First cut of Wildflower - Carly Jo Jackson

This is the first cut of the video, it is not the final.

Research and Planning: Actress Situation

Jade was not available when we needed her, so we changed our actress to Holly Rankin. Holly also suits the character and has a sweet, caring look.

Research and Planning: Current Filming Status

We are currently going to be filming this Saturday as it is very good weather:

Research and Planning: Alternative Idea

We have been thinking of an alternative idea as our current idea may not work out due to weather and actress availability. We were thinking of doing it in a studio with projections on the back screen/wall in some shots. I got this idea from Rihanna's song - "We Found Love" ft. Calvin Harris. This is just an option that we will consider if we cannot film in Burnham Beeches.

Research and Planning: Shot Listing

We shot listed so that we were prepared for filming on the weekend. We shot listed where each shot would be filmed and at what time.

Research and Planning: Mad Max 2

In our lesson we had shots from a film clip called Mad Max 2 which we had to put in order. After we put them into chronological order, we watched the clip and we only had a couple of shots in the wrong place.

 

 

We then reflected on the process we went through to put them in order.

 

 

The class was then split into 2 groups, one group was going to work on expanding time and one would work on shrinking time. My group was working on expanding time, we decided we would do this by adding more shots, more detail to create tension. Below are some of the shots we decided that we would add into the clip. Also there are some notes in the reflection box above.

 

Research and Planning: Storyboard

 

 

Research and Planning: Test Shots

We went to Burnham Beeches and did some test shots:

Research and Planning: Location

Our chosen location is Burnham Beeches:

Research and Planning: Guitar Prop

 

This is the guitar that Jade will be playing in our music video, it is an Electra Acoustic.

Research and Planning: Chosen Actress

We have chosen Jade Newman to be the actress for our music video:

We feel she fits the character that we need her to play well and she has a innocent, sweet look.

Research and Planning: Types Of Music Videos

We looked at a quote by Firth (1998) :

 

There are 3 different types of music videos: performance, narrative and concept. 

We then looked at a quote by Steve Archer - Narrative and Performance (2004) :

 

 

We then got into groups and we were given one type of music video to research. My group were given concept. We needed to find at least 5 examples for this type of music video. These are the 6 we found:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In our next lesson we are going to pick one video and write a short piece of textual analysis for it.

Research and Planning: Presenting Our Music Video

We created a 5 minute presentation about our music video. This included details about our concept, our locations, actors and costume/props. We created a powerpoint to help us to explain our idea to the rest of the class:

Research and Planning: Possible Locations

We have been looking at possible locations for our music video. We looked into the conventions by looking at similar artists and we found that most pop/acoustic videos are out in the open, in fields. We also want to film in natural environments as the song is about being "free". Here are some possible locations:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research and Planning: Camera shots

We were thinking about different shots that we could use in our music video to keep the audience interested. We might use over exposed shots as they don't show detail which makes you want to see more. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research and Planning: Creativity and Inventions

In todays lesson we looked at a quote about deadlines which relates to our blogs:

We were then given a task to create 25 inventions that can help us in anyway in life and we were given a deadline time of 20 minutes. In our group we manged to create 25 inventions before the time was up although they weren't all amazing ideas, they were still ideas.

We then picked 5 ideas that we felt were the best and discussed them with the rest of the class. We went through everyones top 5 choices and we ended up choosing 2 top class ideas. Then Mr Lucas showed us a quote which he had created:

 

This can apply to our blogs as we shouldn't feel restricted to posting ideas because we feel they aren't "right". There is no right or wrong when posting ideas. We should post all of our ideas even though we may not use them and we could find "the idea" among them.