Journal 8

This week I have been working on my Digipak, and I have finally completed it. I wanted there to be continuity from the music video and the digipak, so I decided to keep the same fonts in both types of media.

I will also keep the colour pattern the same to use and I will keep using pink and black as a contrast of colours. The dominant colour will be pink as it is a feminine CD.

Recording Issues

Today was meant to be filming day and we have come across a few issues.

The issues was not preventable and it has delayed us because our singer(Chanele) has come down with laryngitis and this means she is unable to attend our recording session. This was our first big issue and we need to be able to prevent this in future.

Our second issue was when we decided to then record the guitarist and pianist, the studio was fully booked because of a change in days of when there are lessons going on. This now means that tuesdays are now unavailable to shoot.

Journal 7

The last couple of weeks we have been organizing and doing last minute preparations for our music video. Our music video production schedule is coming along well and we are on time to start filming next week. We have realised that we can get the filming down ahead of schedule which will allow us to start editing quicker and have longer on that, as making a good music video will mean lots of cuts aswell as continuity. Our production plan has stated we will be recording on monday, tuesday and thursday and we will start editing on friday.

Journal 6

Recently we have started our preparation for our retake of the exam from AS. We have done a practice exam and been doing refresher classes, but in our group we have been focusing on our location and deciding when to shoot our first scenes.

We have decided we have to delay our filming for a while due to the poor weather conditions, as they are not suitable as we are filming outdoors a lot. We will be able to film the indoor sections though, so we will be doing that in the near future.

Journal 5

We have now moved on to making our storyboards and making our photo animatic. We started by going through the lyrics and writing on the sheet all of our ideas, and making sure we understand the song and what is about.

As a group we then decided what we wanted to do for the each of the verses and develop our idea from there and started to think about what effects we could use, so it will look effective.

Once our main ideas were down, we done our draft copy first. Our draft was okay, but it wasn't neat and very presentable and we also had to add more frames in because otherwise each individual shot would be too long once we started filming it. Then we done our main storyboard and made it neat and tidy and easily understandable. We then took photos of each individual frame and made it into a photo animatic and put the music on it to see how our music video would plan out. Our animatic needs minor adjustments but I think it will be effective.

Journal 4

Location

We then had discussed, as a group were we would like to locate the music video. In the original music video of torn the whole video is based in a flat. We are going to have flashbacks of when the couple is happy, so we will have to have many different locations. We had to think carefully and only think what is possible that we could achieve so we are going to have two main scenes they are in the park and in a house. 

The reason we have chose to use the park as a setting is because its a lonely place and its almost a cliche setting for couples to be, so she will be reminiscing looking at other couples being happy. Also, its easy to show her in pain because the woods can be lonesome.

The household shots will show when the couple is breaking up also it will show the woman on her own. The house is a good place to use as a location because their will be plenty of things to remind her of the 'good old times'. We will also have scenes maybe in a restaurant when the couple was going out to use in the flashbacks. 

Journal 3

Decisions and Ideas
Once we had sorted out what we are doing and picked the song, then we had to discuss and come up ideas for our music video. We decided as a group to stick to Goodwins theory and make sure the lyrics and music relate to the music video. We also decided on a rough story line, to which we decided to keep and develop as we go along.

In our music video, we are going to have the same couple throughout and the audience gets to see everything they are going through, so they can relate to it. At first, we are going to show them having a rough break up and we will show them miming arguing and screaming at eachother, and throwing things in a household environment.

The next stage when people are going through break ups is the sad, depressing and lonely time, and we will show this by her on her own in stereotypical places for people at this time(parks, walking down streets etc.) We shall also involve her reminiscing and her having flashbacks of the good times in her past relationship.

To show our editing skills, we will show the couple walking along and getting the man in the picture to fade away to show she is alone. This will be hard as it will be all about timing, and getting the framing right but I am sure it will be very effective.

Journal 2

Group Selection

In this lesson, we had to get into our groups and sort out what we will all be doing in our group. I have been grouped with Dominic Coleman and Harj Chana. Then we was given about 6 pages of different briefs of different styles, genres and types of artists. Our group then had to pick what music video we wanted to do. We decided to do 'Torn' but we are going to redo the entire song and record everything from scratch and Chanele will be our performer and she will also star in our music video. We think this will be a good idea and will be effective and will look good.

Journal 1

In the first lesson we got told what we will be doing for our final year in media.  We got told that we will be doing a music video, but before you can make one, you have to put a lot of research and planning into it. So we started doing some immediate theory on music video and focused on Goodwins Theory. The theory behind Goodwins Theory is that the video will include these 6 rules:

1. The record company's demands for exposure of the artist will mean a lot of close-up shots of the singer.

2. There will be a relationship between music and visuals.

3. There will be a relationship between lyrics of the visuals.

4. There will be genre characteristics, for example rock music videos show live performance, hip hop videos present an image of wealth and "gangsta" lifestyle and bot bands have dance routines.

5. There will be references to the notion of looking for example, television screens, mirrors or people looking at each other or at the audience.

6. There will be some use of intertextual referencing.

They don't have to all apply this theory as some artists try to rebel against it.

We then tried to see if Jay-Zs '99 Problems' applied Goodwins Theory and I have written my findings on another blog post.