The FINAL Version of my Music Video Production

The software I used to edit this was Nero Vision Express. This decision was based on my past experience with this software that I have created videos for youtube with. It has a suitable amount of effects and filters to use at my disposal.I had to use many different props for the music video including: Drums, Amps, Microphone, Guitars, Stage, mobile phone, car and many many more.

As some people pulled out just before the arranged date for the filming of the band scenes.We had to improvise quickly.This ended up with my self taking the part as the lead singer. My colleagues who decided to assist me with this part supported me to take up the role. This meant that I needed to find a camera man for the band scene which has had experience with video camera and photography before, which I managed to.

The band I believed should go for a underground indie, teenage look. This was fulfilled by wearing dark colours and using the same colours for props. Both guitars were black as I thought that it would add to the presentation we were trying to show. I also thought that by giving one of the guitarists a pink guitar strap, this would create a contrast between the dark colours and bring notice towards the guitarist. Twisting the convention that the whole band is wearing the same colours.

I made the decision to film the storyline a few weeks after filming the band scene. This gave me the chance to go over the footage that was filmed of the band and determine whether it was sufficient to carry on with the rest of project without going back to the studios to film any extra footage.

The story line was filmed over one day, in a large Village. The indoor scenes were filmed inside a living room and the font door of a house. I also used two different shots for the bridge scene. I then took 4 screen shots and arranged them in time with the drum beat at that point in the song. I also had an inside shot of two people in the car to do this someone had to film steadily in the back seat of the cars while the car was pulling in to a parking space, the other shot was a establishing shot of the car pulling in to the space.

I then had to ask the landlord's permission at the pub where we were at to film on the premisis. I then decided to use the pub garden to avoid getting members of the public in the shots and the the scene was already well lit. I decided to use an establishing shot of the two sitting at a table then cut to a tracking shot of the protagonist walking to give the effect that both of the cuts are going on at the same time.

First Version of my music video for Feedback

This is the first version of my music video which I posted on Youtube and Facebook to gain feedback. Having gained some feedback from these websites. 4 people out of 10 mentioned that there could be more storyline in the first half of the video. I then went back to edit the video slightly as this was the only slight critism of the video. Many saying that they think the video is good.

Advanced Storyboarding including Effects, shots and transitions

Has my research and planning enhanced from AS to A2- Miss. Robertson

I believe that my research and planning has enhanced from AS to A2. The Student magazine task in AS showed me why research and planning was very important. In this task I created and handed out questionairres to gain valuable feedback from our target audience which was students. On the other hand fulfilling this task was very time consuming from creating, printing and giving out questionairres. Another type of primary research I carried out for this task was market research I done this by searching the internet for any current student magazines, however this come to little use, there was not a lot of results online for student magazines which questions the reliabilty of the internet for the topic and forced me to carry out research else where.

Research and Planning for my primary task in AS was more in depth as I had to use the internet and music magazines to research into the genre we had chosen which was rock. I made a case study on Q magazine to see what goes in to the magazine and how and why they do so. Also I carried out research by deconstructing Front Covers and Contents pages of magazine to analysis the house style and typical conventions such as headings and paragraphs. During this however my group encountered a problem with technology as our pictures that had been uploaded in the first year of the course were removed from the blog. To counter this we looked through our folders on the iMacs and computers as well as documents we had printed out to replace them.

Now researh and planning for my task in A2 had to be more detailed firstly i researched music videos online using websites such as youtube and Yahoo! Music. I took note of the different types of genres and particular mise-en-scene as well as common camera angles and shots in music videos. After this was done I then had to plan my own, I done this by making a brainstorm of typical ideas to the song taking into account the lyrics and tone of the song. After this was fulfilled I had to plan the casting and the number of roles to be played in the video as well as set dates for filming

Draft Storyboarding

This is the first draft storyboard for the band scenes, I have chosen a wide variety of shots for example Close ups, Establishing shots and midshots etc, for this to give the music video a professional edge to it. Having made research into other music videos I realised having a wide variety of shots is a usual convention.

The last scan is the draft storyboard for the storyline part of my video. Which shows the story of a couple sitting watching TV in a living room. The girl then recieves a text and leaves. After the girl has left the boy goes to see his mate. The girl in the couple goes off to see another boy. While the boy from the couple and his mate drive past them without realising. The boy and his mate park at the pub and go to have a drink. The boy goes to get himself and his mate a drink. On the way to get drinks he bumps into the girl and the other boy, so he decides to leave. The girl and the boy she's with follow him and it finishes leaving an enigma in the viewers head as to what happens next.

Actors and Props to be used

Essential Props: Guitars Amps Mics Drum Kit Drum Sticks Tri-pod Video Camera Car Mobile Phone Drink Glasses Actors Band: Lead singer - Has to have stage presence, know all the lyrics, can effectively lip sync (sing). Guitarists: Need effectively play or replcate the playing of a guitar. Need to be comfortable with various close up shots. Drummer: Needs to fit in with band, play a beat on the drums effectively which is very similar to the drumming in the original song. Storyline: Male 1: Needs to be a masculine character to show that he is the man of the relationship. Female: Needs to be comfortable playing a large part in two relationships. Male 2: Needs to be again comfortable playing part of a relationship.

Location Planning

I've decided that there should be a wide range of settings for my music video as it goes over the a storyline as well as a band performing in a room. I have decided that the band scenes will be filmed at Plug n Play studios in Reading. My reason behind this decision is that there will be a variety of props at our disposal to use, such as guitars, drum kit, amps, microphones and lighting. These props are basically essential for any band scene. Another reason behind my decision to film at Plug n Play Studios is that there will be a wide amount of space to move the camera around to film as many different angles of the band as possible.

For the Storyline of my music video locations for filming are:

Inside of a house (Living room, Hallway, Front Door)

Walkway,

Pub

Car and Car park. These locations I feel differentiate well from each other despite being in a very close proximity to each other in Caversham Park Village, which enables me to transport equipment around to different locations quickly and simply. This also means that we can shoot scenes quickly and move onto the next one swiftly.