Directors Commentary

This is our Directors Commentary, we spoke about the shots and scenes that we have used in the video, we explained why we thought each shot was effective and the reasons behind each scene and location.

CD - Digipak

Our digipak design was inspired by the music video we had originally created. We chose the colour pink which was used throughout the digi pack design as it symbolises the artists name. We also tried to keep an urban style for the front cover especially as it is a picture of the performer sat on railings in front of a brick wall. This is also seen in aspects of our music video, For example the performance scenes where there is graffiti in the back ground.
We also wanted the digi pack to look eye catching and appealing, as in the real world it would be used to draw in customers which would then be the ones to actually buy the CD. We tried to be much more creative at the back and link the song in with the cover. We did this by using a glass of water with a dissolving “pill” in it. We used photo shop to make the pill look pink, with a broken heart in the middle of it which also relates to the song and music video which has a narrative about a breakup.
The back cover has bar code art the bottom which also makes the digipak look realistic. It also contains music labels which would be used on the real "Pink" CD cover, which also makes it look like a real CD cover.
For the insides of the cover we added lyrics from the song, which is very simplistic but we didn’t want the inside to look to busy. We added a picture of the performer with the same costume on as the front cover so it would flow nicely from the outside to the inside. The same kinds of dark and florescent pink colours were used throughout, along with black and white as our main theme colours again to help the digi pack flow.

Front Cover

Inside Left

Inside Right

Back Cover

Advert

We designed an advert for the song by Pink – Just like a Pill, we wanted to create a eye catching colourful and fun advert. We linked in the colour pink to symbolise the artist as well having pictures of pills in the back ground to link in the song. We added in a star rating by NME a popular music magazine to make the advert seem more realistic as this is a property of many music adverts. We added logos of places where the song can be downloaded or bought. We also made up a official pink website where the song can be downloaded. For the writting we used a big bold font which is clear and readable as well as attractive combined with bright florescent colours for a more fun look. We feel all these factors combined helped to create a advert that is similar to real music adverts as it possesses many of the same properties.

Here is a final draft of our advert, the size needs changing as it should be an A4 size and this is not an A4.

Alternative Scenes

Whilst filming there were a few scenes we couldnt use as they were slight errors which didnt look professional or that we didnt feel were effective as others. We also had other ideas for some scenes, here is a short film which shows which scenes we either didnt use or were changed slightly for the music video.




Green Screen Shots : As you can see from the short film, there were many different backgrounds that we were going to use for the green screen performance shots. We wanted to find a picture that looked realistic but that was also eye catching. Whist out filming we couldn’t find any locations which we could have taken a picture of or filmed to then add to the green screen. Therefore we searched the internet and found the pink graffiti eye which is what we used. There we many other suggestions for the back ground such as, Pills which would have related to the song, skyline views which would have matched the scenes which where the performer is singing in the rain but we couldn’t find one that looked realistic as they were still images or just didn’t look right as the background. We didn't use some of the footage filmed in front of a green screen as we felt it didn’t look right. Some looked slightly silly and were not appropriate for the song. Our initial idea behind the running in front of the green screen was to put a back ground, either still or moving to look as if the performer was running from one scene to another either front left to right across the scene or towards the camera with a moving image behind. However we didn’t particularly like these scenes and decided not to use them in our video.

The scene outside on the roof with the performer looking back was meant to be part of a eye line match scene in the music video. However, due to the heavy rain and wind the camera lens had rain droplets on it, causing the footage to look smudged and blurry. We were disappointed as we lost a fair amount of footage die to the same problems which were noticed when we uploaded the footage onto the computer. We did manage to use some of the footage where the water on the lens wasn’t as noticeable.

We had an idea of filming the mobile phone with a line of the lyrics “Cant stay on your life support.” Witten on it like a text but realized until we uploaded the footage, that unfortunately you could see the reflection of the camera on the mobile phone. This was quite noticeable and wouldn’t have been professional if we had used it. We were quite disappointed with this as we thought it was a clever idea, which could have been placed near the conversation of the performer singing down the phone.

What Have You Learned From Your Audience Feedback?

Overall Impression

When we asked a group of to watch our video and give us any feedback, the over all response was relatively positive and everyone liked the music video to some degree. There were many mixed reviews on particular areas of the music video from both groups interviewed.

Below, we have some filmed responses from people representing our target audience. They were asked what they liked and disliked about the music video and this is what we found.

