Ideas and Sketches (Video)

My initial ideas for my music video was to have two boys fighting over a girl and choosing who gets her by having a drag race. I wanted to show the first boy driving up to the drag strip, but only show his feet getting into the car and not his face so that the character remained a mystery. I wanted the driver to then turn up to the drag strip where the other driver was waiting with a crowd around waiting. I wanted to then film from different angles, showing the drag race and to finish the video I was going to have the winner drive off with girl. However when it came to filming this I realised that it was practically impossible to get some of the shots that I wanted, for example a close up of the wheel. Also there was nowhere for the cars to have a drag race as it is illegal therefore I had to change my whole video.For my actual video, I chose to have a go-kart race, as I thought it would be in keeping with the style of music, by involving vehicles and the idea of a race. I decided to start the video by having the characters putting on the helmets and fastening their overall which helped to build up the atmosphere and let the audience see that a race of some sort was about to begin. I then wanted to film the characters getting into the go- karts and driving off onto the track where they would line up ready to begin the race. I wanted to have a long shot for the start of the race so that the audience could see what was happening. After filming the start of the race I then wanted to have a variety of shots from different areas but trying to focus on a few key characters. To finish the video I wanted to have the checkered flag waved and all the go- karts coming back into the pits.