The Treatment

My group and I have decided to create a music video to Lana Del Rey - Dark Paradise. Our music video will feature actors, actors specially chosen from the performing arts department at Leyton Sixth Form College. One female character who is the artist who will alos be lip-synching and acting also and another chracter who will play the female character's lover. In our video, we plan to explore the themes of loss and depression as this is what links to our song choice (lyrics). The video will follow a young couple in their relationship and how the female struggles to copeafter her lover (boyfriend) dies. We plan to shoot a scene of our music video in a graveyard, however we may have to re-think that idea due to the fact that we have to ask permission, due to it's location and how it will link to the fact that her love has dies, we're undescive whether or not we should include the 'graveyard scene' or just use something that connotes grieve and lost. Another location that we will be using is the forest located in Waltham Forest, as this will be the place that will be the last place the female charcter (artist) saw him alive. The narrative will feature as well as show how often she visits the forest to find her lover as well as showing that he is not there by including the editing technique fade.

The song is nearly 4 minutes long in length, which fits perfectly within the time limit set. Our target audience will be 16 years old to fit in with the 'Young Adult Category'.

We'll be using social networking sites to broadcast our video, like for example Youtube, facebook and twitter to allow our audience to be aware of which website to visit in order to watch the video.