Positive Points

There were comments on the green screen shots with the graffiti wall background which were very positive. They were particular comments on it looked quite realistic and the fact that it stands out was liked by our target audience.

Our target audience also liked the narrative behind the music video and felt it was appropriate for the song lyrics. We are please with this comment as when planning the music video we decided to have an amplification narrative which we now feel has worked well judging from the feedback received.

One comment in particular was on the effects used throughout the music video. We used very simplistic effects which weren’t too outlandish, for example the slight orange on the flash back scenes to separate them from the present were effective. Also one audience member particularly liked the shot with the male performer. We changed the brightness and contrast on the shot so only his face was visible and he was fading into the clouds. This would support our assumption that more subtle effects were more effective and our audience seemed to respond well to this.

We received feedback on the music video looking like a video they would assume the artist “Pink” would have for one of her songs. We are very pleased to hear such positive feedback as we wanted the video to reflect styles of the artist and fit in with the song.

Areas of improvement

There was one comment on the two shots in the music video which an audience member felt was to full on. They commented on it being rather confusing especially in the argument scene. We tried to eliminate any confusion whilst filming the music video as we wanted the audience to establish that the video was about a break up and the extra male performer was the “ex- boyfriend”, perhaps we should have made this more obvious from the start by maybe introducing the character in a simpler way. It was also made more confusing as there was a two shot with a lot of fast movement in short a scene which may have made it hard to see what was going on. We could have done this scene differently by filming the arguments from point of view shots with only one performer in the shot at any one time.

There was also a comment on their being too many running scenes. This may have made the music video seem very repetitive. This may have made the music video seem slightly boring in certain parts of it, which was definitely not the desired effect we wanted the music video to have on the audience. We could improve this area by adding in new and different shots in more locations which could have made the video seem more interesting, or expanded on the narrative.

One audience member advised us to cut more specifically on the beat of the music we could have done this by maybe making sure to cut only on prominent drum beats. This could ensure a smoother cutting between shots as well as making it seem more dramatic and interesting for the viewers, as one audience member felt there were a few slightly irregular cuts between some shots.

Analysis of technical areas

Camerawork

Feedback on the different camera angles especially on the close – up shots of the feet running down the stairs scene were noted as positives by the audience. They feel the mixture of shots such as close ups, mid - shots and long – shots as well as high angle shots all worked well together.

We tried to work in a variety of different shots and are happy to see that this was noticed by the audience.

Mise en scene

There were comments made on the continuity within the music video being rather good as the performer wore different costumes in each different locations. We tried to keep a casual yet rock chick look; keeping costumes generally black for example black skinny jeans which are associated with the “rock” style of clothing.

There were comments on the scene where the performer is singing down the mobile phone. One performer picked up on the narrative story line and linked the phone call being to the male performer within the music video.

Editing

The audience gave positive feedback on other aspects of the music video like the “P!nk” title. They commented on it being a property of a real music video, which in essence was what we were trying to achieve and also felt it was quite effective.

One aspect of the video we initially struggled with whilst editing our music video was the lip syncing. This came through the audience feedback as there were many different opinions from the audience as some felt the lip sinc was rather acculturate, however as you can see from the videoed interviews one person felt the lip sinc was a little off. We tried to get the lip sinc as accurate as possible however we think the problem occurred during filming some scenes where the performer was a little slow whilst singing particular parts of the song.

There were particular comments on the smooth cutting of the music video. Whilst editing we tried to make the music video have relatively fast cutting especially when the song speeded up during the chorus. We did this by using short scenes and used lots of them in a short period of time in the music video. We are happy that this looked smooth to our audience as we used effects before and after some scenes to give it a smooth finish.

How Did You Use Media Technologies In The Construction and Research, Planning and Evaluation Stages?

We were able to use the internet effectively in the research of our video. It enabled us to research similar genre of videos and the video by Pink for our chosen song. We looked at in particular the song by Tine Tempah and Eric Turner – Written in the stars.

We were able to research the types of shots that are regularly used in music videos especially those in pop / rock music videos which is the genre of our chosen song and see why they were affective in attracting their target audience. We were able to use our research to produce a unique video that was different to the original yet still reflects the song lyrics and the artists unique style.

We were able to research possible locations via the internet using the Google map. We used it to plan where we were going to shoot it and enabled us to plan in advance which camera shots we were going to use and what scenes we were going to film. As initially did all the planning for the first song choice Professor Green – Just be good to green we ere fortunate to find that we were still able to use some of the same locations for the new song choice Pink – Just like a pill. Planning ahead was also beneficial as it kept u from falling behind even further when we changed the song choice shortly after filming for the first song.

