I was highly inspired by music video director ________

-the way it focuses on main star, follows her throughout her journey, neutral colours ect represent her innocence, want to portray this in our music video,.

Group Meeting

Today we had a discussion regarding predicted weather. There is a high possibility that it is going to snow in November, therefore we are preparing to begin filming earlier than planned as we think that the snow will have a suitable effect on our footage.

Typical Demographic

This is Alice, she is 19 years old & lives in Brentwood. She enjoys watching TV channels such as E4 & Sky Living. In relation to music channels, she watches Viva, 4music, Mtv, The Box & Smash Hits. Her favourite genre of music is Pop/Indie & Indie/Rock.

She typically reads fashion magazines, for example, Vogue, Elle and Look, she also has a Rolling Stones monthly subscription from the US as she is extremely passionate about music. She also reads the film magazine, Empire.

Alice pursues lots of hobbies when she is not studying, for instance, spending time with friends & listening to music on her iPod or on radio stations, XFM, Capital FM & Radio 1. She also likes playing guitar, writing songs, horse riding, jogging & going to festivals such as Virgin Festival & Reading Festival.

Her two favourite films are Juno & Twighlight. Ellie Goulding is her best-loved artist & You Me At Six are her favoured band.

Shopping centers Alice goes to consist of Lakeside, Bluewater, Westfields & the West End. Her most commonly visited shops are Topshop, Urban Outfitters, River Island, Selfridges, All Saints & New Look, there are also many boutiques and vintage shops in London that she buys lots of her clothes from.

My Inspiration

Before we made ideas for our own music video, we looked at different music videos with the same genre to look at the conventions & for inspiration.
This music video (Ellie Goulding-Your Song) was my inspiration for the costume & settings which we then showed on our costume mood board.


I like this music video & found it a big inspiration because i like how natural it looks, with the natural light as it is shot outside & the basic costume. It looks natural & realistic & not acted out which i think is effective with the song.
I want to take some of these ideas & use them in our music video, for example, as we are shooting in the winter our main actor can wear coats & hats & scarves to make it look natural & we will be filming outside alot in the natural light. I think this will suit our music video & will work well.

We also looked at alot of stop motion videos. These were very inspirational as i liked the effect of being able to make the impossible possible through the stop motion. These music videos were inspiration for me-



These videos inspired us to use stop motion in our music video. For example, we are going to use stop motion to make a flower grow around our main actor using post it notes. We are also going to use stop motion when she eats the chocolate love heart. This will look effective within our video as i tihnk it will suit the music & the timings of our video.

Another inspirational video for us was the end credits of the film 'Juno'.


We liked this video because we liked how everything around her was a sketch but it was still life like. We wanted to use this technique within our music video as we thought it would look nice & would make a normal shot look more interesting. We would like to use it by making sketched flowers in a shot to make the shot more interesting & different.

Pink panther editing exercise

• Firstly, we had to create a folder called 'Pink Panther Exercise'. We then transferred files from a USB to the folder.
• Once this was completed, we opened Final Cut & imported the song & the picture files to it so it was ready for editing. As we used personal photos we also imported those.
• We then had to drag the song to the timeline & trim it to fit 30 seconds.
• The next task was to then mark the song by playing the song through & pressing the 'M' button to the beat so that the photos would change in the right time.
• To add photos, we dragged them into the timeline & trimmed them so it fitted the markers. We did this for each individual marker & then checked that they were in time.
• Once we had added all the photos we saved our project & exported it into a video file to upload onto Blogger.

Target Audience

Our target audience are teenagers and young adults ages 16-24 years old.

TimeLine

Here is the timeline that we have produced for our music video. We have shown time codes, shot description, camera angle and any edits or after effects that will be added in. We will be using this to help us create the story boards for our music video.