Today we pitched our ideas to our group, unfortunately none of our ideas were suitable, this is because all of the songs we chose had music videos for them which meant that we couldn't do them.
So we then spent the rest of the lesson looking at other songs that don't have a music video and found these two, one was a remixed version of the one that olivia had already chosen (hers was very the heavy metal version which would be quite hard to create a video for) the other was simply one that we could picture a video for and that we thought was doable.
21/9/15:
Today we pitched our ideas to the class and received feedback based on what the class thought on our ideas and what they thought we could do with the song.The pitch
We played the first minute of the song Mind over matter to our class to give them an idea of what we were going to do. we then showed the class what we thought we could do in our music video, including lights and the look we would go for. We then played the other song we had called Light Me Up by Parade we then said about how we would do the same type of thing but due to the audience we would make the video younger so that it suited the popier feel.
The feedback
Everyone in our class gave us feedback from our ideas, the main concern they had was that the Mind over matter song, although the song is originally from a band, due to it only having one main female artist it would be hard to make the other two people in the band not look awkward or uncomfortable like they didn't quite fit in. Most of the class preferred the second song, they agreed that they both had the same amount of potential but as different things the PVRIS song as a solo artist, whereas the Parade song as a group. they all really liked our idea for the narrative and the themes and locations, one member of our class Marcus also made a point that we hadn't realised, that the lyrics to the video Light me up worked with the theme of lights, as they are both about lights we could play with that idea.
The result
From this we decided that we were going to take forward our second choice Light me up. This was because it gave us more to play around with being a group song and it worked better alongside the ideas we had already. We decided to still go with the same look but make everyone's a little different, for example when it comes to using the UV light we could each have a colour theme so we could have liv in a pink/blue floral pattern like this...
we could then have Frankie in a different floral pattern like this green and pink one...
and then i could wear a more orange and green colour...
23/9/2015
We sat down and discussed what we were going to need in our music video and how we were going to make it achievable we started to discuss locations and where we are going to film, we looked at different shots and began to talk about who and what we would need. Olivia wrote a basic props list.
24/9/2015
After looking at where we were going to film yesterday we decided that today we were going to see if we can work out who we would need to use in our music video. we looked at numbers and tried to work out weather we could make it look realistic with the amount of people that we are able to get hold of. we then looked more into our band image and possible names for our band.
25/9/2015
in class today we researched our band image, Frankie began to create a presentation on our individual looks in comparison to other female pop artists. I began to create our steal o matic, this was so that we can get an idea of the different types of shots that we are going to use, i tried to include clips from videos that were very similar to ours this was so that it didn't look as odd. Olivia began to design rough outfits that we could wear for our music videos.
28/9/2015
Today we all got together and looked into the band name even more we looked at similar bands and tried to get influence on our decision.
2/10/15
Today Pete Fraser and Jake Wynne came in to talk to us. Pete Fraser is the chief examiner of OCR A level Media Studies and he gave us top tips on how to get the best grade in our A2 media coursework which was very helpful. One of his students from many years ago, Jake Wynne, is now a music video director and editor. He told us about his experiences in the industry and how he got to where he is now which i found very interesting. He gave each group constructive criticism on our music video ideas and becuase ours is quite a fast paced song he told us to not put loads of effects and fast cuts in from the beginging and to make it more gradual. He aslo did a fun filming activity with us where we had to shoot an interpretation of Robbie Williams' 'Let Me Entertain You'. This allowed us to get a feel for what fiming music videos are like. We had five different cameras rolling at once and 15 people on set for each time we shot the video.
5/10/15
Today was the day of our photo shoot, we shot it inside our greenroom. we took over 700 photos. We dressed in all black but different style clothes in order to keep a theme going.
6/10/15
Today in class we went through the photos that we took yesterday and selected all of the good ones. we also created an Instagram account along with a twitter, we tweeted our first tweet as a band. click the button to see them...
https://twitter.com/?lang=en-gb
7/10/15
Today I continued with the steal o matic whilst Frankie and Olivia went through the photos researching out digipak
8/10/15
Today we looked at shots we were going to get for our filming tomorrow in the green room, we drew out some ideas and talked about the effects and costumes.
