REPRESENTATIONS IN OUR MUSIC VIDEOIn our music video for ‘The Mother We Share’ we have decided to show a visual representation of family. The mother we share is a song about people letting each other go and moving on as they are bad for each other, and that it is only the mother they share that’s keeping them together. We have decided to go against this and use the lyrics in the song to promote family. We have done this by adding in narrative aspects to the video, where we see a young girl alone, wandering around hopelessly, showing that she feels alone and helpless. Many people feel this way in todays society, as if they are alone and have no where to turn, but people always have their family, whether they are relatives or not. We wanted to show this in our video, by having the character feel low, to the point of no return but then to be brought back with the help and company of her relative/friend. We are setting the video in a studio and also outside on a field or park, to show that people can return to their roots/ childhood to find their way back. The character will first be seen alone on a park, but will then be seen with her relative or friend at the end to show that she does indeed have someone to go back to. We will be using lights a lot in the music video, as we can then represent the dark place that people sometimes go to, to then only find the light at the end. We may also use silhouettes and other lighting techniques to show the loneliness and desperation that some people feel.We decided to have a female lead for our band, as we wanted to dismiss the stereotype of women being the weak or lonely ones in society, and to also show that men can feel the same way too, and that they aren’t always the strong leads people expect them to be. The styling in this video will also be important as we want the narrative character to be seen as shy and scared, we may do this by having her wear a very large jumper which she can hide in or feel safe under. We also wanted to show that a woman does not need a man to be strong, so we may have the relative or friend to be another woman, rather than a stereotypical boyfriend to help her.