Costumes

Pub Shot- Costume

On the day of the pub shoot it was just Gianluca, so we told him to wear  jeans or some kind lose fitting trousers, a T-shirt and converse/trainers. He turned up on the day wearing lose fitting green cargo trouser, a black top and trainers this suited the description we had told him perfectly and suited him as an artist

Cargo Trousers He wore on the pub shoot                                            Black T shirt he wore

 

                        

Field Shoot-Costume

On This day of shooting we had both Gianluca and Juliet. We asked Juliet to wear a pair of blue shorts and a flowery top to show her 'girly side', we also asked if she could have her hair down as this was on  the reasons we chose her (long blond curly hair) and enclosed shoes such as converse as the field had long grass that could have been irritating. For Gianluca we asked him to wear similar to the previous day but not the exactly the same, a T-Shirt and jeans or lose fitting trousers, He turned up in a pair of Black jeans and a white top, Both actors had listened to what we had suggested and both looked the part

Gianluca Wore:

Juliet Wore:

 

 2nd Unit 

Again like our first shoot, we only had Gianluca, We said used the same description as to the last two we gave him and he turned up in the same black jeans as the Field Shoot and a white baseball top with black sleeves and the 7Up logo on and his Electric guitar.

Gianluca Wore:

Making Our Music Video

Recording


A couple of weeks before filming we booked a session in a recording studio for our artist to record the song to a much higher quality. This allowed us to then burn it on to a CD and use it when filming.  The recording session went very well, the artist knew what he wanted to achieve in the amount of time we had in the studio. He manged to record the track several times which allowed him to go back on the track and make any changes or pickup on some mistakes that he had made.

Filming 


On the first day of Filming, myself and Sapir went to our location at the pub early to set up. Thirty minutes later Gianluca and Juliet arrived to begin shooting the ending of the music video.This ran smoothly and only took forty five minutes to shoot, following this Juliet left,as we no longer needed her that day. We then returned inside the pub to shoot Gianluca's Performance part of our music video. Again this ran smoothly, the Pub allowed us to use their speaker system so that the camera would pick up the pre recorded song, this would help us to match up the exact timings in editing. W e made sure to stick to our shot list and mostly got close ups of Gianluca and the guitar.

Overall i was happy the way that day went as we manged to get everything done on our shot list and more which will really help us when in Post Production.

The next day we all met up and made our way to our 2nd location. We really hoped the warm colours would come through to match those lights in the pub, luckily for us the weather was beautiful and the colours were lovely and warm. Again this day ran smoothly, the actors were patient with us and the camera and did everything we told them to do as well as voicing their opinion to the shots, which was very useful as this also made us do shots again to make sure they were perfect and that we had enough footage when editing. The day itself was a very fun day as we all got along well, this was helpful to myself and to Sapir when filming as if we hadn't gotten along I think the day would have been alot harder to direct and shoot. Furthermore it was good that both Gian and Juliet had met the day before and this had settled any nerves they might of had for the narrative shoot. They worked well together and with us which in turn made what could have been a stressful shoot day due to weather or location going wrong into a relaxed environment.

To conclude both days went well for me and Sapir when shooting our music video, the atmosphere was very relaxed as we knew what we wanted to achieve in the time we had and both actors cooperated well.








below are pictures of myself and Sapir filming on our 2nd Location

lyric Analysis

Your Place Used To Be Mine

Moving back to your old place, afraid you might see me there

standing in your tyrant face, your smile ain't seen no wear

And come down from your shoulders so that you and me can talk, like normal.

And sit right down with me so you and i can right our self into a novel.

Never left you out in the rain but you still wanna stand with me and complain, do you deserve it, probably but girl your anything but perfect.

And come down from your shoulders so that you and me can talk, like normal.

And sit right down with me so you and i can right our self into a novel.

(Electric guitar solo)

And come down from your shoulders so that you and me can talk, like normal.

And sit right down with me so you and i can right our self into a novel.

What is it about?

• Love
• Relationship
• break up
• boy wants to discuss with girl about past events

Feelings in song

• Happy/unhappy
• warm

Treatment

The Treatment for our music video :

Performance based music video with a background narrative of a guy and a girl in a relationship.
 A male singer who we see all the way though the music video either singer or in the narrative singing. Aged 17. A female character who is in a relationship with male character that is seen through in flashbacks.

Lighting
In pub:  Lighting used from pub lights, warm colours
Field:  Natural sunlight



Editing

• Transitions between narrative and performance 
• colour grading: warm colours
• MTVLogo

Setting

• Field
• Pub

Actors

• Gianluca Volpe - Original singer/.Artist
• Juliet Burridge- female character 

Props and Casting

Props

when it came to props we knew that Gianluca would have to appear in the music video with his guitar so we knew that the guitar would have to be involved, both acoustic and electric  Apart from that, we didn't have any more props but we need to make sure that he did bring them, so we had discussions between him to make sure he brought his guitar to the shooting dates which involved the guitar.


Casting


When it came to casting we knew Gianluca had to be involved, so that wasn't an issue. However the problem came to when castings female character for the field scene. At first a fellow friend of mine and Sapirs and school friend of Gianluca first came into our heads as well as another girl, from mine and Sapir's school. When it came to deciding we thought our Friend from school Juliet would make a good character as we imagined someone with very long blond curly hair and tall. Juliet fitted this description, and therefore we asked if she would be interested in helping us film. She replied to us very quickly that she would love to help out. We told her our shooting dates and everything ran very smoothly

Below is a picture of Juliet

Music Video Research

Now that we have our artist and locations. It was time to do some research into what sort of shots to use when it comes to shooting our performance and narrative in our music video.

