Audience Feedback

The general audience feedback from when we did our presentation to the class was good. We had a lot of good comments as well as things that they said we could work on to make it even better. Comments included "Good interpreting on the lyrics". The reason why we got this was because they thought that our idea was good and was matched well with what the artist was singing at the time. Comments from our class that we said we could work on were "Ensure to vary transitions and shots", this was a fair comment because we didn't talk enough about it when we were presenting, but our intentions are to maybe use fast cut montage, high angles and lots of other different effects.

For this lesson we have learnt what we are going to do and what we are going to change when we come to the filming and editing stage. We are going to make sure that we use lots of different camera angles and shots, as well as lots of effects but try not to over complicate things.

Whatever gets you through lyrics

Annotations are in bold

Here is the new lyrics to the new artist that we have chosen called "the nites". The song whatever gets you through.

The beginning of the music video starts in black and white, from black appears scene at dinner.

You say to me
That everything is okay now
but it's not-
For this part of the song the idea is that we are filming the boy and girl at dinner and we can see that things aren't going well between them.


You try so hard
To put on that brave smile that you ain't got
I don't care how long it takes baby
I'll be by your side-
At this point the camera is panning around the table and we see the girl putting on a fake smile to the boy and the boy is completely confused about the situation and what is going to happen with their relationship. Also during these lyrics the girl gets up and begins to walk down the road with the boy chasing after her, he attempts to pull her arm but she shrugs him off and walks into the distance leaving him standing there.

What ever gets you through
I'll give you space
What ever you gotta do
to find your way

Baby you can cry, you can fall
You can break through it all
I'll be there for you
To do, what ever gets you through

What ever gets you through-
* For all of the chorus' we are going to have the same clip which is of the boy and girl in colour instead of black and white like the verses in the video. This is to show that what is in black and white is the present and it is very dull and stale, but what is in colour is what it used to be when they were happy.

I know it hurts
But I can't pretend to make it be alright
Some day, some how
You're gonna make to the other side
Coz no matter what it takes I will
I'll be what you need-
Now we see a clip of the boy being very upset that his "gilfriend" is being the way she is as he is flicking through an old photo album of them two together.


What ever gets you through
I'll give you space
What ever you gotta do
to find your way

Baby you can cry, you can fall
You can break through it all
I'll be there for you
To do, what ever gets you through-
*

What ever gets you
I will listen, be your shadow
I will run to you
I'll never leave you behind

I'll hold you close
I'll let you go
I'll give you time x3-
Here we see the boy is determined to get his girl friend back so he is driving, perhaps to go and get her?


Yeah!

Baby you can cry, you can fall
You can break through it all
I'll be there for you
To do,

What ever gets you through
I'll give you space
What ever you gotta do
to find your way

Baby you can cry, you can fall
You can break through it all
I'll be there for you
To do, what ever gets you through

Through x4

Complications

We have eventually after much discussion decided to change our song at the very last moment. Our reasons behind this were as follows: Firstly we were not sure if the examiners would have taken our previous song seriously, this was because it was a "joke" song, and this is exactly what we didnt want. We wanted them to see that we as a group take our media studies very seriously and wanted to make it a great success; secondly we thought that the song was too one dimensional as it only had one subject which would have limited us to what we could film and use in our music video; finally as it had some swearing in it we didn't think it would be appropriate to use as a school media project.

Our new plan overview:
Our new plan is to use a different artist called "The Nites" who are an Acoustic, Pop, Rock band formed of two members. The song that we are going to do is called "whatever gets you through".

Location, actors and props

The first and most obvious place that we are going to film is in and around the nandos restaurant in Stevenage, this will be okay as long as we get their permission.

Our locations after this will vary very widely. As our song is a parody we can almost film anywhere as our video can be as random as we want it to be. I have an idea of filming in a park and using a roundabout for a good effect.

Another location that I we have thought as a group would be good for our music video is to leave our camera in a chicken coop for a few hours. We would the bring it out and when we got to the editing stage we could speed it right up so it looks like the chickens are just dashing about.

I also thought that we could film in town and with a little help from a chicken suit we can film peoples reactions as we secretly film as the person in the chicken suit does random things.

New idea:

Because of having to change our music video and song our location for filming has completely changed. As the song is about a boy and a girl who are going out, and the girl does no longer want to be with the boy we are going to show them on just an everyday day walking along and showing what happens. The boy is happy but it is clear that the girl isnt.

