Auditions

We have conducted auditions to see who was the best actor to be in our music video. We were looking for a male actor who could lip sync really well and that would be able to remember lyrics as well. The person we were looking for is someone that was enthusiastic about being in our promo as well as being able to lip sync well. We asked all actors to lip sync during the audition to part of our song, the lyrics we asked them to lip sync to were 'Sometimes people look at you in a funny way but not today, cus they know things could change like the way they are your like a superstar so'.

 

The actor we decided to be in our music video was Kuziva as he was able to remember the lyrics as well as was able to lip sync really well. The fact that he is part of our group also makes him the best person to be in our music video as he knows exactly what we want in terms of how we want the lead singer to be portrayed and represented within our music video.

Audience feedback

Here is the feedback we got about our rough edit: 

Here is the poll showing our ideas for our digipak:

Here is the poll showing our ideas for our magazine advert:

 

Finished music video

Finished Ancilliary tasks

Re-film rough edit

 

This is the rough edit after re-filming, from comparing this updated version to the first rough edit you can see that it has been improved. You can see that the quality of the footage is better this is due to the fact that when we re-filmed we used auto focus instead of manual focus the first time we filmed. Overall the whole footage looks so much better which means that our finished music video will be much better quality.

Audience feedback for ancilliaries

We decided that we wanted to gather some audience feedback on our ancillary tasks. We posted pictures of both the promotional materials and waited to see what feedback we got. The screenshots below show the post that was put onto Facebook with the images of both ancillary tasks and the bottom screenshot shows the comments we got about them.

 

The feedback we got was positive and most people thought that it looked professional. From looking at the feedback we got it allowed us to see what everyone liked about our ancillary tasks as well as showed us that no one though that we needed to improve on anything. This means  that our idea for ancillary tasks was successful as all of the people who made comments liked them.

Ancilliary planning

When completing some of our edits of our planned ancillaries we also came up with a new idea that we could possible decide to use instead of the first set of planned ones; we were thinking that there is a lot of talk in our song of newspapers and the main artist being turned from a scruffy no life person to a much more successful person a 'superstar' by 'putting on his boots' and kept on walking (getting on with life and following his dreams no matter what obstacles may face him). Playing off this theme running through the song of newspapers and the media we came up with a new theme; for the poster and the main front panel on the CD digipak we are going to make a mock up front page of a newspaper with the same image idea we talked about in the first 'planning ancillaries' post of a main image of Kuziva but split in half with the scruffy unsuccessful side on the left and the smart 'superstar' side of Kuziva on the right. But then when it comes to the other panels on the CD digipak they will also follow a newspaper style theme. The sketches of the plan are below: (also if we complete this ancillary idea we can get audience feedback from it and decide whether this idea is better than the previous ancillary ideas - so we can use the best in the audiences opinion)

 

This poster will also contain all the conventional feature of music promo poster that can be seen in the previous ancillary post. the layout is similar to that in the other ancillary it just this time it is in a newspaper style theme and layout.

 

 

This is the CD digipak sketch for the new newspaper idea, it has the same info on the same panels as the first ancillary plans but this time it is in a newspaper theme and layout.

 

 

I have started creating the poster in Photoshop and here are the first few drafts (I will update this post as it develops:

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

Graphic match testing

When completing our storyboards and our idea, we wanted to include quite a few graphic matches that can be used as transitions form one location to another, one of the main graphic matches in our production is when Kuziva walks from a urban city area into a field, rural are and we wanted the graphic match to happen while he jumped over a trailing to make it more interesting, once getting multiple shots we edited it up to see how it turned out before using it and this was the result:

 

 From this we thought it has worked very well and we should definitely use it in our main production. By testing what it would look like and how well we could edit this footage it allowed us to see what it would look like and actually how well it worked.

Rough ancilliary tasks

Rough edit

 

 This is our rough edit of our music video

Planning for ancillaries

 

Permissions

We created permission slips for those who are appearing in our music video and any promotions of the promo such as digipak and magazine advert. We then got those people involved in our promo to sign this permission slip to say that we are allowed to use their image. Below are images showing that the permission slips have been signed by our chosen actor and extras and therefore shows that we have permission to use their image in our music video and other promotional aspects.

