Adapting to feedback

The main concerns for our video was that the narrative might be too cheesy and that it would look like our singer is a bad guy. 

We have chosen to change some of the scenes and adapt to the feedback we received. The first change we will do is taking out the girlfriend scene and the band scene. We realized how difficult it will be to find people who play instruments and who fit the aesthetic of the music video. So we have decided to replace them with flashbacks to when the couple was together. We have changed it from a duo to a single artist and a feature artist. In regards to the narrative we have decided to focus more on the flashbacks and of the artist being upset in club setting and hotel setting. This will allow us more room for editing and cuts because there will be less lip synching. We want to keep the hotel and the club bathroom scene. We decided to change the hotel scene a bit to have it look like a living room after a party. We want to add some extras in the background to set the scene. We also decided to not have the singer lip synching the entire time in the bathroom to add some extra shots if we need more footage. 

After our meeting with Luke and pitching our new idea we received a lot of feedback and he told us that he likes the idea but really just isn't doable. The scenes alone would take a really long time to film just to only have 30 seconds of usable footage. Ellis proposed an idea to make it very cheesy and clearly made on a set. Luke said were getting somewhere with that idea but we need to develop it more. He also suggested that we change the song. We thought about that and our group really wants to keep the song but that means we really need to develop it well. We decided to go with a fake beach with floaties and toys and give it the vibe of "we know its a music video and we are trying to make it look fake". we discussed different scenes and chose some scenes that we think would be suitable. our first scene will be a slow zoom on a rubber ducky and expanding to a kiddie pool filled with blue balls with floaties. Our second scene will be beach chairs, with shovels and pales, umbrellas with fake waves and we will have our singers wearing touristy outfits (hawaiian shirts, goggles, socks and sandals. The next scene will be crocs in stop motion with letters being added reading 'can't just call me'. We want to add some other scenes and things to really make it active and fun. We think this goes well with our song because the song is very happy and summery but obviously we will not be filming in the summer in california so we want to play into it. The song is about having fun and not missing your ex so it can be as though the singer is trying to convince themself that they're having fun when in reality they're just filming a video in a studio.