Our first location is of a restaurant where it shows through the window or inside the couple arguing and then the girl storms out of the restaurant with the boy chasing out after her and grabbing her arm as they walk down a well lit street. The girl shrugs him off and she continues to walk off into the distance whilst the we show the boy just standing still watching her walk away from him.

Our next location is of an everyday place like the boys bedroom where we show him upset about the ordeal, whereas we show the girl (in a splitscreen) having a good time out on a date with someone else whilst the girl and the boy are on a break.

Location Shots

Below are some pictures of the areas that we have filmed in at the moment, some of the images are missing as we forgot to take a stills camera with us at the time that we were film but we will upload those images very soon.

























Actors

It has been very difficult to get the 'right actors for the job' during filming as it was either our group that was busy at the time that the actors could act or vica-verca so this left us with no choice for me to act in it along with another girl. It also meant that Olly (another member of our group).

Props

The major prop that we used during the filming stage was my car. The reason for this was because we needed a scene where we could show the boy on his own showing emotion that it wasn't going well with his girlfriend and he didn't know what was going to happen.

Our Artist

The Nites consist of Anthony (vocals) and Michael (guitar), two guys from South London, who met in 2004 and started gigging the acoustic circuit in and around London. Two guitars and a beat up amp, did them proud and helped them to gradually build up a close following, but after playing cover after cover, they now write and perform their own songs.

http://www.thenites.com/

Below are the guideline lyrics for our chosen song "the nando's skank". The lyrics below are not all the same as the original version which was done free style (made up on the spot). The reason for this is because as it is a free style the song is a bit stop start in areas and we would like to speed it up a little bit and cut the things we think that we wont need.

With us cutting the song the only problem we will now be face with will be the fact that the lyrics might not allow the song to run for the certain amount of time that we have been told to do so. This being our only problem with the song, I believe we can sort it out by either slowing down the tempo, or adding in extra lyrics if possible.

I said 'Oi you are you gonna bang doe?'
No I want some fuckin' Nando's
I wanna eat up with chicken and chips
Everyone knows I free style like this

When I free style on the beat about chicken
You know it's finger lickin'
And I'm gonna pass it over to Example now
And he's gonna free style and show you how he-

Chicken, chicken wings,
They're my favorite things
And I love to sing

I say chicken, chicken wings
If you give me them,
I will eat them tings

Nando's from me
Fat chance I got a black card
If you come to be and ask for chicken
You'll get a fat scar in your left cheek
I eat Nando's every week

Some time on a tuesday
Some time on a thursday
I get free drinks,
refillable for when I'm thirsty
On a Thursday
I eat chicken in the worst way

I love Nando's more than you're mum does
More than you're mum does
I say oh my tongue is on fire
Is say Nando's I desire

Notion of looking

The notion of looking in music videos can include:
- Screens Within Screens
- Telescopes
- Eyes
- Looking Glass
- Indirect/Direct Address
- Voyeurism

All of these different notions of looking help to create different moods and atmospheres. We are hoping to try and incorporate as many different notions of looking when we are at the filming stage.

Websites

The website that I have looked at is the official Eminem website. At first it doesn't look very interesting but this is much more to it than you can see. For example if you were to click on the "news" you can see there are interviews with Eminem and also news about what is going on in his new music videos etc.

If you click on the "album" drop down you are directly given links to iTunes for all of Eminems albums. This is good promoting as you can go straight onto his website and buy his album. It is very good as you can buy any album from his first ever released one in 1999 called The Slim Shady LP all the way to his newest one Recovery released 6/22/2010.

The "video" link is quite self explanatory, you click on it and you can watch music videos from all of his songs as well as buying them off iTunes and Amazon.

Opening up the "events" would normally bring up all of the shows that Eminem is going to perform at within the next couple of months, but at the moment Eminem is not on tour so there is nothing under this drop down.

When you click on "community" three different links come up and they are for forums, this is where Eminem fans can discuss this artist as well as ask questions to one-another.

The "store" drop down takes to you the Eminem merchandise where you can buy t-shirts and hoodies etc.

Finally there is a link to the top left of the screen where you can choose to follow Eminem on Twitter, Facebook and myspace.