Post Production Ideas

After all the filming is completed we plan to add effects.

Some of the simple effects we plan to use are lighting either to fix some lighting issues or use it to change the feel of the shot.

After viewing the first day of filming footage we decided that our video will need some varying speeds some will be fast depending on the music speed and some will be slower to relate to the overall feel of the video.

Poster Research

One of my Ancillary Tasks is to create a magazine poster; below you will find research I have done into different types of Bruno Mars’s posters.

·         What’s included in them?

·         What Lures have been included?   

·         Does it include a tag line?

·         A main image?

·         2-3 main colours?

·         What logos have been added?

Hopefully at the end you will have a rough idea of where I am heading with my Poster and have an idea of what it will look like.

This poster has many codes and convention such as:

·         A large attracting image

·         Big, clear, non-diegetic font

·         Record labels/adverting

·         3 main colours (Black, Orange and White) the main text is written in black to make it stand out.

·         Tag line

·         Plus lines

It also gave me a huge amount of ideas for the poster that I will be creating for one of the ancillary tasks. I now will include a main image, instead of just having text filling up the page.

Storyboards!

Below you will find a selection of our groups finished storyboards, they all contains images of what the clip will look like, what type of shot it will be and the lyrics for that particular scene:

The below Story board shows an establishing shot, show the audience the location.

Storybaords 1-3:

 Storyboard 3-5:

Storyboards 7-9:

Storyboards 10-12:

These are just a sample of our Storyboards, hopefully this will give the audience a rough idea of where of group is heading with our Music Video.

Style Guide

Below you will find styles guide, in our group we believe having a guide is virtually important when creating a media product such as this. By having one it insures that there is consistency throughout the project, the guides include such things as writing styles, colour schemes and the layout.

These particular style guides concentrate on different types of fonts we could use:

After group discussion, we came to the conclusion that the fonts that particularly stand out to us in the Glee section are ‘Freestyle Script’. The serif italic font seems to flow and it’s simple and sophisticated, which will attract the audience we are aiming at than any other font.

In the Bruno Mars styles guide, we couldn’t decide between ‘Impossible’ and ‘Nueva STD Cond.’ They are both serif fonts and quite bold. However even though Nueva STD Cond is quite boring the serif touches it contains such as the curving on the end of the letters is very appealing, and I feel that it would be the best choice for our music video.

Second Pitch!

After the disappointment of our first pitch, our group went back to the drawing board and started work on our second pitch. The first thing we did was to make a definite decision on our song choice. We came to the conclusion it would be ‘Marry You’ using the Bruno Mars lyrics but having Glee concept.

We began looking at our ancillary tasks and the requirements for a ‘digipak’. As a group we had a group discussion, to think about what tasks we are going to do and decided on CD and DVD cover, with inserts. The inserts will be made up on six double sided pages. Also a music magazine adverts. Each member in our group will be assigned an ancillary task, in total there will be nine tasks.

We will also carrying out research, which included genre posters, looking at the ‘Bruno Mars’ and ‘Glee’ video in detail to see how many singers there was, the type of vocals, appropriate locations, props and whether we require a band or not.

Below is our second pitch:

Bruno Mars Lyrics

It's a beautiful night,
We're looking for something dumb to do.
Hey baby,
I think I wanna marry you.

Is it the look in your eyes,
Or is it this dancing juice?
Who cares baby,
I think I wanna marry you.

Well I know this little chapel on the boulevard we can go,
No one will know,
Come on girl.
Who cares if we're trashed got a pocket full of cash we can blow,
Shots of patron,
And it's on girl.

Don't say no, no, no, no-no;
Just say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah;
And we'll go, go, go, go-go.
If you're ready, like I'm ready.

'Cause it's a beautiful night,
We're looking for something dumb to do.
Hey baby,
I think I wanna marry you.

Is it the look in your eyes,
Or is it this dancing juice?
Who cares baby,
I think I wanna marry you.

