Prodcution Treatment

Media- Production Treatment-D1-11 Group 1

Raphael Jims, Billy Greenall, Matthew Jamieson,

Brain Damage-Pink Floyd

Duration: 3 minutes 55 seconds

Audience: The main target audience for this music video is 17-30 year olds who enjoy rock genre music, mainly because it is an expressive song with deep lyrics mainly to do with mental illness. We feel this audience would appreciate the meaningful visual performance and easily realize its connection with the song. Additional to that, because the song is by a rock band from the 1970’s (Pink Floyd), an older audience may appeal to the music video. I feel even though Pink Floyd’s fan base would majority just be males, I feel because our video consists of a female protagonist character, this may appeal to the female audience. The unconventional style and images in our video could make it hard for young children to understand, and also may be seen as disturbing as we aim to achieve a video with strange and deep images.

Resume: The narrative shows a mentally disturbed young woman in raggedy clothing waking up in a public park and then soon makes her way to an abandoned building where she supposedly commits suicide. The band that was shown performing throughout then sees the lead singer collapse randomly and the music immediately stops.

Suggested Elements: In terms of performance, we hope to include a green screen behind the band when they are performing. We aim to include realistic acting in terms of the woman in the park and abandoned building, as we want to achieve a serious and unconventional video, with disturbing elements as opposed to a less serious video. The costumes in our video will be pivotal in making our video unconventional, the woman in the park will be wearing a white gown, and boots, as if she has come form an asylum, she will look rough, rugged and senseless. We may include some make up in order to suggest she is ill, and add to the idea that there is something not quite right about the woman. Location is also a major part of our video in contributing the unconventional style we want to portray. We have chosen an abandoned warehouse in Glossop, Derbyshire. This will give us a good location to get shots of the woman in isolated and secluded places, which will show she has nobody and is almost, trapped in her own mind. We have not decided which park, but we will also be shooting the beginning of the video in a grassy area where there are lots of trees, so the woman can lie on the grass. It is important we choose the correct places, yet strange settings with the right elements in order to show the mental fragility of the woman.

Recording Days: We hope to record in Glossop on Friday 14^th of October 2011, early in the morning to the afternoon so we have the correct lighting for our shots. We will get a train to Glossop from Manchester Piccadilly, which will take 40 minutes, then walk to the desired location. The park shots will hopefully be recorded on Tuesday 18^th October 2011 meaning the vast majority of our filming will be finished before half-term. This leaves us nearly the whole of November to edit our video and make it as professional as possible. The postproduction of our piece will be vital in achieving the video quality we want and so it is important we spend a fair amount of time doing the editing, sound and light effects and others.