Music Video

This is our finished music video
http://www.youtube.com/user/stmarksa2media

A2 Media Magazine advert

A2 Media: Final Digipack

: This is my finished digipack

This is the middle page.

The first picture is my CD, the next picture is my back cover and the last picture is my front cover.

Editing Part 5: Finished

We have finished our editing and we are happy with what we have achieved. We are excited to see what our class mates opinions are and to know their feedback. I will be posting the link to our music video on youtube soon.

A2 Media - Digipack pictures

We went out and took a lot of pictures for the digipack. We may or may not use these. Some we will and some we will not.

A2 Music Video- Editing Part 4

Today we have been editing even more, adding in effects this time. We are doing quite well with this hopefully to get it done by Monday. We have been splitting a lot of the clips and putting them in different places. We have got just a bit more editing to do where we will look at what we have the whole way through and see what needs changing, cutting down and what needs taking out.

Creating my digipack!

Today we have been creating our digipacks and using different effects on different pictures that we have used. This is what I have done so far. A you can see I have done half of my digipack.

These are the pictures I used before and after I edited them;

A2 Music Video: Filming after school

Today we will be filming after school. We are going to go to our first location with the camera and the tripod. We will also be posting pictures of the filming process and pictures for the digipack. We will only be filming the singing parts of the music video because we have decided that we might not need Jake but we will see how filming goes later on. I will try and wear the same outfit as I did the first time we filmed, if not then I will post pictures on here of what I will be wearing.

A2 Media: Exam Preperation

Today we have doing preperation for the exam that is coming up. We have been practising answering questions. Every Tuesday we have a lesson like this. Today's question was;

"Digital technology turns media consumers into Media producers." In your own experience, how has your creativity developed through using digital technology to complete your coursework productions? Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how these skills developed over time.

• What Digital Technologies did you use?


• What skills did you have at the beginning of both years?


• How did your skills improve?


• What difference did my evolving skills make to my production work.

We had half an hour to answer this question during the lesson and our teacher did let us look at our previous notes. This is my answer;

When I first started AS level media I had two years experience from GCSE, the skills I had already gained helped when first studying AS. At the beginning we were introduced to Photoshop, we were taught how to use it properly and effectively for our work. I had already had some experience with it at GCSE. I would say I had a good understanding of Photoshop when I first started media at AS. During AS; the first project on Photoshop we were told to do was; a Nature magazine. This is just the practise task that we had to do before our coursework. I used Photoshop to the best of my ability for this. I took a picture of a river and used it, adding text and the barcode. Though it looked OK the teacher said I could improve on it. After this task we had to create a school magazine as another practise. For me; this task was harder than the last one. It also looked very simple and unfinished compared. For me; I think to improve; I needed to make a mistake. Looking at this magazine; I knew what to do and not to do when it came to my music magazine coursework. Looking at the two magazines; everything just looks better done and improved.

A2 Media: Theory and photo taking

During the lesson today we are going to be doing mostly theory work for the exam so my sister and I are going to be taking pictures for the front cover of our digipacks during our free periods. I have done my hair curly like in the very first picture I posted yesterday. We are going to try to take a picture like that one today and I will have a go at editing it later. I will be posting the original pictures and the editing versions soon.

A2 Media- Digipack: Images that will inspire my front cover

While looking on the internet for a bit of inspiration for some front cover ideas; I cam accross a few pictures that I liked the style of. They are headshots or mid shots because I have already stated that this is what I want for the front cover. All of these pictures are very different from eachother but I like them all. This is because they all have a unique feel to them. They are completely different to eachother.
I saw this first image and I thought it was absoloutely stunning. I like everything about it. I like how the girl looks so innocent and almost sad. I like her dark make-up, her paleness and her hair. I also like the amount of editing that has been done to this picture. The lightness has been changed to show the innocenceof the girl. They have also added an effect to her eyes, making them stand out a lot more. Although I have a plan set out for my front cover already; with the colours being much more natural being autumn colours. I have been thinking of doing a front cover a bit more like this , with a head shot/close-up. Making it very light and doing something I said I didn't want to do first of all; having dark make-up. After seeing this picture it has given me a whole new look on what I want to do for my Digipack front cover. I'm not sure if I will do something like this or not but I will have a try and see how the pictures come out. If I like the way the pictures come out, I will try to edit them. If this proves to be affective then I will probably use it for my front cover.