 

 



 

Conventions of a website



 

Example: Lady Gaga's website

 

 

A good example of a website that adheres to the conventions is Lady Gaga's website. The overall look of the website stands out, there is a main image of the artist which has been staged and taking professionally this adheres to the conventions of a website. The website also has a main header showing the name of the artist.

 

Typical conventions of a website:

 

Promote

Appeal

Attractive

 

Easy to navigate

Represent Genre

Represent the artist

 

A giant header/ the bands name

 

Design reflecting the genre

 

To have information such as tour dates etc.

 

Multi-media feature

 

Interactive features

 

Merchandise

 

Typical layout:

 

Pitch

Below is our presentation which was created on prezi and features our ideas for our music video as well as features our chosen song.



Below is the video of our presentation where we pitched our idea for our music video. We also made sure that our chosen song was playing throughout the presentation so that the class could listen to the song we had chosen.

  

Below are our scripts that we used when doing our presentation.

I think that our pitch went well as we explained our ideas in detail making sure that it was clear what we are going to be doing. I also think that we had a good presentation and it was different as we used prezi instead of PowerPoint. Overall I think that our presentation went really well however to improve we shouldn't use scripts, we should have learnt what we were going to say as we were looking to much at our scripts instead of who we were pitching our idea to. 

Budget list

 

Below is our budget list for what we will have to purchase in order to film our music video for example props and transport tickets. Bus tickets are essential as this is how we are going to get to the main location in our video which is Peterborough centre. The train tickets are also important as this is also an important location for our music video. The transport tickets are the only things that we will need to pay for as our actor, Kuziva will be providing his costumes for the music video. Also the materials that we will need to make our fake sun we will get from school and therefore we won't need to pay for this.

Below is our budget list which is shown on padlet.



 

Mise-en-scene

 

Costumes:  

 

	One of the main outfits in the production is the casual outfit which the main singer will be wearing.  He will be wearing various different casual outfits throughout the production in various different environments such as a field and a town centre. This will show the contrast between smart and casual wear that is described in the lyrics. The clothes will be provided by the actor and will link to the lyrical content. This costume represents the contrast of smart clothing and casual clothing throughout the production. We have decided that we want the main singer within the promo to mainly be dressed in casual wear as it when the costume change happens it will make him stand out. Also by using this costume it creates a sense of normality and being realistic.
	Another main outfit is a suit which will be worn by the lead singer. He will be wearing a suit at certain stages of the music video, this will be a representation of some of the lyrical content in the music video. This will represent the ‘superstar’ that is in the lyrics. This will also show a contrast of smart and casual clothing.  During the part where the lyrics "superstar" are being sung the lead singer will be wearing this costume, it won't be exactly the same as the suit in the picture however it will be close. The lead singer will also be wearing a pair of sunglasses to make him seem more like a superstar. We have chosen this costume as it makes these lyrics stand out and also this costume paired with sunglasses is typically associated with a superstar/ famous person.
	The boots are essential because the main lyrics within our chosen song are "Put on ya boots and keep on walking" therefore we have chosen to use them in our music video as this image will link to our lyrics and therefore create meaning.  The boots will first feature at the beginning of the music video and will feature throughout the music video.  The boots will be essential at the end of our promo as throughout the promo the lead singer will be bare foot, this makes our promo different and stand out as well as when he is wearing the boots at the end of the video it will show the importance of them while showing the link to the lyrics. We have decided to do this as it will create the link to the lyrics and make the audience want to keep watching to see why he is bare foot.

 

Lighting:

 

We will check the weather on the day before we film our music video as our locations are all outside and therefore we can't film while it's raining. When filming in two of our locations, the bedroom and the studio we need to make sure that we have as much light as possible to make sure that you can see what's going on in the footage clearly. With our other locations we are filming outside so we will be using natural light so we need to make sure that it is a fairly bright day in order to film these parts of our music video.

Production schedule

 

Below is our production schedule for the two days we are going to be filming. By having a production schedule it will help us to keep organised as well as help us to keep track of what we are filming and how long it will take to film in each location. In the production schedule I have listed the date we will be filming in each location, the times we will be filming in these locations, the actor(s) who are going to be involved in a particular shot. For example Kuziva will be seen throughout the music video. I have also said which location we will be filming in at each time as well as given a little description of what we will be doing at that particular time.

