Initial Idea video treatment

After doing further research into the 'Singing in the rain' remix we decided collectively that perhaps the song was rather cliched as it has been made very popular by George Sampson who won Britain's Got Talent  in 2008. 

We then looked at different versions of the song such as the original and Jamie Cullum's version to see whether or not a different cover of it maybe more original. However, we found that the other versions that we found were all a bit slow for any sort of performance element to be included in them.

However, even though agreeing that 'Singing in the rain' was the wrong song for us we still wanted to follow the 1920's theme. So we did a bit more research on youtube, seeing if there were any songs that were of a similar genre. We looked at a few techno swing remix songs, however we felt that they were all a bit too fast and young to fit our style of music. Then i remembered a song that was recently remixed in 2010 from the original Peggy Lee song 'Why Don't you Do Right?' and decided that this was the perfect combination of our 20's styled theme and our modern day style that we wanted.

  

   Like our idea before we want to keep the whole piece in black and white, this we think will again reinforce the era of the video. However, we also had the idea of making the main woman's lips red, which demonstrates that she is the main protagonist and it also conveys the idea that she is the dominant character. 

As we have chosen quite a modern, dance type song we are aware we want to base it around old fashioned styled dancing. However, as the song switched from old to modern, we wanted to create a narrative which demonstrated the change in history from the 20's to today. We decided to take a very stereotypical image of a 20's scene and then transform it into modern day. Our idea for said scene would be two black men sinning shoes for the rich lady (our protagonist) and then as the music changes into a more up beat modern style they change their position my getting up and dancing etc. We would still have them dressed in 1920's styled apparel but the idea would be conveyed through the change in height and through the change in camera shot-perhaps looking up at them, putting them into hero status.