Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Sunday, 15 September 2013
Song Choice
To make our music video we needed to find the perfect song which fitted the biref given and the target audience. Finding the perfect song for our music video was actually very hard too do. Sometimes you would find a song and it would of been a signed singer, For our song chocie it had to be something that we wouldnt be bored with, what we think an audience would like to here and obviously and unsigned singer.
Finding the right song took a lot of our time up, we were constaly sending messages back and forth to different local acts and bands and getting no reply. We stumbled upon a couple of unsigned singers but we just didn't feel their song suited our likings.
We searche don YouTube alot and then suddenly we stumbled across a youtube channel called "Drew Tabor" she is a young girl who uploads alot of acoustic covers, we found a link in the video descriptions to her youtube channel to her new EP. I then took down this information and searched her name in google and nothing suggested that she was signed which means that she was an unsigned singer on youtube with one great song. I played the song to my fellow group member Erica Hall, and we could both see different scenarios in our head. So we decided to email Drew on facebook also on Youtube, We got an instant reply which gave us our first choice in song. The interesting thing is that we didn't think we would get a reply for Drew as she has aload of views on her videos which we thought would be impossible to get in contact with us. When Drew replied back it was a shock.
Our second choice was from a girl in a band called Sunday Lane. She's rather chilled out and when we found her sond we also pictured the different scenarios running through our heads. We emailed Sunday Lane asking for there permisson and happily she allowed us.
It took us at least 1 day to Narrow down to the final song, The final song that we decided to go with is Drew Tabor "Silver Lights". The reason for this is because she is a rather well known person on You Tube and has a big fan base which allows us to get more views and a wider audience on the music video to be interested enough ion watching it. Furhtermore we felt that her tone and her style of music fitted the target audience all together. We saw positivity and good vibes from this song choice and its something that we hope to apply to our music video. I'm very happy with the song choice for our music video and so is Erica Hall. Were going to carry on researching and planning into the music video and come up with a lot more ideas.
Thursday, 12 September 2013
Music Video Planning Part 2
Below I have written out the lyrics to "Silver Lights" by Drew Tabor which is mine and Erica Halls chosen song for our music video. The reason I have decided to do this is because I wanted to annotate the lyrics with different ideas for our music video. When annotating these lyrics I tried to think of different conventions to music videos but mainly focused on "lyrics and visuals".
I had ideas such as when Drew sings the lyrics of "Oh Oh Oh" myself and Erica could emphasises this with big white cards and black lettering of "Oh Oh Oh" each time it's sung that way it's a simple yet quirky/bold way of showing the lyrics and matching them with the visuals on screen for the audience benefits.
This was a good idea because throughout the song we had a lot more ideas come to mind with different camera angles which is shown in the picture below. This has defiantly helped myself think of different scenarios and outcomes to the music video.
Sunday, 1 September 2013
Music Video Planning
Erica Hall and myself have planned our music video through suggesting different ideas that pop into our head and then writing a spider diagram. We grouped certain parts together because we both felt like this would be more organised for myself and Erica too look at whenever we needed different ideas. This planning is actually helping us a lot too come up with different ideas such as costume choices which has been posted previously, setting locations and coming up with the main outline of our storyline for the music video.
We really hope to challenge some of the conventions in music videos and we hope that our planning will help guide us towards this direction over the following weeks.
So far as you can see from this spider diagram Erica and myself have come up with lots of ideas and are going into this project with an open mind and trying to be as creative as possible to match the target audience we are aiming our video at. We've tried to broaden our ideas and imagination with this which will hopefully lead to a suitable music video.
Below is a picture of the spider diagram with mine and Erica's ideas.
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