Organising filming

We have found that organising when to do the filming has been really hard as we have 6 dancers and luke and myself to work around, where there at least two days when all the dancers can make it. We have been unable to get all the dancers on both days so we are just going to use less dancers on the outside shots. We will only do this for the draft as it is only the draft and a simple problem to fix, that doesnt make much difference. But for the real one we will use 6 dancers and make sure we have organsised well in advanced when we are going to meet. This time we have organised two days where one day we will do the outside shots and the other day we will do the inside shots. This will work better as we wont be having to switch between settings.

Storyboard for Our Music Video

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Researching album covers

I think this is a brilliant album cover because it relates to "Diana Vickers" and her personality, it also relates to the type of "cutesie" music style she does. I find this visually good to look at by there being a huge contrast with the back ground being in black and white. Then her name is highlighted by the splash of colour. Again this is a solo artist so they have used the main picture of her. Which is what we think we are going to do for ours.

Album cover research

As we are having just one girl solo artist we were thinking of having a picture of her of on the album cover, similar to this. I also like the background of this as its quite different and adds something to just having a picture of her. Again i would like like to do this having different artistic things going on in the back ground, which also relates to the singer and their music and style. I like the fact that she has not just got a piture that she is smiling in, she is doing any edgy facile expression and bodily position. This is alot more interesting to look at and more professional looking.

Album Cover Inspiration

Album cover

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These are some album covers which I like taken from the music industry. In some respect, I like the polished effect of the girls like Leona Lewis and Whitney Houston and on other side I like the comedy and more unusual type of covers like Lily Allen, Lady Gaga and Paloma Faith.

Representation

For part of one of our practical lessons, we explored with Mr Nicole the key concepts of a music video. This was helpful for me because now I know exactly what I need to think about and to take into consideration whilst creating my video.

The type of things we could be representing in our video is; Gender, Sexuality, Age & Wealth.

What are your key features represented as? This can include; Settings & Characters etc.
How are they represented this way? This can include Mis en scene, costume, make up, props, lighting, setting, sound and music.
What will be the Audience reaction and what do you want them to feel. What is the target audience? Why does it appeal to the target audience?
Genre of the music and song. Is the representation reconisable? Is it a stereotype? Have we challenged to typical steroytype?

Costume - Luke's Ideas

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This is the type of thing that I see us having in our music video. For the first half, I have already stated that we are going to have the dancers in our video wear what they want, because that would be what they would wear anyway, which gives it a realistic feel. I would also like them to make sure that it is comfortable to dance in, and if possible to maybe even wear dance clothes. Seeing as they are all dancers, in and outside of school, this should not be a problem.

Dance studio

We were thinking of having a few short clips, almost flashes of the main girl dancing in the dance studio. This would add variation to the shots and make it more interesting with more going on. We would put these in before the music kicked in, so it showed her either having some sort of flash back or just her thoughts. Aswell as adding to our narrative in the video, this also gives us another setting to use and opens us up to even more camera shots and angles. For example, we could have the camera shooting in the mirror, and having the shot as the reflection. Another idea could be having the camera shooting as the mirror, as if the camera is inside the mirror.

Stage lighting

Lighting is going to be a key thing in our music video as from researching different music videos i have noticed that the lighting has made that difference between it looking professional and not. So as we are going to set our first scene on a stage we want to make use of the stage lighting as it will be appropriate for the scene and also will look professional. For scenes where we don't want to use stage lighting, we could still have the stage lights on, but not over the top. So in theory, they will be very simple lights for simply light up the area which we will be filming in, as apposed to using spotlights and different coloured lights. For our side we were hoping on the day we chose to do it , it will be sunny if its not it wont be to bad. Another thing we need to worry about when we are doing outside we need to be careful we don't do it to late as this time of year it gets darker sooner, so we will have to plan this carefully. We also need to be careful because if we do a clip when its in the evening and slightly darker and then the next day we do one in midday when its brighter we need to be careful of the continuity.

Stereo

At the start of the music video we want there to be a clip of a stereo and then some one recognising the the song. Then probably the girl that will be lip syncing will go over to it and turn it up. We want this is on the instrumental bit at the start then as she turns around and in time witht the music she starts to sing. Just after this i would like a panning shot across the stage.
The type of stero is actually more important in this shot than what people would think. The reason for this is because it needs to be the type of stero in which young people would have, to fit in with our sterotypical image, and the music playing on it, has to link in to the people we see in the video, again something they would actually listen to, to add to our stereotypical image of these kids.

Costume

The image we have got when the song turns into "walking on sunshine" we would like the dancers to wear yellow rain macs an umbrella we would live to get all the same costume. For example having all the same coats and umbrellas. We would like them to wear this when they are crossing a zebra crossing so the bright colours contrast with the black and white zebra crossing. In this scene as well we were thinking of having a reverse shot, so they walk forward and then it reverses them walking back. So this would be set outside. The costume links in to the 'cheesyness' of the song and the characters which we are portraying in the video. The costume adds to the mis en scene in the video. At the start of the video we would like them to be in their own clothes. This is because that is what they would actually wear, which makes the image more realistic for the 'Halo' part of the song.