Production Diary

17.09.17  
Today in class, we were sorted into groups for our music video task and our group consists of: Charlotte, Anneka, Holly and Katie. In our groups we had to come up with multiple songs that we could potentially use for out music video. Our criteria was to choose songs that do not have a very recognisable artist, an artist that would match the student in the video, and has to be interesting enough to generate multiple different ideas for the visuals for the video. We looked at multiple different songs and artists while brainstorming such as: NAO, Daughter and Rihanna.

22.09.17  
In class today, we created a group presentation to show to the class our three song choices and our ideas and interpretations for each of the potential songs. Katie created two slides on powerpoint for the song Nostalgia by NAO, Holly created two slides for the song Burn it Down by Daughter, and Anneka created two slides for Rihanna's Consideration. On the first of our slides, we hyperlinked the song to play to the class when presenting and on the second we described our ideas for our own music video if we were to do it to that song.

23.09.17 
Today, two of the four groups in class presented their presentations for their music videos while the rest of the class gave them feedback on their song choices and more ideas to use in their videos. This was productive to the other groups as it allowed them make a clearer and better oriented decision of which song to choose as a group.

24.09.17 
In class today, our group presented our slideshow of our three top song choices for the final music video to the class and received feedback from our teacher and classmates. They told us their individual different ideas and which song would be the most successful for our group to create in their own opinion. Charlotte wrote down everyone's comments and made it into a blog post which is view-able on each of our own blogs.

25.09.17
 Today, we watched and marked other students music videos and evaluated their performances comparing it to the mark scheme . This was a helpful lesson as it helped by giving us inspiration for our own music video ideas, also we were able to see what grades where obtained by what video. We were then set a task to upload the music videos we watched and to write a post about what worked within the videos and what could have done with improvement . This would therefore help us when it came to planning and filming our own music video.

26.09.17
 In today's lesson, we came up with our artists name 'Sindee', and began to divide the tasks between us. Katie created a timetable of availability for next week, this meant we could begin to plan our filming schedule. Holly began to start the shoot mood board to help give us inspiration and ideas, Charlotte researched similar genre albums and CD covers whilst Anneka began to analyse the song lyrics and decide which of our shot ideas would fit in each part of the song.

27.09.17
 We had a major brain storm session today - we all came up with ideas and imagery and shots for the music video. We planned to film next Tuesday as we have half a day and also the following Wednesday when we have the day off from school. This time off from school is very useful as we will be able to film in daylight without anyone needing to be at work. We listed locations to shoot and began to come up with a prop list.

28.09.17
Today was independent work as our teacher was absent. As a group, we all did individual tasks which were required for us to complete. Anneka and Charlotte did the similar genre music videos' analysis by embedding videos which we found inspirational for our own video into a blog post and describing what we admired about the video and which aspects we would not use as inspiration and our reasons for both. Holly and Katie created a mood board for the whole video and the shots we aim to use. They found images from the internet and other artist's social media accounts and put them onto a word document to create a collage. The images which she used were reflections of our own ideas for shots, along with other artist's own ideas from their music videos. This is useful as it will allow us to know the main theme for our video and not go off track from our original ideas.

02.10.17
In today's lesson we completed our lip sync task. For this, we each lip synced 30 consecutive seconds of our song Nostalgia. After we had finished filming, we edited the footage on Adobe Premier, uploaded it to YouTube, then exported it to our blogs. We then made an agreed decision that Charlotte would be the main artist and feature in the music video.

 03.10.17
Today we began filming our music video. After school we went to Chelmsord City Center to do some shopping. Within this shopping, we bought our props - these included marble light up balloons, glow sticks, silly string, glitter stick on eyelashes and sleeping mask.


