(Morning lesson)
We were shown previous students work of music videos to help us get more ideas of what we should be looking for and doing. One was a narrative, while the other was a montage. Originally before this I was set on doing a narrative text, but on seeing the student’s film, I am now wondering if a montage would have more effect, based on the atypical manner we want to achieve from ours. This I put across to my partners, but both still liked the narrative idea. So to compromise we have come to a decision that we will use both types.
(Afternoon lesson)
We started by listening to our chosen song. The narrative of the song is of a man who wants to go and do things his girlfriend/wife doesn’t want him to do, but he goes anyway with the suggestion if he doesn’t go he will regret it for the rest of his life. This is something he needs to try no matter what.
From this we wrote down what we thought were key words which we could focus our pitches around. These are what we came up with;
· Dust
· Leaving
· Time
· Failing to do what you want to do- go places
· Her voice behind him
· Too scared to look back
· Lonely
· Died on the road
· Waves
· Walking
· Nothing
The first word that jumped out at us was ‘Lonely’. We brainstormed a few rough and basic ideas;
- A montage of a man walking down deserted roads and through fields
- A montage of how his life used to be
Because this narrative is quite a strong one (the meaning is clear) we have found that this isn’t to our advantage as we thought previously it might. As if our text is too abstract it won’t fit into the song, so we’ve had to rein in on how ‘wacky’ we want to be so the video ‘makes sense’.
Friday 2 October 2009
25.09.2009
Today we worked on out pitches.
We wrote an email to .......................... the band’s song we have chosen to use;
Hi there (:
For our A Level Media project this year, we have to produce a promotional 'pack' for a local band. A part of this project requires us to film a music video for one of the band's songs. On top of this we'll be creating a possible CD cover/website homepage/magazine advertisement. Shaun (Cuthill) recommended you as a possible lead and we heard one of your songs, Nothing to Show and we'd really like to use this as part of our coursework - with your permission :)
A requirement of the project is that we have to make 3 different pitches for the music video, one of which will go on to be filmed and produced. We'd like your input into which of the 3 you'd prefer us to use.
If you could give us a quick message back at some point soon - that would be awesome. Thanks in advance!
Emma, Lee & Paul.
:D
The reason we chose the song..............was because it is catchy, it could have several meanings, and we could go in many directions with the narrative. The words could have several meanings, enabling us to make our text abstract, not face value. We all felt that we could get unusual and interesting images for the CD cover, magazine cover and website homepage; giving us the edge from other groups.
We wrote an email to .......................... the band’s song we have chosen to use;
Hi there (:
For our A Level Media project this year, we have to produce a promotional 'pack' for a local band. A part of this project requires us to film a music video for one of the band's songs. On top of this we'll be creating a possible CD cover/website homepage/magazine advertisement. Shaun (Cuthill) recommended you as a possible lead and we heard one of your songs, Nothing to Show and we'd really like to use this as part of our coursework - with your permission :)
A requirement of the project is that we have to make 3 different pitches for the music video, one of which will go on to be filmed and produced. We'd like your input into which of the 3 you'd prefer us to use.
If you could give us a quick message back at some point soon - that would be awesome. Thanks in advance!
Emma, Lee & Paul.
:D
The reason we chose the song..............was because it is catchy, it could have several meanings, and we could go in many directions with the narrative. The words could have several meanings, enabling us to make our text abstract, not face value. We all felt that we could get unusual and interesting images for the CD cover, magazine cover and website homepage; giving us the edge from other groups.
24.09.2009
Still today we were having no luck with trying to see who owned the song we liked. So we decided to put that on a back burner, until we were at home and had full internet access.
Instead we looked on u-tube (on Lee’s laptop) for inspiration on how we would make our music video. We looked at artists such as Muse, Arctic Monkeys, and Katie Perry and........................
We came to a decision that our film would be a narrative, it would tell the story the music’s story.
Instead we looked on u-tube (on Lee’s laptop) for inspiration on how we would make our music video. We looked at artists such as Muse, Arctic Monkeys, and Katie Perry and........................
We came to a decision that our film would be a narrative, it would tell the story the music’s story.
23.09.2009
Today’s lesson was to continue researching bands, or if you already had one compose an email to send to them.
Today was quite unproductive.
We finally found a band that we liked. The only problem was we didn’t know who to contact. Another group member told us about the band, but that they had broken up. This fact wasn’t a problem. But still, the contact details that we given, the name of the band and the name of the song didn’t match up. So we spent most of the lesson searching the internet trying to find out who the song was by, and how we could contact them. We got no result.
But on the upside, we have now got a song. It’s called ‘Nothing to Show’.
Today was quite unproductive.
We finally found a band that we liked. The only problem was we didn’t know who to contact. Another group member told us about the band, but that they had broken up. This fact wasn’t a problem. But still, the contact details that we given, the name of the band and the name of the song didn’t match up. So we spent most of the lesson searching the internet trying to find out who the song was by, and how we could contact them. We got no result.
But on the upside, we have now got a song. It’s called ‘Nothing to Show’.
Music promotion planning
Date: 22.9.2009
Music promotion planning;
Choosing our group was the first thing to do.
Of the two members I chose, one I have worked with before; but not successfully. I hope this time we can overcome our differences and work effectively as a team.
Our brief is: A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options:
- A website homepage for the band
- A cover for its release as part of a digipak (CD/DVD package)
- A magazine advertisement for the digipak (CD/DVD package)
Today we had to research local unsigned bands that produced their own songs. This didn’t go to well if I’m honest.
As I am not a big music fan, I had no prior knowledge of local bands unlike some of the other groups, which meant we had more ground work to do to catch up.
We started our research by going on the Internet and searching in Google for websites that would lead us to bands in Norfolk. Once we had found a sufficient page we had the task of looking through all the bands listed, to find the right song genre played by a group we liked the name of. When we had found one, we tried to access their website, but the school had blocked it. In addition we couldn’t get to listen to their songs as MySpace is blocked also. We tried to resolve this issue by the two other members of the group, when they got home, were to look up the songs then (as I don’t have Internet access at home).
Music promotion planning;
Choosing our group was the first thing to do.
Of the two members I chose, one I have worked with before; but not successfully. I hope this time we can overcome our differences and work effectively as a team.
Our brief is: A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options:
- A website homepage for the band
- A cover for its release as part of a digipak (CD/DVD package)
- A magazine advertisement for the digipak (CD/DVD package)
Today we had to research local unsigned bands that produced their own songs. This didn’t go to well if I’m honest.
As I am not a big music fan, I had no prior knowledge of local bands unlike some of the other groups, which meant we had more ground work to do to catch up.
We started our research by going on the Internet and searching in Google for websites that would lead us to bands in Norfolk. Once we had found a sufficient page we had the task of looking through all the bands listed, to find the right song genre played by a group we liked the name of. When we had found one, we tried to access their website, but the school had blocked it. In addition we couldn’t get to listen to their songs as MySpace is blocked also. We tried to resolve this issue by the two other members of the group, when they got home, were to look up the songs then (as I don’t have Internet access at home).
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