New Cast Member (Music Video) – Amy Farrin

Like discussed in the previous post, I needed to look for a female that would be suitable in order to ‘be Joe’s ex-girlfriend’ in the music video. This would be created by taking several pictures of Joe and Amy together in order to suggest that they have been in a relationship. The idea of the photos and Joe looking back at them will therefore suggest that it is the past and that they are no longer together anymore (created by only Joe being in the locations on where the photos were originally took).
 

These are photos of Amy (I did not take these photos – they are from her Facebook Profile pictures with her permission):

I did not realise that another song by Green Day (who did the original song ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’) had a relationship theme but had it from the prospective of the woman and the man – who are not involved in the band performance part of the video:

My music video will just look at Joe’s prospective and he will be ‘singing’ about it after the relationship has split – hence the use of photographs. I have also decided to try different techniques for visual metaphors; such as having Joe lip-syncing while looking into a puddle of water (reflecting back on the past), having him in the locations on his own compared to the photos (linking to the lyrics of him being alone), Joe looking over the bridge (looking towards the future). There are several others and these are only vague at the moment. I will shoot more different shots/ideas that I might come up with on the day to represent the past/present/future ideas and link that back to the relationship.