
When it came to editing our music video we felt that the transvestite idea was too confusing for the audience and people thought that the extreme close up shots of the boy applying mascara and eyeshadow was the performer. We then decided to change our music video to a performance base video which was inspired by Alexis Jordan- Good Girl, this makes the audience can connect to the performer. We have decided to make time the main theme of our video so we can portray how quickly youth is growing up in todays society, we will show the artist growing up by the seventeen photographs in the beginning showing the artist as a baby, toddler, child, teenager and then early adult. In the music video we will show the artist getting ready to go clubbing which shows that she is in the early stages of adulthood, we will use a variety of make up styles, hairstyles and clothes to make the mise-en-scene appeal to the female audience who mainly listen to mainstream pop. We want our artist to get ready and perform in her bedroom this was inspired by Taylor Swift- Belong With Me music video. We feel like our new idea will make more sense to the audience and it will appeal to our female target audience.
Below is the music video to Taylor Swift- Belong With Me which is the main inspiration of our artist performing in her bedroom.
Below is the music video to Alexis Jordan- Good Girl, we was inspired by this video as it is a performance base music video. Also, our location is inspired by Good Girl as we will use a black and white back drop.
We created an animated storyboard of the first one minute and twenty five seconds of the song, we made the storyboard to show our new narrative ideas. With the longer shots in the music video we will change the angles or the characters placement. Creating the storyboard has helped us to create new ideas for shots, for the rest of the music video. We labeled each shot in the story which has the different camera shots and the location of the shots.
Below is the our animated storyboard.
Storyboarding is significant for any media production because it gives a guideline the sequences of what the camera shots, mise-en-scene, editing and sound the director wants. When creating a storyboard every frame needs to include the people who will be in the shot, an explanation of what will happen in the shot for example, facial expressions and the characters movement, the shot inferior or exterior of the location, the equipment which is going to be used for the shot, framing of the shot for example, long shot, if there are extras in the shot, mise-en-scene in the shot such as, costume and make up, camera angle and the camera movement for example, tilt and pan.
Looking back at then last year when we started storyboarding and filmed I have learnt that we have to create a storyboard and to refer to the storyboard when filming, because when you do not look at your storyboard when filming the editing becomes difficult and the shots are fragmented.
This year we need our storyboard to be precise, detailed and we need to analyse the shot types due to last year when we filmed there was a lack of lighting and we needed to film again.
Also, we need to film more than we need so we can have a range of shots for example, filming a range of angles for one camera shot, this benefits us when editing which will increase our marks. Everyone in our group needs to film as well because we will have our individual opinions of what camera shot or angle will look better.
We need to be more organised this year for example, last year we use post stick notes and drew each shot of one post stick note, this was impractical because of the rain and wind when we were filming. We have decided to laminate our storyboard so it will handle the bad weather and the pen ink will not run.
This is an example of a storyboard:
