Mood board

This is my personal mood board that I have worked on, as the one on our group blog is not working properly. 

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Make-up design

I have also completed the make-up design, it took me a lot of time to consider how our artist will look so in the end I came up with this:

These two are the main designs that I am going for, They are simple but it will bring out artists features and also most music videos have a lot of make-up used to transform the artist. I strongly feel our artist should have this simple look for when she enters the house becuase there may be points where she will cry and I wanted to have a close-up of the tears running down her face. This could be used as a cut away.

The middle left hand side, this is what I am going for during the performance. Afterall, the performance of the artist is the main thing and that is what sells the artist the most. The bottom left hand side is the lipstick I want to use. This will attract the male viewers- voyeorism.

Here are some of the hairstyles that I could use on the artist....

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Costume design

I have completed the costume design and I have done this so it revolves around our artist. Also, I have put up some suggestions of what our artist could look like.

Here are the designs:

This is the boys costume design, I do know that we don't really need to do the boys costume design but I feel if we are going to make this a perfect music video then I need to focus on everything that will be shown in front of the camera.

Here is the girl's costume design, I did have to spend a lot of time thinking about what she has to wear because I don't want to go 'over the top' with her outfits because she will be at a house so it does have to be a little realistic. However, most music videos are 'over the top' because teh viewer feel out of place and that engages them even more. I have chosen some designs that are fit to be used in a house and also I have chosen some 'over the top' outfits that could be used at the performance. Now all I ahve to do is make sure our artist has most of the things underneath.

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So far as a group!

We have found a new artist so we can now start our recording and this makes things easier because our main problem was based on finding an artist. 


I have created the costume and make-up designs and I have made a recording plan which we will stick to, if we could. I have also researched some music videos that have influenced us for our video.

Sarah has researched some more music videos that have influenced us and she is doing a great job at creating the artist logo. She is also working on the questionnaire for the audience and she has done the lyrics analysis.

Becky is working very hard to finish off the storyboard on time for the recording.

As a group, we have created the mood board, the ideas for the pitch, artist’s name. also me and Sarah  have recorded a discussion we had about our problems and progress so far.

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Our idea in depth

I think Sarah did a great job of coming up with the concept for this songs, she has thought of main idea of her returning home. As a group, we have developed them further and have created this overall idea.

At first, we tired to link the lyrics and the visuals which were fine because we thought about what the word has connotations of.
Here is our idea in depth, what we will be doing and what is our idea for each line.

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Videos that influence us- Adele 'Make You Feel My Love

•  This music video contains the artist being in one location and we like this because it focuses on the emotive side of the song. We, as a group have decided that we will also we recording in a house, however, we do want to change the location slightly so our artist will be moving around the house- going to different rooms. We will do this because it sets the sense that the house is empty without the male artist and the female artist can feel the loneliness through his things being there. We have also decided that we will be going to Richmond Hill to record the performance side of the song.

·         Another idea that influenced us from this music video is that the artist wear’s her boyfriend’s jumper. I like this idea very much because it shows that the artist is feeling lonely and she is missing him. Also the lyric of our song is ‘I’m still here’- this suggests that the female artist is waiting for him to come back. She wants things to go back to normal and we can examine this through the lyrics of the song.

·         Also idea that I like is when the artist is near the window and the music video ends on an extreme close-up of her face this clearly states her facial expressions on her face.

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Video that influenced me- Bruno Mars 'It Will Rain'

• This music video had influenced me a lot as well, when it cuts from the moments the artist has spent with his girlfriend to the performance would work very well with our music video a well. The cuts ot those moments emphasis the emotiveness of the song and this is what we are trying to do.
• Another idea that really influenced me is when the scene of twilight was played by the projector. This could also work extremely well with our music video, if we record moments the couple have spent together.

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Videos that influenced us- Cheryl Cole 'The Flood'

- This music video really interested me, there were lots of parts that I liked and I strongly think we could use them in our music video but differently off course. The first idea I like was when the artist is sitting near the window and looking outside, this creates the sense that she is lost in her own thoughts. I think we will use this idea but we should end with her sitting near the window because it suggests that she is still thinking about him and is waiting for him and this is what our song is mainly about.

