Begining the video

I have started to film some footgae for my music video, and managed to start off by getting 4 good clips I will be able to use.

Making some changes and the storyboard.

I ahve once again written down some more ideas that are easily equipped and applicable to my video. I will now draw a story board which I will later scan onto the computer and post here.

Importing the audio

I have now tried to import my song to start my video, after I ahve fingured outt he time length of the song I can then start to think about what clips I will need and how long they need.

Planning

I have now started to make a plan for my video. I have planned what days I will be shooting my video and what I want to include on the different days and what shots I need to complete my video.
I hope to complete all of this in a few weeks.

Taking some more photographs

Over the half term week I took some photographs with my own camera and this allowed me to get more specific images that I would need for my work outside of the school environment.

These are a few example sof the images I took:

Taking my images

I have taken some images of nature and i will use these on my dvd cover and my promotional poster.
I mayu include a few of these into my music video but I am unsure as to what I am going to do yet.

Preparing for the new plan

After I made plans for my new music video idea, I then discovered that not all of my work would be achieveable int he school environment.
I have asked my teacher for perm ission to use my own video camera outside of school to contributwe towards my work. He said that this would be fine but he needs to see an amount of work done in school so that he can authorise that it is entirely my own work.

New Annotated Song

Here is the new annotated version of the song Harmony, by NeverShoutNever.

New Ideas and Planning

Here is a print screen of the new ideas I have thought about:

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The New Plan

I have now decided on the new music I will be using for my music video.

I am using a song by the band NeverShoutNever.

Once again I ahve tried to contact the band and ask for their permission to use their audio.

Here is the email evidence of this:

Problems faced

I have been having difficulty in finding people who are willing to participate in my video.
Therefore I have decided to change the song I will use for my video, and have a different theme to my video.

Barcode

For my dvd cover I made my own barcode rather than taking one from the internet. I used a simple tutorial and I sucessfully made this barcode, which I included on my dvd cover:

Making my dvd cover

For the maing fo my dvd cover I used Adobe Photoshop, I chose a very vibrant colour scheme in order for my dvd cover to stand out amongst others that would be on sale.

This is not yet finished I need to take my main images for the front of this dvd cover.

This is what I have done so far:

Annotated Research

This is the music dvd cover that I annotated.


This is the magazine advertisement that I annotated. I have decided that I would like my poster to look similar to this and to have a layout like this.

Annotated Research#

Research into avdertising the band

I have looked at some examples of DVD covers and magazine advertisements for my band and I have annotated them. I have decided that for my band I will use a large similar image of both of my documents so that my work has a sense of contingency.

The Music Industry Research

I have spent time researching into how the music industry works and what labels sign what type of bands and how bands get signed. I looked at labels such as Roadrunner Records and Decaydance Records.

Applying Lyrics to Ideas

On a copy of the lyrics to the bands song I have gone through each individual line of each verse and annotated what will be happening in my video sequence during the playing of the song.

Here is an example of this:

Seeking Permission

Once I had decided what song I was going to use I then started to think about how I was going to contact the band in order to request permission to use their audio in my media work.


I found the bands Myspace page and found a way to contact them would be to email them using the email address provided on their page.


Here is the evidence to show this:

The email reads:
Dear Band Members,
I am a sixthform student that would like to use your audio track to make a promotional music video for my A2 Media Studies Coursework. I have chosen your track because I like the song and I think it would be a good way for me to try and show your music to all the people that I know and boost your popularity and also give me a chance to make an excellent music video.
I hope to hear from you soon,
Yours Sincerely
Jessica Battle

Chosing the Audio

Once I had looked at the different types of music video that I thought were appealing, I then began to think about songs which would be a good audio track for my music video.

I complied a list of songs which I then scanned through and decided upon a song. I thought that it would be better to chose a song from an unsigned band that do not yet have a video for the song I have chosen.

I chose to use I Wish by a band called The Secret Handshake.

Gathering Information

After I decided what I might like to incorperate in my video I decided to get further opinions off of my target audience, which is young people. I interviewed three students from years 10, 11 and 12 from my school and asked them the same questions. From my results I got the information that the three people I asked liked their video to relate to the song, have an eye catching video and like videos thaqt do not have long introductions.

I also found out that the majority of people in my friendship groups mainly watch music videos on tv channels such as VIVA and MTV, or they view it on the internet on sites such as YouTube.

Preparing for my music video

After looking at these videos I decided that I wanted to use a green screen/ CGI technology in my music video. I wanted to have a moving background image and use lots of different bright colors, which I took inspration from these two videos.

The first task I started when thinking about my music video was to look into different types of music videos and how they range. I analysed two different music videos, the videos I looked at where Jet- 'Are You Gonna Be My Girl' and I also looked at Rihanna's 'Rude Boy' video.