 



Location scouting

One of the locations that will appear in our music video is Bourne town. The town will appear several times throughout  the music video. There will be random shots of the town at the beginning. This will give the audience a feel of the area they are in. It will also help starting here because as the video progresses it will show the musician will go from a village/town to a more urban like environment. The random shots at the beginning of the music video will last for approximately 25 seconds. The use of a town will also help the sort of emotion we want the audience to feel while listening to the song. The use of a village setting creates a lonely or isolated feel this is because as the main musician travels he will go from a populated place to being surrounded by fields. This will show his loneliness, at this point the lyric 'put on ya boots and keep on walking'  will be sung and he will start walking.

 

 

The second town location is going to be Peterborough town centre. There is going to be random shots of the town centre which will show the contrast of the countryside town and a city. This will last for about 25 seconds.  After the musician travels from the loneliness of the countryside he will then travel to a more urban area. Here he will still be walking and travelling to a place that's unknown to the audience. Using Peterborough will be good because it will show a good contrast between urban and rural. This will also help change the mood of the music video  gradually because the mood of the music video will change and become happier. This will happen because humorous things will begin to happen while the musician is walking through the town. This will further help us represent the disjuncture in the music promo. We will be using several different locations in Peterborough. They will be used to help create a disjuncture music promo.

 

 

 

 

Another location is the Peterborough train station. The station will be pivotal in showing  the transition between scenes. This location will be key because it will show time passing, the train station will be important because it distinguishes the location change. It is also important because the video is based on travelling in a straight line and the use of this train station will be a large part of this. Because the video is going to be disjuncture the train station will also help us achieve the disjuncture element of the music promo. We will also be travelling to a different location so the use of the train station will be vital.

 

 

This is the second train station we will be using. This will be the place we travel to from Peterborough train station. The use of this train station will also show the distance we have travelled which is a big part of the music video. The train station will also be key in showing a change in the mood of the music video. The audience will be able to see the further we travel the better the mood of the music video will be.

 

 

One of the key places that we will need is the field that the musician walks in. This is the link between the rural and urban areas. The field represents the sad, lonely part of the promo which is at the beginning. The field is essential in showing the audience the emotion of the promo at the beginning which will change later on in the promo. There will be random shots at the beginning of the video which will show the lonely area the musician is in.

 

Location Scouting



Cutting to the beat

Below is our cutting to the beat which shows where the shot will change throughout the song. The key shows where the shot is going to change on the first page, then on the next page a key is shown which tells you the lcoations of each part of the lyrics. For example all the shots that are located in town where highlighted yellow, all the shots taking place in the field where highlighted green, all the shots taking place in the studio were highlighted blue, all the shots taking place in the bedroom were highlighted purple/pink and all the shot taking place at the train station were highlighted red. This is helpful as it helps us to break down the song and also gives us a rough estimate of how many shots we are doing overall in each location and for the entire music video. To make sure that we are cutting in the right place we listened to the music several times, the only problem we had doing this was that it was really hard to find where there should be a cut therefore we decided to cut to the vocals. This meant that we would cut where the vocalist stops singing and carrys on again, doing this we found it easier and it also meant that we could use more shots as if we didn't do this there would be a cut after every sentence within the lyrics. We have also shown how many beats there are in both the instrumental parts of the song for example at the start of the song there are nine beats within the instrumental part, therefore we are going to have nine different shots at the beginning as an introduction to our music video. In this introduction we will have location shots to show which locations will be used throughout our music video.

Storyboard

 

Below is our storyboard for our music video. The storyboard includes what the shot is of, an sketch of the shot, the times that each shot be appear for and the lyrics that are being sung during each shot. During the days of filming we will be using both this and the shot list to make sure that we have got all shots and extra shots. By using this it will help us to know exactly which shots we have done and which shots still need filming.  

Shot list

Below is the shot list for our music video, it shows each shot we are going to do, where that shot will be located, a description, the type of shot and the actor that will be in that shot. By doing a shot list this will tell us roughly how many shots we will have overall throughout our music video. We will use this on the two days of filming our music video as this will help us to be organised and to know which shots to film at each location.