 We then went back to Charlotte's house to begin the filming process. We began by choosing outfits for Charlotte to wear in the video and taking photos which could be used for the digipak, album cover and for the blog. After this we filmed out first scene outside where Charlotte is seen walking two dogs down the street in an extravagant outfit (large coat, tracksuit bottoms, heels and sunglasses), we used a range of shots, such as a 360 shot, tracking shot and a panning shot. For the next shoot, we filmed in the conservatory. Charlotte was seen in these shots drinking tea and lip syncing the lyrics. We then ran a bubble bath bath and put the glow sticks and balloons in the water to create our desired colourful and neon scene. Charlotte was filmed sitting in the bath with dark makeup on, lip syncing and dancing to the song. The final filming scene was in Charlotte's bedroom where we filmed her drying and curling her hair, then in her bed lip syncing and pretending to wake up.

Today was just the start of filming, we wanted to see what we could achieve in just one afternoon. It was a good starting point as it means we can now spend time looking back through our footage to see what went successfully and looks good and will be used, and what needs improving. The next step in the filming process is to shoot the scenes in the drama studio, and perhaps re-shoot some of our previous footage that may not be suitable.


05.10.17
Today was our first lesson back from filming, as a group we looked back through the photographs we took that could potentially be used for album covers. We selected a few of our favourites to use. We then uploaded our filming to the Mac and began to look back through the footage Holly and Anneka sorted through the footage by deleting clips which would not be used. Charlotte began to work on the steal-o-matic by deciphering which videos to use, whilst I updated the blog.

06.10.17
 Today we spent the first part of the lesson learning about different styles of websites and how they are portrayed. Mrs Brookes showed us a screen cast she had made for a band website. The aim of this was to expand our research on websites and give us inspiration for our potential website. We were then set the task to each do a screen cast into our own chosen website. We each individually began doing this by choosing a website to use and downloading the correct software to complete this task (steal-o-matic).

09.10.17
We had a catch up lesson with our teacher today to track our progress on completing our tasks and blog posts, we established how the tasks would be differentiated between us all to make sure we would stay on track and have everything completed by the deadline. We then continued the lesson each working individually on tasks. Anneka was editing the steal-o-matic on Adobe Premier by trimming the parts of the chosen music videos which we admired and would like to use. Charlotte uploaded the images we took in the filming process to blogger to create a blog post on costumes, make-up and props. Katie and Holly updated the production diary and began uploading the evidence of filming and evidence of work.

10.10.17
Today Katie worked on Evidence of filming and photos and footage and posted it on the blog. Anneka continued with the steal-o-matic, she added new footage and edited it on Adobe Premiere.  Holly filtered through all the pictures and footage we took in the filming process and divided them into what would be productive in our music video.

12.10.17
Today Katie began the risk assessment, Charlotte worked on the official shooting schedule document, Anneka continued the steal-o-matic and Holly continued the storyboard.

16.10.17
In Today's lesson, we began the process of editing by uploading all the footage onto premier, Anneka began the editing process for our music video, Charlotte did some research for our digipack by looking at similar genres of music and artists's digipaks. Holly did some research into websites and Katie continued to finish the official documents for the risk assessment and shooting schedule.

18.10.17
Today Mrs Field taught us about cross media, and the importance of having a brand image, which links throughout all of our media , such as the website, the music video and dig pack. We looked at Daft Punk's website, music video and Digipak to see an example of how their cross media worked and how the brand image was constantly used with unity throughout the different elements of media.

19.10.17
Today, we collectively decided to create appropriate social media platforms for our artists for the reason of expanding our brand and making our artist more widely known. Katie took charge of this and created a twitter account. She personalised it by making the profile photo, header photo pictures of our artist; making the bio say we were a new artist and making the location say London to make our artist seem more professional. We then all brainstormed some names for our artist to put on the twitter account. We decided that in tomorrows lesson we would create a survey of our brainstormed names.
For the remainder of the lesson, Anneka continued with the editing, Holly began the process of creating the website, and Charlotte began to edit the images for our Digipak.

