Initial planninng ideas post

My group includes Nadia Shah , Rhiann Johal and myself. We decided to be a group as we ll bring something different to the group. Nadia is really good  at the technical aspect such as editing using final cut pro. However Rhiann is good at the creative aspect of music videos such as designing the storyboards coming up with ideas on what to include in our music video. I have taken the responsibility of the practical aspect of crating a music video this includes finding locations , actors, iconography and camerawok.

Our first meeting was an hour long where we discussed the following things:

• The genre of music: We made a list of all the artists that we were  considering. We as a group decided to do a song by a female artist that has mainly done slow songs. We made a list of artist that we were considering these included artist such as Kelly Clarkson , Nelly Furtado , Alicia keys and Emeli Sandae. We decided to do Emile Sandae as she doesn have many music videos and the song we decided to do doesn't have a music video which means we can come up with our own ideas on what to include inn themsic video. Emile Sandae music genre is R&B , soul .and pop. We them made a list of the genre chracteristics ; This will help us plan what are the things that we can include in the music video.  

• The song: We decided to do 'Maybe' by EmelieSandae. To begin annotated the lyrics from the song. This allowed to know more about what the song is about. We decided to do 'Maybe' because its a slow song and that will allow us to focus more on the narrative of the song. For each verse of the song we decided what the verse is baout and th possible things we can include in the msuic video.

We divided our discussion into 10 parts. These were  as follows :

1. Mies-en-scene
2. Artist Represenaation
3. Cinematography
4. Editing
5. Style of Misc video
6. Codes and Conventions of muic Genres
7. Traget Audience
8. Music video theory
9. Research caried out / Music video inspirations
10. Annotation of lyrics

Group meeting 2
The next meeting ; all the group members were present during this group meeting. During this meeting we had a deep discussion on weather doing 'maybe' is a suitable song to do as it is a slow song and we as a group would have difficulties producing the digie-pack. We then started researching for a slight upbeat song which is more narrative based. We looked for a song that is not that known and doesn't have a music video. This will allow us to re-brand the artist and put our input in the song rather than doing what the artist does.

We came up with Leona Lewis's song 'Glassheart' ; We then made notes on the following :

1. Mies-en-scene
2. Artist Represenaation
3. Cinematography
4. Editing
5. Style of Misc video
6. Codes and Conventions of muic Genres
7. Traget Audience
8. Music video theory
9. Research caried out / Music video inspirations
10. Annotation of lyrics

 We made a draft of the storyboard just outlining what each shot will include and what props and camera shots will be used. We looked at each verse and made list of possible locations that each location can be shot in. This song has a lot of narrative to it as its about a girl who loves this guy and is afraid that he is going to leave her or cheat on her. This song has alot of narrative to it and beat to the song aswell. We also made a list of the props that we need which includes 'green screen' and how that will be used.