Sophie's A2 Media Studies Blog: Music Video Preparation

Firstly, we had to decide on an artist to represent in our music video. So we went away and came back with some suggestions and shared them with the group. We decided our best option would be to go with a band who were local and who Sapir knew called 'The Naked Recreation' with their own songs 'Stain'. As a backup, we also emailed Gabrielle Aplin about using her song 'Human', she is a songwriter known for her hit songs such as 'Panic Chord' and 'Power Of love' however her record label never got back to us, we also emailed an American Band called Ten Sleep to see if we could use their song 'Tired step' who did get back to us, however we decided by this point to stick with The Naked Recreation as we already had ideas for the song. However we were still waiting for a reply from them to officially confirm to film with us as we wanted to include them in the video itself. After waiting 3 days for a reply we decided that we needed to move along quickly and so made the decision to contact another Singer song writer who is local to our area. We decided not to go with Ten Sleep due to reasons such as they aren't going to be in the video, and also we couldn't think of a concept which would match them as a band. Therefore we contacted Gianluca Volpe and he got back to us a couple of hours later saying he would love to be involved in our music video which in turn would promote himself as an artist. A day later we got a reply from the Naked Recreation stating that they would be unable to film with us. This made things alot simpler and we now were able to get on to deciding what concept we would like for Gianluca's Original song 'Your Place Used To Be Mine'.

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We then started to think of a concept for the video itself. We analysed the lyrics to the song and came to to the conclusion that it was about a relationship that no longer was working for either of the two people. We had already decided that we needed a performance based concept with a bit of narrative.

We then needed a location for filming. During the process of waiting for a response from the Naked Recreation I had already booked a pub for them to film in, however once they had said they couldn't film with us, we were thinking of canceling our booking with the pub. But once we had a confirmed response from Gianluca we decided that the pub would also suit his style and therefore kept the venue. We then decided that we were going to film our narrative part to the music video in 2 different locations: 1) Tower Bridge 2) Burnham Beeches. However after contacting the city of London to get permission to film on Tower Bridge we would have to pay £250 to film for 1 hour and therefore decided to rule this out. We still wanted to film on a bridge so began to look else-where. We eventually found a small bridge near to where we live and some girls had filmed there for their film openings so we knew we wouldn't need permission. After much thought about the bridge idea, we then decided to not film there at all as we thought we needed to keep the video itself simple and 2 locations would be enough. We then contacted Burnham Beeches and asked if it would be possible to film there, they said that it would be fine as long as we send them pictures of where we would like to film before we go and shoot.

We have planned to go and take some shots of both locations in the next few weeks and also get Gianluca into a recording studio so that we can have a high quality track of the song, as the one we have currently isn't as high quality as we would like it for the backing to our music video .

After our shots of each location were taken, we the uploaded them on to the computer. When looking through our shots we noticed that the pub setting had very warm colours due to the lighting,however Burnham beeches was very green. Therefore we decided that this again was no longer a suitable location as the two different colours were not going to match well in the final video, even through colour grading. This again left us without a 2nd location to shoot our video. However a few weeks later, I found a location that was both public and had warm colour. We then decided this was going to be our final location for our music video

Burnham Beeches

As shown on this image the pictures at the top are from the bounty and the ones on the bottom are from Burnham Beeches

We are very happy with our decisions for our music video, although we were initially a week behind the other group with our complications with our artists, but we eventually caught up with them and now on track to producing our music video.

The Bounty where we will be shooting our performance part of our music Video