-  The second idea that I enjoyed was when the artist is in bed and she is thinking about her partner who she is missing. I think this could also work well with our music video because the artist is moving around the house and everything there reminds her of her partner who used to be there. This bed scene could really work if she lays there and turns to the place where he was meant to be but he isn't there anymore.

From watching these music videos we have to make a note to ourselves: TO INCLUDE LOTS OF CUT-AWAYS AND CHANGE LOCATIONS 


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Record Company Research

Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is the second largest global recorded music company and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America. The record corporation first was founded in 1929 then later it was established as SME. The company is located in New York and the operating income is $469 million. Under the name of Sony Music Entertainment, there are other music labels such as, Epic Records, RCA label group and many more. 
Sony Music Entertainment is a worldwide music company with a roster that includes both local artists and international superstars. 
Sony Music Entertainment has created different convergence in which audiences can get their music. Music is unlimited on the following products; Android mobile phones, Blu-Ray disc players and on any computer. SME has thought of every way to distribute their music across to people. 


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Change of Song!!!

Now we have changed our song to: ‘I’m still here’- Cady Groves. We worked as a group to come up with the ideas (ON THE MAIN GROUP BLOG- media13b1.blogspot.com). Everyone agrees with this idea and we thing it would work better than our first one.

This song will not have any problems because we only need 2 people to record this.

Our idea:

·         The girl comes to an empty house where her and her boyfriend used to live.

·         She puts the keys on the table

·         Cuts to her playing guitar

·         Pictures on the wall of the couple

·         Drinking coffee and looking outside the window

·         The main performance is done in Richmond park hill at night (her playing guitar)

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Problems we faced...

Our idea was very difficult in terms of recording, we needed:

·         About 15-20 people for the house party- this was a problem because this could disturb the residents around the house. Also the matter of getting the people is someone’s house could create lots of problems.  E.g. cleaning up after them

·         We had a shot which involved the group to go outside the house for recording- we could face the same problem with the residents having a problem.

·         More than one camera- problem because there are other people who are recording at the same time as us and there are not enough resources for us to record.

·         Also the whole process of us outing up the lights outside on the street which is difficult.

·         Main problem is coming up with dance steps for the song.

·         Also the whole concept seemed a little child-like so we had to change it.

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Idea-part 2

As a group, we expanded on our first idea and decided we will have a house party and have more than one camera so we can record the scene in different angles. That would have worked because we decided we could use some of the shots as cut-away (as all music videos contain a lot cut away).

We also decided that we will record scenes in London for some extra footage that could also be used as cut-away. As the song upbeat, we wanted to make out music video upbeat too. As a group, we decided that we would record as much footage as possible for the editing later.

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Our first idea for our main task

For our main task, our main idea was to do the song ‘Put Your Hands Up’ by Alex Root who is an unknown artist. Here are our ideas for that particular song:

·         Starts with the girl in her room, singing on her bed.

·         Gets out the house and two of her friends join her (we have dance steps for the up beat music)

·         Different location: - Central London, Home (bedroom scene), outside the house (high street), Richmond park.

We also decided that we were going to these songs to pick out scenes and shots that inspire us to do ours:

·         With your love

·         Boys and Girls

·         Girl’s just wana have fun. Etc…

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Music Video Directors: David Fincher

These are some of the top directors worth knowing about;

·         Jake (Wynn) and Jim (Canty)

·         Tim Pope

·         Lindy Heymann

·         Hype Williams

·         John Landis

·         Ben Unwin

·         Michael Gondry

·         Spike Jonze

·         Janas Akerland

·         David Fincher

David Fincher (David Andrew Leo Fincher) was born in August 28, 1962 in Denver, Colorado.  Fincher is known for his dark and stylish thrillers such as, Seven (1995), The Game (1997), Panic Room (2002) and many more.
       

·         Inspired by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Fincher began making movies at age eight with an 8 mm camera.

·         After this, Fincher’s career kicked off to a great start.

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Timeline of music video history

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