I also found this picture on the internet. I like the close-up of this and the look in the models face. Though it is not like my original idea, I do like overall colour of this. Though it isn't like Autumn, it's a lot more like Winter because of the hat and the models make-up. The editing for the eyes is also very good because they have changed the colour completely. As I have said, I want to edit quite a lot to make the picture look more professional. I will try taking a picture like this and see how it looks. Though I think it is going against the style a little too much but I will try it out and see what it looks like.
Looking at this image; I think it will be quite easy to create and edit one like this. I like this image because of the natural style of it. This image is also like the style of the artist we have made. It's also like the plan I originally had for the front cover. Though it's missing the autumn colours I wanted, it has the natural feel to it. I don't think a lot of editing was done to this; just a bit to enhance the colour and the models eyes. I think out of the images; this one will be the easiest to inspire my own front cover. I will try this one as well as the others and decide what looks the best.

I found this image and it looks a lot like the one from Michelle Branch's album cover that I have already posted. This is a head shot of the model posing. The sun is hitting the back of her hair and giving it the autumn feel that I want for my front cover. Like the last image I think that this will be very easy to capture and edit. Though out of all of the images I have to say my favourite is the first one; however this will take longer and a lot more hard work to incorporate it into my own front cover and style.

As I have said I will be trying to take images like these ones in my own style, then editing each of them. I will be blogging all of this to show my progress.

A2 Media - Starting Digipack: Template

Today we are going to be starting our digipacks for our artist which is myself. We are going to be making a CD front cover, designing the CD, make the inside page and designing the song page/back page. We will be doing this on Adobe Photoshop. Through the whole process I am going to be blogging my progess, stating every bit of editing and photo capuring I am going to be doing.

This is a template of a Digipack. I will be using this as a guide line for my own digipack. I have put this on Photoshop and will be putting my own images and design over the top of the lines so I know the measurements of each of the seperate 'pages.'

A2 Music Video: Digipak research!

This is the front cover for Michelle Branch's album; Hotel Paper. Looking at this image I want something quite similar for my own cover. With myself on the front. I want my front cover to look quite simple and classy. Like this front cover I want the colours to be very natural, with autumn colours. I also want the text to be quite simple and small, with not a lot of colour distracting away from the artist. In this photo Michelle's make-up is quite dark. I do not want my make-up on the front cover to be dark. I want everything to be very stripped down and natural, not covered in make-up. We will not need to worry about the clothes that I will be wearing because it will just be a head shot of me like Michelle in this cover. For my hair; I want it to be like hers, very natural, not full with hairspray and straight. Quite wavy and natural.

This is the CD for her album. There is one thing that I have said from the beginning about picking this song; I didn't want a lot of black involved. Unlike Michelle's CD; I do not want a black CD. I want it to be like the colour of the front cover. Brown and Autumn colours involved, the theme I am going for, for the whole of my digipak is Natural. I want the Digipak to look simple and trendy.

This is the back cover/song list of Michelle's album. It's like the image of her on the front but as if the camera were behind her. It is a behind the shoulder shot. I would like to try something like this but I don't think it would look as good as this so I might change my mind about it. We will take a variety of different headshots and behind the shoulder shots. I like the layout of this back cover; with the songs in a list, the barcode out of the way and the use of the artist in the background. I am not going to completely copy the Digipack, I am going to do my digipack inspired by these ideas and incorporate some original ideas of my own.

A2 Music Video: Filming Part 3

We have filmed again today. We filmed at home in our garden. We though it would look quite simple and natural like we have wanted it to be. We got a bit done. We spent about an hour filming. We got a lot of the singing parts done. This is what we wanted to achieve from filming today. We used a tripod because we wanted to show that we can hold a shot steady because in the other footage that we have; it is a bit shakey but it is supposed to be because it adds to the affect of the song and music video. We just wanted to make sure we do not lose any marks on this so we are making sure that we have a lot of footage where the shots are steady. Like the other footage that we have taken; we have used a variety of different shots and angles. We will definetely be filming next week because our deadline is Monday the 13th of December. We no longer have time to film or edit during class time so we have to do this in our own free time during the week. My sister and I have decided that we are going to take the free periods that we have to get this done.

A2 Music Video: Decided when we are going to film next

We were discussing it and we have decided that we are definitely going to film on Sunday, with or without Jake. We were talking to other students who have completed this A level and they're music video and saw that you don't have to have a brilliant idea of clips to get a good grade. So we were discussing about just filming me singing to the camera at home to make it very simple and focus on the key marks we could get from holding a shot steady. We have not made a plan to film with Jake yet but we will next week. We will need to film and edit on our own time because last week was this week was the last of the filming and editing time we have been given within the lesson. In the lesson we are now focusing on the digipacks we are going to create for our music video/artist. We are also going to create a magazine advert for it as well. This means on Sunday or one day next week we will need to take pictures of Myself for the advert and digipack. It will be a good idea to take some pictures on Sunday when we are filming because we are already prepared for photos and videos.

