band Black Honey, I knew creating a video for one of their songs would have to be extremely lively to match up to the energy of one of their songs. For Spinning Wheel, I had a vision of using a lot of pink with glitter and sequins. Old television was also a key part of my idea, due to the lyric "television, going insane", and some kind of shot using a kaleidoscope over the lens.

Moodboard

Music video inspiration

Inspiration for music video

Music video set

A couple of images showing our set and the lighting we are using while filming.
In order to make our set, I ordered pink sequinned from eBay and me and Phoebe (with the help of a classmate) pinned it up in a small room. As this room is painted entirely green, we needed to make sure we covered as much of the walls as possible, and could get good shots without showing the green floor or ceiling.
We then got large pieces of cardboard, glued paper to them and wrote certain lyrics out from the song on them, and cut them out into speech bubble shapes, then stuck them onto the fabric alongside cut outs of girls from magazines.

Since these photos were taken, we have added more magazine cut outs to the bottom of the set after noting that it looked very bare compared to the top half.

Music Video - Risk Assessment

Spinning Wheel (Tumbleweed) plan