Location shots

Location shots
For shots 1,9 and 13-15 we have decided to use the school hall. We think this is a good location to film these shots as it has good lighting within the room as we can experiment with the large windows that offer a lot of light. If we need to cover the light that is coming through, the hall has very large blackout curtains which gives us an oppurtunity to experiment with the lighting, and will help with our storyboard greatly as we want to achieve a dark room.


As we explained in the storyboard we need a spotlight for our inital idea. With this the only issue we really have with our location is there is no spotlight on the stage. As a result of this problem we are going to ask permisson from the drama department to use a portable spot light that will give us the effect that we want.

We are going to need a glitter ball for shot 12, when the man and woman are dancing in the hall. We hope this will give a nice and effective, effect.

We have also for parts of the music video decided to film within and around Adams house. We feel this that with doing this it will create continuity throughout filming. The shots that will be filmed in the locations below are 2-8, 10 and 11.

New drafted storyboard- Christina Aguilera, 'You lost me'

We have made our second draft storyboard for our new song 'You lost me'. Below is the drafted storyboard for our initial idea.

Shots 1-7

Shots 8-12

Shots- 13-15

Draft storyboard for christina Aguilera

New draft storyboard for Christina Aguilera 'You lost me'.

Above is our rough storyboard for our new artist Christina Aguilera. We have given brief notes on we plan to do, and will draft a more detailed storyboard.

House colours

Adam and I have decided that our house colours will consist of red, orange and black, we will also show white within our package. We decided on these colours as we thought they present an angry

emotion also with a sad emotion with black. We thought this would suit the effect we want to give with the music video as the main singer is shown as angry and upset. We will show these house colours within our music video and two ancillary tasks.

Changing our artist

After alot of thought my partner and I have decied to change our song and idea. We have chosen to change from the artist Florence and the machine as we found it maybe to difficult to create due to the equpiment we need is not avalible to us.



As a result of this we have changed our song to 'You lost me' by Christina Aguilera. Even though this artist is signed already by RCA record we are going to seek permission as my partner and I did for Florence and the machine.

Christina Aguilera already has an offical music video, her video is a concept- idea. We will be not taking any ideas from her music video, and will make it our own original ideas.

Below is the offical music video of 'You lost me' by Christina Aguilera.

Storyboarding

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Storyboarding

After choosing our song 'You've got the love' by Florence and the machine. Adam and I decided to draw out a rough sketch of our initial storyboard idea. We did this on scrap paper just rough. Underneath these rough storyboarding's we have made other more clearer storyboards of what we plan to do.


Shots 1-9 Shots 10-16

This is a rough sketch of a map of the route we would use for our initial idea.

Shots 1-4

Shots 5-8

Shots 9-12

Shots 13-16

After much thought and looking at our storyboard we decided to change the storyboard completly. My partner and I think that this idea will suit the song better as there is more oppurtunity to goodwins theory which we want to acheive. Below is the second idea, it shows a 14 framed- grid with the story on the left side and the shots on the right side.

When deciding we wanted to use Florence and the machine for our music video we needed to get permission from the record company of our artist. For this we wrote a letter to the managing director of Island records, the letter below shows this.

Narrative/ Audience/Genre Theory

Narrative/ Audience / Genre Theory

The Application of goodwins principals using 4 different types of music video (Narrative, performance and concept based).

Concept based video- Ok Go - Shall too pass.

What is the relationship between lyrics and visuals?

I noticed a key moment within the video of 'shall too pass' of the relationships between lyrics and visuals. I saw it when the lyrics said 'when the morning comes' and the visuals shows a mini stage which looks like a picture scene of the sun rising.

What is the realtionship between music and visuals?

In parts of the video OK GO use the equipment they use for the video also to make their music. Such as when they use a guiter to spin around with spoons attached to it and let it spin with the spoons tapping glasses that are formed in a circle to make the musical noise. They have also used what you could call musical noises by using things to crash aginst one another or by simply just making a noise, e.g. water spilling or chairs banging.

Are there close-ups of the artist and star motifs?

There are many intercations of star motif within the music video. At the beginning when it shows the dominos falling in a line, it shows subtley the same which looks like a record cover of the OK GO'S album called of the blue colour of the sky, which i didn't relise was the name of the album until i watched the video which many people would have noticed also only when watching the video which is a very good promotional idea on OK GO'S part. When the umbrella is fanned the auidence would see a large, inflatable, pink name saying OK then on to see another large object sign saying OK GO then to follow with a lego title of the bands name again. I think they have put this within their video to make sure the audience know what the band is called. When the song is about finished there is a sign that shows ok then when an object hits it it reads ' Shall too pass' the name of the song. Within the video it shows the different band members such as at the beginning showing the man in the red and then showing others singing shown by a mid shot.

Is there any reference to the notion of looking?

There are many times when all of the members of the bandlook at the camera there are sometimes close-ups on some band members. When bad members look at the camera when singing the camera is moving away from the band member and they then keep looking at the camera like they are following, this involves the audience.

Are there any intertextual references?

No intertextual refrences at all, OK GO are very original with their concept ideas

Is it based mainly on performance based, narrative based or is it a concept idea?

It is a concept idea and shows something that hasnt been made before- very unique.

Narrative based music video- Lady gaga feat Beyonce- Telephone.

Genre characteristics:

Pop genre, very much shown as a film production.

What is the relationship between lyrics and visuals?:

I noticed many areas of this music video which shows the relationship between lyrics and visuals. Two i noticed vvery dominatly was the firstly when Lady Gaga said the lyrics telephone and then showed a mobile phone in her hand. Secondly i noticed Lady Gaga wearing a telephone as hat and while wearing this hat she sang the lyrics 'I am sick and tired of my phone ringing' into the phone hat.

What is the relationship between music and visuals?

There is a slight relationship between music and visuals within this music video. For example when Lady Gaga holding the phone when dancing the audience will be able to hear ringing and a phone noise beeping in the background music.

Are there close-ups of the artsit and star image motifs?

There are many close-ups within this music video of both Lady Gaga and Beyonce.

Is there any reference to the notion of looking?

I have noticed there to be a lot of the notion of looking as both Lady Gaga look at the camera many times. I think this makes the audience more involved with the video rather than just having the audience role and watching.

Are there any intertextual references?

I noticed a prime example of intertexuality within this video. I noticed the musics video almost shown as a blockbuster film. The music video last for nine minutes and thirty one seconds this is twice the length of most other music videos. At the beginning of the film it has introductory credits shown such as who directed the film and who starred in the 'film'. Then when Gaga is walking down the prison text appears at the bottom of the screen showing where it is and what the date is, this is very common in films. throughout the music video it shows different scenes as if it was a film. At the end of the music video it shows the credits as a film would.

Is it based mainly on performance, narrative or a concept idea?

This music viedo i found to be narrative.