Filming

 25 October 2010

On the monday bank holiday we decided that we would quickly get some shots of our male character walking the streets of london. We had our story board in habd and we new what shots to take. Here are some of the shots we took on the day, it was honestly a long tireing day but we got many of the shots we needed.

2 November 2010

On this day we recorded some of the sequence for the female storyline. We unfortunately didn't get much work done, it was a long stressful day and here is one of the shots of our female participant in the video.

Moodboard: (Planning)

Our moodboard is a way of summing up all the information behind the music video such as the camerawork, costume, audience, gender and location. This work was simply created with printed pictures and magazine cuts outs of images that could relate to the genre of music we are doing. Overlapping images as a collage made it quite effect and colourful to the audience too. Below are close-up shots of each section.

This shows the kind of shots and angles we would use for the music video such as close-up shots, longs shots from various angles. Close-up shots will be suitable for the female singer as it will emphasize on make-up and beauty towards the audience. Long shots will be suitable for the male singer to show-off an urban clothing style and for specific movements towards the camera.

I think with this particular genre, I think the music video will be aimed at youngsters from urban areas, preferably males but both genders from ages 13-25. I have used examples of certain artists that would listen to this type of music e.g. Estelle, (a well known R'n'B/Grime UK artist) Tinie Tempah (a rival upcoming Grime artist) and young secondary/college children.

Some of My inspirations for the video

In my group I filmed most of the camera shots and needed to be inspired buy music videos. The concept of our video was of a man and a woman meeting up and their journey on their way to meeting each other. The song lyrics sing of many topics, one being of cheating and mostly of a girl singing that she believes a guy doesn't fully submit to her then saying that she could never be her partner hence the verse, 'I could never be your Woman'. I watch Kanye West's incredible in my opinion admirable video to 'Runaway' I took camera shot inspirations from this and took similar shots so they could be used in the video. I found a Sugababes song that also had a journey story line/concept. Many shots where inspiring in the Sugababes video therefore i tired to keep the same style of shots and put them into my video. Another inspiration was Rihanna's 'Whats My Name?' again there are many outside shots. The diversity of shot was inspiring; once again I took it upon myself to take similar shot for the video to give it a natural and professional look.

Kanye West - Runaway (Full Length Production)



Sugababes - About You Now



Rihanna - What's My Name? feat. Drake

Preliminary Task : Photos & more ...



The Group had been given a preliminary task focusing on the skills of lip-syncing. We were given a song 'Oh-What-Wow' taken from the 60's Disco genre.

We felt this was a good opputunity to find our strong and weak areas between us in practical media work.

The only props given were a CD Player, a sheet of lyrics, filming lights for the green screen and a class room to work in. Very basic but yet our group was keen to show off their talents. We also had decided to go that extra further and use a fan present in the classroom for the effect of the singer's hair blowing which makes it just a little bit more glamourous.

One of the main things we did was to give ourselves a main role each so there was equal workload put out from all of us. Fabian Berisha (Camera man) had good skills using a variety of shots when it came to filming so it was an instant role given. Miguel Carrillo (Photographer) as a shy person didn't want to stand back and observe so a simple yet effective role of taking snap shots with a digital camera helped alot for out blogging.

Ira Bytyci (Actress/Singer) who has the most confidence in front of the camera took the role of lip-syncing which she did a fantastic job of : showing off her moves which made the video even more eye-catching.

Dennetta McKain (Director) who is always full of ideas a keen leader in group work took the role of director since she had an instant image in her head when given the task.

During the filming she made a quick 5 minute storyboard of each shot and action used for the lyrics which made it more easier to follow. For example for the lyrics 'Oh-What-Wow' the simple movement was a pointing arm to the audience.

Miguel Carrillo (Photographer) as a shy person didn't want to stand back and observe so a simple yet effective role of taking snap shots with a digital camera helped alot for out blogging.

An example of a shot used was a high angle shot where the camera man stood on the table above the singer gaining a great shot. A variety of shots were used such as mid shot, close-up shot, high angle shot and long shot but mainly mid shots were used.

Written by Dennetta McKain

Final song choice

As you can see our song choice wa never be you woman by Wiley. Our concept to the video is completely different to what the original producers have portrayed, for starters my group and i will be filming the video during night time in comparison to the orginals morning shoot. We came up with our concept by watching the Sugababes video 'about you now' and we altered it in to making it orginial. Our video will be a narrative involving a person miming the lyrics whilst Wileys video did not have a narrative what so ever.

Plan: Final Song Choice

Our final song choice had to be Wiley - Never be Your Woman (feat. Emile Sande)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jiBFV4DSIc&ob=av2nl

The video contains two artists and a story line, we can see both what is meant to be Wiley (although apparently not) and the female artist Emile Sande along with a seperate sequence. The video is non-linear, the video hardly represents the song as we see a boy growing up on an estate when the song is clearly about love/relationships.

We decided that in order for our video not to follow the trend of its original, we were  going to avoid many of the features seen in the video, this included a change in mise-en-scene (location), props (clothing) and aavoid using any of the topics we see in the wiley video.

The concept of the video was going to include journey time as we decided that there was to be a couple walking towards each other through city streets of london. Our shots were going to be in the city opposing the estate theme seen in Wileys video and the video had relations to the song itself as it was to involve a typical male case in a relationship as he cheats on his girlfriend.

Audience task