20.10.17
Today we did create the name survey as we had planned in our previous lesson. Katie created this survey on SurveyNuts, a website which allows the public to make free multiple choice styled surveys. Once this complete, Katie sent the link to teachers and students across the school for them to participate in the survey in order to get a large enough sample for us to make the correct decision of our artist's name.
Anneka continued editing. She is beginning by editing the chorus and second verse as she feels it will make it easier to build the whole video and make it have unity by beginning in the middle of the song. She is using different effects which she has found through browsing the internet and watching tutorials in order to reach the best outcome possible.
Charlotte is still continuing with the Digipak. She is editing each photo on Adobe Photoshop to make them all have the colour purple as the main theme, in order to have unity throughout the six photos. She is creating this purple theme by colour correcting to produce the purple tint, then adjusting the brightness and saturation of each photo accordingly.
Holly continued with making the website, she is using the website WIX in order to produce it. WIX allows the public to use its arsenal of tools and designs to make their own free website, with their own URL to share it - which is what we intend to do. Holly also made a gif to make to opening image of the website, so anyone visiting our website can see a snippet of our intended music video.

26.10.17
Today is the day during half term which we met up as a group in order to get more footage for our music video and more images for our digipak and website. We filmed at Charlotte's house, likewise to our first day of filming to continue the unity throughout the music video. Holly had the task of filming Charlotte and Anneka ensured that the mise en scen was correct: the lighting, costumes and props. Katie could not attend, so Charlotte showed her the footage the next day in order to ensure the whole group agreed and was included in the creative filming process.
We managed to get a range of  both indoor and outdoor shots of different angles and movements.
For the photography aspect, we additionally managed to get a range of shots which we decided we would use in the Digipak.

30.10.17
Today Katie received the results from our artist name survey. The most popular name which the recipients decided on was "Nova". Within our group decision, we all decided that we liked this name also and would use it for our artist. Katie altered the twitter account so that it advertised our new name to our followers.
Mrs Brookes set us the task of creating a presentation on our halfway evaluations, which should include a 30 second teaser for our music video, our first drafts of our digipak and website, our artist's background, and our target audience and how we would convey this. Holly and Katie began this presentation.
Charlotte continued with the Digipak, by asking our teacher for their opinion and on receiving her feedback, she altered it accordingly. Our teacher said to change some of the photos in order to make the unity across it more obvious.
Anneka continued editing. She used the effect "warp stabilizer" on all of the clips which the camera was too shaky. This effect made the clips more stable and fluid which created an overall more complete look to our video.

31.10.17
Today, Katie completed the steal-o-matic and then uploaded it to YouTube, which allowed us to upload it onto our blogs. We all agreed that the steal-o-matic task gave us more clarity of what our theme and ideas were for our final video were.
Anneka continued editing the music video. As of this lesson, she has completed 20 seconds of solid footage and believes it is going well and on track.
Charlotte continued with the Digipak by deciding on 12 song names and an album name, and adding that text onto the back cover of it.
Holly continued with the website.

01.11.17
Today, Katie continued with the Halfway evaluation presentation. Today she wrote about Nova's background and rise to fame, and then our target audience and how we made this clear in our video and other platforms.
Charlotte made a second social media platform for Nova. She created an Instagram account in order to get our artist's name more widely known.
Anneka continued editing to get as much done so that we had our solid 30 second teaser looking successful and professional.

02.11.17
Today, we completed the halfway evaluation presentation. Charlotte sent her second draft of the Digipak to Katie, Holly sent a link and some screen-grabs of the website to Katie, and Anneka exported the 40 seconds of footage which she had and uploaded it to YouTube so that Katie could import it to the presentation. Katie put all of what she was sent on the presentation and put it on the blog ready to present to the class on Monday.

6.11.17
Today, three groups from our class presented the halfway evaluations. Phoebe and Lucy's Can't Sleep went first. We wrote our comments on a sheet, stating what we thought were successes and weaknesses of each aspect.
Our group went second, we collected our feedback sheets at the end of the presentations and Charlotte uploaded them to the blog after we had gone through them.
Jordan, Harry and Sam's Paleme went last where we additionally wrote our feedback on similar sheets.
This lesson was productive as it allowed us to see how far along we were in comparison to the rest of the class. Furthermore, the task made our group do more work than usual in the past week as we treated it as a form of a deadline.

