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