Location Photos 3

This will be the backstage area that the girl uses to warm up and prepare for the big performance.

We may also use it as her practising area that she does throughout the video  as it has a big mirror and is in a private space. However there are a certain aspects of the room that could make it difficult such as the space between the wall and the mirror which is where the girl would be practising.

Location Photos 2

We will be using these stage lights for the performance she does to show 'spotlight' and other effects that you would find as someone performs on stage.

The spotlight will be singling the girl out from the darkness to show how important the performance is.

Location Photos

This is the stage that the girl will eventually be performing on at the end of the video.

Objects such as the whiteboard will be removed, and we are hoping to extend the stage to make it a more reasonable size for the girl to perform on.

Storyboard

This is our storyboard we drew out to help tell us picture what will be happening at each point in the video. The lyrics have helped us massively with the actions that will take place as we've planned a video that goes with the song. Each square holds a quick sketch of what we want to happen throughout the video. We then wrote underneath the text we had already in our 'Lyric analysis and locations' post, which just describes each of the images.

Props

Beginning - normal everyday clothes, bag
- travelling to the dance studio

Flashback - ballet dress
- performance outfit

Bus stop - other people with their shoes on (different), bus, rain
- she has her ballet shoes on to make her stand out from everyone at the bus stop

Close up of eyes - fake eyelashes, sunlight/daylight
- emphasising her eyes will make the shot more dramatic and interesting

Bedroom - pyjamas, ballet shoes, mirror, bed
- it is late at night at home and she is worried about her big performance

Flashback - ballet dress
- performance outfit

Art classroom - sketchbook, art materials
- usual everyday events

Backstage - big mirror, makeup, ballet bar?
- she is preparing herself for the big performance, warming up

Drama hall - stage, lights, ballet dress (different to previous)
- different performance outfit, lighting to shine on her as she performs

Ending - lights fade, applause?
- audience applause as she finishes, and lights fade to show the ending of the video

Performance Video

We chose Goodbye Kiss by Kasabian for our Performance video because it only has them performing the song at one of their concerts in the bands official video. It shows them on stage in front of hundreds of fans which tells you that it's a performance rather than a recorded version of them singing the song put to a video. This means they haven't spent loads of money to produce their video and also that any one who decides to make a video to the song, can be original and not have such a high standard to compete with.

Concept Video

We thought 'Here It Goes Again' by OK Go was a good example for a concept video as it is completely random as it doesn't have a story or go with the song lyrics at all. It consists of the band dancing continuously on treadmills throughout the length of the song. It received a VMA for being the best video (that should have won a moonman) in 2009.

Narrative Video

I chose Taylor Swift's song 'Love Story' as the narrative video as it is not only based upon a love story between a man and woman, but they are also a typical prince and princess too. By doing this it tells you Swift has used a sense of Disney behind the creation of the video. It has the Protagonist, which is usually the hero and is the prince in this case. The Heroine which Taylor Swift plays herself as the princess, and the Antagonist is the parents or whomever/whatever is getting in the way of the two from being together. They are in school to start with and they don't really know each other but by the end of the video they are in love and getting married, and this just goes to show that it's similar to quite a lot of fairy tale films.

Lyrics Analysis and Locations

Standing in the rain, bus is late again 

Girl will be stood waiting for the bus in rain, looks at watch because bus is late and she's annoyed.
She's been waiting for the answer
She won't go away, until it comes her way
She wont miss another chance

- STANDING AT THE BUS STOP

flashback of previous performance that she failed (different outfit)

And it's hard to take
But she's hard to break
And it's hard

- DIFFERENT DRAMA STUDIO OR BALLET STUDIO

shot of peoples feet in normal shoes but the girls wearing her ballet shoes - bus stop
There's a twinkle in her little eye

close up of her eyes, emphasis of one eye especially 
Just for a minute, she feels like a dancer
If you let her in she will stay for life
Cuz she feels like a dancer, like a dancer tonight

looks out of window on bus - on the bus

On a single bed, where she lays her head
She thinks about tomorrow

shot of her laying on her bed and looking at her ballet shoes
And she doesn't know, that she beautiful
But you know it shows