7.11.16
Today we all carried on with our own tasks. Anneka continued editing the music video, starting to link up the first verse with the chorus, Katie continued blogging and finished designing the merchandise for our website, Holly continued creating and developing the website and Charlotte wrote a blog post assessing and reflecting all of the feedback we recieved for our halfway evaluation.

8.11.16
Today Katie added to the risk assessment, assessing the risks from our most recent filming, Charlotte began to create the Magazine cover for Nova and Anneka continued editing the music video.

9.11.16
Anneka continued to edit, whilst Holly worked on the website addressing the feedback from the halfway evaluation. Katie began to start the cross media task by using Prezi and Charlotte completed the magazine cover for paper which was them uploaded to our blogs.

13.11.16
Today Charlotte edited the digi pack focusing on the feedback from the halfway evaluation which was to create synergy. Holly continued to work on the website also aiming to make synergy so that all our media products link. Katie worked on the Cross media task which helps to highlight how synergy works and how important it is for standing and creating a recognisable image. Anneka worked on editing the music video adding new effects such a mirroring.

14.11.16 
In Todays lesson Holly finished the website and asked for feedback from the teachers, this was then used to write a blog post about the success of the website and where it can be improved. Anneka continued the editing, Katie finished the cross media task and Charlotte worked on improving the Digi Pack.

15.11.17
Today, in the lesson we all continued with the tasks we have been working on for the last couple of lessons. Katie continued with updating all of the blog posts, writing about Nova's tour dates etc, Holly continued with developing the website, Anneka has completed over half of the music video and Charlotte was making final touches on the digipak.

16.11.17
Today we all continued with doing our previous tasks, making sure we are all up to date and making good progress in time for the deadline.

17.11.17
In class today, Anneka continued to edit the music video, ready for the for the first draft which is due 29th November to present to the class. Charlotte uploaded the digipak to the blog and Katie continued on with research and planning for the blog, Holly also continued with developing the website.

19.11.17
Today, Anneka continued with making the music video, Charlotte and Katie continued writing bog posts and carrying out research on how we could improve different aspect of the music video and advertising such as making the tour poster. Holly continued with making the website.

20.11.17
Today Anneka was editing, Katie continued making the tour poster and confirmed dates which link with our website, Charlotte started to create the magazine cover and Holly focused on the website.

21.11.17
Anneka edited the music video, Katie made a blog post analysing the last part of our music video and what it is inspired by, Charlotte continued making the magazine cover and Holly worked on the website.

22.11.17
Today Anneka continued with the music video, Katie made a presentation on our feedback, Charlotte wrote about the inspiration of our magazine cover and Holly worked on the website.

23.11.17
Anneka continued to edit the music video, Katie continued with her presentation, Charlotte wrote about the inspiration for the font used for our logo and Holly continued with the website.

24.11.17
Today Anneka and Holly continued with the music video editing and the development of the website, and Katie and Charlotte wrote more blog posts about the inspiration for the photoshoots we did and the website pages.

27.11.17
Today Anneka continued with the music video editing, Holly continued with the creation of the website, and Katie and Charlotte did blog posts about our merchandise and wrote the email of consent to the publicist of NAO so we could have permission to use the song for our music video without being copyrighted.

28.11.17
Today Anneka continued with the music video and Holly continued with the website, and Katie and Charlotte continued making blog posts to do with the research behind the music video.

29.11.17
In class today, Anneka and Holly carried on with their usual tasks of the music video and the website, while Katie and Charlotte work on blogging.

30.11.17
Today Anneka continued with making the music video, altering and editing to create the correct mood and genre for the video, Holly continued with designing the website, thinking of ways to make it interesting for the user, and Katie and Charlotte continued making blog posts.

