Our video will be filmed entirely in a studio. We want this as it will give our video a more stylish finish and look more professional. Also this is a good option for us as the studio is very accessible and our actress knows the equipment well as she is a photography student. The lighting is key in our video and the studio allows us to use good lighting equipment, hopefully this will be clear in our finished product. The lighting we have within the studio will also enable us to use the neon paints we wanted to, as we want them to glow in the dark. Without a specific light (which the studio has) we would not be able to use them.
Learning Comment:
By doing the narrative planning, me and Annabel realised we do not have one set decision yet. Therefore, by analysing 3 of them, we can look at this and think which the best idea might be. I think out of all of our ideas, number 3 is the best. This is because I think the neon paint would be very effective, as it would allow us to show any sort of emotion we want. For example, we could use red, to show anger or blue to show sadness. I believe this would work well, the paints would allow us to tell a story without saying any words at all. This would mean our music video would be shot fully in a photography studio. I also think this is a good idea, as we can then control the lighting we want/need. However, it could be a problem as we will not have a variety of locations within our video.
LEARNING COMMENT:
From doing this task, I was able to research different artists' logo, and use theirs for inspiration for mine. Most I researched, are just the singer's name, therefore I wanted to make mine similar as it would then look more professional. Artists and DJs such as Eminem, David Guetta, Selena Gomez and Bastille have all done this, and are all very famous and well-known. I researched many websites where I could download and use a specific font for free, however, last year for media I had used "dafont.com", and therefore knew it was easy and quick to use, which was very usueful. For many of the logos I designed, I put lines to outline our actor's name. This is because many artists have used this and I thought it looked effective, as it shows the name is important to know about. Although my chosen design is not too interesting, I have copied the codes and conventions of other artists, which I think is important.
Learning Comment:
From doing this task, I was able to design my own digipak and poster. This is an important thing to do as it is what professional artists do, therefore would make my whole design with my music video look more and more well-made. I also learnt what specific artists use for their CD designs, and how they almost always match their genre of music. For example, Lorde's genre of music seems quite dark, which is reflected in her CD and posters which are quite dark too. Not only did I learn about digipaks themselves, but I also learnt much more about using Photoshop, which I had not known a lot about before. Because I know now how to use Photoshop, I can use this for the future in media, maybe when I am editing another digipak or poster.
(Our message to our actress, asking her to be in our music video. )
LEARNING COMMENT:
From doing this task, we were able to prepare and think about who our main actress will be. We decided we will use our friend Charlotte Cheal who we have used for previous tasks in other school subjects. We will film mostly in the photography studio, as we think it would look more professional as we can easily control the lighting. This task enabled us to think more into planning, and now that we know who our actress is, and where we will film our music video.
After having trouble with our first actress we thought that before going ahead in planning to use Grace, we would do a test run of the song to see how professional she was and if she was comfortable in front of the camera… sort of like an audition!
Learning Comment
By doing this task, I was able to plan about what fashion and props I may need for the music video I will be creating. I believe our next step will be buying the stuff we have planned to use, so we are able to see if they work well or if they do not and if they are safe to use.
LEARNING COMMENT:
From doing this task, it enabled me to bring all of my ideas together and think about my whole music video. We were able to think about the actress we are using, the location, fashion, props and more. Because of this, we are now more sure on the sort of music video we want to do.
From now, now that we have all of our general ideas sorted out, we can start planning our storyboard etc, to work out exactly how we are going to film our narrative/performance parts of our music video.
HOWEVER we have now changed our ideas since making this powerpoint, pitch and learning comment. We have decided to film all of our music video in the photography studio. This is because we want to make it look more professional, and when we tested lighting in the location we wanted, it did not look good whilst filming. Also, we have seen many professional music videos filmed in a photography studio, which look very effective too.
We got part of our inspiration from a former Castle School student from 2015. Grace filmed all of her music video in a photography studio, and it still looked extremely well-made and professional. Me and Annabel think this looks very good, and we can also control whatever lighting we need much more easily. Therefore, we plan to do something similar to this.
