Potential Characters to involve in my Video

Characters:

I'm going to use very plain characters. I want to use more than one as even though its a very lonely song I think it would be more effective to have "sides" to emphasis loneliness.

I will be using very simple characters that will be easy to move as part of my video will be in stop motion.

I chose 3 characters that were very brightly coloured however i'm still unsure as to whether the colours are right for the video, therefore I will do some try outs to see how they look. If the bright colours dont work i will spray them a different colour. When i purchased my "bendy men" they had very smiley happy faces which really didnt fit with my video so i took off their faces.

The bendy men are only going to be a small part of my music video. The majority of it will be using a human.

For my character I have chosen a very rugged looking young man.

I am wanting to only use one of two characters in my video as it is going to be quite a personal video and want the narative to be clearly coming from just one person. The only time I might use another character in my video will be by having a different character singing the song. This would probably be just a close up of their mouth.

Struggling with ideas

After beginning my story boarding I began to struggle, I was fine with the worded sections of the song but there are some very high tempo, quick, pure instrumental pieces I was finding hard to fill.
I needed to brain storm and think of more ideas to have with this as it was really starting to effect the whole piece.

My first idea was to have the theme of rhythmical circles...
I was planning on filming wheels, roundabouts and other things like that, For example:

However after some audience research I learned that I would have to do something else quite special to be able to have a really good music video. It was one comment that really got me thinking.

Idea Time!

Here are just a few of my initial ideas for the video.

The original Video

The Original Video:

I think that it was a good idea to have a look at the original video for the song, I think it is actually a really good video however I am still wanting to do my own interpretation.

About the Band and Song

Song change

My poll results chose the song Aqua- Barbie Girl as the song I was to do however....


I decided to change the song as it wasn't quick enough for the type of video i wanted to be making.
I decided to change it to Watercolour by Pendulum.
I asked quite a few people what they thought of this song and here's their opinions;