Risk Assesment

Teachers Feedback on pitch

Through your pitch you evidenced clear ideas about the style of your music video. This included ideas about mise - en - scene (costume, make-up, props etc) and ideas about camerawork and editing. You will have to have a serious think about whether you intend to make a feminist video as you mentioned. If so a lot of though needs to go in the representation of your character. Lots of good, strong ideas, partically your consideration of the relationship between the images and lyrics. Well Done.

Our Pitch

Our idea for the music video is as followed.

Our target audience, are teenagers who like similar music to the genre of 'indie' which is also the genre of the band and song'. The relationship between the music and lyrics are literal in parts of the music video and amplified where we abstract the idea to its potential. And the relationship between the music and visuals is going to be amplified.


Our location where we are filming is going to be down a ally way, and also a main hall where we are showing our performance. In addition to this we will be using 'dark' locations, like passage ways, old houses to create a trapped atmosphere.
The idea behind the music video is about the several band members being 'trapped' with their man or any situations.

A man, will be taped with black duck tape in a chair down a ally way and we will use different camera angles and techniques to betray again the idea of being 'trapped'.
To also give the genre of 'experimental' we will be showing strobes and flashes of light.

We got our idea's from a previous student work called Grounding and Rihanna video 'Disturbia'
However both of these materials are quite 'Gothic' we are going to contrast this with electric pink makeup. And 'Fighter' by Christina Aguilera

To gather up our images, we are going to take some photographs at a later date, to give the right idea

Deadlines

Pitch: 10th Sept
Animatic: 19th Sept
Rough Cut: 10th Oct
Final Video: 7th Nov
Picture House Screening: 12th Nov
Writing Draft: 1st Dec..Complete TBC

Music Video Analysis

Papa Don't Preach- MADONNA



The narrative is about the story of a girl, her boyfriend and the girls father. The girl is pregnant and she is trying to tell her father.

The visual symbolism's are important as there is no verbal speech.

There are lots of transaction techniques used throughout the video 'Papa Don't Preach' for instance the break between Madonna singing and dancing is called a Loop construction.

The images go along with opening shots of different locations and are very narrative to the lyrics used in the song.

Our Group Roles

Risk Assesment: Izzy
Going to the locations and seeing if it safe. Also to take precautions in case an accident happens.
Research of locations: Becca
Finding locations to shoot in and to see how well it fits into the plan.
Animatic: Mara
Drawing a rough draft of the initial idea to the music video.
Analysis of music videos: Hollie
Looking at previous music videos from students at college and also professional videos done in the big music industry.
Shooting and editing: All of us
Using the camera to take the shots used in the music video. Editing can then be done later to add different effects.

Group Members

Mara
Izzy
Hollie
Becca

We chose to have the track 'VOLCANO GIRLS' by the artist 'VERUCA SALT'.