9/10/15
Today we filmed the first few shots for our music video. We wore a mix of black and denim clothing, but we all still looked different from each other so to carry on our individual personalities within the band. We took this outfit inspiration from one of M.O's outfits in their music video to the song 'Preach' which we really liked. We filmed all the shots in front of a green screen because for some shots in our music video we are going to use lots of After effects to make our video like edgy and impressive.
12/10/15
Today in the lesson, Frankie began to edit some of the shots we had filmed from last Friday. I carried on with the Steal-o-matic, researching similar music videos and types of shots that would work well in our video, and Olivia started to draw different shot ideas on a storyboard.
13/10/15
Today we filmed out scenes in the drama studio, we used lights facing the camera to give a more intense feel, it made the performers (us) look powerful, it also looked really fun and went with the theme of lights, relating to our song (light me up). We filmed all our footage on 5 cameras, one directly opposite at a high angle two others either side of that at slightly lower angles and one to the far right getting a very low side on angle.
The fith camera was then left in the hands of Issy Payne, who was in charge of getting the close up and moving shots. She was on a movable chair swooping from side to side capturing the atmosphere of the performance.
Because the footage is very dark some of the shots are un usable as you are in able to see what is happening, also due to the auto focus on the camera and is stepping in and out of the light, a lot of the footage is blury. Some of the footage is also un usable as there are people in the shot and/or there is nothing happening (performance wise). We were also a little too un organised than we should have been meaning that the process was a lot slower that we would have liked, but overall the outcome was really good and the usable footage looks great.
14/10/15
Today we looked over our footage from yesterday, putting them in folders of good and bad.
15/10/15
Today we looked over the footage some more and started to add it to our premier draft, we put the footage of us standing against the black wall with the lights gliding across our face on there, we looked at how it would look as our opening establishing shot. I personally think that the shots are great and it really works but the quality is really bad and I think it's too blurt to use, we are going to see after we have got all of our footage.
16/10/15
Today we designed what our make up would be like when we are in the club.
19/10/15
Today we prepared everything for our filming session in the club tomorrow. We printed off a shot ideas list, reprinted the lyrics and wrote a list of things we need to bring/remember. We also discussed everything in our group meeting and worked out how many volunteers we had.
20/10/2015
Today was our main/important filming day. We gathered 4 tripods, 5 cameras, the face paint and our bags of costumes and drove to town in Frankie's car. We arrived at Miya Nightclub at 1 o'clock and the manager (my auntie) let us in and gave us a tour showed us how to work the coloured light walls, lasers and sound. first of all we got some shots in front of the light walls because we thought it looked very impressive. We then put our neon make up and dark clothing on and got a wide variety of shots taken in front of the UV light. We removed that make up and put on 'normal' make up' and also wore coloured outfits. Frankie wore red (is a romantic and deadly colour representing her edgy/sporty personality), Olivia wore mint green (this can show strength and wealth, representing her diva personality) and I wore white (This shade can represent purity and peace presenting my innocent persona). Some volunteers arrived but unfortunately not as many as we had hoped even though we are grateful to the people who did come and we did manage to get some good shots.
4/11/2015
Today we filmed outside in the dark with the theme of lights still being our focus. We used multicoloured glow-sticks, balloons and torches. With the help of some of our friends, we asked them to dance, have fun and be natural in front of the camera to portray youthfulness in our video. The time between the 20th and today we have been editing our music video with the shots that we had, i was working on the website, applying popular theories and techniques to what i was doing.
5/11/2015
Today we filmed a short, casual interview which we are going to open our halfway presentation with. We got our friend Issy to sit beside thee camera and ask us a few questions. Today Liv continued editing our music video, I continued on designing our website and Frankie started to put our halfway evaluation together.
27/11/2015
Today we spent a lot of time editing. We go feedback from others and improved what we could and also filled the gaps we had. We managed to finished our first draft and handed it over to Miss Brookes so she can show it to the classes next week.
30/11/2015
Today we made the last few changes to the website for it to be ready to show the classes for the first draft feedback. We also spent time on the digipak- we discussed how we wanted it to look, drew a plan and started editing a panel each.
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