2. Monday 15th
September
In our group we have decided to use the Btec music students where they will
use their own written music, which they also composed. We chose to use
Esther because we feel her music fits our ideas of what we would like to
incorporate into our video and it will be easier with copyright because we have
the permission to use the singers music instead of using a well-known artists
music which would make it difficult for us to reach out to the artist and get
their permission.
We decided to create a music video, we thought that a music video would be
better for us to do rather than the other options at hand – we then researched
different genres of music, We thought a slow, romantic love song would be a
suitable genre for the skill set of btec student, since majority of the songs
Esther has written would fit this genre.
Research
The videos we thought would be appropriate for the theme and style we
would like to create where; Emotions – Destiny's child, So sick – Ne-yo and 6
degrees of separation – the script. They all used similar techniques.
3. Researching the music videos we are inspired by, we discovered that although
these music videos where released at different era’s the music videos all can
relate with one another because of the similarities in editing which then
confirmed our ideas of using this style of editing because it seems to be
something the viewer’s enjoy since that style of editing is still on going.
Wednesday 17th
September
After doing some home research we came together as a group and discussed
our findings.
I choose to research what goes on behind the scenes and why certain concepts
and ideas where used.
Home research
Researched video(behind the scenes) – Trey Songz heart attack
Behind the scenes video usual last 2- 4 minutes.
Usage of props (i.e the car) signified they where a “real” couple not too
glamorous or fabulous – everything was kept pretty simple, from the
costumes to the choice of background to the shots used throughout the
video.
4. Researched video (notes) – Wrecking ball
The Wrecking ball swinging and knocking the wall down, represent
how when you allow people into your life a lot of your walls to
come down to allow you to trust the person and that’s when you
can get hurt; building up the walls that allow you to get stronger –
is what the wrecking ball represents.
The Kissing and licking of the props (sledge hammer) shows
intimacy and how she is responding with them looks as though
she is in love, even though we can clearly see it’s destroy the
place, she still holds on this is a metaphor of her relationship, she
is singing about and how it’s destroying her. Use of real rubble
and wrecking ball was done to create realism. Nudity signifies
weakness.
5. Researched video (notes) – Beyonce best thing I never had
The lyrics of the song relate to the women of the world, every girl
can look back in there life and say “Thank god I never god I never
got with them”.
Opening scene was used to create intimacy.
Fantasy wedding
Thursday 18th
September
Since I am the editing our music video I decided to look at the different
aspects of Ne-yo –so sick, Destiny's child – Emotions, The script – 6
degrees of separation. After doing so I made a list of the techniques they
used.
Close ups
Black&White
Split screen
Panning
Me and simi began to plan for our proposal. We used a combination of
both of our research to create a structure for our proposal, using
powerpoint. *insert powerpoint screenshots*
Wednesday 22ND
September
Me and Simi presented and created our proposal since Summaya was
absent. *insert video*
6. Wednesday 29th
September
Me and simi, watched through our proposal we presented to the class
and made sure we included everything we wanted to share with the
class. Simi finished off the storyboards she had drawn up in the previous
lessons, while she did this I made sure the storyboard fitted with the
ideas we had originally had .
Costume ideas, we decided to keep the costume simple; Esther is to be
wearing all black with her hair out and me and Christian who will be the
acting in the video will be wearing anything, our costume is not that
relevant.
We added more to our log.
Arrange what we wanted to say to Esther, to inform her of what he role
involved.
Thursday 6th
October
Story boards and test plans
10. Thursday 9th
October
We had received a copy of the lyrics and began to analyse them, after
doing this we had begun to re think a lot of our original ideas, simply
because what we had didn’t quite work.
I had asked Esther to send us a demo of the track via WhatsApp. After
hearing the track and being able to hear the melody, we began to adapt
our storyboard.
Analysed Lyrics – If Fairy tales exist.
Verse 1-
When we were young we read those books – A wide angle which then
turns into a close up of Christian and Shannon reading a fairy tale
book.
That told us just how love should look
Cinderella found her king, Sleeping Beauty got the ring – over the
shoulder shots of the couple reading the fairy tale and turning the
page.
Oh we didn’t know a thing – shots of Esther singing
Pre-chorus-
And even though you walked out of my heart
You still hold that missing part
But you left me – Wide angle, panning, 180 rule and shot reverse to
show the couple arguing
Don’t let me go.
