Here is our narrative story board. It portrays the shots needed for our next upcoming shoot for our music video and reminds us of what we are going to film in our next shoot. It conveys themes of both loneliness, joyfulness and togetherness. The story board is in chronological order and consists of a variety of different shots and specific types of framing in each scene. The structure of the music video runs at a parallel cutting between two scenes that meet at the climax. Having close ups of the stars face showing sad emotions will help represent his loneliness and the overhead shot amplifies the despair of the character and the having these isolated alone shots adds to the meta narrative.

Bus shots Just Ben

• Close ups to convey boredom
• Long shots to convey loneliness
• Mid shots to show that he’s waiting

Bus shots Brandon and Ben

• Close ups to show social interaction
• Long shots to set the scene to show them meeting
• Mid shots to show characters interacting

Bedroom shots

• Low angle panned to show loneliness
• high angle shot to show stresses of character

Studio shots

• Low angle gives us a more down to earth feel
• Zooming out shot high angle shot, conveys that the two characters have gotten together to create music.

Here is the sheet for narrative development for our narrative.

This sheet shows the things needed to film our narrative. It shows us the themes, characters and structures that we need to know to film the narrative. Having this sheet will help us film the narrative in a thematic linear structure. This sheet helped us to plan the resolution, equilibrium, conflict and disruption.

Here is our first draft of our music video starting again.

Self assessment

• edited on beat
• lip synced well
• good variety of shots and angles
• MES is good

Targets for improvement

• Change the starting shot
• find better shots that we have taken rather than the ones that are out of focus
• Keep continuity better
• Need to film and add narrative to complete music video
• Get the shots from my phone

Having done this shoot and edited the video and self assessed it we can see what we need to do to make it complete and mark worthy.

By analysing are artist for our music video we can see that we need to re create our performer and represent them as someone who is extra ordinary with their music abilities and we also need to show the audience that the star is also an ordinary person having fun (this is called the Paradox of the Star and this theory was introduced by Richard Dyer. Having analysed the look for our genre (the boy next door) it is clear that this will help with our MES in our music video as we now know the types of looks and costumes we need in our own indie music video. We also want to convey to our target audience that our star is indie and the boy next door, we want him to be calm, relaxed playful, friendly and skilful which will play a part in our Metanarrative. By doing this Star image board it will help us with our project meeting agenda as it help us to associate the right costumes for our music video.

Here is a google slide that I have made for my pitch which showed our ideas for our music video.

Here is a YouTube video of our pitch which we presented to our teacher. We talked about where our music video will be shot, the ideas for the narrative and performance of the music video and which star will be in the music video.

Targets from Feedback

• Our teacher has approved our narrative/performance idea for our music video.
• Try to simplify the lonely shots for the narrative
• Finding the beach and the  right times to get the band on the beach
• splitting editing filming and acting between us.
• Try to use different cameras for example a go pro, DLSR and maybe a drone
• Try finding people who have the time to be in the music video

Goals

• Shooting and presenting Summer fun
• Trying to create nice drone shots
• Having limited locations so that it doesn’t get confusing
• proving that we have shot and recorded the music video
• To be able to create a good music video and get some good footage
• To convey the genre of alternative/indie by using repertoire of elements, cinematography, editing and the conventions shown in other indie music videos.

By doing this pitch with my group it has helped us to get a brief idea of what we need and what types of shots, locations and costume designs we will need to create our alternative/indie music video.

Here is a word cloud for some of the words that came to mind when listening to my chosen song for my music video Starting again by Day Wave.

Here is my pitch for the song for music video and some of the ideas which have come to mind for making an indie music video. Our narrative will be amplified with illustrative movement as the we will have shots consisting of a protagonist that has no friends at the start but then meets these new people and starts hanging out with them and having fun, we can tell this story by having the main characters hand out in different shots to then his hand being held and then all the fun starts, like cliff jumping, kayaking and other summer activities. We will also have a performance along side this with a band on the beach will be edited along side the other story.

I think one of the main reasons that this video works so well is that they have used the technical convention of lip syncing which fits the actors voice perfectly for the song. Another reason why this is the best music video from last year is that the song works really well for a horror music video. Having analysed it I can see that the narrative works really well as it is all about someone who is insane. Doing the shoot at the under ground was a good choice for MES and the costumes and lighting are perfect for conveying a horror narrative. Her make up and hair is made scruffy and bloody which represents her as someone who is mad and needs help. The editing is very well done as its on beat and it doesn’t disorient the audience. The star is represented as someone who is insane and likes pain. The camera shots are canted, low angle, high angle shots, mid shots, close ups, long shots and wide shots which help to convey the horror narrative of the video. Looking at this video gives me an idea of what shots, edits and mise en scen to use when shooting and producing my own music video.

Here is my groups risk assessment from shoot 1 this is so that if someone gets hurt its our fault and not the teachers.

Here you can see that one of the members in my group has messaged the artist to ask for permission to make a music video with their song ‘Starting again.’ She has said in the message that it will only be be used for educational purposes.