Editing Progress

Because, when we filmed we were unable to film certain shots and filmed extra shots, our final product will be different from our original storyboard. Also we realised that our storyboard had a very fast cutting rate so some of our shots in our final piece will be longer and therefore some shots have had to be removed as we cannot fit them in.

We are also having trouble making our iphone footage recognisable as being filmed on a phone and we are looking for ways to possible get a "recording" symbol in the corner of the shots, or possibly having a multiscreen showing all of the footage at once. We are also looking into filming another shots of our artist looking at the footage in his phone and then zooming in to blend the shots and then it will be obvious that is is phone footage.

Filming Schedule

Because we only have this one day to ilm we thought it would be a good idea to plan out our day. It will also help us sort our footage and make sure we have all of our shots.


9:00am - everyone meet at my house to set off for Frinton.

11:00am - arrive at Frinton beach.

11.10am - Shoot the car scenes, have our artist drive the car, park up and get out with female.

11:30am - Check the shot list, and check that we have all the relevant car scenes.

11:35am - Go down to the beach and start filming all of the beach scenes.

1:30pm - Check that we have all of the relevant beach scenes.

1.35pm - Start filming all of the rock scenes, making sure that he sings the full song through for every shot that we do.

2.30pm - Check that we have every rock shot.

2.35pm - Start filming all of the beach hut scenes, and again make sure that he sings the whole song through for every shot.

3:00pm - Check and make sure that we have all of the beach hut scenes.

3:05pm - Start filming the kite scenes (have to make sure that the weather isn't too dark to film this, as the kite needs to be very visable)

3:30pm - Check and make sure that we have all of the kite scenes that we need.

3:35pm - film the pavilion and ice cream shots. 

4.15pm - Check and make sure that we have all of the pavilion shots that we need to have.

4.20pm - Film the tea light beach scenes, making sure that it is the right light. This means that we need it to be dark enough to use the tea lights and have them visable, but not so dark that you can't see our artist whilst he is performing.

5:00pm - Refer back to the shot list and check that we have every shot that we need. Check the shots and make sure that they are a good quality and that none need to be re-done.

Final Props and equipment List

The final prop list for our filming day at the beach are:

-CAR
-GUITAR- electric and acoustic
-SMALL GUITAR AMP
-KITE
-ICE CREAM
-IPHONE
-TEA LIGHTS

The equipment we will need is:

-CAMERA
-TRIPOD
-REFLECTOR BOARDS
-STRIP LIGHT
- CAMERA CHARGER

Video Narrative

Music videos often have a mix between the narrative and the performance. This narrative has to have some relation to the lyrics of the video.

Indie videos in particular have a connection with the lyrics and often tell a relatable story that the audience can identify with. They often tell a love story or a story of desperation.

This is evident in Ed Sheeran's music video for The A Team.

This video tells the story of a young girl caught up in drugs and prostitution. The use of a handheld camera adds to the sense of poverty that the video emulates. It is shot much like a film and follows the day of the young girl. This is something that we want to take and use to follow our artist throughout the last day from the morning to the evening. Although the story of the video may not be one that audience members can directly relate to, it is an everyday problem and highlights sadness which is a common feature of indie music.

Illustrating and Amplifying Lyrics- Joshua Radin

Illustrating lyrics directly depicts the meaning of the lyrics in the video, whereas amplification shows the meaning but through symbolism and other meanings.

Joshua Radin's video for Rather Be With You does both of these.

The very first lyric of the song is illustrated as "sitting here on his lonely dock" and he is seen sitting on a dock by himself. The idea of illustrating lyrics gives a direct correlation between the video and the lyrics of the song.

Amplification is also used. For example the lyric "you waited on me for so long" doesn't actually show her waiting for him, but the reaction that they have when they see each other. Showing that they have been aart for a long time.

We also hope to use a mixture of amplification and illustration in our video to give meaning and links between the image and lyrics.

RomComs

Our video will share a lot of features with RomComs so I thought it would be good to have a look at some of their conventions

Features of RomComs on Prezi

Intertextuality

Audiences come with background knowledge across all media platforms, not just music videos. This allows producers of music videos to reference other media texts within their video.

Goodwin argues that intertexuality in music videos there are always intertextual references to other music videos. films or TV.
Where Stewart said that there are always visual references including cinema, fashion and photography.

Not all audiences will spot the reference, singling out those who do, making them feel special, important and more connected wih the artist and their interests.

Because so many music video directors started their careers as film graduates, they draw upon cinema as a starting point, therefore making intertextuality a common feature.

Credit storyboard

This is a storyboard that i created showing all of the shots in order over our song. This will then help when making our shot list and when we come to edit our footage.

This helped a great deal in intergrating our narrative with our performance shots and also showing uo how much footage we will need. The cutting rate was faster than i had first thought.

Evidence of Planning

We are currently making a moving story board with our song playing underneath so we can gauge how fast our cutting rate needs to be but to also identify which lyrics we will be illustrating and amplifying. There is about a minute left that we have to do.

After we have our footage we thought it would be a good idea to lay our footage in the timeline above our storyboard to then edit to this. 

Actor Analysis

We are having 2 main characters in our music video. The first will be our artist Richard Lown played by Micheal Jordan. The second will be a girl who he is spending his last day with and she will be played by Sian Thompson. These are our actors

The basic storyline of our video will be that she has to leave and he wants to spend her last day together. The performance aspects of our video will be him looking back and rememebering this day.

Looking at Filming Preludes

This is a good example of the story before the music video that we would like to include in our music video. Although it helps set up the story it doesn't give too much away and it leaves the audiences asking questions adhering to the enigma code. It is filmed similar to how a film would be filmed.
It uses a lot of close up shots of hands and faces which enhances her emotions. This is something that we want to take in and use for our story to amplify the emotions of our artists. It includes diagetic sound that adds to the movie concept of the video. The slower cutting rate sets the prelude apart from the music video which usually will have a faster cutting rate.

The use of the prelude gives meaning to the title f the song without detracting from the performance. It also avoids having to explain the storyline in the music section of the video. 

This prelude is around 50 seconds long. I don't think that we will have ours this long just due to planning and time restraints on filming.