Music Video Proposal

Below are my three music tracks that I had to choose my final song from.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAY_LwYLIh0&ob=av2e
This was one of my final choices this song is called 'Superman' by Fighting For Five.

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if-UzXIQ5vw&ob=av2n
Here is the link to the second choice of my final three tracks. This one is called 'Losing My Religion' by REM.

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLPiYZrwAzU
This is the link to my chosen song, this song is called 'Sweet Caroline' by Neil Diamond.
This song is 3:24 in length.
It was Created in 1969.
Due to the age of the song it does not have an official music video.

My Proposed Idea For My Video
I have watched different music videos to try and get some ideas. However I have come up with a special effect, this effect is a fade in and out effect where a person or object appears when in use, then disappears when the lyrics no longer associate with the image shown. I plan to have the main person (singer) on screen the whole time and people and objects appearing around him, I plan to use this effect throughout the video and I hope it will be able to tell the story.

My idea is to have a strong link between the image you can see and the lyric you can hear. I will have two different scenarios between the narrative and the actual singing, I hope to link these two together with the fade in and fade out effect, so when there is no narrative and he is just singing I will have just the singer. When there is narrative I will have the others fade in to suit the lyrics.

At this moment in time I think i'll need around 4-5 people and a few instruments as props. I plan to use my local area to do all of the filming as I feel it has enough different places to ensure that the video does not look boring.

At the start of my video I plan to have an establishing shot, in this shot you will be able to see the singer walking for afar towards the camera, as the song has no vocal in the intro I plan to use lots of cuts that gradually get closer to the singer. I plan to use the same idea at the end of the video but in a reverse order.