To make the video look similar to real music video’s we used various editing tools on Final Cut Pro, such as transitions to make the video look more interesting and flow continuously through so there weren’t any obvious gaps. We filmed in the media editing suite where were able to switch from three different cameras to get different shots from different angles. We filmed this in front of a green screen where we added pictures of graffiti art in the background which we also got from the internet to create a unique image. The green screen’s we used enabled us to create different scenes such as the performance elements within the music video, these we very eye catching and attractive grabbing the audiences attention with the bright vibrant colours which contrasted nicely with the more subtle argument scenes between the two performers.

We were able to use the editing software Final Cut Pro to get screen grabs of our music video. This allowed us to give a visual example which helped to emphasize and explain points made during the evaluation stage. The screen grabs enabled us to refer back to specific parts of the video and expand fully on what we were trying to do and the effect we wanted. They also let us show why we used specific shots and why they were effective in our video. Reviews which we got our audience feed back from. We also used Final Cut Pro to make a short video of some of the interviews we had taken from our target audience. This was very helpful as it allowed us to look back over and evaluate the audiences feed back on our video. Which lead us to expanding on what we could have done to improve our music video, reflect on mistakes made during filming and editing as well as review positive comments which came up during the interview stage.

We did a director’s commentary over our music video by recording the groups thoughts, ideas and opinions on the finished music video, by speaking over the music video and deleting the music on it to show what the group as a whole thought of our video and why we chose to create it the way we did.

Overall we tried to use the wide range of technology available to our advantage as we were able to use it to plan, research, create, edit and give demonstrations of how we made the music video which was extremely helpful.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

I believe that our video is similar to those video’s produced by the music artists. The shots we have used, I believe, show the quality of shots that are used in real music videos. The shots we have chosen show the emotions the performer is experiencing and gives the audience an idea of the history between the two performers. I think our music video conveys a story which can be seen in many music videos that are created by many artists such as in the video "Pink - Please don`t leave me" there is also a second male performer and they are shown arguing / fighting similar to our music video, however ours is a much more conventional, stereotypical style of a couple breaking up. I believe this gives our music video a sense of reality.

We were also inspired by the songs " wriiten in the stars by Tinie Tempah & Eric Turner. There is a particular performance on the roof of a building with the skyline visible at the top. This is reflected in our music video as our music videos main location is on a roof where in many shots the skyline is visible. Looking back at the video, we also noticed that in both music videos the performer is playing on the piano, which is our opening scene. This was purely coincidence, but shows us that aspects of our video reflect those of real, professional music videos.

The green screen shots we have used can be seen in a variety of music videos with similar and different genre’s to our music video. As we have used the green screen shots for performance scene’s it enabled us to create a background that didn’t have anything to do with the story that unfolds throughout the video but also doesn’t make it look like it doesn’t fit. We used two different background’s; one for each outfit our performer wears. This gave the video a sense of continuity as there aren’t different background’s for every green screen we used, but also a break from the story and gives it a sense of a real video as many have performance scene’s within them. I believe the backgrounds we have chosen to use fit within the genre of song we have chosen as; the two pictures we have chosen are graffiti and one of them contains the colour pink. The background containing the colour pink also fits in with our idea of a CD cover.

I believe the transition’s we have used throughout the video also reflect those that are used in real music videos. The transitions we have used enabled the video to flow continuously and like a real video it makes it more interesting for the audience to watch. At the beginning and end of the music video we have added text boxes which inform the audience the title of the song and the artist. We believe, that this gives our video a sense of a real video produced by professionals.

How effective is your combination of your main product and ancillary texts (the magazine advert and CD digipak)?

I believe that with the video, our CD cover and magazine poster makes our final product very effective as they all show some aspect of the video that will attract our target audience. As the CD cover shows a link to the artist; the colour pink included in the artwork ect, I believe this will entice the audience further as it will be easily recognised and easily identifiable. From afar I believe our audiences will be interested in the cover and will want to have a close look, enticing them to buy the single before they have seen it properly as it is original and creative.

The video will entice audiences as the song is a well known song and the video is such that it will be easily identified and will stick in your head. I believe it is a video that is fun, creative and attracts all audiences not just our target audience. I believe that with the different shots we have used and the different aspects of the video will ensure that it is effective and will stay with the audience long after they have seen it. With the piano at the beginning of the video, I believe this makes the it unique and allows it to stand out from others. With one of the performers running throughout the video I believe this makes it fun and makes it stand out as something to be remembered.

