Summer Project - Summertime Sadness Short Music Video

As one of my summer projects I decided to record a one minute snippet of a music video for the remix version of the song "Summertime Sadness" by Lana Del Rey. It was planned and filmed over the course of four or five days, which is quite rushed.

The idea for the music video was to have a mash of two different story lines. The first would be a boy getting on his bike and cycling away into the night, and the second of a chaffer bug refusing to fly from a person's hand. The meaning behind this was that the bug rejected it's chance of freedom, ending in it inevitably dying at the end of it's life cycle without having taken a chance. The boy was a symbol of our own lives, taking a chance and a break for freedom even if it seems scary.

As I was the main character in my music video, I got my mum and a few friends to help film (shown left). However I did all of the pre and post-production including the storyboard, shot list, and costume design (shown right).





One issue we had with filming was that the natural light faded fast. To get our final shot I had to ask the crew to turn on their phone torches, which worked alright. A second issue was getting the tracking shot of the bikes wheels. To solve this we had one of the film crew sit on a skateboard and roll back as I cycled by.

Here's the final product!