4.12.17
Today we collected the feedback from the first draft of the music video and went over it as a group. We discussed the points people had made which we were planning to take into consideration and add into the music video. This was mainly to steady out some shots, make the timings more precise, and make the colour correcting consistent throughout.
For the remainder of the lesson. we typed up the feedback and Anneka applied the feedback to the video in the editing process

6.12.17
Today Charlotte finalised the Digipak to make it the final draft. She posted it on the blog under the title 'Digipak Final'. All of us as a group posted it onto our own blogs.
Anneka continued editing and Katie and Holly carried on with the feedback evaluation.

08.12.17
Today we began planning for the interview for Nova. We want it to be in the same style of Noah Cyrus's MTV interview which is relaxed and more getting to know about the interviewee - as Nova is new to the public.
We created a blog post on this resesarch which has an embedded emaze containing all of our research. This emaze has analysis of Louis Thomlinson's interview MTV interview as well as Noah Cyrus's (mentioned earlier). It ends with our plan for our own interview for Nova.
Anneka continued with the editing doing small amendments.

11.12.17
Today we all worked on individual blog posts in order to fill in any gaps which we had neglected by prioritising other work in this coursework process. Katie and Charlotte worked on a post on marketing research, Holly worked on a post on more website research to document the whole process of creating a website.
Anneka helped with the blog posts by making contribution to the research and writing of them, and carried on with the editing of the final video.

12.12.17
Today we worked on more blog posts. As Charlotte has finished the Digipak, she created a blog post on the Digipak research/ inspiration and the process behind it. She also created a post on the Digipak feedback that she received from the final Digipak.
Holly and Katie worked on a post on the Cross Media task and Anneka continued the editing.

13.12.17
Today we did more blog work. we posted blog posts on Music video Inspiration and Song Inspiration for the final song choice and the music video visuals.
Anneka continued editing as well as contributing to the blog posts.

14.12.17
After conversing with our teacher during the lesson today, we had more clarity on what posts we had left to write about - which was not many as we had completed the majority of them within the earlier stages of our coursework (September, October, November).
Therefore we continued making blog posts based on our teacher's feedback. Today in lesson we did: Costume Inspiration, Editing Techniques, and Filming Techniques.

15.12.17
Today Anneka completed the editing for the Music video and began exporting it, which will not be completely done until our next lesson (Monday 18/12). We carried on with blog posts: Location analysis, Mark scheme analysis, and Social Media Inspiration.

18.12.17
Today in our lesson, the music video had completed exporting on Adobe Premiere Pro, so we uploaded it to YouTube under the title Nova Final on Anneka Williamson's channel. We then embedded the video onto our own individual blogs under the Construction label.

19.12.17
Today, as the music video was complete, we all prioritised working on our blogs and completing our blog posts. We collectively worked on Merchandise Research, Music Video Representations, Artist Inspiration for Nova's Image, and Issues we Overcame In The Filming Process.
Holly also completed the Website and we all uploaded this onto our blogs under the name Website Final and labelled Construction.

Halfway Evaluation

This is our Half Way Evaluation. We showed this presentation to the class in order to gain constructive feedback.This Emaze covers our artist back ground, target audience, and Music video. We have also aded our Digi pack, merchandise ideas and website although these are still incomplete.

Shooting Schedule

This is the filming schedule we used in order to have more clarity whilst filming. 

Filming reflection: upon the first day of shooting is when we got the most filming completed. We shot the scenes of: outdoor with dogs, conservatory, bath shots, and an extra scene of the bedroom of Nova in her pyjamas that we decided not to use in the final product.
This day previous to shooting, we went into the town centre and bought some props, such as the glow sticks and light up balloons and bubble bath for the bath scene, as well as some makeup to put on Nova for characterisation purposes.
The productivity of this filming session on the 3rd of October was very high as we were all at peak motivation and managed to get a lot done during daylight hours.
Although, this day of shooting could have gone better if we had planned more as we didn't have a solid plan of each shot and timings, so went off of a general idea instead. However this process did end successfully as we still achieved our wanted shots for the video.

