Locations and Health and safety

The rain will make it hard for us to film due to the use of electrical equipment. Using the electrical equipment in the rain could lead to us getting electrocuted.

These images show Louise and I looking at a potential danger which is the bank by the castle. It is covered by tall plants which makes it difficult to see which therefore makes it even more of a danger as someone within the group could fall down the bank if they do not look clearly where they are walking.

There is the danger of tripping over cables from things such as the lighting wires which could cause someone in the group to cut, bruise or even electrocute themselves.

 Within Mortimer forest there is likely to be a lot of falling branches which could easily lead to someone tripping over them if they do not look where they are going.

Test shots

Here is a video of me practising lip syncing and practising playing the guitar as this is very important in the performance parts of the video so that it looks believeable. As this is a test shot it wont be used in our music video.

Storyboard/animatic

Shot List

Time management

I am nearly up to date with my work due to completing my Goodwins theory which was originally keeping me behind. I now need to collect my feedback from my target audience as I have only got class feedback. I also need to finish off my stars and stardom post which I aim to have done by Friday. As well as this I aim to finish my research on institutions and have it posted by Thursday. By next week I hope to have finished the posts on Locations+Health and Safety,costumes, Actors and choreography to ensure that the week back after half term my group can start filming for the music video.  

Plan 5 sections of our music video

My group came up with 5 sections for our indie music video. We will be changing between scenes of the artist playing her guitar and scenes of her past showing memories of her and her boyfriend.


1.  A girl (our artist/chosen character) on a guitar singing on a stage (eg.Ludlow Assembly Rooms) at the beginning of the video. This connotes that she is in the present as the video will keep changing between past and present.


2. The second section of our music video will be showing memories of the couple through flashbacks shown through a hazy,camera effect. The flashbacks will be part of our narrative showing the girl/artist and her boyfriends memories. They will be shown walking through town, holding hands and laughing and joking together. Locations will include the town, the river, walking past nice houses.


 3.The third section will be off the girl being taught how to play the guitar in the forest by the male character. This is again a flashback of a happy memory for the girl as she is now a well known singer.




4. The fourth section will go back to the present and be of the girl/artist on stage practising playing the guitar and singing. Due to the fact she is practising there wont be an audience as she is preparing for a show she has later on in the evening due to becoming a 'star'. We will also show a shot of a poster advertising her show.


5. In the fifth section which will be in the present, the girl will continue to practice on stage. Towards the end of the video the ex-boyfriend will walk in and sit down smiling as he is happy at how far she has come due to him being the one who taught her. When she is singing the last word of the song 'Try', she will look up and see him watching her as he starts to clap for her being proud of what shes become.

Create a story arch and detailed synopsis of a video

Time Management

This week I will be collecting my feedback for my pitch from my class and from my target audience. I have also been doing some research into possible institutions that might produce and exhibit my music video. I am focusing on the last week of research and planning as I will then be focusing on planning for production. The last week of research and planning includes a story arch and detailed synopsis of a video, planning 5 sections of our music video and storyboards/animatic.

Detailed Target Audience profile

Pitch feedback

After presenting our pitch for our indie music video we gained feedback from our class.
The questions we asked are:

1. Do you feel that our concept is suitable for our target audience? If so why? If not why not?
2. Do you think that our idea is achievable?
3. Do you feel that anything in our pitch is not going to work? Why?
4. Do you think that our clothing and make-up aspects of our music video are appropriate for our genre?
5. What would you expect to see in an indie music video?

Here are our class responses:

From looking at the feedback gained from our media class I can see that they thought the concept is suitable for our target audience because it fits the conventions of our genre well and is similar to music videos already available. They also thought it was suitable for our target audience because it contained a female artist.  Our media class also thought that our idea is achievable because it's simple and redundant. When we asked if anything in our pitch wasn't going to work, two people said that it would be quite difficult to get access to the assembly rooms, other than that they thought that our ideas would work. Due to realising that the assembly rooms will be difficult to get permission to use and also because of the fact we would have to pay quite a bit of money we have decided to try and get permission to use the college drama studio stage instead. According to our media group the clothing and make up aspects of our music video are what you'd expect to see in an indie music video and are very simple however too much of a country themed clothing may confuse the genre of indie with country/folk. Our class would expect to see a guitar featuring in our indie music video, a mixture of performance and narrative, an outdoors locations, aspects of a love interest and for the video to be slow paced all of which we have decided to include in our music video due to these features being generic conventions of indie music videos which we found in our research. 

The feedback was useful as it helped to see if our video would fit with the indie genre and also if our idea would work or not, however this feedback is only from our media group and they don't all fit into our chosen target audience and so I will be gaining some more feedback from the target audience. 

Target audience feedback for pitch

We decided to gain feedback for our pitch from our target audience. We asked two girls who fitted in with the indie genre and had an interest in it. Both of them are 17 therefore fitting in with our targeted age.




We asked them the following questions:
1. Do you feel that our concept is suitable for our target audience? If so why? If not why not?
2. Do you think that our idea is achievable?
3. Do you feel that anything in our pitch is not going to work? Why?
4. Do you think that our clothing and make-up aspects of our music video are appropriate for our genre?
5. What would you expect to see in an indie music video?


The response we got was:
1. They thought the concept is suitable because its similar to other indie music videos and also because you tend to see relationships in indie music videos such as in Ellie Goulding 'How Long will I love you' they thought it was a good idea.

2. Jess thought that our idea is achievable because we are using natural outdoors locations which is stereotypical of the indie genre therefore allowing us to use natural lighting. Rosie said yes, however she thought we might have problems recording in the bad weather due to the use of electrical equipment aswell as the fact we would be filming outdoors the majority of the time.

3. One of the problems that our audience thought might occur is trying to get access to the drama studio due to the possibility of others using it for lessons. Jess thought that gaining permission to use the assembly rooms would be even more of a problem.

4. The answer was yes because it was obvious our choices for clothing have been influenced by other indie artists such as Foxes. Rosie agreed because the clothing we had chosen  is casual which is stereotypical of the indie genre.

5. Jess said she would expect to see a couple together within an indie music video and outdoors locations. We decided our outdoors locations would include by the river, by the castle, within the town, Whitcliffe and Mortimer forest. Rosie said she would expect to see a guitar featured, casual clothing such as jeans and a jumper and again outdoors locations such as in a forest.

Pitch