Music Video Idea's

After having a group meeting, we decided that we found film our music video at the beach. We also decided that we were going to have a diagetic start to our video, which will set the scene and give viewers a story behind our video.

The story of the video is that our character is in love, and he wants to spend one more day with his girlfriend who has got to leave him. They decide that they are going to spend the day at the beach.

We are going to have them do typical things that you would see couples do when they are at the beach, they're going to get some food, mess around, go into the sea (only paddling, because the sea will be really cold at this time of the year) and fly a kite.

The girl will eventually have to leave our artist, and we will see just how much it is affecting him and how much he wants to have her back. We thought that this story fitted in with our lyrics for the song "Hazel Eyes".

When asking the man who wrote the song what his inspiration was behind the lyrics, he told us that it was to do with a previous relationship that he had, so we think that our idea's fit in well with what he originally wrote the song about. 

I think that all of the idea's that we have come up with fit with the story nicely and some of them fit in well with the lyrics. We wanted to make it so that some of the lyrics fit in with the visuals because we didn't want the video to be random, and for the audience to see that we have thought about the lyrics and what we think they mean and see if they get the same connotations.  

Brick Wallpaper.

We decided to use brick wallpaper for our digipack photo's. We thought that this would be easier to use instead of having to write on an actual wall. If we did that then we would either have to use a washable felt tip, or have to paint over the wall once we had finished with it. Also, if we use brick wallpaper it means that we can shoot at school, and it means that we know that everyone in our group will be able to be there for the shoot and be able to help and get involved.

Audience Research.

I decided to question people who were either 16, 17 or 18. I decided to do this because i thought that they were people from my generation and they were the sort of people that will be watching my music video.

Questions:

1. How old are you?
2. What genre of music do you listen to?
3. When you hear the word "indie" what do you think of?
4. Do you watch a lot of music video's?
5. What would you expect to see in a music video?

Answers:

1. I'm 17.
2. I listen to mainly R&B and hip hop.
3. I always think of males, and guitars. I also think of the songs being very acoustic and simple.
4. I watch quite a lot of music video's because i am always interested in how the artist wanted to get the song and lyrics across and if there is a story behind what they have done.
5. A narrative story that entices the audience and also shows what they mean by the lyrics.

Answers:

1. I'm 18.
2. I listen to quite a lot of indie-rock.
3. I think of the artist being very soulful and individual. I think of an artist that isn't trying to be like someone, but has their own sense of style.
4. I watch a few, but not that many. I'm not really interested in the music video's but more the actual song itself.
5. I guess i would expect to see the artist performing and possibly doing something different to all the other music video's that are out there. There are so many music video's that sometimes they get boring. I want to be excited.

Answers:

1. I'm 17.
2. I listen to a lot of soul and jazz music.
3. I don't really understand what counts as Indie, and what doesn't. I always thought that it meant that the artist had made it from the bottom by themselves, and that they hadn't needed any help to be where they are today. When i think of indie artists, i think of bands or an individual on small stages infront of not that many people, and doing anything they can to work their way up.
4. I do watch a lot of music video's because i like to look at the artist and see if they feel comfortable infront of the camera and if they can adjust and get their message across visually.
5. I think you should see the artist showing off what their song is about and going back to the basics. I don't think that you need a lot of visual effects and a lot of money to make a great music video. It should all be about getting across what the lyrics mean to the artist.

Alex Clare.

Alex Clare is a british songwriter/singer. 

In 2011 he released his album "The Lateness of the Hour".

He has chosen to have a black and white themed album, with his name in bold at the top. Although his name and the album title are in black so don't stand out because of their colour, the fact that they are large print and have the white background and the gap between the writing and the black and white image means that it really stands out.







The fact that we don't see his face on the front cover adds mystery and makes the audience wonder about his appearance. It also might represent the fact that he doesn't want people to think about his looks but rather the music that he has created. The images on the album are quite confusing for the buyer. There appears to be a clock, a bear, and a ship on some water. The boat could represent moving on, and sailing away from his past. The bear could represent strength and the fact that he has got that strength to create his music, and the clock could represent that this is his time to do what he loves.

Rudimental ft John Newman and Alex Clare

I was looking for a video that has a prelude like our video will have. 

In this video they have just all narrative, and you don't actually ever see the artist performing. However, i have chosen to look at this video because it has a prelude before the music starts, which gives us some background information on the characters in the video. This is what we want to do for our music video, showing the audience a bit of background information on our artist and his story with his girlfriend.

Planning and Organising.

We thought that the best way to organise everything and speak to all of the people who were in our group and in our video would be to have an inbox with everyone on it on Facebook. It was there that we realised that Mike, who was going to be our male artist could not make the dates that we wanted to go and film. 

It was a good idea that we had this inbox because it meant we could keep everyone up to date and everyone could see our idea's and discuss when everyone was free. It also meant that Danielle, Harris and I could find out what was going on so that we could keep up to date with everything on our blogs.

Weather Forecast.

This is the weather forecast for the day that we want to go filming:

Day - 5 degree's to 13 degree's.  


Night - 1 degree to 11 degree's.


This is on the 10th of November which is a saturday.


From BBC weather.

We could work through lots of different weather conditions, so it doesn't really matter to us what the weather is like so long as it isn't pouring with rain. If it rains a little bit then we can still film. We just have to make sure that the weather isn't too windy or raining too hard because we only get one day and one chance to film as the location that we have picked is quite far from us and is a long way to go. 

Font Idea's.

Here are some font idea's that i came up with for our album. cover on our digipack. 

Equipment that we need to bring.

When we are filming we need to make sure that we bring:

Camera
Charger for camera
Tripod
Battery strip light
Props 

 

Back Covers.

This is the back album cover for Kate Nash's album. The writing is very childlike, which is the same as the front cover. She has chosen to use a white font with a dark background. To me, this looks like it is a chalkboard, which goes back to the child theme, because it looks like it was written at school. It has all of the legal jargon at the bottom and the barcode, both of which you would expect to see on the back of an album cover.

This is the back cover for the Oasis album. They have chosen to use white writing so that it stands out against the purple background. The background looks like a wooden gate or wall. The red on it resembles blood, and this might show the darker side of the album. It keeps the audience guessing and adds a darker twist on the album.