The song we chose to produce a music video for is called “Boats” by a local band Soft Corporate. Before jumping into brainstorming ideas, we took a moment to “dive” into the song and really feel it. We listened to the song several times in a row and wrote down words that, in our opinion, represented the song best. This is what we came up with as a group: youth, blue, green, air, freedom, melancholy. These associations became the pillar for our video, and we started to elaborate on these words.

After careful consideration, we decided that we want to make a conceptual video: a set of nonrelated video sequences that create a certain atmosphere when put together. For that purpose, we chose to script our video in a nonnarrative way: it served the purpose, and it suited the song best, especially since the lyrics are extremely vague. So we came up with several different nonrelated atmospheric sequences, taking into consideration the associations we came up with before. They are the following:

– Playing with transparent, “airy” fabric, preferably in the wind. This sequence needs to be filmed outside, somewhere in the open space. We chose to film it at the beach.

– Paint. The sequence starts with straight lines painted with a brush on a piece of paper, then the colours get mixed up together, and, in the end, it’s all over a model’s chest, face, and hands.

– Mirrors. We want to play with mirrors and reflection to create something surreal.

– Closing eyes with hands and/or eyes painted on the hands.

– Unusual, futuristic makeup.

– Fairy lights.

To film these segments we only needed two locations: a beach and a green screen studio. For the beach, we chose to place our video at St Kilda beach, where we had to arrive at 5:30 in the morning, when there is still no people and the lighting is perfect for filming, and as for a green screen studio, there’s is one available at RMIT.

For the props, we needed some paint, a painting brush, a mirror, fairy lights, and a transparent fabric. Since we already had most of it, the budget is fairly moderate- around 35$.

Unfortunately, we lost two team members since the beginning of the studio, so we are the only two in the production crew. Because of that, we decided not to separate roles and just work together,  doing everything necessary to produce a high-quality music video. We worked together on the script, both found necessary props, and when one of us was in front of the camera, the other one became a director and a cameraman. We plan to continue working like that in post-production and edit together as well.

We already finished filming, and are going into post-production phase, Hopefully, we have everything we want as we want it, and there will be no need to reshoot anything. For now, we are aiming to start editing and putting things together to produce our ultimate music video as soon as possible.