Jess Norton A2 Media Studies

The props we need: - wooden bow and arrow - piano - floating lanterns - bath - car - picture frame Wooden bow and arrow We like the idea of having a wooden bow and arrow as a prop for Herbie to use as a toy because it shows that despite things not being great at home he is still young and still has the imagination of any other child his age. It should be fairly simple to make so shouldn't be too time consuming. At the end of our music video we want it to be this bow and arrow that gives the audience the realisation of the connection between the boy in the video and the artist playing the piano. Grand Piano   Our song is a piece of piano music so therefore we want to have our performance aspect of our video of the 'artist' playing the piano. We want the piano to be in a big empty room with windows behind it and we know of a few places we could potentially go to film these scenes. We want to keep the room simple to make the audience focus on the m...

We wanted the make up and costumes to look as natural as possible to tie in with the countryside setting and innocent, slightly melancholic feel we were trying to create with the film. We therefore avoided any bright or harsh colours of make up and used only a light foundation to help the actors skin glow on camera.  The costumes we sourced were made from natural materials, as we wanted to give a nostalgic feel of a memory of a happy time that has past. We choose only neutral colours for the costumes and loose flowing garments as we didn’t want the clothes to stand out and needed them to add to the romantic, fluid feel of the film. We used mostly whites and off white which helped add to the innocent feeling of the piece. We were fortunate enough to already own the majority of the clothes we needed in order to create the look we were going for. Most importantly Evie's mum already owned a victorian wedding dress which created the perfect outfit for Jess in the video.  ...

-list of the characters in your idea -short character profile of each (based on your idea) - the piece of dialogue/acting you are using for audition - images of the people you are auditioning and reasons why you are auditioning them - footage from the auditions - your final choices of cast and reasons for choosing them Character1: Our main character is a middle aged man who is playing the artist of our song Patrick Watson. He will be sat at a piano in a big old fashioned room playing the song of our music video. The idea is that he will be reminiscing about his childhood and how he dealt with the troubles going on in his life whilst he and his sisters grew up. We are hoping that the emotion the character feels will be visible through the acting of who we choose to cast. Character Name: Patrick Watson (artist) Age: 50 Height: ? Hair colour: light black Eye colour: ? Father: dead- used to be abusive Mother: dead Siblings: 2 older sisters Character 2: Our next cha...

The term setting is defined as 'the scenery, properties, or background, used to create the location for a film'. It is frequently thought that setting of a video is only referred to as the location alone however there is more to it than just this. Setting refers to the time, day, season, year, decade, era, scenery, background, properties of a scene and location. For our music video we are planning to use a range of locations including Sisland Woods, Bungay Common, Shotesham Ford, evies back garden and Happisburgh Lighthouse. We have chosen these locations because they are ones we know well and know that they are what we need to create our chosen setting. We haven’t been to Happisburgh Lighthouse before but we have researched it and feel like it will accompany our other locations well and demonstrate a similar vibe. We are aiming to create a Victorian era and we are planning to mainly do this with out costumes and props. The music video will be set in autumn and win...

In our audience research, we are trying to find out what age groups are most interested in music videos and other media products such as films, streaming networks and cinemas. We are interested in finding out the differences between the people we will be interviewing in the Wymondham town center and the people from our school. The age bracket we will be looking to focus on specifically will be about 40-70 year olds compared to 17-18 year olds. The older age bracket is quite a wide range however, the people we will be interviewing in the town centre, are expected to mainly be in this age group. Depending on the person interviewed, we occasionally adapted or changed some of the questions to make them more suitable to the interests and answers of the person. When was the last time you went to the cinema and what did you see? Do you stream films online? Do you tend to stream more films or tv programmes/series? When was the last time you watched a music video? (If they can remembe...

The forms and conventions of a professional music video include many different aspects of video making which we'll try to conform to, but also challenge in some areas. In terms of camera angles, professionally made music videos tend to use a range of different shots such as close-ups, long-shots and mid-shots which all help create emphasis on the singer or band, the location they are in and the emotions their song is trying to bring across. Camera movements such as tilts, pans, tracking an crane shots all help follow and trace the artist. Most music videos have the performance of the artist as the main part of the video, sometimes a story is added to the performance, either enacted by an actor or the artist themselves. The transition between storyline and the performance of the artist is often created through the use of jump cuts or fade and dissolve effects, which allow sudden changes from one scene to another. Besides the filming and editing techniques, miss-en-scene is a h...