Images of Props

For certain parts of our music video, like in the chorus for example we plan to hold up flash cards of the chorus. This gives the audience a break of the same shot of the same characters, setting etc. And also this helps keep continuity and also now lets most of our groups ideas to be included, but just combined so it still fits the flow and attitude of the video, yet still keep the affect and mood.

This first picture is our group in the middle of the production of the props, we used the paint colours to give off the correct connotations to the word that was written. For example 'Sunshine' is in yellow to represent the sun, the 'Morning' is to represent the blue skies. Also all the colours we used, are bright, this again helps set the mood and keeps our music video upbeat and positive.





This is the final product of our props, we are in order of how it will be shown in the song, the 'Good' starting then carrying it through until the smiley face is shown at the end of the chorus.
We each plan to stand against a painted wall which is the same colour as our props background, this helps with constancy. But we have considered changing the angles of each clip to keep in pace with the music and keep it interesting, opposed to one straight shot.  

Locations

1. Outside our College, to start the journey

     2. The colour zones, inside the college

    3.  Ipswich Waterfront, as it is a nice, serene and calm setting.

    4. Cineworld, as the main guy is a teenager, the cinema is a popular setting for a date.



   5. Christchurch park, again more romantic imagery.

  6. Train, looking out the window, shows how he misses her

  7. Felixstowe - The beach/ Sea

  8. The Amusements, playful and fun, which are themese for our video

Filming Schedule

Thursday 4th October - Filming in Grant's media lesson, AM.  Will be filming in college; the parts where we shall be holding up lyrics.

Tuesday 9th October - Filming in Town. All the parts with Shledon in town, and filming the couples who are available on the day. 

Sunday 14th October - Hopefully filming in Felixstowe, using the couples who can get there on the day. 

We also leaving some days free in case some people cannot make it, so we wont be tight for time and end up having to rush it.

Final idea

As we had so much trouble with signed artists and gettng permission we went with 'Good Morning Sunshine' by Alex Day, an unsigned musician but as he is a popular youtuber, he is still quite well known.

Here is our idea for our music video;

• Having a main person, being a male, walking through different environments/settings whilst couples, seemingly in love, walk past him. 
• Having a shot of the main person sitting on the train, looking out of the window.
• Using small aspects of stop motion, with us holding up pieces of card with lyrics at certain points in the song. 
• Use green screen available at college when doing the performance part of our video, to have our main person singing in front of a background image. 
• We now decided to make our music video an almost journey by having the romantic couple leave notes for the other and then the boyfriend go round trying to find his girlfriend.
• We decided to keep suspense we don't want to show the girlfriend until the end, to do this we will only shoot parts of her body, e.g. holding hands, we will flash back to the mainman's face but not hers, until the end.
• As our music video is the idea of a journey we are going to have establishing shots so it looks like our leading man is walking there, but these will be sped up.
• We also plan to have ALL of the girlfriends hold up card so this way no one is confused and it has a constant continuity.

A print screen of me asking for permission to use Alex Day's song, even though he's unsigned, I thought it might be good to ask.

First ever idea

Our original idea was to use a song by an artist called Matt Nathanson, we were planning to use his song 'Kiss Quick' as we thought the tone of teh song and the romantic imagery would be easy to transpire from lyric to visuals, like with the band 'Walk the Moon'. Matt Nathanson was also signed.
Below is the music video of the song and proof of asking for permission.
This shows how bands and artists who are signed are a lot harder to get permission from, whereas with an unsigned artist, their songs are their to use and generally just as good.

Conventions of a Music Video

Earlier music idea

Our beginning plan was to use a song by an alternative band, from America called 'Walk the Moon'. But as they were a signed artist, we decided it would be difficult to get into contact with them and we didn't want to break any laws by using their song 'Anna Sun' for copywrite reasons. Below is the song and a few images of our attempt at trying to get permission. We asked the record company personally, by emailing them and we also used a social networking website, 'Twitter' to also try and get into contact with the band members themselves.

Here is the letter a fellow member of the group sent to the record label.

Dear Michael and Lindsay

I am contacting you on behalf of myself and three fellow students to ask your permission for us to use the song Anna Sun by Walk The Moon. This will contribute to part of our A level media studies and will enable us to create a music video. We are currently studying at Suffolk One Sixth Form College in Ipswich, Suffolk England.

We very much hope that you will give us your permission and please do not hesitate to contact me if you need any further information.

I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible.

Yours Sincerely

Victoria Thurlow

The video above is the official music video for the song we were thinking about using, 'Anna Sun' and below is a print screen of my twitter page asking for permission from the band to use their song