Week Six

Week Six Day one- Today we carried on with editing our music video so it would be finished for the deadline, we also booked out the drama hall and the instruments we would be using in the performance we felt this was a good place to shoot it as it was dark and the lights would stand out more against the band which would make it appear 'indie' from what we have already seen.

Week Six Day Two- We filmed the band performace, this went successful apart from we could have got a better drummer who made the performance look more realistic

Week Six Day Three- We carried on with editing, and finished this for the deadline. The teachers would then give feedback of what they liked and also what we could improve for when the final cut was handed in.

Props, Costume, Setting, Hair and Makeup

                                                                         Props

When doing our research and what we already had knowledge of we knew that the props that were needed in an ‘Indie’ music video were instruments including: guitar, drums, microphone and bass. These altogether came up frequently when we did our research and are also necessary when doing a band performance, I think these things highlight and demonstrate what genre our music video is. Another thing which is commonly used in music videos are: Televisions, mobiles and ipod’s these are used to portray a message in a form rather than speech; this also illustrates media conventions as these are media products. We are going to do this whilst we are sitting in the car with the title of the band coming up on the Radio- we have not seen this done before however we have seen all the things listed above before. So we hope this comes across unique and different rather than the others which would just come across as repeated if we used them.

Costume

From looking at many ‘Indie’ music videos we gained knowledge of what the actors should wear when taking place in our music videos; the style of most people in the bands were very casual and in no way dressed up. It came across that the style was ruffled/long hair, polo shirt, cardigans, jeans, trainers and even hooded tops. We think this is important to make sure the style and genre fit as if it contrasts it could lead to people thinking it was a totally different to what we intended. We are going to use this style as it exactly fits with what we are trying to put across and is very much indie which is what are genre is. And we know from research that the style fits in.

Hair and Make up

These again are natural and causal and not in any way done up as from everything we have learnt we have knowledge that the ‘Indie’ style is casual. So there will be no drastic changes involved in this.  

Setting

I think the setting is a big involvement when filming for the music video, as if the setting has no subject to what we are trying to illustrate it may make something come across totally different e.g. not how we want it to and not work well. We have chosen to film ours at the quarry, café, kitchen and also in Earsdon. We feel these go well with what our storyline is trying to portray since it is based around a relationship and are relevant to what we are trying to put across- which is a relationship going from love, betrayal and then to finish it hate. Choosing to film at Earsdon we thought would be a unique idea and not what you would expect, and would definatly fit in with our indie genre. Here are some photos:

Week Five

Week Five Day One- Today we started to film our music video- we went down to the quarry to start this, we got quite alot of filming done on this night as it was our main focus to get quite a lot of it done so we had plenty of time to edit.
Week Five Day Three- We started to upload the footage we had filmed onto the computer and began to start editing the footage we already had, we thought this was a good way to go around editing and then at the end we could put it all together and it would also help us find out if we needed to film more footage

Week Five Day Four- We carried on editing the footage we already have, we also made a list of props, settings, hair and make up and costumes and what we are going to use and also how they fit in with our genre this was good help as it made us aware of how important these were to the music video and how they should be kept constant. We also carried on doing filming.

Week Five Day Five- We carried on today with editing the footage we had took from last night and adding things on to our blog that needed to be done

music video animatic

Storyboard

Week Four Diary entry

Week Four day one- We started the animatic, we did this by cutting out our story board in photoshop then by putting all of the cut out pictures from the story board onto Abdoe Premiere Elements where we put our song behind it to show how we wanted our music video to flow with our sketches of what we wanted to take place

Four Four Day Three- We coloured in our designs for the poster, and uploaded all our analysis onto our blog along with our mood board and initial ideas diagram to  keep our blog update with everything we needed on it. Again we carried on with the animatic ensuring it would be finished by the end of the week so we could start thinking about filming

Week Four Day Four- To illustrate our target research we created graphs so we could show what came up when the questions were asked, we also wrote about each graph to show what we plan to do with what people had said and what ideas we would take forward and what we would not.

Week Four Day Five- We finished the animatic, this took longer than we thought as we didnt think it would take so long to make sure each scene matched each lyric, this ment we could now start filming and turn it into something real. We also finished off the graphs that we used to show our target research.

What would you prefer; Narrative, Concept, Performance?

We thought this was an important factor when doing our music video as these three build up the base of the whole music video so we would have to make sure we get it the right one to make it successful and what people wanted to see. Narrative and performance came up equally together- we agreed also as a group that we thought it would be necessary to put both of these in to make our music video successful. As even though the audience always like to see a narrative in the music video to make it more interesting, performance is always good to add in so you are knowledgeable of whom you are listening to. This also highlights the genre because you can see what style they are by what they are wearing and the mise en scene around them. However concept only came up by 20% and we don’t intend on using this as it is more abstract and we don’t feel we could fit this into our video and make it successful as well as we could put narrative and performance in. So we will be putting these two in, because we feel it is more necessary to our video and we think we can achieve more by putting using these two.