First draft: Young and Beautiful - Lana Del Rey

Draft album poster and digipak

Production Diary #9: NEW MUSIC VIDEO IDEA

After thinking through my options very carefully, I have decided to change my music video idea. Although it is very late to do this, I feel entirely confident that the new music video idea will be more successful and easier to create. I have decided to use the hit song Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey. This song is a lot more slow and full of emotion compared to my old song, Primadonna by Marina and the Diamonds. I have decided to change my music video as I struggled with the old song and idea as I couldn't visualise it in my mind and didn't have a lot of access to the costumes that needed to be acquired. I also didn't feel entirely confident using the desired effects that I needed. I feel a lot better about my new idea: the video will follow a young woman who is getting ready to go out. I will use a variety of shots such as long and extreme close up. At the end, an older woman, who is revealed to be the young woman from the beginning, reflects back on her life, however the story is that she is still beautiful despite her age. I have already begun to shoot and edit my footage together and plan to have my first draft in by next week.

Props list

As I am hoping to film my video in the up-coming weeks I need to get together the props I will need for filming. I need to think of this now because I will have to know where to get the props from and contact people if I am required to borrow anything.

 

The props I need for my video are:

• Curlers
• Water bottle
• High heels
• Glamorous dress
• Make-up
• Mirror
• Hairbrush
• Ring
• Photo frame
• Artificial rose
• Violin
• Shirt
• Tie
• Smart trousers
• Smart shoes
• Stereo