Imagination vs Reality

Imagination vs Reality

The concept we have developed for our video is imagination vs reality, we developed this from the lyrics and meaning of the song as although we do not want to follow the lyrics exactly we want some similarity to draw links and strengthen the video.

Above is Gwen Stefani's video for "What You Waiting For" this video includes many of the ideas we came up with including Alice and Wonderland with the main characters of the white rabbit and queen of hearts it also brings in symbolic features of the story for instance the maze and the tea party.

.However in this video Gwen Stefani doesn't oppose reality and imagination in the same way we hope to. We want to represent reality with dark clothes, urban/ industrial settings, smudged make up and the "dark side" of teen life. Opposing this with a brightly coloured imagination sequence would keep the audience hooked and encourage them to enjoy the song.

Reality Sequence

We hope to represent reality by filming in a rooftop looking over an urban landscape with the opening scene involving the main vocalist surrounded by the dark side of teen life possibly the only one concious. The picture below shows the kind of landscape we hope to achieve however we will film it later in the day and possibly

add post production effects to make the whole scene seem drearier. We can hopefully achieve our opening sequence as we live in an urban area and could hopefully get permission to film on top of one of these, however we would have to recruit some extras meaning we would have to get this sequence right quickly or our extras may not be willing to co-operate.