Planning Our Video - Plot

During the planning for our video we decided that we wanted to mainly focus on our narrative for the video and present it in an artistic way to match with the ambient style of our chosen song. The image on the right is the artwork for the song we are using (Boca-J - Lost In Tokyo); we decided to use this image alone for our inspiration on what the storyline could feature. Using the character in the image wearing the mask and the title of the song; we decided that a story based on 'Mankind and Pollution' would work well. The title being "Lost In Tokyo" helped us to come up with a vision of a group of teenagers discovering a location full of nature and peace, then they decide to mistreat it with pollution just as mankind does with cities all over the world. After disturbing the peace of the nature, they soon return to their home city, only to soon discover that they miss the serenity of nature but know that if they return it'll only become abused once again since that is simply the way of man. 

We decided this plot would work well, and that we should film it in black and white too match the song's artwork image also. We even created a protagonist for our narrative and decided we should also base his character on the song's artwork image, so I opted to be the protagonist for our video and for mise en scene, I did my best to find a gas mask and make my outfit look similar to the outfit of the character from the artwork. After working on the idea for the narrative of our story, I set out to find locations for where this could be filmed and found the most conveniently named location known to many people as "Paradise", it sits right beside the river cam and is filled with plenty of trees and few animals. The reason this seemed perfect to me is because I wanted Nature itself to represent a sort of Paradise within our video in contrast with our urban landscape which would represent a sort of nightmare in comparison to Paradise. For the urban location, I decided the city centre itself would be perfect for filming, places such as The Grafton Centre hold certain gritty aspects that I thought would be best to capture for our video. After we had planned this altogether as a group, I sought out to meet Boca-J himself and ask him what his opinions on our narrative were, and whether he could suggest anything to improve on it, but in the end he agreed that this could turn out to be the perfect video for his song and seemed to be very similar to how he envisioned his own story for this track. So after receiving both Boca-J's approval and the rest of the groups approval I realized that this story could develop into something successful and meaningful, yet also challenge mainstream music video conventions at the same time.