Filming day 1

We've been given the cameras today and so we set off to film. We couldn't find our 'Jason Who?' so we filmed all the point of view shots first. We stuck the 'Star's in their eyes' posters on the wall and filmed a point of view shot of 'Jason' looking at it outside and then walking in through the door upto the security guard who let him in. We then got various other people to just react to the posters. We asked the librarian if we can film her putting up the poster. The next shot was of Mohammed walking upto the poster and looking at it.

There have been some changes to the music video and these are:

1. First of all, we couldn't get the theatre to film due to the drama students rehearsing for their exams so instead we thought we might use the sports hall but that seemed a bit odd. So we walked around the college looking for rooms but then we found this certain place near the sports hall; it was empty and plain and it had two doors which we needed so it was the perfect place to film.
2. Instead of having 3 singers, a dance group and a footballer, we now have 1 singer (excluding Jason), a juggler and a 'so-called' dancer just moving her head. We still have the crazy girl but we couldn't get the security guard because he didn't want to be part of it.

We're going to continue filming next lesson!

Taking pictures for CD cover

We took some pictures for our album cover and then we're going to edit them soon. Here are the best ones:

As you can see, most of the pictures are of the street and this is because for our album cover we're planning on having split screens of both the street and the stage to show how our artist has gone from being a kid from the estate to being part of the performing industry. The picture on top, we are planning on using that one for the magazine advertisement.

As for the stage, we decided we would take a picture from google.

Storyboards and CD Cover designs..

Aswell as doing a treament, we also have to produce storyboards and draw up intial ideas for the CD covers. Both me and Akieba worked on the storyboarsd; Everyone in the group has to draw up two different ideas for the covers. Below are images of the storyboards and the designs.

Storyboard:

Once you have the treatment ready, it's very easy to draw up images for the storyboard. Below are the scans of the sheet; we didn't draw eveything, infact just a summary: beginning, middle and end.

Initial designs for album cover:

Below is a scanned image of the 2 designs i created for the album cover.

As a group we've decided to go for the idea of having a split screen image; basically, there will be a line going through the middle of the canvas and on the left side of the cover would be an image of the street to and on the right hand side will be an image of a stage with a mic in the middle. The whole idea of this is to show how the character has gone from being a youth from the estate to someone living their dreams.

First day of starting the production!

Don't let the title musjudge you but what actually happened today was:

• We found our locations.
• Found some of our actors.
  

We wanted the theatre for the talent show but the theatre is booked and so it's difficult for us to use it, therefore, we decided to use the sports hall and fortunetly we can; it's not always in use so it would work in our favour.

Actors:

Singer: Still searching.

Bad singer: my friend Jevetta.

Dancers: Still searching.

Footballer: Kaamil

Juggler: Mohammed

Psycho girl: Akieba's freind

Security guard: Ola

Judges: Akieba & still searching lol

Jason Who: still searching.

The last thing i did before lesson ended was create a poster for the music video.

Here it is:

The Final idea!

After debating about what idea we wanted to go for, Idea 3 got the vote and this is the one we will be working on.

The idea in depth:

The concept of the video is a talent show with people waiting outside read to audition. The winner will then get his/her picture in the magazines and newspapers but the people who are blocking their ways are the three judges. Justin Who is actually going to be the winner of the show and we've decided that, throughout the video his face will not be shown but infact it will be a point of view show right up untill the end just before he starts to perform. There will be some good auditiioness aswell as bad ones and we've decided to have a 'psycho' girl running around liky crazy and then Ola the security guard will then chuck her out of the theatre.

Comparisons:

1. X Factor - Shayne Ward: That's my goal

The reason why this is a comparison is because our music video is a x factor/britains got talent style video.

The Similarities:

Judges

Auditioness

Stars in their eyes poster (instead of x factor ofcourse)

The line of other auditionees waiting outside.

Differences:

• Security guard taking out crazy girl.
• Not only singers but dancers too.
• Point of view shots.
• Video isn't only based around one person; other auditionees can be seen.
  

Here is the video:




2. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

I really like the idea of having split shots afer watching a previous A2 music video and i thought it was cool. Therefore, i threw in this idea and the others agreed. Michael Jackson's Billie Jean also inspired me because it uses several split shots when he's dancing.
Below is a GIF image i created using print screen shots of the split screens from Bille Jean:

Reason why we thought this will be a better idea to do than the other two is because it's similar to what the song is about and that about being 'a star' and as it is a pop kind of song, a jumpy and humourous video would suit it's genre.

Next lesson we will be looking at treatments.

Treatments

Before we start creating the music video, we need to write up a treatment. Rosie gave us an example of a treatment for Eightball's 'My Homeboy's Girlfriend' which was directed by Christopher Erskin.

The treament consists of the idea of the video into depth and what sorts of shots and angles we're going to have. Here is the treatment:

Music Video.. ideas

I'm actually happy with the group i'm in this year because everyone actually listens to each other and take each other's decisions into consideration :).

We've already made a decision of what song we would like to use for the music video and we've had different ideas about the music video itself.
Well the song we would be using is: Stars in their eyes! By Just Jack..

Idea 1:

It would start off with a close-up shot of a poster which says 'RESPECT' in capital letters and then it will zoom into the artist looking into the mirror. The point of the poster is to show that the artist is a very genuine person who believes in believing & respecting yourself. He is in the dressing room getting ready for a performance and then he will walk out the room and as soon as he steps out, there will be a point of view shot when he's walking. There will be flashing lights to signify 'stardom'. This idea has been influenced by Common's music video 'The game'.

Common - 'The Game'

Idea 2:
The second idea was all based around being in school telling a story. It would start off with a close shot of the school logo and then zoom out to Jason Who walking towards the building. The significance of being in the school is to show that, 'you can aim for your dreams even if you're at school' and also he would be having flashbacks of him when he was a student. The younger him would be messing about and getting into trouble but at the same time being serious about his music. This idea is similar to (not compeletly similar though lol) to Chipmunk's video 'Chip Diddy Chip'.

Idea 3:

Our third and final idea was a judging panel music video. It will be a talent show sort of thing similar to the x factor videos. We will have a line of people waiting outside the theatre for their turns to audition and then towards the end Justin Who would walk in and impress the judges.

Next lesson we will come to a final decision as to which one we want to do!