Detailed analysis of your music video

We recreated the music video for Pink – Just like a pill. We used a variety of shots including
mid –shots, Close – ups, Panning – Shots, High angle shots and Long- Shots as well as effects filmed in different locations. Our three main locations were; Shudehill car park, Urbis and Loreto College.

For the very begining of the music video we decided to add a title. It makes the video look more realsitic and professional as ths type of effect is seen on television music channels when inroducing the music video / song.

We used a variety of mid -shots and close -up shots of Sarah as she performed in this scene. This enables the audience to see expressions of anger and frustration on her face as she sings. Also the rainclouds are also darkened and exaggerated in some shots as we used the editing effects that defines them and adds a new dimension of shades. Also as you can see from the screen grab, the rain adds a dreary element to the music video, which is exaggerated through some shots having naturally low-key lighting.

We were inspired by a rooftop performance of the music video of written in the stars, where the performer is on a rooftop and there is also a city skyline visible in the backgrounds.

We thought this was a great shot of Sarah as the background through the window is blurred from the rain keeping the music v

ideos continuity. It also makes Sarah stand out more and is also quite a dark and gloomy shot.

Here we did a mid -shot of John and brightened the shot up using the editing effects adding a very high key lighting effect. Making just so his face is visible as if he is disappearing into the clouds and is barely there. We feel this shot was particularly good as it also allows the audience to identify who the person stood behind Sarah in future shots is, that she keeps looking back at. There is a sight shallow dept of field in this shot in particular as the foreground is mainly in focus yet t

he background is slightly blurred.

This shot was filmed inside in front of a green screen background, which was replaced by a graffiti wall background. The graffiti gives the video more of an edge. It helps represent the pop rock style of music that the video was made for. It was filmed mainly in mid- shots so that expressions are visible as well as the background.

The video has an amplification narrative such as parts of a break –up in flashback shots which fit in with appropriate parts of the lyrics. The extra performer –John – is quickly identified as the ex- boyfriend within the storyline.

Most of the music video is lip synced with the music video except for the two shots of John and Sarah in the flashbacks. It has both performance and narrative elements however there are significant amounts more of performance shots in our music video.

Research into Magazine Adverts

We have looked at a few different adverts for musin in magazines like NME and Kerrang, one of the examples we found was from a band called All Time Low.

This poster is taken from Kerrang! It helps us understand what a poster for the genre of Pop-Rock usually looks like. The poster is simple yet affective, which we like. We have also found that all Music Adverts have dates of when the CD Didgipak and song are being released, so we are looking into what font this could be.

Another poster that we have been looking at is Gwen Stafani


With this poster we liked how it was eligent yet a bit rock and roll. We also liked the fact that it contained aspects of the colour pink. Looking at this got us thinking about how we could add a bit more rock and roll into our poster to show that P!NK is more rock and roll than the colour pink, which is stereotypically associated with girls.

After we looked at two different adverts of different artists we decided it'll be best if we looked at some adverts from P!NK herself so that we can see what distiguinsh P!NK for who she is, however we found it very hard to find at least one advert fir the artists, so we decided to look at P!nk posters instead to see if we an get osme ideas of these, some of the posters we found were,

This is a poster from one of P!NK's tours. When we saw this we thought of how it was like Gwen Stafanis advert it had a bit of rock element in it, so we thought that we should definatly have the rock elemnet within our advert.

This is another good poster that is really colourfull and it stands out alot, and also you can tell that it is pink.

CD Digipak Research

As we look at the different examples of CD Covers we see that alot of bands have used different designs. Some have used animation throughout their CD and some that have used real life pictures;

We have also found some that have used alot of panels, this one has used 13 Panels:

Aswell as looking at different CD covers from other artsist,we also looked at a few pink ones. This would help us get some ideas of how pink's covers look so that we can hopefully get some ideas of our own, here is what we found;

On all three of these covers, we have found that no matter where it is, there is the colour pink somewhere. We liked this idea becuase it shows that it is related to the artsit in some way, we are also going to be taking our own pictures and then editing them in photoshop which when looking at pink's cover looks like they have been edited. Another idea that we liked were that they have a simple picture that has been jazzed up in some way when edited, so this is what we are going to do becuase we can make a more effective looking picture in photoshop, than if we try just use a simple photo.

