Shooting Schedule

Here is the shooting scedule for filming. We have tried to find dates in which people are available to be in our music video, and fitted it around them.

Storyboarding

Here is the storyboard to our music video.

Shots For Music Video

We came up with a list of shots for our music video. We listened through the song and tried to work out what shots could go in each part of the song and we have came up with a skeleton of what shots we will use in the music video, give or take a few. Some of these ideas might change because we are only in the early stages of planning and some ideas might be hard to recreate.

Music Video Ideas

Me and my partner have come up with a brainstorm of ideas that we could use in our music video, we have done this to give a basic outline of the stuff we could include in our music video.

GreenScreen Test

Choosing a Song.

Choosing a song, I thought was quite difficult because of the choice that I had that band had to offer. I was given four songs to look at, all of a decent length so I listened to all of them as least 3 or 4 times so that I could grasp the lyrics and work out the beats and melodies. I wanted to pick a song that would be lively and had a kick to it, so that the music video would be more lively and interesting. This ruled out one of the songs because I found that it was too slow, and the lyrics were hard to relate to and to create ideas from. I found that another song that I listened to took over a minute to get into so I felt like that I couldn’t really express my ideas without the use of the lyrics of the song. From here I was left with two songs, both equally as good as one another. The first song was consistently good through out but I felt like I couldn’t represent the lyrics of the song with a good narrative that could accompany it. From here I was left with one song, and ideas were easy to come up with because of the context of the song.

Finding the band.

For my planning I looked through different websites to try and find an unsigned band that I could use their track for my music video. I first looked at Myspace.com but struggled to find anything that would catch my attention and that I could a music video about. I found that they had a lot of music on there, and that bands obviously use this social networking site to try and grab any attention they can. I found that the search tool was quite easy to use and the website was quite easy to navigate around, this clearly being a good way to try and distribute unsigned bands so that the public can listen to them.
After looking at Myspace.com I took my attention to Unsigned.com which is a website specialised for unsigned bands who want their music to be listened to. I found this website more useful and easier to navigate around because of the simple layout on the right hand side that made it easy to search for a band, artist or song. I looked through tons of different bands trying to find the right one for me, and I narrowed it down to a select few but finally choosing a band from Liverpool called Alexis Blue.
Obviously when choosing the band/artist for my music video I had to consider the genre of music that I was going to pick. I had to make sure that the genre of music would suit the way the person in my music video was like, so I wouldn’t pick hip hop or classical if they weren’t the right part for it. After consideration I chose to look at the indie rock genre because it can suit a wide range of people and is considered a genre that is popular amongst my age group, which is my target audience, as most teenagers listen to music more than adults.