Genre

We have realised by looking at girl band videos (which I shall analyse in upcoming posts) are very 'poppy' and take the artistic approach with camera shots instead of having a narrative. They also seem to have upbeat songs meaning there can be a quick editing pace. This seems like we're off to a good start choosing a girl band as the slow editing pace was a major problem for us for our last music video.

CHANGE OF PLAN

After completing our first draft we were really unhappy with the results and felt that we could no longer carry on creating that music video. So our group has decided to change the idea of a music video.

We would now like to make a music video for a popular girl band. Research into this genre is to come.

Desicions desicions

At the moment, we are debating many different ideas. Most of the feedback agree's that our first draft was no where near as good as we would of liked and it just seems that our narrative and the cover of the song no longer fit or gel together. Our decisions are;

1. Original song?
We thought that instead of changing our whole idea, we'd fit the narrative to the original, more upbeat, Stella song as that is the song we originally based our narrative on and it fits better. Yet we have the tough decision because having the cover makes the song more unique and gives a different twist.

2. Keep the Cover and change the narrative?
Instead of changing the song to fit the narrative, we could change the narrative to fit the song. This would require changing the entire narrative and starting again but may be worth it.

3. Keep the Cover and basic narrative idea?
It was an idea that it isn't all of the narrative that doesn't fit, rather just certain parts and so we could keep the parts that work and just change the rest of the video.

4. Start again?
It was put out to the group that we start again with a different group, genre and different everything. It would take a lot of planning and a lot of research but there is a feeling that this might be the better alternative than the others. Yet this is a big step and we risk not making the deadline in a big way if we start again.

We feel these are our 4 options that we're going to think about and consider before making a rushed choice.

First Draft Feedback

Here is a link to our feedback and podcasts.  http://sophie-kilby-media.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/feedback.html

The Snow!!!!

Unfortunately we had to cancel the shoot for the house party and re-filming of the street, last night because of the snow causing crashes and gridlock in Queensbury. This also made my journey home about 2 hours which is ridiculous (I live in Queensbury :|).

We will not have time to re-film before our first draft so we are going to fill the time with more band shots and lengthen the football scene. Hopefully we will be able to get this filming done soon weather permitting. I'll keep you posted.

The Football Scene

We are going to film the footballscene on the at lunchtime on 13th December this, unforunatly, is the day before our deadline but it is the only time that our band can do.

Mise-en-scene

We have a video of the lovely Jess Palmer (in charge of mise-en-scene) talking about the props used in our video with the help from Beth Lavery. (will be online shortly)

Our individual roles for this task:

• Sophie Kilby - Asked Ben to bring in his clothes that he wore for the music video and collected them from him, ready to use in this video.
• Jess Palmer - Jess went to buy the props for the house party and brought them in ready for this video.
• Bethany Lavery - Edited this video together
• Laura Shackelton - I Filmed Jess and Beth talking about our mise-en-scene organisation.

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