Pitch

Here is a link to our Music Video pitch, by putting this all together it allowed us to structure and plan our work and how we will go about making our music video. This was beneficial because we was able to organise our ideas, and have them to refer back to, as in some cases we would forget what we wanted to portray. However, we do understand that we may sway away from our orginal ideas.

Research - anaylsing music videos

 

These are some of the questions we have to considered when researching other music videos.

By using these questions in our research it benefits us as it allows us to gain a deeper insight into similar music products, this will help us with making our narrative clearer and understand the conventions needed for our music video.

 

Planning - Video ideas

In today's lesson, we have a clear decision on which song we have chosen

'Ellie Goulding - Everytime you go' 

We like this song because when listening to it, we felt the lyrics portaryed a clear narrative and storyline. This benefits us, as it gives us a variety of ideas that we could use in our video, which means we will have a structure when we go to film.

 this is the song we chose.

Planning - Narrowing down songs

We decided to listen to the songs we previously picked out and chose a few and give them pros and cons, until we reached our final decision

Planning - Discussion of song choices

Here is a discussion we had when choosing song choices

This shows our ideas and variety of song choices we had and our elimination process.
From this we were able to do the pros and cons of each song and eventually narrow it down to our final song choice.

Planning - Possible song choices

This was our final mind map, there is a variety of different songs from different artists on there.

We sat and went through different CDs and went on YouTube to listen to different songs. We found which songs already have videos, and went along a similar theme of female artists but also explored some male as well. Exploring different song choices beneifts us, as it means we can chose the one most suited to our ideas.

Planning - Song choices

We started looking at songs today, we gathered a couple of CDs and looked online, this was just a general idea of what sort of music we would be interested in perusing with our music video. By doing this we are allowing ourselves to have lot of options, as we want to be open minded before we make a final decision.

 

Lip Sync Practice

Lip Syncing is an important part of music videos, so we was asked to do a practice video using a song of our choice. We chose Nelly and Kelly Dilemma, we found this was harder to lip sync as it is a fast rapping song, therefore we know what to avoid in our real production. This task is beneficial to our real music production, as it shows the difficulty and the precision needed when syncing to a song. Lip-sycning is an important aspect of music videos, so by having practice, we have learned how to do it in our final coursework piece.

Evaluation of Preliminary Task

Here is a video evaluation of our preliminary task. Evaluating our work is always beneficial as by going back and analysing this, we was able to see a variety of changes and improvements that could be made. We understand what areas we need to avoid and what we need to focus more on. This will help us in the final music video, as it allowed us to be critical of our own work.

Preliminary Task

We was asked to make a practice video, so we had a chance to get an idea of how our coursework will be this year. It gave us a chance to use the software and get to know what features it had. Our preliminary video will act as a comparison to our real thing, as it shows where was go wrong and what we can do better. This task will benefit us when doing our real music video, as it acts as a clear guideline of what went wrong and what we can include and remember. It gave us the opportunity to practice, and not go in blind, meaning our final video should be of a better standard. It will act as a way of showing how much we will progess.

We chose Hot and Cold by Katy Perry as it is a fun upbeat video, and we had lots of ideas for it