Planning

We have now began to plan the ideas we hope to fufill in our music video. We have began to follow the process of making a story board which contains our ideas and we hope to finalise it and show it to our peers and get feedback which will act as constructive criticism. We began, as a group, to talk of the ideas we have took a keen interest to from looking at our research and we put this information together to help form an idea. To do this we made four possible final ideas and then we talked about how realistic they would be in terms of being able to make by getting actors, locations and being able to make within our time frame. These ideas were as follows:
Option 1:
Girl on her own 'lost' essentially, following the ed sheeran - the A team theme
Story related to drug issues perhaps
Option 2:
Idea like the Luminers - Stubborn Love theme
Girl leaving her dad - moving away
This story to fit in with the possible song choice of 'when i was young'
Option 3:
Parents fighting - children (brother/sister)
He takes her to the park - With our singer Paddy appearing as a busker for a brief period
Brother and sister stop busker - young girl gives money making the singer appear to the audience more clearly
Option 4:
2 children displaying friendship
Shows the girl getting on the bus - meeting the boy
Cute activities - child like with an adult edge to them

When we have chosen are selected idea we will ensure that it is in fitting with the song we have chosen and then we will begin to start looking more closely at carrying out or ideas. This will involve selecting actors that will play our characters, finding locations that suit our ideas, organising costumes, and creating a timetable so we can start recording our music video and make it come to life. Once we have began to do this we may realise that some changes may need to be made due to things like perhaps it didn't look correct once filmed and perhaps we didn't like this idea once we watched it back. If this does happen we may have to play about with the typical codes and conventions and possibly put our own individual twist on what is typical of an indie pop artist. Some pictures of our story board can be seen our group blog.


Throughout this process of making our media products we realised that communication between our group would be crucial for our success. We therefore decided to create a 'whatsapp' group for the using organising filming days and we also created a private Facebook group so we are able to share ideas with one another, ideas that perhaps we had not originally thought of but have now came across.

An example of something we found recently that we decided that we liked was the music video shown below. We particularly liked this music video as it was similar to the ideas we are hoping to do in that it contains a narrative with a small appearance by the artist. We also liked the filming techniques in this video as it contained things such as slow motion and close ups, which we aim to incorporate into our video.
 

Another video we discovered that we found we liked and hope to try and incorporate some ideas from in out video is shown below. We like the use of slow motion and the rewind effect.