Music Video Class Feedback

Performance/lip-syncing- overall not a great performance, lack emotion towards the song.
Relationships between music and visuals- Most people said it worked very well, lyrics relevant to storyline.
Camera Work- Lack the variety of piano shots, but other narrative shots was good, but just mainly too repetitive.
Editing- Shots could be cut quicker, needed bit more transitions/fades.
Special Effects- No actually special effect used but good use of the lighting.
Mise-en-Scene/Costumes/Locations/Props- Very good use of the empty hall also the car which is used appropriate, But needed to use more costumes.

Plans for next lesson

Our plans for next lesson are basically to go out and film the narrative of the musci video again, but this time to really stylize it up, so basically coming in really smart clothes to make the video look as professional as possible.

Rough Cut

Our rough cut is a bit behind but oh well, enjoy :P.

Shots

Yesterday we went out and got some of the non-performance footage for our video, we got quite a lot of footage so we will have plenty and will be able to cut what we need.

Location Shots

These are some still shots of the hall which we hope will be our location for the piano shots, which will be a main focus in the video. Obviously the chairs won't be there in the video.

Class feedback

Our main feedback was just adding more detailed and developed ideas to our blog...also adding photos and a shot list

Basic Story

The basic story is about a girl who wants to leave (California for Boston). Shes leaving because her ex boyfriend has hurt her and drove her to leave to live a new life. She however is leaving with a new guy and her ex is angry and upset about this and is left depressed where he turns to drink. The Singer on the piano is telling the narrative whilst singing and the rest of our group will be acting.

More Music Videos

What our group likes about this music video is how the lead singing plays the piano and that when the whole band are playing together the setting of the black room, and in our music video we want to create the same kind of setting of a black room lit by fairy lights with the piano positioned in the center of the room with whoever playing and singing. We also like how the piano was shot in certain parts of the video for example at one point the piano keys were just shot where you should see the lead singer playing them.

Settings, Locations, Storyboards and Props

Our group have decided on certain locations to use in our music video for example, we have deiced to use the college hall where we will use the piano for the stat of the song where you hear the piano playing, we have deiced to use fairy lights to set a nice setting to transform the hall into a completely different place.

We have taken some photos of some outside settings around the college grounds which we might use as random places where you might see one of us walking around. Either Rob Lamo or David lip syncing or Louise doing something.

So far the props we have decided to use would be the piano and fairy lights.

Other Videos

We think this video by Take That shows some similarities to the original video and we liked the tone of the video.

Pitch

The song we have chosen for our music video is very romantic and soppy, so the theme and tone of our music video is going to have to be like that. A big part of the song is how the piano is played throughout, so a main pat of the music video will be having a piano in the video. So we as a group have decided to start with Rob or Lamo will be playing the piano in the college hall we however will be changing the setting of the hall into a dark place lit with lots and lots and lots of fairy (clear) lights. This will give of a good atmosphere for the song that he is singing from within.

The music video also has some narrative that the guy singing (Rob or Lamo) is singing about a girl that wants to move away and change her life, we could play on this by making a story up about why and how she wants to move what could have happened to her to make her want to leave. But we haven't quite decided what the narrative is.