Final Music Video

Band Shots

Music Video - Write Up 1

After a very busy week trying (and succeeding) to hand in the draft music video Mae and I decided it would best to get started on the real thing as soon as possible. With this in mind we planned to get together with Josh and James on Sunday afternoon. We chose to start filming at Mae's because she had a music room which would make the band shots more realistic and instruments we could use.

First we got changed and did make up and hair. The two guys wear waring pretty simple and casual clothing of jeans and tshirt, Josh also wore a denim jacket to make his look more interesting. I wore a black lace dress, a leather jacket, black tights and doc martens. We thought that this suited the genre of music because it is slightly alternative. As for make up, the boys simply wore powder to make their skin look better under the camera. I wore foundation, powder and dramatic eyeliner.

We filmed mainly the band shots of us all playing together. These shots will come in at the end of the video. we also filmed some close ups and mid shots of Josh and James playing solo. These shots will be interspersed throughout the video. We also took some time to film 'interview' footage and 'behind the scenes' as we thought we could upload this to our twitter page to make it more interactive and realistic. We will start editing this footage soon and we will post a link to the twitter when we have.

We also took some band photos that we will upload to our blog and twitter as soon as possible. We did a mixture of serious and fun pictures based on pictures we had seen of bands of a similar genre. See pictures below.

Wig problem.

The wig that we have ordered says that it will not be arriving until the middle of November and so this may be too late for us for when we need to shoot our video. We have two options for this and they are listed below:

1. Our first option is to look for another wig that will come before we need to shoot and hope that the quality is as good as the first one we picked.

   2. Our second option is to re-design how we want our main character in the video to come across. For example, if we were to have the wig with big hair then we would keep the face quite plain as the hair would be the main attraction. However, because of the wig problem and Laura having short hair we thought to go with an opposite approach. this approach would be to have the face made up more with stronger makeup as the hair will not attract our attention to it and also we could still keep with the grungy look.

Mae's digipack/advert feedback.

Advert feedback
The feedback for my advert was quite short in that i only had small things that needed to be changed. These were the boxes in that i now agree do not look good and also to make sure that the record label on the bottom is well know and to have more revies on it. They liked the use of the image that is on the front cover of my digipack and that it ties together well.

Digipack feedback
My feedback from my digipack was that it was too plain and so to overcome this i could still have a plain front cover but foe the inside i need to add images of the band and lyrics from our songs to make it be more attractive and not look boring. the teachers said that they liked my font and to try and have the use of paint throughout out as it looked effective. I also had parts on the digipack that didn't really relate to anything for example the words saying 'what goes around comes around' it links to the name circles but doesn't Link to anything else so i am going to put lyrics from our song 'Save me' there instead.

Location Shots

Pitch Evaluation

The feedback we got after giving our pitch was mainly positive. Mrs Hammond thought that our idea was clear and well thought through. She thought that it was well organised because we have planned ahead. She liked that the mise en scene we want to use is simple to get hold of.
In our pitch we should have been clearer about the singer's costume because we didn't have a picture of the specific dress we will be using. The dress we did use in the pitch confused people slightly as they connected the dress with a wedding,making them think it was a love story. Therefore we will post a picture of the dress we will use on to the blog as soon as possible.

Video Idea

Our video will be a mixture of narrative and performance and also includes flashbacks. The narrative is that a girl is running away from her problems and she wants to tell somebody something but she can't. She eventually finds her escape in music and this will be the climax of the video. We created this narrative because of the lyrics of the song we are using.
The lead character will first be seen running through an alley which then leads to a field. She will be singing and running through the field as this represents her trying to be free. In between these shots will be performance shots of a keyboard player and a guitarist. As well as this there will be flashbacks in black and white of her writing a letter and going to meet someone. She goes to give the person the letter but she gets scared and thats how she ends up where she is now.
At the very end of the video we see her running again and then from a shot inside the building where the performance is happening we see her come through the doors. We then realise that all the shots are linked and that she is the lead singer of the band.