Some of the ideas that we had about our cover was to have a hand stretched and tipping some pills onto the ground. By using this image we can add some bigger pills, so that we can write in them. Also we were thinking of having a slash of pink paint at the top, so that people who look at our cover can identify straight away who the artist is.

Another suggestion we had was having our performer lying on the floor; as the lyrics suggests, and having her look sad and depressed, this time we thought about having our performer wearing pink.

One more suggestion was having, a glass of water and some kind of paracemtamol next to it, we can the add effects to the glass and the tablt to make it not seem more interesting.

As a group we all came to the decision that our CD cover should have pink somewhere on one or more of the panels.

Filming Schedule

Tuesday 19th October

We went filming today at the CNS car park in Town. We first thought the dark, wet and dreary weather conditions were going to be a problem for us. However it turned out that the depressing weather worked well with our chosen song. From the amount we have filmed today of Sarah singing the song on the roof we are confident that we are getting back on track and will not fall behind with our project.

Friday 22nd October

Today we stayed in college and captured all that we had filmed previously. This time we are much happier with how the music video is looking so far and with the parts we have filmed. We all still stand by the decision of changing the song to Just like a pill by Pink. We have found that there are some important scenes that we cannot use and will have to re-shoot as others were in the shot when they weren’t meant to be. We will be re filming these scenes next week.

Tuesday 26th October (half term)

We filmed during the half term to ensure we won`t fall behind with the project as we wasted a lot of time filming for the song we had first chosen; Professor Green ft Lily Allen – Just be good to green. We finished some scenes at the car park and thanks to another wet and dreary day continuity of the video is not affected. We got two shots of Sarah and John on the roof together and apart. We also filmed in front of the Urbis Centre, again capturing both Sarah and John walking together alongside a stream which we thought would be a good shot and got some shots of Sarah running down the streets which we plan to usew for the chorus of our song.

Tuesday 2nd November
On this day we filmed in the chaplaincy. We filmed two of our performers arguing in a kitchen, we used the sink in the chaplaincy to make it look like a flat. The argument relates to song as it is about a break up. After this we went back to class and captured what we had filmed that day.

Friday 5th November
Today we have looked back at all out previous footage which we are very happy with. We have now decided that we are going to film some scenes of Sarah playing the piano for the opening scene of the music video. We have booked one of the music practise rooms and plan to film there next week.

Tuesadey 9th November
Today we filmed in a college music room. We filmed one of our perfermomers; Sarah, while she played the piano to the music of the beginning of the song. We were able to get the sheet music to the song and Sarah was able to learn the notes and play along in time with the music.
We also filmed Sarah on the floor lip synching with the beginning of the song. We were able to film her from different angles by standing on chairs and filming her from the side.
We then captured what we had filmed that day and started to edit the music video together.

Friday 12th November and onwards.
From the 12th November up until the 18th November, we edited all of the shots we had into a smooth running music video. There were times where we all got a little frustrated because we found it hard to get the shots in sync with the music, but in the end we were able to correct it. Another promblem we had was tryin to find the right clips to go at each part of the song, this was a long process but as a group we picked the best clips and put them into our video. We are all proud of our video and now we are just adding the finish touches to it by adding effects etc.
One on my favourite parts of the video is at the begining of the second verse, we decided to use alot of different clips that had our performer singing in it and put them together to make it fast cutting and show the different locations we had shot. As a whole, our group is happy with what we have produced.

Friday 26th November

Final day of editing. We added a new version of the song as the other version skipped. This made the lip shyncing of the video shift and it was no longer in shync. Therefore we had to put a few shots back in the right place, add video trasitions for effect as well as adding green screen backgrounds and add colour disortation for certain scenes such as the flashbacks. We finished the video in time and managed to tidy it up, as a group we are happy with the finished video.

Tuesday 07th November

Today, we finished off the CD Cover today, and started on the media advert. We felt that we made great progress today and we feel like we will be finished by Friday, with time spare to improve things.

Here is our front cover so far.
This is a draft of our advert so far we are hoping to add more logos and put abit more wiritng on it.

Friday 10th December
Today was our final deadline for the Digipack, we worked as a team to make sure that everything had been done, and that all the items of the digipack were in one folder, because we had already created the CD Cover and Back Cover, we created the two insides and finished off the advert. As a team we thought that everything turned out well, and we were proud of our end results.

Tuesday 14th December
Today was our final lesson to make sure we had everything we need, we made a directors commentary and added it on to the blog, we recorded our voices talking about the different scenes and shots that are in our video and we re-placed the music with it. After we edited the video and added it to the blog, we looked over everything that we did to make sure the english was correct and that everything that we needed on the blog was there, we found that it was all done and so we decided that the blog didn't need anything else adding to it.

