MUSIC VIDEO: IDEA

THE SONG

I have decided that the song i will be doing my music video to is Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra. It was released January 1978, so is considered a very old song, however remains very popular to this day, probably due to the bands origional, ahead of their time sound.

The reason for choosing the song was that recently old things or "vintage" have become fashionable in all aspects of life, including the music industry. A good example of this is Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again", which recently topped UK charts, due to its classic and historic appeal.

The song was played in a recent Television advert for "The Invention Of Lying" and having recognised the film, I suddenly thought that it would be a brilliant song to re-release, with its catchy melody. After researching the song on Wikipedia, i found that the song had also appeared in other media in the last 3 years:

The CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "Lab Rats" used the song during the "Hodges' Lucky Day" sequence in 2007.
In 2007, it was in movie Martian Child.
The song featured in The Game Plan in 2007.
Jet Blue played the song in a commercial for "Jetting" in 2008.
The song was used in the 2008 movie Role Models.
In 2008, the song was featured in a Guinness advert, which depicted the adventures of a dot.
The movie Paul Blart: Mall Cop used the song in 2009.
In 2009, it was used in the trailer for the movie The Invention of Lying.
It was used in the movie Run Fatboy Run.

Having seen this, it confirmed my decision to use the song, as it showed a clear popularity to be used in todays times, therefore i should create an modern music video for the song, to re-release it in to the 21st centuary.


THE VIDEO

The song is a very up tempo, cheery, happy song, so this is how I wish to make my music video. I got the inspiration for the music video from the story of Jeff Lynn writting the song. He wrote in during a heavy and long period of showery days, and during one day of sunshine he wrote the song. I decided from this to take a very litteral interpritation of the lyrics and base it around the idea of a period of rain bettered by one sunny day. I then thought that the best lead character for such a story would be a weather man.

The story would begin with a weatherman in his studio looking grumpy, and the weather report being given to him which reads more bad weather. The weatherman has a genious idea of forecasting the weather as sunny to cheer people up, however it has more of an effect than this as the sky begins turning sunny everywhere. The weatherman, so please with this gets carried away in the song and eventually the studio decide to terminate his broadcast leading to the end of the song.