Planning - Animatic



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Planning: Pitch- Brand Image/Costume

Planning- Audience task

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Planning- Synergy incorporation

Planning- AlunaGeorge website

 

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Planning- Three influential music videos

Planning- analysis of AlunaGeorge's music video.

 

 

Planning- Why our final song choice?

I can't find the lyric video for AlunaGeorge's song Bad Idea on Youtube anymore, it seems like the owner has put the video down.

https://soundcloud.com/alunageorge/bad-idea

At the start when I was  given the task to find a music video by a British artist for my group make a video to I found the task challenging for many reasons because I don't listen to music as much as regular teenagers do, also I wasn't familiar with British artists however I knew that I was inclining to tense, soul music for instance Adele, Emeli Sande, Corrine Bailey Rae... etc.

 

 When I was searching up British artists I did find a singer called Nina Nesbitt and  her song No Interest and I was quite fond of doing a re-make of the video. I quite enjoyed her songs and music videos and I found that I drifted from soul to pop music videos and that is where my group comes in!

My group  came up with 3 music videos, Khadeeja came up with Bad Idea by AlunaGeorge, Romy with  Only You by Delilah and Luke was interested in Inside Each Other by Delilah (remix). At this time I wasn't too sure of the music video I thought we should do and wanted to see what ideas and music genres they had in mind I never knew we were going to decide on that very day!

Since I had only had Nina Nesbitt in mind but purely because she was the only one British pop singer that I thought wouldn't be as challenging to do. I still wanted to search for more British artists however as my group likes to be advanced than the other groups we decided on that very day that we were going to do Bad Idea by AlunaGeorge through countless discussions and even Trevor came in and picked out key elements we could include on the making of the video as well as how it differed from the other two songs. Additionally, Khadeeja's argument managed to win over and convince everybody, that girl has great persuasive and convincing skills I tell you!

The Lift Pitch

Our class pitch is coming up soon and part of it is to give a summary of our music video idea. So to best illustrate this I thought it would be a good idea to film a mock 'lift pitch'. Basically, the group will film a scenario where a member of the group comes into contact with a big time music video producer and tries to convince them to produce their music video in twenty seconds, the entire thing taking place in an actual lift. It will be a great opener to our pitch, good enough to catch the attention of the pitch audience.

Costume ideas!

So for our music video I'm going to be playing the idiot and not-so-loyal boyfriend... Joy. I thought as I don't have the main role, and my character is meant to be quite general and a typical boy, that I should wear some quite normal and casual clothing. Here's some outfits that I thought would best suit the video...

Living room costume- I thought this one should be pretty casual and non-caring as my character is just sitting at home playing video games, chilling out etc. 

Shorditch Alley- This is quite a trendy yet casual area and scene so I thought I should base my costume purely on this. 

Picnic scene- As I'm on a picnic with my loving girlfriend (lol) I thought as smart-casual costume would fit this scene.

Mile end skatepark- As its the end scene I thought I should wear some colourful, but still casual clothing which doesn't stand out too much.

5, 6, 7, 8...

Me and Romy got some sweat and bruises from our extra gal pal time! What that means is we got together to work on some of the dance movement and choreography for the music video, we also did some test shots of her lipsyncing with the camera. Here are the fruits of our labour!

Choreography & Test Shots

Rehearsals with Romy and Khadeeja by asmediaset5

Last summer video...

Here's a belated post of my embarrassing music video from last year!

Here's the Digipak I made to go along with it- 

Music videos that have influenced our final plan...

Research skills...

I think my research skills have definitely improved since last year. I think this is mainly because we've gone straight into the coursework, which evidently means that I've had to work really hard from the start of the year and do a lot of research into music videos myself, as we have not been taught as much on this topic than we had on the thriller film project.

On the other hand, the fact that I have been blogging and researching since last year, I think its been made easier as I've already got that experience on how to blog and how to keep up with timing, although at the moment I still need to blog a bit more than I am at the moment.

Makeup ideas...

I'm not a makeup artist but I like to try out different eyeshadow looks and what not from time to time so I thought I would try out some looks for the music video:

The thick eyeliner is used a lot by singers and I thought it was quite a staple look that could work 

 

More to come! 

Costume ideas

Looking through my wardrobe I realised that I didn't have many bright coloured pieces of clothing however I managed to find a few clothes that could potentially work in the music video.

I put together a few outfits: 

I felt as if one of these outfits could work with the street scenes. I think that they are quite casual but also stylish and even though they are quite basic outfits, they are also something that most teenagers would wear.

The next few outfits I thought might work for the chorus sections of the music video, again they aren't too dressy however I think they would stand out to the more casual outfits:

These outfits could maybe work for any of the scenes:

Obviously these outfits might not nessicarly be used in the music video but I'm going to discuss it with my group on Wednesday. 

Contributions to Costume

So, since the video is supposed to be very pop-like and colourful - I feel like I may fall short in my ability to contribute due to my personal boho style (I own predominantly cream clothing. I am not ashamed). Nevertheless I managed to dig up some stuff that I feel may be of use to the group if needed.

Planning - Setting's IRL (In Real Life)

So we went out to actually view the places we are to film, here are the photos from the outing;

Shoerditch Alley

Mile End Skatepark

Living Room

Hyde Park

Synergy!!

Planning - The Draft Storyboard

Here is our draft storyboard for our music video, as it is a draft it is still SUBJECT TO CHANGE and is not yet set in stone. We want to make sure all ideas are considered before doing the final storyboard. Lovingly (lol) illustrated by khadeeja it depicts some of the ideas members of the group put forward over several brainstorming sessions.