Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Group Decisions

Myself, Scott Jenkinson and Jack Hughes have thought about a number of songs for do for our music video, firstly we had to think about the genre of the song as we both have different tastes in music and we both wanted a happy compromise.

We narrowed it down to three songs:
Eminem- Slim Shady
Eagles- Hotel California
Bruno Mars- The lazy Song

The ideas we have for the first song of Eminem would be a classroom setting full with an ugly teacher speaking to the children who are like young zombies and stand up randomly with clips of someone performing through the music video. The music video would grab a lot of the audience's attention as Eminem is the most well known and followed performer out of the three selected but would be the most hard to perform as the concept has been repeated by many artists after him.




The second song of The eagles - Hotel california, would be mainly story based, on a scruffy looking man who is aimlessly walking along a road unhappy, with flashbacks of his life from when he was happy with his former girlfriend. This story would have the most audience emotion as it would be sad and have a tone that makes the audience feel sorry for the main character.






The Third song of Bruno Mars- The lazy Song, this song would be probably the easiest to make as it would tell the story of a man being lazy all day such as playing his computer consoles and lying on his bed and other lazy actions. This concept is something we believe would have a comedy effect as it would show people behaving lazily.







The feedback we have received from other students in our class and teacher is that The Eagles- Hotel California would be probably the best concept of a music video to create as it is completely our own idea with no help or guidance from other music videos. Also there is no official video for it to be compared to, plus we both think the concept is by far the greatest.


Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Useful Websites and Background on the group



The research we have done in investigating information about our music video is extensive, we have spent hours in meetings and working to get our blogs up to the highest standards we can. We have researched many other music videos created by people just like us in A- Level, we have compared many ideas and contemplated people who we can incorparate into our media production.

So far we have...

Visited many websites incuding these most frequently
www.Youtube.com
http://chchsmediastudiesa2.blogspot.co.uk
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=7136





Scott-
Born- 28/07/1996
Scott is a very active free runner who has experience shooting very high fast movements. Scott has extensive experience using high tech camera equipment and has a brief acting history, he can perform his own stunts if they are needed and has experience of being on a film set as he was on ITV news.




Jack-
Born-15/07/1996
Jack is very creative behind a computer, Jack has no background history behind a camera but is a great addition to the group due to his acting ability and that he is not camera shy. Jack is very good when it comes to thinking about music videos and he came up with a few concepts about various ideas we were comparing.








Joel-
Born-  26/02/1996
Joel has a good background history of filming as he was apart of filming two short films, he was a good knowledge of what is expected when producing a media production. Joel is very precise when it comes to work and is good at time management and getting things in place when they need to be. Joel can also act and film.