We decided to look at similar artist who write songs and have a similar sound to our artist. These consisted of Ben Howard, James Morrison, Jason Mraz, Jack Johnson, Ed Sheeran and mostly John Mayer.

We took note of their music videos and came to the conclusion that most of the shot used were close ups/ mid, low angle movement to give power prospective to the artist. We also noted that the camera was never still and always had some sort of movement eg tracking or just on a steady cam, it was never on a tripod unless in a wide shot where we could see everything including the surroundings.

Here are some of the music videos we looked at and took some notes from

Textual analysis of Music Video's Not in Our Genre/ In Our Genre

Music Video Textual Analysis (Not In Genre)



From doing  research into music video's we looked at artists that aren't in our genre and looked at what makes a music video.

The first artist I looked at was Katy Perry with her song 'Last Friday Night'  from 2011







From looking at this music video in close detail I decided that Katy Perry is a pop singer and her genre is POP. The music video itself has a strong feeling of entertainment and it defiantly tells a story throughout the whole video. The music video also has a film like feeling to it, with the use of big bold titles, the use of a pan at the beginning and the dialogue from Katy and actors in the video. The song itself is up beat and defiantly matches the video in which a 'nerdy' teenage girl  goes to a party and completely changes her look and dances supposedly being 'Friday Night' the girls has a so much fun that she wants to 'Do It All Again' the following Friday

The upbeat music is certainly not hindered by the use of florescent colours Katy and many other charters in the video wear, including  party decorations and balloons. the fast cuts and close up of Katy Perry show who the singer is in the video and elaborates the party element of the video, like Andrew Godwin said that there might be elements of other media concepts such as tv or films there is the concept of the video game 'Just Dance' which is shown frequently in this video.
Overall I am a big fan of both the song and the video and looking at this I now know in what way our music video must differentiate from this one.


The next music Video we looked at was 'Girls' by The 1975





From looking at the 4 boys in the band and the layout in which it is set, I can really tell that this band is alternate/ pop/ rocky/ indie. The music video also starts out in black and white but at seconds it turns into colour, with lots of colour being shown in the flower tittles to the colour walls in the close up of Matt Healy's (lead singer) face. The close up of the electric guitar and the techno sounding music also give away that this band are alternate/indie. Then girls walk onto the set and start playing the guitars and drums, it is then clear that the girls are imitating the boys when they start lip sinking to the song. Furthermore the quick cuts of Matt facing the girl in different directions is enhancing the rocky/indie element to this song. The use of black and white with colour continues throughout the video with the girls in bright colour cloths but the boys in black, furthermore the background is usually white with the occasionally coloured back ground, moreover the zebra crossing also exaggerates the black and white theme running throughout. Overall i love the song and the music video and again this shows me how to differentiate this music video to my own.




The next Music video I looked at not in my genre was Avicii ' Wake Me up'







Again, like Katy Perry's video, this one seems quite filmic due to dialogue exchanged by the two girls in the thumbnail shown. Avicii's genre is techno dance music and this really come across at in this video especially at the end where it shows clips of shows and festivals where he has performed with the fast paced music and fast cuts of Avicii and people dancing to his songs. The music video shows two girls that 'don't fit in' in the town where they live, this is shown by the use of clothing both the girls wear compared to the rest of the people in the village, furthermore its shown by the use of shots of the villagers looking at the girls as they walk through town showing the look of concern and dislike on their faces. The oldest one then goes in search for an answer as to why they dont belong and finds people with similar markings on their skin as herself and the younger one she left back at the village, its later shown that the mark is the the logo of Avicii. In the end the girls go to where they belong and leave the village.





Music Video Textual Analysis (In Genre)


Some Music video's we found in our music genre.

One was 'Keep Your Head Up' by Ben Howard






Ben Howard is an indie singer songwriter. In this Video we can see Ben carrying multiple things such as a bucket collecting water, a shovel, bundles of hay. The use of close ups in this video show the intimacy with the artist and the audience, a certain element that occurs alot in this genre of music. The colour in this video is warm with lots of yellows, oranges, greens and blue. he is later seen
 with friends and is building something which is shown to be a big water slide down a hill in the country side. From looking at this music video i now know that my music video has to have certain concepts such as close ups.


Another music video I looked at  was 'Thinking Out Loud' by Ed Sheeran






Again,like Ben Howard, this music video has alot of close ups. Although this video is just dancing the whole way through I can really feel the emotion and feeling behind it with the song lyrics and and beautiful choreography  being performed exultantly. Again, the use of oranges from the lights and coloir grading give it that warm feeling like most Indie music video's have. This music video again shows me what i must include in my music video.




Another music video in my genre was John Mayer 'Clarity'








This Video again has lots of close ups again showing the connection between Indie/singer songwriters artist, something I must have in my music video as Gianluca is a indie singer songwriter artist.The bright warm colours also reflect the connection between this genre of artist and their music videos.


Overall i can see what is needed in my music video as my artist is a singer songwriter and therefore the music video must follow these conventions