Music Video: Shooting Schedule

Here is the shooting schedule we made to schedule when we would be filming.

Music Video Risk Assessment

Here is the risk assessment we created identifying potential hazards whilst filming.

 

Filming Day Extras

Here is our Music Video extras that we found were funny clips and also clips that we didn't use in our main production. We edited them together to help show the process of elimination and creating a music video.

Filming Day Clip

Here is a clip from our filming day when we are telling Lois how we'd like her to act.

One Page Pitch

One Page Pitch



Here is our Video interview for our one page pitch.

Overview:

I know that for our music video I want to capture a wide range of vibrant scenes with high quality cameras. We do want to use actors and actresses to portray the idea of the plot however we also want to be able to catch many good quality shots of different scenes. We want everything to look cool and urban, and possibly would like to, experiment with colour during the editing process to make the scenes look brighter.

We want the song to capture vibrant scenes, perhaps getting ready to go on a night out, and the aftermath of coming home with mixed emotions of love. We want to capture both friendship and love, and how teenagers can experience a wide range of emotions through the stage in their life. We looked at the video for ‘ToVe Loves – Stay High’ and although we don’t like the concept of her taking drugs, we do like some of the shots used to show her confusion and sadness, which is something we would like to duplicate in this.

Song Choice:

Ideas for our song choice include ‘Desire’ by Years and Years, we feel that we can create a story line to go well with this. For example some of the lyrics include ‘Is it desire? Or is it love that I’m feeling for you?’ the confusion of the emotions would fit well with our idea and we could tell a story of the journey gone through in the song on the road to finding love.

Location:

We want to film around near where we live, particularly at night to make it more realistic and we wouldn’t film late – as it gets dark early now. We will also try and film at someones house to show the start and end of the journey.

Actors:

We would like to have possibly one or two actors in the music video, with extras to add to the song and the theme we want of friendship during teenage years. We would use the actors to lip synch words, and I would get shots of them doing various things relating to the music.

Theme:

The theme of our music video is going to be that of a journey, we want our music video to have emotions attached to it, and have some form of a story. It all depends on our song choice which we can apply the theme to. So for the song Desire by Years and Years, the theme would be happy, vibrant and there would be the theme of love attached to the video in some way or form. However if we chose a song like Kathleen by Catfish and the Bottlemen, the theme would be slightly darker, and more about a tumultuous relationship, and finding yourself.

Audience:

We are aiming my music video towards people 16-24, who are the age range that mostly watch Youtube and are more likely to take more of an interest into music videos with a story behind them, which I know due to being within this age range, and asking many of my friends if they are more likely to watch a music video again if it has a good story to it. As opposed to barely watching it, and listening to the song.

Skills I need to make the video:

The skills needed to make the music video would be good quality camera skills, we really want to test ourself with this video and research different tips and tricks to get high quality camera shots – for scenic shots that we want to capture. As well as this we will need to work well independently and be able to meet deadlines.

Music Video Practice

During my trip to New York I captured a lot of footage which I feel could potentially be used in the music video, the footage was captured on my phone and I edited together some of it using Premier Pro, downloading a Royalty Free song off Youtube to use. In order to upload the file to blogger I had to upload it to Youtube. I may use some of the clips within the music video, depending on whether they fit with the ideas I have.

Lip Synching Task

Here is a video that I made with my sister and my stepsister, practicing lip synching techniques and filming them lip synching. I decided to become creative and combine the lip synching task with the preliminary task - to create a short music video, as I thought I wanted to make the lip synching in a creative way.

Music Video Storyboard

Here is the storyboard we created as a rough draft for our music video plans.

 

Pharell 'Happy' Music Re-Creation Video

Me, Georgina, Ellie, Ryan and Calum all worked together to produce a 'Happy' Music Video inspired by Pharells' famous song. We had a fun time producing it, and it was done to show we know how to loosely follow conventions used in music videos - like close ups and dancing, singing along in some moments also.