Digi-pack thoughts

Originally in our music video, when the song hit the chorus with the lines "good morning sunshine" my group and I were planning to hold up a sign with these words painted on. But as we thought it would be a tad random having some boards held up half way through the song, we decided against it.

As a result of this we thought it would be a good idea of, instead of the group themselves holding up the boards have leading star in our music video to hold them up and feature them on our digi-pack somewhere.

We came to this conclusion as we thought it kept in with the happy, and positive vibes we have throughout the music video and we also thought it was quite a quirky idea and would be something quite different.

Loss of Footage

A few weeks ago we lost the majority of our footage for our music video because of this we spent some of our holiday re-filming. We realised the importance of it, and had to reshoot.

However we feel like this time it was better anyway, because the weather was brighter that day which fit in with our music video's attitude and themes. As the song we are using is a happy one, we needed bright, happy weather to reflect the leading singers feelings. Also to fit in with the tone of the song.

Music Video update!

We are in the process of finishing the editing of music video.
We have had to make some adjustments to the idea of our music video for example;

• Whereas before we had various other couples surrounding the music video's main protagonist we had to get rid of that idea as it would be difficult to find enough people who were all free at the same time.
• We decided against having a beach as the setting as it was becoming difficult to find enough time between filming and editing, to actually go there.
• We removed one setting from our music video, as the footage was quite time consuming we realised we didn't have much time left of the song, so we decided we had to make it a little shorter.
• As a result of this we had to decided on a new ending in which we have to re-film.  
• Not only this but as we had a falling out in the group, being a group of 4 to a group of 2 we had to adapt to the change and while it was unfortunate, we managed to adapt quite well. 

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.