Inspiration

Some of the videos which helped to inspire us



The video above has helped to inspire as it tries to show a postive message through it lyrics and text, we believe that it has sucessfully accomplished this aim




In this much like the video above it has a postive message much like our own and this video has a very similar storyline to the one which we hope to also complete

Character Planning

We are going to have one leading singer in our band so we had to reasearch in to other bands which have a lead singer such as one republic or cold play by doing this we were able to evaluate videos and find outgenral elements of videos from bands like our own and decide whether this was were we believed we wanted our video to go or whether we would not conform to these norms   

costume and props list

things we will need to create our music video includes:

• suit for studio scene
• genral casual wear for terrys walking
• school uniform for myrin and his classroom scene
• finally i need to bring basketball type clothing for my scene on the courts
• a basketball

we chose these items of clothing so we could give our artist a different look. making sure if was not what you expect by wearing a suit but then some of what you do by wearing a possibly hat common to the youth of today

lighting training

Our group attended lighting training were they taught us different techniques. This is basic lighting known as three point lighting important basis for any real cinematographer or photographer. It was essential for us to know these different techniques as we found that lighting is extremely helpful in creating a music video and helping to give it that professional look. three point lighting consist of a key fill and back light.

we first looked at key lighting shines directly on the person and it is seen as the main light, the key light plays a big role as it can determine the strength, colour and angle of the shot.

The fill light shines on the subject from a side angle to the key and is often place lower then the key light this light helps to control shadows caused by the other lights.

the back light finally serves the purpose of highlighting the contours of the chosen subject. 

lighting training significantly helped as it helped us to get a basic understand of lighting and we were told when playing with the lighting we can become creative with our shots create effect such as silhouettes by getting rid of the key light.   

Artist interview

Research: shots

our group did some research into various shot we could use through youtube and lloking at previous music videos

Permission

We emailed RCA records to get permission for the music video. we also found a fan site were they allow people to make videos and broadcast globally so we believe we would had already kid of been giving permission and were not crossing any copyright infringement

Location

Although some may not consider it as so important location is vital to any good production because it help the create the story especially in the case of music videos it is vital because the lyrics many times will come across in the location. This is why we did a lot of research in to our location.   

• Norwood Lakes Basketball courts
• Bus
• Classroom
• A street in South Norwood
• Film studio

these were good locations because of the exposure to light not just that but how we would possibly be able to control the light with the use of the different equipment (film studio) and the elements such as trees (norwood lakes) and how assesible they generally meaning that it is good for our media project.

"People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat."

Lucy Lui

This quotes shows the importance of location.  

director case study

Anton corbjin

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screen testing actors

story board

improving our videos

We understood that we were facing a great task ahead of us and that we could take as much tip as possible

Proposal

Proposal

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Final song choice

We chose this as our final song as we belived it had the most positives and also the least limitons allowing us to be as creative as we could be

Possible song choices

My group throughout of many different song all be strong music lover were lover at multiple song from multiple genres we brought it down to just a few songs and now were weighing up the positives of the song

Timbaland ft drake: say something



positives

•  beat heavy song so very easy to do on beat editing
• also has an basic chorus which would be good for lip syncing

negatives

• rap song which mean can be hard for lip syncing the verse
• lyrics could be very hard to work with as does not have an obvious storyline

Trey Songz: can't be friends



positives

• This is and R'n'B with many long notes meaning it should be very lip sync
• Has a very simple storyline so could be easy to create narrative music video for song

negatives

• Already has a video so could loosely copying because we have already seen this video
• Although and R'n'B can be argued as lyric heavy 

Citizen Cope: Let the drummer kick



positives

• basic lyrics extremely easy to lip sync to
• with the variety of words can be very creative with video and it's plot
• doesn't already have a video so has no real limitations on a storyline

negatives

• Has very basic lyrics which although mean we can create a storyline easy could also go off on a tangent trying to relate to every word

My group and I will have a meeting to discuss the song we will finally choose