Shot number	Location	Description	Shot	Actor
Instrumental part at the start
1	Town	Location shot that shows the places that will be in our music video.	Long shot/ establishing shot	No actor
2	Field	Location shot that shows the places that will be in our music video.	Long shot	No actor
3	Studio	Location shot that shows the places that will be in our music video.	Medium shot	No actor
4	Bedroom	Location shot that shows the places that will be in our music video.	Medium shot	Kuziva
5	Bedroom	Location shot that shows the places that will be in our music video.	Medium  shot	No actor
6	Field	Location shot that shows the places that will be in our music video.	Long shot	No actor
7	Town	Location shot that shows the places that will be in our music video.	Long shot	No actor
8	Train station	Location shot that shows the places that will be in our music video.	Long shot	No actor
9	Town	Shot that shows the lead singers bare feet. This shot links to the lyrics used within the chorus.	Close up/ extreme close up	Kuziva
Songs starts
10	Town	Close up shot of the lead singers face. In this shot the lead singer will have just started singing. The lyrics that are being sung in this shot are “Sometimes people look”	Close up	Kuziva
11	Town	Close up of lead singers eyes. The lyric being sung in this shot is “at”.	Extreme close up	Kuziva
12	Town	Point of view shot showing others looking at lead singer in a funny way. The lyric being sung here is “you”.	Point of view shot	Kuziva
13	Town	Close up of the lead singers face. The lyrics being sung in this shot are “in a funny”.	Close up	Kuziva
14	Town	Mid shot showing lead singer lip singing. The lyrics being sung in this shot are “way but”.	Mid shot	Kuziva
15	Town	Long shot showing the lead singer walking down the street while he lip-syncs to the lyrics “not today”.	Long shot	Kuziva
16	Town	Mid shot showing the lead singer walking down the street while the lyric “because” is being sung.	Mid shot	Kuziva
17	Town	Shot showing the lead singer still walking down the street showing people behind him. The lyrics that are being sung in this shot are “they know things could”.	Long shot	Kuziva
18	Town	Mid shot showing the vocalist still walking down the street. He sings the lyric “change” in this shot.	Mid shot	Kuziva
19	Town	Long shot showing the vocalist still looking at the camera while walking down the street. During this shot he will be singing the lyrics “like the way they are”. 360˚ of the vocalist when he is then looking at the camera again he is wearing different clothes.	Long shot 360˚	Kuziva
20	Town	Long shot showing the vocalist in a change of clothes walking down the street. The lyrics “you’re like a super-“.	Long shot	Kuziva
21	Town	Shot showing lead singer’s face wearing sunglasses. The lyric that will be sung here is “star”.	Close up	Kuziva
22	Town	Mid shot showing the lead vocalist walking down the street singing the lyric “so don’t you”.	Mid shot	Kuziva
23	Town	Long shot showing lead singer lip-syncing to the lyrics “look around and wonder”. During this shot a fake sun appears in the top right hand corner.	Long shot	Kuziva
24	Town	Mid shot showing the vocalist picking up the sun and throwing it away while he sings the lyrics “where the sun has gone”.	Mid shot	Kuziva
25	Town	Long shot showing water being thrown on the vocalist while the lyrics “the weather man was wrong”.	Long shot	Kuziva
26	Town	Man walks in front of the camera while the lyric “and” is being sung.	Black surface transition	Kuziva
27	Town	Mid shot showing the vocalist suddenly in a busier part of town. The lyric “downtown” will be sung here.	Mid shot	Kuziva
28	Town	Long shot of the vocalist with people in the background holding newspapers following him to a door. The lyrics “papers talk about” are being sung here.	Long shot	Kuziva
29	Town	Close up showing hand on the door handle about to walk through while the lyric “radio” is being sung.	Close up	Kuziva
30	Studio	Mid shot showing the vocalist walking through the door while singing “I’m at the studio”.	Mid shot	Kuziva
31	Studio	Long shot showing the vocalist in the studio and then seeing him walk out while singing “yeah”.	Long shot	Kuziva
32	Bedroom	Another long shot showing him walking into bedroom towards the bed. While he sings the lyrics “be careful what you dream of”.	Long shot	Kuziva
