Idea 2 for Music Video "Are You That Somebody"

My second music video idea uses the track ‘Are You That Somebody?’ by Aaliyah. I chose this song because of its up-tempo beat and interesting lyrics.

My artist has the ‘bad girl’ image, she is known for her provocative lyrics, seductive fashion sense and sultry personality. I would compare my artist to other similar ones such as Rihanna and Brandy.

In the lyrics she says “Boy, I’ve been watching you like a hawk in the sky/ That fly and you were my prey” she also says “If I let you know/ You can’t tell nobody/I’m talkin’ bout nobody”. She describes her pursuit for a man. The fact that she watches him like a hawk suggests that she is on the prowl and is almost stalking him. She also refers to having a secret that nobody can know. This led me to think of the concept of my music video. The music video tells the story of a girl who is after a guy, but he is in a relationship, so she sabotages his relationship, finally getting her man. She keep her motives secret from him and that what ‘nobody can know’.

The music video starts with her walking into the club while the rap starts she is wearing a white suite jacket, black pants and bright red lipstick.

 White suit jacket                                                                 Make-up 

The club uses heavy blue and green lighting. She is with her friends and they sit in a VIP booth overlooking the dance floor. 

She spots a man on the dance floor and she begins singing at 00:23 seconds. “Boy, I’ve been watching you like a hawk in the sky/ That fly and you were my prey” when she says that line the camera zooms across the dance floor to a extreme close up of the man’s face.  She moves up to him an dances next to him, but he moves away to dance with his girlfriend.

In the chorus she wears a leather crop top and leather pants as she dances seductively in a room with a metallic copper and steel background with intense red lighting. 

Outfit for chorus

Background

The dance is choreographed and she dances with back up dancers. In the chorus dance sequences there are close up body shots. During the chorus, I also want close-up shots of a snake slithering, either on the floor on her body. 

This is stylistic element is to connote that she is sneeky and manipulative like a snake. 

In the verses we see her doing various ploys to get her man. She stalks him with binoculars, follows him. 

She then places female underwear on the floor of the passenger seat of his convertible. She wears a red pants and a red crop top jumper.

We see a scene of his girlfriend finding the underwear and breaking up with him. 

It alternates with the dance sequence used in the chorus.

Towards the end, we see her consoling the guy and they start to date. It ends at the club with them dancing, she wears a tight one sleeve black dress. 

As the music fades, she turns around and winks at the camera while shushing the audience with her finger.

The video fits with the track because she talks about, how he is her prey and she has a secret. In the video we clearly see she is two sided and has an agenda. The video also fits with her star image the leather outfit and revealing clothing connote her provocative style and her behavior is manipulative and bad I the video which suggest her ‘bad girl’ persona. She even says in the lyrics “Right now I’m naughty-naughty”.