Specific Locations and Props

We will be filming in the Chaplaincy or Common room in college. These scenes will be, according to the narraitive of our music video, will act as our performers house. We chose these two places as they can be easily be set up to look like a flat or appartment.

Common Room

Chaplaincy

Lyrics - Pink - Just like a pill

I'm lyin' here on the floor where you left me
I think I took too much
I'm crying here, what have you done?
I thought it would be fun

I can't stay on your life support, there's a
shortage in the switch,
I can't stay on your morphine, cuz its making me
itch
I said I tried to call the nurse again but shes
being a little *****,
I think I'll get outta here, where I can

Run just as fast as I can
To the middle of nowhere
To the middle of my frustrated fears
And I swear you're just like a pill
Instead of makin' me better, you keep makin' me
ill
You keep makin' me ill

I haven't moved from the spot where you left me
This must be a bad trip
All of the other pills, they were different
Maybe I should get some help

I can't stay on your life support, there's a
shortage in the switch,
I can't stay on your morphine, cuz its making me
itch
I said I tried to call the nurse again but shes
being a little *****,
I think I'll get outta here, where I can

Run just as fast as I can
To the middle of nowhere
To the middle of my frustrated fears
And I swear you're just like a pill
Instead of makin' me better, you keep makin' me
ill
You keep makin' me ill

Run just as fast as I can
To the middle of nowhere
To the middle of my frustrated fears
And I swear you're just like a pill
Instead of makin' me better, you keep makin' me
ill
You keep makin' me ill

I can't stay on your life support, there's a
shortage in the switch,
I can't stay on your morphine, cuz its making me
itch
I said I tried to call the nurse again but shes
being a little *****,
I think I'll get outta here, where I can

Run just as fast as I can
To the middle of nowhere
To the middle of my frustrated fears
And I swear you're just like a pill
Instead of makin' me better, you keep makin' me
ill
You keep makin' me ill (x4)

Treatment Of your Music Video

Group Members: Sarah, Sophie, John, Aneesa

Music Video: We will be recreating the music video for Pink- Just like a pill

Duration: 03:58

Audience

The video will contain language that may not be suitable for very small children. It will mainly appeal to a teenage audience, mainly female (16+). Also it may appeal to people into Rock / Pop Rock.

Resume

For the song “ Just like a pill” The lyrics will be the base for the music video as the lyrics will have references in the music video.

For Example, the first line “I’m lying here..” the performer playing Pinks role will be lying down lip sinking the words.

The Video will have a slight narrative of the performer breaking up with a boyfriend and thinking about him, letting go of their past relationship and accepting the break-up.

The narrative will include scenes of the performer burning a photograph of their ex- partner. It will also include running / walking scenes of the performer walking towards the camera during some parts of the chorus as it fits in with the lyrics. We may use some hand held shaky camera work for some of these scenes. This will have connotation of anger, confusion and frustration which is how the singer is feeling in the song.

We will also have some random scenes which do not fit with the lyrics but will go with the dark and sad theme running through the music video such as…

Key locations

We will be filming in many locations. These include Manchester City centre, Market Street and Loreto College.

(Loreto College scenes)

We will be filming some of the music video in Loreto College. Settings up a small area to look like the performers “home”. We could do this in a staff room or chaplaincy.

(Market Street Scenes)

We will be filming some scenes around Manchester city centre. One key location will include Market Street. They will be mainly mid- shots / close up shots and of them performer walking towards the camera.(Manchester Urbis scenes)

We are going to be filming some shots on Urbis, near the fountain. We will do mostly close-sups and wide shots, of the performer sitting on a bench looking a picture.

Suggested Elements

We many also use the studio to film a performance as it’s a black room. This may include the performer singing into a microphone and we will use green screen to add image such as “fire” in the background.

Costumes

The performer will be wearing mostly black or dark clothing as well as sometimes a pink item E.g. a pink t-shirt. This will symbolize the iconic singers name and form of dress.

Main costumes will include: Skinny jeans, converse, boots, T-shirt, shorts.

Changing of the song

As we filmed today in the studio and looked back at previous footage we filmed in Alexandra park we realised that the song wasn't working to well for us. One group member was struggling to keep up with the lyrics meaning the lip sink was out and another group member couldn't get into the song as much as they would of like. Therefore as a group we have decided to change our song from Professor Green ft Lily Allen - Just be good to green to Pink-Just like a pill. Collectively we decided that changing the song would be the best idea to ensure creating the best quality music video possible.