On day two of filming, on the 28h of November, we used this day for getting extra shots which we neglected on the first day. these scenes were the fairy light scene, and outdoor with foliage scenery - where we got other mini filler shots of items such as the red roses.
This day of filming, we only had three members of the group as Katie was absent, which lead to a slight drawback in the time consumption of the work.
However, this day was successful as we managed to get all of the shots that we aspired to get within that one day of filming.
What was not successful was that we did not plan accordingly to the weather, as this day that we did the filming was raining slightly, which harnessed a fluid filming process.

Risk Assessment

Evidence of Filming: Photos and Footage

This is an evaluation of our footage and photographs taken from our first day of shooting. Overall we felt that the first day of filming went well, we managed to get quite a lot done considering we had only a limited amount of time. We spent time planning the outfits and props used for each individual scene of shooting so we were prepared and knew what we was doing therefore, we could be organised an efficient when it came to filming.

These photos are some which we took whilst filming.

 


 



These photographs were taken from the first location of the music video: a housing street and against a brick wall. We took photographs using the Camera and an iPhone 7 Plus camera as we could use depth effect to create a slightly blurred out background, focusing all the attention on the artist. These were the most successful photographs as they were clear in quality and focused on the artist. They could possibly be used for an album cover or as profile pictures for social media sites as well as featuring on the official website for our artist. 

Here are some of our unsuccessful photographs from our first shoot...

This photo was unsuccessful as the quality is not as clear, she is also 
quite far back which means she is over powered by the scenery which looses all attention and focus on her. The dogs were also facing the wrong way which it made it difficult to capture the 'perfect' photograph. This picture was just practise to see the positioning of where the artist was standing and to see what looked good. Therefore this photo will not be used but it was a good example oh how to improve and allowed us to see what worked and what didn't.





These were the next set of photographs taken. Charlotte had changed her outfit and we changed location to film in her conservatory. Here are some of the successful photographs...

We felt these photographs were successful as they were extremely clear and gave all focus on the artist as the scenery is quite simple and plain. The close up head shots also show the makeup we used to create that look. We felt these pictures made charlotte stand out from the background as she is seen wearing contrasting patterns which helps to create the star image. Again these images could be used to promote our artist either by the official website or social media sites.

The next set of photos taken from our first day of filming where taken in the location of Charlottes bathroom, where she is seen singing in the bath with bubbles and coloured neon lights, balloons and glow sticks...

We found this shoot the most difficult, as we had no natural or artificial lighting. This meant it was hard to make the camera focus and the quality looked quite grainy. We used a flash to help capture the dark shots. To create the 'pink' background we held  an iPhone torch against coloured glow sticks this enabled the colour to shine through into the background. This helped to create a colourful neon setting which linked well to our artists music.

This photo shows the camera we used to capture some of these photographs, we also used an iPhone camera.

Here are some of our unsuccessful photographs...

This picture shows the difficulties we had with the lighting and quality of the photos. In this picture charlotte appears out of focus and slightly blurred. Compared to our first shoot these pictures are significantly lower in quality, this is mainly due to the lack of natural lighting.

Artist Name Research

The inserted images above are screen grabs from a survey which we created ourselves on SurveyNuts, after creation, we sent the survey to students and teachers around the school for them to complete. We collectively as a group chose 9 names: Aries, Holo, Cleo, Leo, Taurus, Mona, Nova. To decide on the 9 potential names, we searched astronomy names, such as names of stars, star signs and galaxies. Additionally, we aimed to make the proposed names correlate with our theme of "wonky funk"/ electric R&B, which is why we chose the names that we did.
The outcome from this survey was that "Nova" was the most popular name chosen by the recipients, therefore, this name is the now name of our artist.

