group meeting #7

This meeting occurred during a filming session, because we realised that our narrative worked better with just a singular girl and boy. We have adapted our narrative to being that this girl and guy are in a relationship with each other, but they argue a lot and it turns out is can be quite abusive, and as a group we still decided to keep the idea of the girl ending up pregnant. The reason for this is that one of the girls dropped out, so we had to adapt the narrative accordingly, and the whole group feel it is much better this way.

target audience

due to our idea change, we never mentioned that our target audience has also changed too. we are no longer aiming for strong, independant women to watch our music video. now we want those young girls, who can identify with our main star, and feel a connection to the music and the video. we want to attract those lost and lonely souls who have fallen in love and got their hearts broken. that is who we want to watch our music video and buy our album.

group meeting #6

after uploading our footage, we realised that one member of our camera crew (not naming) kept the camera shaking or held upside down. in order to fix this, we cannot rotate our shots because of a cropping/sizing issue, and so must refilm a lot of our footage. we also came to the conclusion that there should be only one female lead vocalist, and due to my past experience with drama and media and music, that it should be me who is the main vocalist. we will still have the narrative running, with myself, olivia and daniel, which we plan to start filming this afternoon. we have too many shots that are sideways, because of the awry camera work.

footage upload: group meeting #5

In today's lesson, May and myself are uploading and importing the footage that has been shot over the last week and a bit. We have collected various footage from all sorts of locations, such as my house, the school gardens, the school practice choir room, a local park. All these locations we have stills of as well, which will be uploaded separately. After spending time together and thinking clearly, using our imaginations and developing ideas for our locations, we have managed to import quite a varied amount of footage to iMovie. This footage is not about the narrative, that is yet to be filmed (thursday is the plan) it is just the singing parts, performed by myself and Olivia. The narrative filming will star Daniel Dickson (a close friend of mine), myself and Olivia, in a love triangle with a plot twist, in order to break away from any boundaries and stereotypes caused by doing a Taylor Swift song.

day 2 of filming

on Saturday myself and Olivia stayed at my house and spent the day filming the singing parts for our music video. as we plan to use a split screen, it is not that important that me and Olivia are in the same shots together. however, the scenes/sequences that we are in fact in the same camera shot, the camera is on the tripod, so that we can both be in the frame- showing a close friendship between the two girls, who also happen to be best friends in the narrative, but neither of them knowing that they are seeing the same guy. whilst filming, we tried to have a photo of Daniel in the background of each shot, showing that he is constantly on our minds. this then links to the narrative with him in it, being both of our boyfriends and then the resolution being that he picks one.
a problem we faced whilst filming, was the lighting in my living not being too great in one half of the room, from where the sun is angled at my house. to solve this, we angled the camera so that it reflected the light differently, and we could use all the space that we needed in the room.

day 1 of filming

we got some good shots of footage, finding a beautiful garden in our school to film by, which we chose to sing under. the narrative parts of our video will have minimal singing parts.
we also filmed in a local park by our school, and will continue filming inside my house and outside of it (preferably in the rain) as both me and Olivia will be more comfortable filming in a familiar and natural setting (such as my house).

filming problems

Our filming problems occur via location, because Richmond Park have an early closure time so we have had to quickly change location, moving it to the kingston river, which is the thames. our idea is to create a romantic theme and scenic ideas, and this is why we have to find a romantic spot.
We have also decided that the singing parts of our video will be filmed in my house, because we know that there is good lighting there, and also both me and Olivia will be more comfortable filming inside, around each other, in a natural surrounding.
We will base the inside filming on a sleepover between the two girls, and this is when they both discover that they are dating the same guy, which causes drama and a rift between the two girls and their friendship.

New idea inspirations:

McFly- the heart never lies

Adele- someone like you


Gabriella Aplin- Panic Chord

These songs initiate a certain theme, of love and hope and loss- which is a similar theme to the one myself and my group are trying to access. the lyrics don't necessarily have a similar narrative, or a narrative at all, but the following music videos have a similar narrative/genre, eg boy meets girl, either ends up hurt and broken up, only to get back together in the end

The Wanted- warzone

Emili Sande- my kind of love

Leona Lewis- bleeding love