Verse 2-
Never had a happy ever after – Using a stylize transitions we will fade
from the chorus to the 2nd verse.
‘Cause after a while I didn’t matter
At the stroke of midnight, you were gone out of my sight – Shots of
Esther singing
Oh just like the speed of light
11. Pre-chorus-
And even though you walked out of my heart – Each transition within
the video turns as though it is a page in a book.
You still hold that missing part
But you left me
Don’t let me go
Bridge-
I’ll never know why you walked out like that – BIG argument with
couple as the music increases in intensity, this argument will be a
follow on from the one they had earlier.
But here today I need to face up to facts
‘Cause your gone, you left my heart with a crack
Yeah you’re not coming back, you’re not coming back
Love ain’t like on TV – Shots of Esther singing
Heartbreaks come and go constantly
But you, yeah you go to me
Oh why can’t I see
Chorus-
Fairy tales they don’t exist – We then go back to the scene where the
couple are reading the story but his time, it is just Shannon reading the
book.
But I still wish for one last kiss
You’ll always be my once upon a time
I know you’ll never be mine
As long as fairy tales don’t exist – The story book closes “the end.”
Then that’s the end of the scene. The camera slowly zooms out on
Esther into darkness
If only they did exist
Chorus-
Fairy tales they don’t exist – We then go back to the scene where the
couple are reading the story but his time, it is just Shannon reading the
book.
12. Monday 13th
October
Test shots *insert vids. Say what we will be using for the actually thing*
Tuesday 14th
October
On Tuesday outside of lesson – Esther, Simi, Christian, Summaya and I,
had a meeting about the composition and the creative ideas we had for
Esther's song.
While recording the instrumental of the track, we began to get a range
of ideas; Esther also gave her input as well.
Esther suggested the video should be more of a fairy tale which meant
we would have to change the original structure of the video
The following few weeks we focused on log work, Digi pak research,
editing test shots and creating our own digi paks.
Digi pak research
*look pon summayas blog*
Tuesday 4th
November
We decided to meet up outside of lesson to begin recording the original
track Esther had written, with the help of Christian who also plays the
leading male role in the video, we used the music facilities in school to
produce the song. Christian helped us create the instrumental since we
were unsure of how to use the equipment needed to record Esther.
Thursday 6th
November
We was given time within the lesson to work on finishing our music
video, since Summaya was absent that day and Esther wasn’t in school
13. because of consortium (Lessons at a different school) – Simi and I
worked alongside Christian and began to edit the track.
Monday 10th
November
We created a shot list of what we would like to record on the following
day. Our shot listed was for the footage of our behind the scenes of the
music video/making of the track, so we included a lot of close ups
because we felt as though the usage of close allows the views to feel as
though they are with the person in the shot, it acts as metaphor we’re
allowing the viewers to have access to something they wouldn’t usually
have the opportunity of seeing.
Tuesday 11th
November
We had all planned to come into school and work on the track because it
was still incomplete, we also saw this as a chance to get some more
filming done since Esther was free on this day, we had planned a shot list
of everything we would like to get done, by doing this we felt a lot more
organised. Esther decided she wanted to add backing vocals/harmonies
to her original track as she felt as though something was missing – we
filmed the process which after later discussing what we would like to do
with the content we had got from today – we thought it would be a
good idea to add some of the shots to the official music video as well as
the behind the scenes.
Thursday 13th
November
We completed the track and began thinking of new ideas for the music
video – after hearing the finished song we felt as though some of our
original ideas wouldn’t fit the style of the song. In the other half of the
lesson we focused on exam preparation.
Thursday 20th
November
14. Monday 20th
November
I was a bit behind on my log so I spent a few hours updating it and
making it more informative, I then began to research magazine covers as
we would soon be making our own.
Magazine research
I choose to look a music based magazines such as; Vibe, Billboard, Q,
Music and Rolling stones.
I liked this cover because it’s simple, it shows the artist and
there instrument – the artist looks presentable and not exposing
any of her body, which is another reason I was attracted to this
cover however I don’t think this cover is suitable for 15-18 target
audience this cover is best suited for the older consumers.
This cover is a lot like something I would like to create for our own
magazine cover it is quite similar to the “Music” magazine cover
however I think the bright bold colours and the font make this
magazine cover more suitable for our target audience.