Steal-O-Matic

This task is our steal-o-matic video. We chose different clips from different music videos which suited our song and our proposed theme and genre and edited them together to create a mini test version of our final music video.
This task was successful we felt as it gave us more clarity for our music video and allowed us as a group to find our own theme - purple and "funky". Additionally, it allowed us to practise editing on premiere before we began editing.

Story board

This is the story board for our music video.

Shot Ideas

• Charlotte obsessed with a celebrity, (James dean?)
• Washing charlottes hair, only showing our hands and charlottes face
• Lava lamp closed up
• Charlotte walking 4 greyhounds whilst wearing an extreme outfit (high heels, wacky hair, etc)
• Charlotte in bath birds eye shot 
• Charlotte walking down street changing outfit on each step, reverse effects in street/ alley
• Drama studio
• Emphasis on lighting - coloured lighting specifically

Lip Sync Task

For this task, each person of my group (Anneka, Holly, Charlotte and Katie) lip synced and performed 30 consecutive seconds of our chosen song for the music video (Nostalgia by Nao) each.
We completed this task in order to see who was the most confident in front of the camera and the most confident performer in general.
After watching the videos of each participant back, we came to a collective decision that Charlotte Ellis performed best on camera and that she would be the lone performer in our final music video.
This helped as it allowed us to make a more informed decision about the overall music video - which would therefore improve the music video's final result.

Lyrics Timeline

Mood Board

The image above showcases the mood-board for our music video of Nostalgia. As a group, we have compiled images from other music videos and images from google image search. A main theme which is prevalent in this mood-board is the use of coloured lights which we aim to use in the bathroom scene. Another is the use of "trippy" effects to make the video correlate with the 70s based song.

Genre Inspiration for Albums and CD Covers

This collage is a collection of album covers from similar genres, also featuring album covers which, as a group, we like and would incorporate some ideas from them into our own digipak. Overall, these album covers are inspiration for our digipak

Prop list

Props 
- Glow Sticks
- Poster of James Dean
- Lights
- Lava Lamp
- Plasma ball
- Bubble bath
- bath bombs
- makeup
- outfits
- sleeping mask
- pajamas
- dogs

Similar Genre Videos

Macklemore - Downtown
We like this video as it does not have a true narrative - it shows many random shots without much correlation. Although this song is a different genre to our pop song (this one is hip-hop), the music video does not hold strict hip hop conventions: there are not any guns or weapons/ showing off money. The only part of this music video that fits hip hop conventions is the use of women for the male gaze.
We would implement the use of colour, outdoor shots, hair and clothing styles and camera work from this video.


NAO - Fool to Love
This music video is by the same artist that we are doing for our final music video, this means this video's song is of the same genre as our chosen song. What we like about this video is the use of lighting, it uses different coloured lighting throughout, beginning with orange and moving to white and green.
Another aspect of this video which we like is the movement of the actor/ dancer. His "wacky" dancing is what we had originally envisioned for our music video, and is still remaining in our plan
Although, we would not use the camera work of this music video as it begins as one whole shot, when we would like top use many fast cuts of different shots going in time with the beat.



Dua Lipa - New Rules
This song is in the same genre as our chosen song, likewise to fool to love. We admire the use of different colour within outfits and settings. This is specifically admirable in the scene where the six different girls are aligned wearing the same dressing gown in each a different colour. Another shot which we like is one where the actress opens the curtains in one shot, where it then moves to another shot beginning with her opening the curtains in a different location.
Although, we would not use the camera work as they use one continuous shot for the majority of this video.



Sundara Karma - She Said
We admire the use of colour in this video. Such as the backdrops: shiny purple streamers, gold streamers, blue sequins. Additionally the often shot changes without a particular narrative. We also like the costume use in this video, such as the platform black leather heels.
Despite this, we would not use the amount of performance that this video features, as this video shows the whole band playing which we would not plan to do.

Email of Consent

We sent an email to NAO's publicist asking for permission to use her song for our educational music video. we did this so we would not get copyrighted on youtube.

