Organisation of Resources

This is a list of what we are going to use within our music video. We had to take into consideration that we are restricted with what we have got as we don't have millions of pounds to spend.

• Performers: Myself, Mike and random Friends
• Locations: My car, My house, Central London (Leicester Square/Soho), London trains, London train stations, Local Park
• Costumes: Casual clothing - as if we was going out for the night in town
• Props: Paracetamol - acting as Ecstasy, glass of water, fake alcoholic drink

The Workload

We have split the workload so that we both have an equal import to our video. Also this means we will also both have the same amount of lesson time for blogging!

Tasks for me;

• Finding Music
• Researching into genres of music and artists
• Looking after the camera equipment and tripod
• Filming and directing the video
• Making appearances within the video
• Keeping Blog up to date

Tasks for Mike;

• Research into other music videos
• Research into target audience
• Editing the preliminary, animatic and music video
• Creating the story board
• Making appearances within the video
• Keeping up to date on the blog

Costumes!

When we was thinking about what we wanted our artist to wear whatever the genres were linked to. For the indie side of the genre we wanted to wear casual clothes like jeans and trainers. For the pop/rap part of the video we want him to wear a stereotyped hoody and tracksuit bottoms. These where some of the images that we looked at while looking at the costumes.

We also looked at the artist eminem, but the images I wanted to upload would not upload. The image was him in black trousers and a black hoody, with black trainers.

Music Video Initial Ideas

Me and Mike Had a lesson when the Internet wasn't working, instead of just sitting around we made a spider diagram on a word document. These are some of our first thoughts for our music video.

Animatic

Damaged File!!!!!!!!!!

We was doing our animatic and it was coming close to the end of the lesson so I started packing away. I disconnected the camera and then a message popped up saying something about a damaged file. We should of put the images on the mac first but we didn't! that's why it said the file was damaged, the files wasn't backed up. Hopefully we will be about to reconnect the camera and everything will be OK. (fingers crossed).

Health and Safety Risk Assesment

1. No filming in inappropriate locations.
2. Check safety of locations e.g. roads.
3. When filming on location ensure a teacher or responsible adult knows where you are and have a telephone number and when you will return.
4. Minimise risk of theft of equipment
5. Check all equipment is working before you leave
6. Ensure you have permission for filming if necessary.
7. Always film with at lease one other person.
8. Ensure you have the permission of those you are filming.

Risk	Severity	Frequency	Measures taken to reduce risk
Driving and filming	High	Low	Careful driving, wearing a seatbelt
Dark streets, icy	Medium	Medium	Stay near lighted streets
Carrying expensive equipment	Low	Medium	Double check all equipment is secure
Thefts	Medium	High	Hide the equipment from plain sight
Train station	High	Low	Stand back from the platform
Running up stairs	Low	Medium	Run slower

No Planning!!!

In a lesson we was watching a documentary called "The Videos That Shaped The 80's". We got half way thought and they started taking about the making off Duran Duran - Rio & Elton John - I'm still standing, these videos might of seemed like they were planned to perfection, but it was the furthest point away from that. Both of these videos had minimal planning in fact "I'm Still Standing" was made up as they was going along. "Rio" was just as bad, the director realised that he didn't have enough filming so he borrowed a Germans Video camera that was on holiday took some shots like the saxophone shot then sent him back his camera when they was home with the tape.

These videos were made by well known people, we are no bodies in the music business and we are putting more time and effort into planning. Not to forget without the planning these videos are some of the most famous in the music business.

A New Way To Make A Video?

Me and mike were browsing on YouTube and came across and advertisement that we thought was amazing it used only still images. From this it made a new style of video. We later found a students work from another school who had adopted this idea and used it for there music video. We both thought it wad brilliant! take a look ? The first is the advertisement the second is the music video.

Copyright

Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work. The exclusive rights are however balanced for public interest purposes with limitations and exceptions to the exclusive right - such as fair dealing and fair use. Copyright theory says that it is the balance between the exclusive rights and the limitations and exceptions that engenders creativity. Copyright does not protect ideas, only their expression or fixation. In most jurisdictions copyright arises upon fixation and does not need to be registered. Copyright owners have the exclusive statutory right to exercise control over copying and other exploitation of the works for a specific period of time, after which the work is said to enter the public domain. Uses which are covered under limitations and exceptions to copyright, such as fair use, do not require permission from the copyright owner. All other uses require permission and copyright owners can license or permanently transfer or assign their exclusive rights to others.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright)

Distribution of Our Music Video

We was discussing between our self's on the places our own music video would be shown. We thought our video would be good enough to be shown not only on the internet but on some music channels. We took into consideration that we are working with an unsigned band, and the song is not a huge number one but the song has potential.
We came up with these channels that we thought were suitable for an indie band;
-The Box
-The Vault
-Flava
-4Music
-MTV
-Viva
As our song is not going to be a number one hit we will not have a prime time slot so we thought we would be shown between 8:00pm - 12:00am
We also thought of some internet websites that we could use to promote our music so our band becomes well known across the world;
-Youtube.com
-Mtv.com
-Musicjesus.com
-Music.com

Fij (Our Choice of Artist)

This is our chosen artist we found on Unsigned.com. His Music name is Fij but his real name is Nick Fitzgerald. This is what he and his producer wrote about there self on there unsigned website. "Fij is singer/producer duo Nick Fitzgerald (Singer/Songwriter) and George Kafka (Producer.) We make electronic music influenced by a wide range of genres, bands, artists, and producers. We have been making music and recording together for three or four years although previously as a band; we decided to switch to the singer/producer relationship due to George's increasing interest in electronic music. We are currently in the process of recording the 5 track 'One More Year EP."

Wordle

This wordle is just words that remind me of music videos. These were just some of the words that popped into my head straight away.

This wordle id the lyrics of our song. I did this to see which words it highlighted, as i might be able to get some ideas for my music video from certain words.

Unsigned.com

Unsigned.com has some unbelievable artist on its books. It is so simple to use the hardest thing about the website is finding an artist that you want as you have so many to choose from. We was lucky when we found our artist because it was just by chance. I was supposed to click on the artist next to him but accidentally click on Fij. I thought I would give the song a go and listened to it, good job I did because I enjoyed it. as soon as I listened to it I went to try and find him e-mail to ask permission straight away.