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.