Music Video Treatment - U2 - Beautiful Day - First Draft
The song is all about looking at the bright side of life and what good comes from it. The start of the video will start with a shot of the sun rising in the sky sped up. The shot then changes to the band and the camera is focused on the lead singer and stays focused on him whilst he is singing in till the band kicks in with the chorus and shot changes to a group shot of the band on a field with sunny and clear skies to symbolise it being a beautiful day during the chorus the shots flip back and forth between each band member consisting of low and eye levels angles of the band.
With the start of the next verse it goes to a shot of a man walking down a dark road and comes up to a crossroads but he doesn't know which way to go to symbolise that he is at a crossroads in his life and that he doesn't know where his life is going. Then the chorus kicks in again and we switch back to the band playing on the field again, again flipping between each band member again with low and eye level angles of the band.
Between the chorus and next verse we go to a shot of the man sitting on a bench all by himself. With the next verse we got a shot of the man standing on a bridge watching all of the cars drive past (sped up) to symbolise his life rushing right past his face and then a slowed down shot of a bird flying in the sky to link with the lyrics "see the bird with a leaf in her mouth." so that the lyrics link with the visuals of the video.
Just before the start of the last chorus the camera moves up high above the band showing a wide shot of the band on the field and when the chorus kicks back in we go back to a shot of the band "Rocking Out" in till that last moments of the song where the pace dramatically slows down and we go to a shot of the bands instruments without the band there and then to a shot of the band walking away in slow motion in till the song finishes.
The props involved in the video will be mostly the instruments of the band: Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drums/Drum Sticks, Mic Stand and Mic, Clothing for the band members (in style of the genre). The settings of the video will be the school field for the band moments of the video, the bridge/car moment will be from Blackdog bridge outside of town, the other shots of the video will be shot at various points around and outside of town. The actors involved will be Myself as the Lead singer/Walking man, Guitarist will be Jacob, Bassist will be James(?), Drummer will be(?).
Media Theorys. Andrew Goodwin theory of music video says that each genre has its own musical style and iconography, Close-ups and in my video i think i have met these standards.
I have decided to make this video for this song because I feel that this type of Music video is very much related to the type of music video that a real band would make for this genre. I feel that this music video will very much like something that U2 would make and this video is very similar to the videos that U2 have made over the years.
