Meeting

Today we planned to have a meeting, however Faye had to go for drama rehearsals and Elliot was ill. Therefore I have decided that I will organise the clips we currently have and have a look through the storyboards we have created to see how we can use our clips with our plans.

Evaluation Of Our Day Of Filming

Earlier both Elliot and I met Faye at her house and filmed parts of our narrative. We looked through our storyboards and filmed what we needed. We decided to give each clip an extra three seconds either side so we would have more to edit with and if some of our timings in the initial storyboards were not correct we would be penalised when editing all the footage.

Today we managed to film all the house footage and also had time to film the forest scenes as we were very close to Claybury Park.

Some of the video we filmed was the bathroom scene, bedroom scene, receiving the text message and the depression scene. In total we had a lot more footage than we would use. This was purposely done so we had more footage to look through and play with when building the music video.

Filming finished at approximately 6:30. After this I took the footage home and transferred it onto a USB which I will take to school tomorrow and give to both Elliot and Faye so they can have a copy of all the clips.

Overall today was very successful and I believe we should be able to use a lot of the footage we have captured to produce a professional looking and successful music video.

Next we need to plan and shot the performance of the band. We will then use both the performance and narrative footage to create the finished music video using Final Cut Express.

Equipment used:

• Xacti Full HD Camera

Places filmed at:

• Faye's House
• Claybury Park

Day Of Filming

Earlier in the week we decided that Sunday we would film some of the narrative for our music video. Looking back at our storyboards we have decided that we will film the house scenes of the narrative and we would do in Faye's house. We decided to meet at Faye's house at 3:00pm.

BBC Three - Music, Money And Hip-Hop Honeys

Yesterday on BBC Three at 9:00pm was the program called 'Music, Money and Hip-Hop Honeys'. I decided to watch this as I thought it would help me understand the music industry more and maybe learn some more techniques I could use when I come to creating my own music video.

This programs focus was about the controversial world of music videos and about the girls who dream of dancing in them. Them spend time with girls who are on the path to success, but also learns about the dark side of an industry where dancers chasing fame can leave themselves open to financial and sexual exploitation.

I found the program knowledgeable however not entirely helpful for the music video we are creating, however it was very interesting to watch and discover more about the history and behind-the-scenes of music videos and the music industry.

The Impact Of The Internet On The Music Industry

The music industry is contently increasing and changing every year, every month, everyday! And nobody can be certain of what will happen to the industry in the time to come.

One way the internet has had an impact on the music industry is the way people now listen to music. It is no longer large records on record players or CD's in a portable CD Player, instead people are using internet services such as We7 and Spotify to listen to their own music from a very large selection...for free. Of course things which are free have issues, one issue is that people can use free software that records the system sound and record the song as it is being streamed for free across the internet...Money does not need to be spent on music now that the internet has gotten involved!

As well as people getting music via recording, they also download it from peer-to-peer websites and services which offer a wide range of music for no fee. The songs are hosted by real people who then host more, who then host more...the cycle is never ending.

Legal actions are trying to be taken to some of these sites as it breaches Copyrights and other Acts. However seeing that well over half the populations music is illegally obtained it is a very long process to put an official end to illegal file sharing and music pirating.

However the internet has not ruined music completely. When a person likes a song they would want to share it with their friends, before the major increase in the internet and music they would have had to asked the people to meet up in order to listen to the song. Now days you click one button and you can share it with the world using social networking, viral. People on social networking sites such as Facebook receive a notification whenever a friend has posted a song for example on their wall, this friend may then re-post and so on. This is not illegal however works along the same lines as illegal file sharing, once it starts it is almost impossible to stop.

Like I said earlier nobody really knows what is around the next corner however I believe that the relationship between the music industry and the internet is going to increase until the internet will be the only place to get and share music with friends and family.

Storyboards

Below are the storyboards I have made to help guide us when making the music video using Final Cut Express. Storyboards are very important as they make the editing process a lot less time consuming and frustrating.

Ideas For The Costumes In The Music Video

Now that we have a good idea on what will be happening in the music video we decided to think of some of the costumes that maybe used in the music video.

One idea we were certain on was that we will try to keep the colours to a minimal and only use dark colours, preferable black. The reason for this is because the colour black is code for misery and sadness and fits perfectly with our track choice, Bring Me To Life.

We are not going to have very big, outrageous costumes...like Lady Gaga, as we feel it does not fit in well with our music video and the genre. We will have the main artists wearing normal dark clothing, with some jewelery, such as rings and necklaces.

The necklaces and rings would be suitable if they had some kind of gothic symbol on them such as a skull, bones or red roses. When we come to shooting we will insure that we check what every artist is wearing to insure it is appropriate because we want this music video to turn out perfect!

One more thing would be red or black nail varnish as this again is code for misery and a convention of the gothic, rock genre we have chosen.