Runaround Sue - Practice Music Video

We were set a task with a song chosen at random to create our first music video as a practice one. We were given the song 'Runaround Sue' by Dion and The Belmonts, a leading American group of the late 1950s, a song and band we were quite unfamiliar with. After doing some research on the band, by watching some of their music videos and looking them up on various sites, we gathered our own ideas from what they were wearing, the location the videos are set in and most importantly the era the song and music video was produced in, with these ideas we went away and produced our own version of their video to the song 'Runaround Sue'.

For the cast of our music video we chose two friends, Alex and Kirsty. We decided that our music video would suit the narrative of the song, with Alex playing Sue, and Kirsty playing the man who would be chasing Sue, as the song is called Runaround Sue. We decided that the video should go with the beat as this is an important convention, we would have some dancing, and as the song is upbeat, we wanted to make the video look fun. The story line we decided to use was Alex playing Runaround Sue, and being chased by Kirsty, a past lover who faces unrequited love with Alex.

Once we had put a few ideas together, we ended up filming the entire music video as a montage of shots with all our different ideas. The video had differing scenes such as Kirsty handing Alex a rose, and then showing a shot of Alex stomping on the rose or Alex holding a camera up to the sky, whilst laying down and being faced with Kirsty, with the use of low and high angle shots, these shots in my opinion are what made the music video a little more interesting.