33	Bedroom	Mid shot showing him getting into bed singing the lyrics “y’never gonna see the day”.	Mid shot	Kuziva
34	Bedroom	Ariel shot to show the right side of his face while he is singing the lyrics “you cannot live without this”.	Ariel shot	Kuziva
35	Bedroom	Ariel shot of the left side of the bed while he is singing “it’s never gonna be the same”.	Ariel shot	Kuziva
36	Bedroom	Mid shot/ Ariel shot showing the lead singer while the lyrics “this pain” are being sung.	Mid shot/ Ariel shot	Kuziva
37	Bedroom	Close up showing the singers face while he sings “put on ya boots and keep on walking”.	Close up	Kuziva
38	Bedroom	Shots 32-37 will repeat for the second repeat of the chorus.	Long shot	Kuziva
39	Bedroom	Shots 32-37 will repeat for the second repeat of the chorus.	Mid shot	Kuziva
40	Bedroom	Shots 32-37 will repeat for the second repeat of the chorus.	Ariel shot	Kuziva
41	Bedroom	Shots 32-37 will repeat for the second repeat of the chorus.	Ariel shot	Kuziva
42	Bedroom	Shots 32-37 will repeat for the second repeat of the chorus.	Mid shot/ Ariel shot	Kuziva
43	Bedroom	Shots 32-37 will repeat for the second repeat of the chorus.	Close up	Kuziva
44	Bedroom/ town	Shot showing the singer walking in front of the camera to the right. (1.40-1.43)	Long shot/ mid shot	Kuziva
45	Town	Shot showing the singer walking towards the camera. (1.43-1.46)	Long shot/ mid shot (Slow 360˚)	Kuziva
46	Town	Shot showing the singer walking in front of the camera. (1.46-1.49)	Long shot/ mid shot (Slow 360˚)	Kuziva
47	Town	Camera behind the singer as he is walking. (1.49-1.53)	Long shot/ Mid shot (Slow 360˚)	Kuziva
48	Field	Vocalist seen walking through door into a field singing to the lyrics “I bet”. (1.53-1.55)	Mid shot	Kuziva
49	Field	Long shot showing him in the field while singing to the lyrics “you wish you’d got this far but you have so”. (1.55-1.57)	Long shot	Kuziva
50	Field	Long shot showing the vocalist singing “there”.	Long shot	Kuziva
51	Field	Extreme long shot showing the vocalist and the background singing the lyric “you”.	Extreme long shot	Kuziva
52	Field	Extreme long shot showing the vocalist and the background singing the lyric “are”.	Extreme long shot	Kuziva
53	Field	Vocalist singing in to the camera the lyric “inside”.	Mid shot/ close up	Kuziva
54	Field	Vocalist singing in to the camera the lyrics “that is where the scene is built”.	Long shot	Kuziva
55	Field	Vocalist singing in to the camera the lyrics “so how can you want the guilt”.	Mid shot	Kuziva
56	Field	Vocalist singing in to the camera the lyrics “to this”.	Close up	Kuziva
57	Field	Close up to show the right side of the lead singer’s face, while he sings “never”.	Close up	Kuziva
58	Field	Close up of the left side of his face while singing the lyric “ending”.	Close up	Kuziva
59	Field	Close up of the whole of his face showing him singing to the lyric “front”.	Close up	Kuziva
60	Field	Mid shot showing him in the field singing to the lyrics “there’s no need to be blunt”.	Mid shot	Kuziva
61	Town	Vocalist then seen in a busy town singing the lyric “centre” as he is walking towards the camera.	Long shot	Kuziva
62	Town	Tracking vocalist walking towards the train station as he sings the lyrics “of a town”.	Long shot	Kuziva
63	Train station	Long shot showing him at train station as he sings “on a train”.	Long shot	Kuziva
64	Train station	Mid shot showing an approaching train while the lyrics “heading for outward bounds” are being sung.	Close up	Kuziva
65	Train station	Close up showing the lead singers facial expression while singing “be careful what you dream of”	Close up	Kuziva
66	Train station	Close up showing the vocalist bare foot getting onto the train while the lyrics “y’never gonna see the day”	Close up	Kuziva
67	Train station	Close up showing lead singer getting off the train with boots on while the lyrics “you cannot live without this” are being sung.	Close up	Kuziva
68	Train station	Mid shot of the vocalist walking off the train while singing the lyrics “it’s never gonna be the same”.	Mid shot	Kuziva
69	Train station	Close up showing the name of the new destination while the lyrics “this pain” are being sung.	Close up	Kuziva
70	Train station	Long shot to show the vocalist walking away out of the train station while the lyrics “put on ya boots and keep on walking” are being sung.	Long shot	Kuziva