Task 8: Final Proposal

                                                                          Final Proposal
Title 

We decided to do a music video to the song by Eric Clapton called Layla. The song is about someone who has an affair with someone’s girlfriend and he is questioning about their relationship, are they in love or was it just for fun.

George Harrison married Pattie Boyd in 1966, a model he met during the filming of 'A Hard Day's Night. In the 1960s, Clapton and Harrison became close friends. They worked together on couple songs. Their relationship was short lived, after Clapton fell in love with his wife.

Image of Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton, with his band, wrote a song about this situation, it’s called "Layla".  The title, "Layla", was inspired by the story of Layla and Majnun. By the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi. When Eric wrote the song "Layla", Ian Dallas told him of this story. The tale of Nizami is about a moon princess who was married off, by her father, to someone other than the one who was desperately in love with her, resulting in Majnun's madness, and so Eric named the song after her name.

Genre 
The song is blues, rock. Also, the song will be mostly narrative but it will have some concepts of performance based.

Channel of broadcast
We have decided that the channel of broadcast would be on Kerrang because the genre of the song links in with the channel as they would generally show Rock music.


Another broadcasting channel it could be shown is on VH1, as this song is quite old and it is a classic, VH1 show classic songs so they will play this song on their channel.

Target Audience
We think that the target Audience is about 16-40 year old people, as anyone would enjoy listening to this song as it is quiet an old song so the older generation would listen to it when they were teenagers. Also, it can be for teenagers as their parents may show the song to them and they may like it. It may not be a song that came out a week ago but some teenager may still listen to this kind of music.  We think it is for both males and females. The class is unspecified. We think it is mostly mostly for the Western Audience ethnicity.

Style
The main character names is Eric
The females name is Layla
The other males name is George

The idea of are music video is about a man called Eric who has an affair with someones girlfriend. At first, they are having fun but later, Eric wants more from their relationship so he is walking to her house see where they are in their relationship. Is she going to leave her partner and go out with Eric or is she going to stay with George?

A Mastershot of Eric with a very slow zoom in to his face, with cuts in between to two people arguing.
It will show some flash backs of Eric and Layla being together, being happy, while he is walking to her house singing. and also it will have her and her boyfriend being unhappy. There will be shots of  a couple, in shadows, who are arguing and you would expect that the two people arguing are Eric and Layal, but it is actually Layla and George.

 The style of the music video is with a range of camera angles from Long shots to Close ups. The video will include camera movements like pans, Backward & forward tracking with very slow zoom in/out. Also, we may use black and white footage to distinct different footage between them.
In terms of editing we will use dissolves, fades, fast and slow motion footage.  

This is our original plot line but since the production started we changed it as we thought there would be a better way. So we had footage with Eric and Layla being happy, holding while walking and even dancing together. When they sneak into a room and George sees them together, they fight and he leaves. Soon after, Eric and Layla fight as well and she walks away from him.

During these narrative parts we added Eric, just him singing making this our performance based scene. He is wearing casual clothes unlike when he is with her; he is in his professional clothes. This scene we find out at the end to be the future scene while all the other scenes are him reflecting about his relationship with her.