New Storyboard

After completing two storyboards we were still unsure about the organisation of the type of shots and the dialogue/lyrics that would fit. Because of this, I made a third storyboard that included timings, different shots needed and correct lyrics to give us a clearer more structured idea...

Performers

Because we wanted children in our video we needed to advertise to various students about what we wanted to do and the type of things we would want them to be doing. After we have our performers we will have to get consent from their parents due to their age therefore I made this advert to give to the children whilst including a follow up consent form.

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Timings, Props And Locations

To present our video preparation in a more interactive way I created a post it note video and uploaded it to Youtube..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHyGGyHB6jQ

Complete Story Board

New idea.

We had completely changed our idea and had realised that even an upbeat song like The Libertines can actually have hidden meaning. We had listened to the beat over and over and it feels like it had a marching rhythm to it. This is were our link with Tony Blair had come in as he had a huge impact on the decisions on whether our troops should go to war. All our ideas came together and to keep on top of them I created a small collection of relevant images.

I made this word cloud on a website called Wordle as a colourful and different way of presenting text. These words have all been used in my work and can give me a different way of presenting ideas and key words.

We took this word summary and whenever we needed inspiration, or an idea we would refer back to this and words would instantly trigger off an idea, motif or even a reminder for us to do something.

Too Cliche !

We started to discuss our ideas with each other and our teachers and we were convinced we had a great plan. Until our teacher suggested "turning the idea on it's head". At first we were unsure at what she meant and was surprised that she thought our idea wasn't great. We wanted our video to be based around a group of teenage friends and their routine before setting off on a holiday e.g. the packing, the journey, the arrival etc.

 

We decided to try what she said and we began to think completely

out of the box. We started to think about the opposite of everything we had said...

E.g.

Happiness to Sadness

Fun to Bordem

Freedom to Controlled

Friends to Enemies

Sun to Rain 

At first I struggled to understand how an upbeat, youthful indie song could work with such a low depressing motif, but after listening to the lyrics AGAIN, we realised that maybe it isn't such a happy song.

" And all the lives you said, who did you save!"

"Let me go! "

"They played that song at the death disco" etc.

We took one line " And all the lives you said, who did you save!" and thought of all the things we could do that was relevant to this. We all thought of someone we could use this lyric against that had an unpleasant reputation of lying and who had recognisable features and mannerisms. This was when we had the controversial idea of a character like the ex prime minister Tony Blair.

Deconstructing the song..

We decided to make a mind map about all the ideas that we have and what the song makes us think of. The song itself is a very up-beat song that is sometimes used in the teen comedy "The Inbetweeners" and also the popular "Gavin and Stacey". We kept this in mind and started to think about why this song is used in these programmes. The common link was fun! Both comedies are full of fun and youth and humour and this stuck in our minds. We pulled apart the lyrics to find that the really wasn't a lot of actual singing and the focus was on the band. To our group it screamed youth and attitude; with lyrics like " You're looking rough and living strange" and "Yeeeeeeeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" With this we came up with our FIRST idea.

Choosing Our Song!

Today was the day that we had to decide which song we was going to make a music video for. We wanted it to be an upbeat song as in our prelim task we did a quite sad/low song "Whiter shade of pale by Annie Lennox" and we new that to make it more "pop" it had to be upbeat. After playing hundreds of CD's and sifting through Youtube, we created a list of 3 possible songs.

1. Eminem- Not Afraid

2. Don't look back into the sun- The Libertines

3. Mika-We are Golden

We thought hard about these choices and listened to each of them intensively, until we came up with out decision. We thought that if we did a video to a well known song/artist, we would already have preconceived ideas and would naturally incorporate those into our own. We didn't want to be influenced by current videos so we decided to go for the one out of the three that doesn't in fact have a "proper" professional video.

This left us happily with....The Libertines.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLYsIESNtUc

Music Video Presentation

 Here is a presentation I have made about music videos and their criteria...

http://prezi.com/mlggmikvceyp/copy-of-the-music-video/

What makes a music video?

Here was where I started to learn about the basic's behind Goodwin's analysis and what made a music video.


1. VISUAL CONTENT

2. IMAGE (PERFORMER)

3. PACE (RYTHUM OF EDITING)

4. NARRATIVE (TIME & SPACE)
5. ATMOSPHERE (CREATED HOW?)

6. PERFORMANCE

7. SOUND (DIAGETIC/NON-DIAGETIC)

8. ARTIST, BAND, ROLE

• Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics (e.g. stage performance in metal video, dance routine for boy/girl band). 
• There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals (either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting). 
• There is a relationship between music and visuals (either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting). 
• The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which recur across their work (a visual style) 
• There is frequent reference to notion of looking (screens within screens, telescopes, etc) and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body. 
• There is often intertextual reference (to films, tv programmes, other music videos etc)