Draft 3

This is the third draft that I have created of my music video. I have added the edits of Katie's and Meg's videos together. The reason behind having medium and close up shots of Katie is because I didn't like the look that a long shot gave. It was hard to tell if Katie was lip syncing so I decided to keep with shots that were closer.

Draft 2

Here I have added the videos of Katie together. I have not added them properly to the song but I have shown the best shots from all the footage that I got. Whilst looking through the videos, I wrote down specific times in each video that I thought showed the best shots. I plan to compare the shots that are from the same section of the song to see which one would look the best. Then I will add these to my first draft to create a second draft.

 

These images show my notes from when I rewatched all the videos that I took with Katie. They will help me when choosing what clips to use in my final music video.

Draft 1

This is the first draft of my music video. I have worked with Meg to create footage that is suitable for the majority of my video. I have added in as much footage as I could to ensure there were no gaps to help me see if I liked how the video looked. I have not filmed the footage with Katie yet and parts that Meg is in may be changed to Katie and the blank parts are where Katie will be lip syncing.
I plan to film with Katie and keep creating more drafts of my music video.
 I will ask my target audience what they like and don't like about it and ask for ideas that they would suggest to start filming with Katie.

Meg's character

This is Meg Williams. She is going play the storyline character in my video. She will be portraying a teenage girl who isn't confident in herself and gets dressed up to try and make herself look and feel better. The song talks about how a girl should feel happy in herself and not count on what other people say or make up to make her feel better. I want to portray this message in my video by showing Meg's character realising that she doesn't need make up and that she should just feel happy in herself.

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Katie's character

Storyboard for katie

It was difficult to draw a detailed storyboard for the footage that I would be capturing with Katie as each shot would look very similar. Instead I created three main shots that I wanted to look at and will go through each of these shots with the whole song and Katie lip syncing around 2 or 3 times each. Here is my plan:

Filming schedule with Meg

This is a picture of the filming ideas that I had for videoing with Meg.

Video Analysis - Haillee Steinfeld - Starving

Little mix- Hair music video analysis

This is a video analysing another music video. I used this to inspire my own ideas.

The Set/ Location

I decided to set my music video in my house. This would create the atmosphere or a normal house and is really easy to access. The main room that I will be using for my video, is my bedroom. Seeing as I am a teenager myself it will create the idea of a normal teenage room to make the video seem more realistic.

Next Steps

Storyboarding

Here are pictures of the story boards that I have created to help me with filming with Meg for my music video. I plan to create another storyboard similar to these ones for the filming that I plan to do with Katie. In year 11 I had to create a music video and without story boarding it was very hard to decide what I wanted to do on the spot. I have learnt from that and now have decided to really plan out everything that I want to do.

Narrative Theory

My plan

As I have changed my idea I though that it would be appropriate to use the 'hair' videos I had created as practice videos. This means practicing with my cast, with the camera, lighting and with editing. This will allow me to plan out exactly what I want to film for my actual video. When working
with Meg I realized that it was really easy to say exactly what I wanted her to do. We worked well together as Meg found it quite a fun experience. Next time, I will do exactly what I did before but do a little more planning for the shots that I want. Although I had created a storyboard and planned out with meg before hand what I wanted her to do, during the process we both thought of quite a lot of new or better ideas. This was really useful as Meg is also a part of my target audience, so this way I knew exactly what she wanted in the video which would have acted as what my part of my target audience would have wanted in the video.

I have created a plan for the next couple of posts and I want to start filming for my new idea

- Post Little Mix videos- explain the shots I used and which ones I liked and which ones I didn't like

- Introduce my new character- Katie and Meg have two different characters. Katie is the singer and Meg is just an actress in the video. Take shots of Katie for Digipak and magazine advertisement

- Video Analysis of Haillee Steinfeld's song 'Starving'- focusing more on the target audience this time

- Video Analysis of Hair by Little Mix - talking about the shots that I like and what parts inspire me

- Storyboard for my new song

- A target audience video. Asking someone who is in my target audience questions about my new character and the sort of music that they like - video

- Filming Schedule, when I am filming with meg and when I am filming with Katie, these can both be at separate times as they are not in the video together

- Footage for my new video- A practice run of editing the footage together