I'll go get a ring let the choir bells sing like oooh,
So whatcha wanna do?
Let's just run girl.
If we wake up and you wanna break up that's cool.
No, I won't blame you;
It was fun girl.

Don't say no, no, no, no-no;
Just say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah;
And we'll go, go, go, go-go.
If you're ready, like I'm ready.

'Cause it's a beautiful night,
We're looking for something dumb to do.
Hey baby,
I think I wanna marry you.

Is it the look in your eyes,
Or is it this dancing juice?
Who cares baby,
I think I wanna marry you.

Just say I do,
Tell me right now baby,
Tell me right now baby.

Just say I do,
Tell me right now baby,
Tell me right now baby.

'Cause it's a beautiful night,
We're looking for something dumb to do.
Hey baby,
I think I wanna marry you.

Is it the look in your eyes,
Or is it this dancing juice?
Who cares baby,
I think I wanna marry you.

First Pitch!

After deciding our song choice we had to present our ideas to our media teachers. Our pitches included several different location, casting and costumes ideas, all these things are key to making the music video a success.


However it wasn't a success and we first hoped. We now have to redo our pitches on the 20^th of October. We failed due to a misunderstanding about the song choice. For our main production we chose ‘Marry you’ by Bruno Mars but with a mixture of the Glee. Meaning that we’re combing the two, only using one main singer which would be a male role.

Production Schedule!

Below you will find a link taking you to our production schedule. By producing a schedule will keep us on track making sure we met our targets by the set date. If for some unseen reason that we don't meet our deadlines, a group discussion will be held to fine out the exact reason why and how to make sure this doesn't happen if the future.

Glee or Bruno Mars?

We as a group have had several different conversations about the choice of our vocals for our music video. Glee or Bruno Mars? After looking at both options in huge detail, acknowledging that Bruno Mars will only need one vocalist and where as Glee will need 8 different singers, which could be quite hard to organise.


But after having a lot of discussions we came to the conclusion that Glee will be more rewarding than Bruno Mars.

Main locations of the video

Abbey Ruins

Abbey Ruins is going to be one of two main locations where our video will be filmed. We choose this setting because of the romantic feel; usually most fairytales romances are based in castles which lead us to conclusion that this would be the best location for our romance music video.   

Erith Pier

We chose this location because of the isolation it has. Not many people adventure out onto the Pier, especially in the winter and for several shots we needed peace and quiet.   

Target Audience!

There are two different types of target audience for this music video. For the Bruno Mars side of the Video it will attract the ages of 13 upwards, his music is noted for displaying a wide variety of styles and influences and contains elements of many different musical genres.


Glee on the other hands attracts a different type of audience, most likely between the ages of 13 to 19. It is High School Musical orientated but deals with more pressing issues such as, pregnancy and sexuality. That is why we believe combing the two will attract the widest possible audience.

Song changed!

At first our song chose was 'Dont you want?' by Human League.
But after looking back at the idea the group has come to a conclusion that it isn't the greatest song choice. Reasons for changing the song is that the genre was 'New Wave', which was foreign to us and would be foregin to the audience.


Our Song is now:
Bruno Mars- Marry you! (Glee Verison)
The new song chose also can conform better to the codes and conventions.


Have a listen:
http://www.vimeo.com/25027563
Nick!

Song! Decided!

After a long decision process with the Music Minions, the song that has come out on top is-


DONT YOU WANT ME?- HUMAN LEAGUE!


Below you will find a link to our chosen song, Enjoy!:
http://new.music.yahoo.com/The-Human-League/videos/view/Don't-You-Want-Me--2003-Digital-Remaster---43542300


Nick!

Welcome!

This is my Advanced Portfolio Blog for A2 Media!
My group consists of Hannah Mills and Priya Nashad! In this task we will be creating a music video!


We're known as the -Music Minions-!


-Enjoy!