Song Pitches and Feedback

3 song pitch from Anneka Williamson

Here is our group's slideshow of our three top song choices for the final music video Which are Consideration by Rihanna, Burn It Down by Daughter, and Nostalgia by NAO. This presentation previews shot ideas and the main thesis of what we would do in the proposed music video for each song if we chose that one. After presenting, we  received feedback from our teacher and classmates. They told us their individual different ideas and which song would be the most successful for our group to create in their own opinion. We took the advice from everyone and decided to use NAO's Nostalgia for our final song. 

Music Video Presentation Feedback

Consideration - Rihanna:

• Does not have a chorus so may be hard to keep the audience interested or keep a particular theme.
• Rihanna is black and everyone in our group is white so it would seem unrealistic to many people watching as the voice and appearance do not match.
• Since the song is by Rihanna, it may be had for the audience to detach from the image of Rihanna that goes along with her recognisable voice.
• This song could get boring since it is the same tempo all the way through and does not change much.

Burn it Down - Daughter:

• Anyone in our group could play the main artist.
• This song has an interesting beat as it varies and it consists of a main chorus so there is lots of room for creativity.
• Could be both performance and narrative- based.
• Could be filmed outdoors and be very symbolic.
• Comparable to Kate Bush and Florence and the Machine for their quirky look. 

Nostalgia - NAO

• Has a very 70s vibe - comparable to bands like Jackson 5 but with a modern twist.
• Very colourful song, has a lot of room to be visually interesting, creative and colourful.
• Would include dancing 
• Very performance based with strange twists to make it more alternative.
• Would have to have an iconic artist with lots of costume changes and alter egos.
• Lava lamps, disco balls, studio lights etc.

Song Inspiration

During the deciding process of choosing our song, we made it clear that we all wanted a fast pace, up tempo pop song. After perusing through different mini genres within this genre of fast pop, we decided that we wanted a song with 1970s/80s style pop.
Below are some tracks which we liked the sound of before choosing NAO's Nostalgia.





Night Fever by the Bee Gees is a classic within the realms of 1970s pop. This song has a similar beat to Nostalgia, noticeable by the fast beats and "funky" sounding instruments used.




Next is Michael Jackson's Beat It. This song is from the 1980s pop movement which additionally has a similar beat and tempo to nostalgia. NAO also has a similar sounding voice to Michael Jackson's - due to both being sopranos and singing in a higher register.

Once listening to these songs, we decided to use NAO's Nostalgia ultimately. This song had attributes of 70/80s pop which is what we were aiming for in our song.



Here is the audio to the song we chose for the final music video.

Banana Phone Final

For this task, I was in a group of three consisting of me, Charlotte Ellis and Harry Foord. All together as a group, we worked well and efficiently, managing to complete all of our filming within one lesson. We managed this in a short time period due to planning which videos to film in which order before setting out on filming. Additionally, as only two people were needed for each clip (camera-worker and actor), Charlotte and I did the 3 clips as a pair whilst Harry did the stop motion Lego sequence on his own. These approaches to combating the filming task collectively cut our overall filming time down considerately.
However, we did meet some drawbacks in the filming process, such as needing to re-film many clips due to them not turning out as how we had envisioned as a group, for many reasons such as not being in focus, being too short, etc. We overcame this by ensuring we had time at the end of the lesson to re-film the needed shots, which we did successfully.
In the individual editing component, I found some issues, such as creating the effects which our teacher had set us to add to our videos. To overcome this, I used YouTube videos of tutorials of those specific effects/ edits to learn how to do them. This way of teaching myself was successful as I finished the Banana Video edit in time.

30 Second Breakdown

30 second breakdown from Anneka Williamson

For this task, I screen-grabbed each shot for the first thirty seconds of the music video for Stacy's Mom by Fountains Of Wayne. I then wrote the duration of the shot, the shot type and what was happening in that shot, along with any other additional information.