Photobooth by Friendly Fires By Steph and Hannah Background info Photobooth was written and performed by three piece

band Friendly Fires. It appeared on their debut self titled album in 2008, which peaked at number 21 in the UK charts. Video ideas- Overview We are going to use the shallow and carefree nature of the lyrics to direct a message to the audience; the idea of photographs being ruined by under or overexposure links to the overexposure of figures in popular culture in that they can be spoiled if they are removed from a perfect medium. This also links to the lyric posing like were this years models linking to the idea that models and other people in the public eye can be overexposed by the media and how it has a negative effect. Our video is going to feature a male solo artist. He will be surrounded by female actors who move in stop motion whilst he moves normally. We will have a recurring shape throughout, a square (actors make this shapes with staging and additionally the photo booth type strips of image will be square, as will objects used). This will link the shots together, with the use of graphic match-cuts. The video will begin with very high key lighting, shot against a white background, and will gradually get darker towards the end. The instrumental break in the song approximately 3 minutes in, will be when the lighting gradually becomes darker, with lots of harsh one sided lighting and silhouetting used. This will represent the over and under exposure of a photograph and how it affects the image. The white background will merge into a black background.

The mid-section to our video will be where the actors and the music artist are shown at their artistic best, where creative use of colour will be displayed on their faces We will be painting the faces of our artist and actors to make them stand out from the background and represent each different colour in the spectrum- red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. We may change the background colours from black and white to the colours of the spectrum, whilst either painting our actors grey or editing them to look black and white(like the DELS video), to represent the flare and colour lost in the actors as they become more over/underexposed.

Framing/shot types We are planning on using lots of close up shots for when the artist is performing or lip synching, like the shots used in Leviathan by Worship.

This will be interspersed with longer shots of objects and the female actors moving in stop motion. Using stop motion for additional actors will cause the male singer to stand-out because he will be filmed normally, lip-synching.

Editing We will enhance our video in post production, shooting each actor dancing and then layering them into the shape of a photostrip, similar to the idea used in our Example music video, but with more people to fill the frame and make the image look busy. This links to the title of the song Photo Booth.

Editing will be to the drum beat of the song, and will gradually speed up in the final chorus. The editing pace will increase to the climax of the song around the three-minute mark, this is where the colour begins to disappear from the shots and the background turns to black. It will show the shots distorting with the change in colour. When editing shots of objects such as the smashing of the old camera and lightbulbs, we are going to use a slow-motion effect, possibly reversing the effect too. This will cause the objects to look like they are smashed into pieces but the pieces are going back together again to form the original object.

Props/location We are going to use old cameras and other objects related to image capturing to create a non linear structure to our video, perhaps filming an old camera being dropped and destroyed to represent the spoiling of the picture within. We are hoping to use a space that can accommodate a background stand, probably a large bare room- either the drama studio or at someones home (probably the latter as we will have more time for setting up makeup, props etc.) Lyrics/parts of the song with direct illustration black and white negatives- the picture will invert to negative and/or black and white, to the beat that the singer pronounces each accented syllable (black and white negatives). This will appear as an x-ray type effect. Chorus- actors move freely instead of in stop motion Instrumental drop- camera being dropped, free dancing mixed with stop motion (distortion) Representation of music artist We will frame the male singer so that he is in the centre of all shots in order to depict him as being important. We are going to use creative use of colour, mainly through bold structured make-up and mes-en-scene. This will portray him as a confident male artist linking to the alternative genre. The conceptual nature of the video also links to the genre as it has a non-linear narrative.