Props

These are the props that I am aiming to use in my music video, based on my shot list. Some of the props are a bit unusual as I'm not using them because they're stylish or pretty, but because they are visually representing the lyrics. So, for example in any other music video, I would not feel the need for a biro or a drawing pin, but I need them for the lines "we'll start to talk when she borrows my pen" and "sharp as a tack" in this song.

I am going to use bank notes at 02:19, when the lyrics are "I want a girl with good dividends". I thought hard about how I could visually represent dividends, and in the end I decided that I could just use the idea of money by having the model fan out a wad of bank notes. I can get these easily by just asking all the models to bring some money, and because obviously I don't have to spend it, they can have it all back after the shot has been done. 

I plan to use a biro at 02:23 where the model writes the words, "we''ll start to talk when she borrows my pen", which are the lyrics. I will speed this up in Adobe After Effects so that it covers just the length of the lyrics.

Using shots of instruments, particularly guitars, are often common in indie music videos. Because the bassline of the song I am using is quite loud and important to the song, have chosen to use a bass guitar. The bass guitar will feature a few times in my video - I plan to use shots of the bassline being played during the intro, the instrumental and the outro.

During the line "eyes that burn like cigarettes", I have storyboarded a shot of lips blowing out smoke. Obviously this shot will have to be filmed outside, whilst the rest of mine will be shot indoors. Also the model I aim using for this shot is eighteen.

I will use a sped-up shot of a clock twice in my music video, once for the line "I want a girl who gets up early", where I will reverse the footage so that the clock hands are moving backwards, and once for the line "I want a girl who stays up late", where the hands will be moving forwards, though still sped-up.

I aim to use a takeaway paper coffee cup (not necessarily from Costa) for the line "she wants a car with a cupholder armrest", where I will film a model's lips in extreme close-up taking a sip from the cup.

I will use a small diamond-type gem for the line "I want a girl with a mind like a diamond", where I will have a model toying with it in her fingers, filmed in extreme close-up. Hopefully the light bouncing off the different sides of the diamond, especially when filmed so closely, will make for quite an interesting shot.

In the lyrics, the simile "sharp as a tack" is repeated, so I wanted to accompany this line with a simple gold drawing pin, having the model lightly prick her finger against it to draw attention to the sharpness of it, hence representing the simile.

For the line "who uses a machete to cut through red tape", I want to have a shot of the model snipping through red tape with some scissors. The scissors are easily obtained, and I managed to find some red tape in the sound department at school, which is used for taping wires at school productions. I will use two chairs on either side of the photoshoot backdrop to secure the tape to, and then have my model cut it in close-up.