However, to ensure we do not fall behind to much with the sudden change we we have decided to keep alot of our old locations in the video because they will still work. We are aware that changing the song will give us much more work to do as we must plan and start filming from scratch. But we know together as a group we are capable of doing so as we plan to put in alot of hard work to get it done.

Specific Locations and Props

We will be filming in the Chaplaincy or Common room in college. These scenes will be, according to the narraitive of our music video, the house scenes. We choose theese two places as they can be easily be set up to look like a flat or appartment.

Chaplaincy

Common Room

Here are two pieces of our lyrics that we made notes on, these two show what we are doing for two verses and a chorus.

On 3 there is going to a performing scene and also an effect that has alot of photos of the two perfomers on the screen.
On 4 once again there is a performing scene, but also a scene where our two performers are walking the streets.

Shooting Schedule

In college

Tuesday 12th October-On this day will be shooting our performance scenes in college, this will also run into Monday 11th October.

Friday 15th October-On this day we will be shooting the house scenes in college, this will take up the whole of the morning.

Outside College

Tuesday 19th October-On this day will be shooting the random scenes in Alexandra Park, this will take up the whole of the morning.

Friday 22nd October-On this day we will be shooting park scenes this will also be in Alexandra Park, this will take up all the afternoon lessons and maybe run into over time if needed.

Tuesday 26th October-On this day we will be shooting the walking down the streets scenes which will take place on Oxford Road, this will take a day to film.

Wednesday 27th October-This is our last day of filming, here we will be filming the manchester city centre scenes, this will take up the whole of the day.

We will also film on Monday afternoons if needed.

Research

There are many songs that classify as hip-hop, but we decided to look at Written in the stars by Tinie Tempa and Eric Turner. Through most hip-hop videos there are a lot of camera angles throughout to make it stand out. Here are some of the known camera angles we found effective:

EXTREME CLOSE UP-This helps you look at the facial expressions of the performer, and how into the song he really is.






LOW ANGLE SHOT-This is effective because you are able to see the buildings of the city, which makes this a great a location.

WIDE SHOT-This is great because we can see how plain and white the room is and it make the piano and performer stand out.





CLOSE UP- There are a lot of close ups during the video, close ups are always effective because you are able to see the performer.





There were also Mid-shots, High-Angle shots, Panning, Zoom and hand held, that were used throughout the video.

This video is a disjuncture video, our own video will be an amplification video.

As well as the different camera angles there we a lot of cuts to and from the narrative and performance, and as the song gradually came to an end the cutting speed became faster. This made us feel that the song was coming to and end, this is because most hip-hop music videos finished with a big ending with fast cutting.

There were four locations in total in this video, and they were basic, but they still looked effective in the video, the location's were:

As you can see by these screenshots, there is different lighting through out the video, in the White Room and Basketball Court the lighting is high key which makes it look bright and warm, however on the roof and in the corridor, the lighting is low key, which makes it look dingy and eerie.
Where the narrative aspect is concerned, it is bordering more on the amplification narrative, which means that on the some of the verses the narrative does connect to the lyrics; however when it comes to the chorus the video shows the two performers dancing. In all, the balance between narrative and performance is 50/50, there are performances on the chorus but on the versus’ you see more of a narrative side.

In conclusion, our opinion is that the music video has a lot of shots and fast cutting within, which we all feel is a great way to put a music videos together because most songs are fast beat, like this one and so you need a video that matches the beat, and so that it doesn’t seem like its dragging on.

Here is the link to Written in the stars:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgFyi74DVjc&feature=related

