Idea for video

Me, Luke, Becca and Dan have thought of a few ideas for A2 coursework. At first we thought of doing a short film with a big battle set in medieval times, to then cut at the end to children playing in a playground. We took this idea from the preliminary task that me and Becca created last year, which we made for our AS Media coursework (video below).

We now are thinking of doing a music video to Barbarian by The Darkness (again, video below). We are still thinking a medieval battle of some sorts, with the ending 30 seconds being shots of kids playing the scene with stationary instead of the battle, symbolising the battle to all be fake and their imagination. Then ending shot will be of the headmaster turning away with a sword or something that was obviously in the battle behind his back.

All of this is not at all planned but will be in the future. We are also hoping that The Darkness themselves will be able to appear in the music video, maybe one of them taking the role of the headmaster at the end. We think this would add a really nice twist to the "story" of the video. We have contacted The Darkness to try and arrange this. We also are going to try and get in contact with the narrator at the start of the song, to also have him cameo in the video.

We still need to contact a few more people to really get moving with this idea. Hopefully this idea can let us be creative with our camera techniques, and use styles of film directors like Edgar Wright (whom we have been researching), and Spike Jonze.

The actual video for Barbarian by The Darkness, including the person who we want to narrate at the start of the battle.

Our preliminary task from last year, from which our idea sparked into life.


We are hoping that our music video (or short film depending on what The Darkness say) can be an improvement from our AS coursework last year. I would like to include more advanced style shots and have better editing. Obviously the whole idea is bigger than it was last year, so hopefully with a bigger story plan it will mean a bigger story.