Grabs mirror and looks in it with doubt - in girls bedroom
And it's hard to take
But she's hard to break
Said it's hard to take

flashback of her practising moves she cant get right - drama studio/ballet studio

There's a twinkle in her little eye
Just for a minute, she feels like a dancer
If you let her in she will stay for life
There's a twinkle in her little eye
Just for a minute, she feels like a dancer
If you let her in she will stay for life

doing art work (shots of her ballet work) she is sat thinking about her performance, nervous. - at school
sat preparing herself in front of mirror - backstage (at school)
And tonight's the night that she will find it
And the lights, the lights are all shining

lights shining on her as she enters the stage
She feels like a dancer, feels like a dancer
As she slips away again

begins performance, goes really well - school hall

There's a twinkle in her little eye
Just for a minute, she feels like a dancer
If you let her in she will stay for life
There's a twinkle in her little eye
Just for a minute, she feels like a dancer
If you let her in she will stay for life
Cuz she feels like a dancer
Like a dancer
Like a dancer tonight
Smiles as she continues to dance, everything goes right. finishes in pose lots of clapping and cheering, lights and song fade out. - school hall

The Enemy - Band Research

The Enemy are a 3 piece band from Coventry who formed in 2006 and fall into the indie-punk-rock genre. They tend to base their music around the idea of friendship and social commentary, meaning they express the way they feel about society. The band consists of lead singer and guitarist Tom Clarke, bass player Andy Hopkins and drummer Liam Watts. The music they produce is aimed at mainly working class people as their songs tend to be about common situations such as being stuck in a mundane job.
The awards they have received are:

•  Q Awards – Best New Act (awarded October 2007), 
• XFM Awards – Best British Debut Album of 2007 (awarded January 2008)
• NME Awards – Best New Band (awarded February 2008)

Previous music video directors:

'Had Enough' - directed by Diamond Dogs

Music Videos produced by Diamond Dogs are usually simple and basic, not that expensive and reflect the lyrics. Previous work by these have been 'The Cribs - Mirror Kisses' and 'The Hoosiers - Worried About Ray'

Diamond Dogs produce other media such as Adverts, Internet content, Music videos, Drama and Documentary projects.

Chosen Band - The Enemy

The Enemy are our chosen band and we are going to make a video for their song 'Like A Dancer'

Song Choices

To come up with a final song to make a music video for we came up with an initial list, and then reasoned the good and bad points that they would have when making a video for them.

Chosen Video:  

The Enemy - Like A Dancer This was our favourite possible option for our song choice as we thought it had quite narrative lyrics, so it would make it easier when filming the music video. The music is very upbeat throughout it which means we need something on going on all the time. The band already have quite a basic video for the song; live footage of them performing the song, so we can be quite original with what we produce.

Rejected Videos:
Jake Bugg - Two fingers Our initial thoughts on this song were good as we thought we could easily come up with a video to go with the lyrics but as this song already has a video it may actually be difficult. We'd find it hard to make a video different to the one it has already.

Arctic Monkeys - Brainstorm We would have liked to have had a shot at making a music video for this song, but we thought it would be hard finding people willing to star in it and who would pretend to be in a band and carry out Arctic Monkeys style.

Rudimental - Feel The Love We thought we'd look at a song a lot different to our previous choices. It would be a good song to make a music video for but as its  more of an upbeat dance tune, finding people and locations to be for the video may be hard. A club would be an ideal place to shoot the video but its highly unlikely that we would be able to get the permission to film in one.

Florence And The Machine - Spectrum Really like the song and would enjoy making a video but to imitate one of Florence's videos would probably be quite expensive as most of her videos are high quality. Also, she stars in a lot of them so trying to find someone to act like her may be hard.

Kasabian - Goodbye Kiss This is quite a mellow song and so would be quite simple to film a story to but at the same time, it was more up beat than other songs that we had looked at. This would mean we'd need slightly different scenes included which give it that extra edge to make sure it goes a long with the music. We would also have to do ours completely different to the bands official video as they only seem to have themselves performing the song at a concert.

Intro

I am a sixth form student making a music video for A2 media studies. I will be comparing existing songs and music videos for research and inspiration into my own, and looking at the different ways of filming and producing videos.