Meeting Thirteen

Having created an anamatic, we began editing!! This was very exciting for all of us as so much work had gone into the shoots and planning, so to start editing feels like we are getting closer to seeing our finished video.

Meeting Eleven & Twelve ANAMATIC

I was not able to attend meeting eleven but was caught up from the members of the group when returning. In these meetings we created an anamatic. This is our storyboard, that were drawn on post-it notes, put in a digital form. This is so we can see what our music video would look like.

This is the anamatic that we made. 

Meeting Ten

In this group meeting we uploaded all of our footage onto the computer. This took up a long time of the lesson.

Meeting Nine

In this meeting we tied up any loose ends to anything that we were unsure of, which were not many things. We decided to learn to make origami boats as one of our props to take on the shoot. At the same time as doing this Ella uploaded some test footage that we had taken earlier on in November. Making origami boats wasn't only helpful to the props that we needed but Anna and I thoroughly enjoyed making them; although it did take us a few attempts to make them correctly. 

Meeting Eight

In this meeting we collated all of out storyboard post-it notes that we had done individually. We discussed and planned the order which they were going to be in. After doing this we stuck them all in a notebook; making each page a different location and scene. This was to enable us to take out storyboard on the shoots with us and not having them mixed up or disorganized. Now that we have finished this we are confident to film.

Meeting Seven

We sorted out the following things in this meeting:

• Allocating parts of the lyrics to storyboard, to make it quicker to do.
• Making finding and making sure that our male actor was available for the days we needed him. 
•  Determining the dates to shoot, when we were all free and when our actors were free also.
• Planning what days we can shoot in different locations, so that we can be efficient when shooting and filming locations that are close to each other.
•  Checking the weather on the dates we wanted to shoot, as most are filmed outdoors. 

Hopefully we are planning to have our storyboard finished and collated together by the end of this week. As we wanted to start shooting this Sunday, 2nd December; the other date of filming would be Tuesday 4th December.  

Meeting Six

In this lesson we had began story boarding on post-it notes. This is a very easy, quick and efficient way of beginning to storyboard as we are able to adjust the order of the shots easily.  We also listed the locations we want to shoot in and a props list. 

Meeting Five

In today's lesson we deconstructed our lyrics, this was to be able to give ourselves a plan on what our storyboard would be. We took each line/verse at a time and envisioned, discussed and liaised our ideas as to what the location was and what would be happening with our main character in that particular moment of the song. What we had done in this group meeting was essentially the basis of our storyboard in note form. As we were imagining all the shots and ideas that we had related to the lyrics. As we were doing this activity we decided that our lyrics and the shots/narrative of the song are going to be synchronized to a certain extent. We all thought that it would be best if we had a male character within the video as well. From this discussion we started to think of all the prospects of actors that we could use. I think doing this today was very helpful and productive as i know feel we would be confident as to what we are doing in each location and being more time efficient; whereas just going to different location and filming slightly unplanned. This had given us a structure as to what we are now going to do and film. By the end of this meeting we began to storyboard.

Meeting Four

Today's meeting was very interesting as our whole idea/concept/pitch and song choice had changed. Although the Hey Mickey track was domestically chosen by all of us, as we were planning we came to realize that we were slightly our of our reach; in having all the resources and creating the video to a high standard that we all had in mind. The ideas that we had were ideal for summer but we would be filming in winter which wasn't the setting any of us were going for.  After looking through new unknown artist's videos on Youtube we discovered that doing a video that is simple and very realistic, with home-video style/ handheld shots, can be just as effective. This idea/vision of  a video would be able to capture and relate to our audience. We have chosen a song from an American duo Brandon & Leah called 'Life Happens'. This is a very summery song but we are going to take the winter feel of Christmas and subvert the video into a festive, cold, wintery video.

As well as having this revaluation of changing our song choice, we discovered that one of our group members are unfortunately not in our group anymore. Thus making us a three member group than four. Despite the disappointment and sadness we all had of this group member leaving we are now constructing our work load differently. The fact that our idea has changed with the three of us, we are all on the same page of the original pitch being good, but this idea now having a different effect for the audience.

Meeting Three

Today we wrote down all of our ideas on a piece of paper which we then pitched to our teacher. This was to see if the ideas we had was fee sable and if the song choice we had we alright to do a video for. We got the okay from our teacher, with all the ideas and planning we currently had. We continued to list locations, costumes and props. Catherine worked in a party shop, which was ideal for us as we could use the 80s style rara dresses for our main character. We had also rang up the Yellow Storage company to see if it was possible to rent our space in which we could film. This was because as well as narrative we wanted a performance by a band, this could take place in the rented storage area.

Meeting Two

In today's meeting we discussed our ideas in a constructive and organized way, to collate our ideas and create s pitch. Within this pitch we discussed the narrative and the way in which we were going to incorporate intertextuality, voyeurism and Goodwins's theory. We all had good inputs into the narrative, which constantly extended into further discussions about the way in which we could edit certain types of shots and good locations that we could use. 
I felt this meeting was spent well; confirming all the ideas which we needed to decide upon. As a result of this meeting it had given us an opportunity to be noting what we needed to consider in various situations. Overall the discussion was well needed and gave us a good platform to begin thinking of planning and filming.

Meeting One

In this first meeting we had decided on the people we were going to do this project with. My group includes Ella Baker, Catherine Haggarty and Anna Wylde. These are people that i am pleased to be working with as i know they will bring forward good, interesting contributions and i know with this group we will be able to challenge our creativity. Within this meeting we had promptly chosen our song choice. We firstly listed all the understated artists which didn't have a strong image related to their name. This list seemed to grow very fast, then someone suggested the 90s song 'Hey Mickey'. As we all listened to the song, we were all thinking of ideas for a music video and domestically all chose to make a music video to this song. We checked to see if a music video existed for this song, which it didn't. This helped us as we were able to create our own original idea and thoughts to the video. We were going to use the fact that the song was from the early 90s to our advantage and make an updated version of a music video for this song and set it with all the technology that is available now.