Subject Matter Research

From our research we came up with many ideas for our music video. We started off the idea of having a Romeo and Juliet as the main theme. It will involve a young couple aged between 18 – 22 who have fallen in love with each other but due to their difference in their religion, their family would not allow each other to get married. The boy would be Jewish and the girl Muslim, they both have strict religious families who try their very best to keep them away from each other and despite the fact that they have fallen in love.

It will be set in old fashioned settings where the band can perform, the Grimsdyke hotel is a perfect setting for the performance because it has this old fashioned posh theme to it, with a grand fire place including statues on either side. This will give a feeling that they are back in Shakespeare time when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

We were planning to represent different religions and cultures and their differences between them. The girl for example would wear a hijab on her head and an abaya to cover her body, and pray in a Mosque, whereas the boy would wear a Jewish skull cap and pray in a Synagogue. We came up with the idea of the families and community from both sides looking down upon them, disappointed about what they are doing.

We would have them walking on Harrow view point to make it seem romantic and because it mentions the setting in the lyrics of the song. We would see them together in different settings, together enjoying themselves but we would also see them being shouted at by their families for betraying them and their beliefs.

The band, Domino Theory, disagreed with this idea of bringing in religion to it and Romeo and Juliet. They wanted it to be a simple modern love story between a young girl and boy; therefore we changed a few ideas. We kept the performance setting and made it into a practice performance. We chose to keep this setting because we were running out of time and there was no other setting available for the band. We originally wanted to use a studio but unfortunately it was being used that day. However for the couple scenes we decided to make it a girl walking around in central where all the Christmas lights are out and she is walking around getting to a destination, the audience at this pint don’t know where she is going, then towards the end there will be scenes of the male walking around the station and in the end they both meet.

We will have a special effect in the couple walking around, we will make them look like cartoons when editing and they will come to life when they both meet. But it will mainly involve fades from the bad to the couple, and continuity cuts.

This is the exterior of the GRymsdyke hotel.