Just be good to green-Lyrics

(Lily Allen) Friends, tell me I am crazy
That I'm wasting time with you
You'll never be mine
Just be good to me
(Professor Green)Ha, Just be good to green
All I need is a woman to be good to me
I'm an easy man, I'm easily pleased
And you provide me with everything that I need
Look you know I make ends I grind
So hold onto yours we're spending mine
Though you try I never let you buy
But If I was broke would you still be spending time?
(Lily Allen) Yes
(Professor Green) And I believe you would
Don't think p's to ****** to treat you good
I walk street with you?
(Lily Allen) Yes
(Professor Green)Talk deep with you
(Lily Allen) Yes
(Professor Green) Even slip and spend all week with you
Then I'm off, you wish I'd put an end to the torment
Stop, but one thing it's not ever is boring
What would you rather me be like?
I ain't ever gonna change are you ever gonna realise?
(Lily Allen) People always talk about
(Professor Green) Look, people are always gonna talk babes,
(Lily Allen) Reputation
(Professor Green) I ain't even gonna lie****, but it ain't like it you don't know what mine is
(Lily Allen) I don't care what you do to them
(Professor Green) Nah
(Lily Allen) Just be good to me
(Professor Green) I'll try, I'll try, I'll try
Look babes, you know who I am
But as crooked as I am
I'll be as good as I can
I try and try though its evident
My angel face is disguise for the devil inside
You're good to me,
I ain't good to girls, ME?
I'm a bad boy something every good girl needs,
Heh honesty could avoid all your tantrums
But I'm a naughty boy and I always have been
What and that ain't changing any time soon
I can't have you with me whenever I move
Whatever I do, I come back to you,
See the good attracts me and the crook attracts you
(Lily Allen) Whatever
(Professor Green) What? We've all got our ways
Remember us talking? Of course it was game
But it's all gone and changed
Now she's got me cutting of links
like I'm trying to shorten my chain
(Lily Allen) People always talk about
(Professor Green) Look, people are always gonna talk babes,
(Lily Allen) Reputation
(Professor Green) I ain't even gonna lie ****, but it ain't like it you don't know what mine is
(Lily Allen) I don't care what you do to them
(Professor Green) Nah
(Lily Allen) Just be good to me
(Professor Green) I'll try, I'll try, I'll try
(Lily Allen) Friends are always telling me
You're a user
(Professor Green) Not me not ever, ain't no other man gonna treat you better
(Lily Allen) I don't care what you do to them
(Professor Green) Nah
(Lily Allen) Just be good to me
(Professor Green) I'll try, I'll try, I'll try
(Lily Allen) I'll be good to you
You'll be good to me
We can be together, be together
Good to you
You'll be good to me
We can be together be together
Just be good to me

Treatment of your music video

Group Members : Sarah, Sophie, John, Aneesa

Music Video: We will be recreating the music video for Professor Green ft Lily Allen – Just be good to green.

Duration: 03:25

Audience

The video will contain language that may not be suitable for very small children. It will mainly appeal to a teenage audience, both male and female. Also it may appeal to people into hip-hop / rap

Resume

We are giving the video a narrative, which includes members of our group acting it out as the singers Professor Green and Lily Allen. The narrative is based on the lyrics which we interpreted as an argument based on a rocky relationship between the two.

The narrative will include scenes of the couple together and then arguing, one scene in particular will be of the couple in a coffee shop and the person acting as Lily Allen will storm out of the coffee shop and walk down the street. This will include various shots such as Close-Ups, Tracking Shot and Mid –Shots. There will be shots of “Lily Allen” and “Professor Green “On the phone to one another, walking towards and through a park.

We will need to ask permission from a coffee shop nearby preferably with sofas, if we can film some of the music video there.

Key locations

We will be filming in many locations. These include, Alexandra Park, Manchester City centre, Market Street, Loreto College, Coffee Shop.

(Alexandra Park – Tilt shot)

We will need a third performer, someone who will play a girl that is distracting “Professor Green” to show his lack of commitment within the relationship. The shots will include a Tilt – shot of the girl and Close Up shots of “Professor Green”.

We will also be filming some other scenes in the park of the couple sat together on a bench and walking down the park.

(Loreto College scenes)

We will be filming some of the music video in Loreto College. Settings up a small area to look like their “home”. We could do this in a staff room or chaplaincy.

(Market Street Scenes)

We will be filming some scenes around Manchester city centre. One key location will include Market Street. They will be mainly Two –Shots and of the two main performers walking together.

Manchester Piccadilly Gardens

Manchester Triangle

Suggested Elements: Our music video will also include a performance, which will be a Two- Shot. This can be done in black or white room with high key lighting. Or we could film it in front of a green screen; this will enable us to add patterns or specific locations such as city towers in the background.

Two -Shot Performance

Costumes:

The performer playing the role of Lily Allen will be wearing casual clothing in some scenes and will also be wearing smart clothing, skirt and t-shirt, tights. For the performance element of the music video they will be wearing much more feminine “glam” clothing, dress.

The performer playing the role of Professor Green will also wearing casual clothing in some scenes, jeans, t-shirt, hooded top and trainers. In the performance element of the music video he will be wearing more formal wear, including a t-shirt and jacket, jeans.