A2 Music Video: When are we next going to film?

We were supposed to be filming with Jake today but Lysette and myself were both feeling very ill and could not attend school. We let Jake know that we would not be able to film today. We have however been discussing when we are next going to film. We were thinking about filming at the weekend because Jake is not available tomorrow (which is a Friday). We will discuss when to film later on and I will be posting it on my blog tomorrow. We will also be discussing what we are going to film.

A2 Music Video: Filming tomorrow!

We are going to film with Jake tomorrow, we want a lot more boyfriend clips with him. So we have a more variety of footage to use in our music video. We are hoping to have a good hour of shooting with him.

A2 Music Video Filming Part 2

Today I would say filming went OK. It didn't go badly but it didn't go great. We got some footage that we can use but not that much to be honest. We went to a range of locations with Jake. We went to the pond near school, the small bridge there and on the cycle track. We shot various amounts of footage in these places. First of all we tried to film the bit where Jake gets run over, this idea didn't really work because we didn't have Simone to help us shoot this. So we moved on along the underpass and filmed a bit where I look once and Jake is there and I look again and Jakes appears. This went OK but we felt we needed a range of locations to film. We also needed to do it quick because the battery in the camera ran out very quickly. We then went to a little bridge by the pond near our school. We filmed a bit where the song goes a lot slower. I sang to Jake at this point because it would add more of an affect to the video. It did take a few tries however because I was giggling too much and Jake was making me laugh. We did get some good footage of this and a good high angle shot was used. We then stopped shooting because it became too cold and Lysette, Jake and I got very cold to do anything else outside. So we thought that the next time we film, we will maybe film inside.

A2 Music Video: Preparing for filming tomorrow

Today I wanted to make sure Jake was still alright to film tomorrow so I texted him and he said he was fine with it. We will be filming during the two hours of media tomorrow. Most of the footage we film will be of Jake but we want more of me singing so hopefully we get a lot of both tomorrow. With the two hour we have hopefully we get a lot of it done. We didn't really need to think a lot about the costume of Jake and myself. This is because it will be mostly narrative clips and not performance clips so we didn't need to think alot about the clothes we were going to wear. I just asked Jake not to wear anything to smart. This is because normally Jake is quite smart for Sixth Form but we didn't want his character to be too nerdy so we asked him to dress quite casual for tomorrow. I will be wearing a demin dress and black leggings because it is simple and clasy so it is not too out there and loud. We decided I was not going to wear the same outfit as I did for the first part of filming because the next clips we are going to film are before my boyfriend dies in an accident. The clips of me singing the in the other outfit are after he has died. It will look silly if I am just in the one outfit the whole way through. It wouldn't look like we have thought it through enough. We are hopefully going to shoot more footage of me singing tomorrow because some of the other footage we shot we couldn't use because the tripod was in the way of some of the shots.

A2 Music Video: Discussion For What We May Be Filming

I was talking to my sister and we have a lot more ideas of what to film and where for our music video. We want to film more footage of me singing in different places. This will be around school because we want to film some of the footage around the school; like Netwell Pond and the area by there. This is so it will give us a lot of locations for our video so it isn't so boring being in just one place. Also if we filmed it during school time we will not be wasting time because we have been giving this time to film and edit. We are also taking the camera home to film whenever we can. We can not afford to waste any time. We are also going to be filming Jake. We have already discussed that he may be getting run over by Simone in his car. We are sure that Jake is unfortunately going to die in the music video because it is one of our main themes for the video. We will be filming Jake being my boyfriend, being thre when he isn't supposed to because he is dead (being everywhere like the song) and we will discuss other ideas before we start filming the video.

A2 Music Video: Possible New Actor and Idea

We had an idea of how Jake might die in our music video. We know he is going to die tragically in our music video because is it one of our main themes of the video. We just needed to figure out how he is going to do die. We were thinking of how he could die and who would be respnsible for it. The idea that kept cropping up in our discussion was; Jake being killed in a car accident. We decided this is how he was going to die. So we just needed to figure out who was going to kill him and where. When we were thinking of who would kill Jake we obviously knew they needed to know how to drive a car. The firast person we thought of was Simone. Simone is in our year; year 13. We asked him and he is happy to take part in our music video as the part of the driver. We have not yet discussed when we are going to film with him but we will soon. We were thinking that the best place for filming the car scene would be in front of the school because then we didn't have to go far out of the school site. This is because we do not have enough time to walk/drive anywhere else because we all have lessons throught everyday at school during the week.

A2 Music Video: Editing Part 2

Today we contiued with the editing we started yesterday. Today was all about putting the clips in order because we had a good look at all the clips yesterday so we knew what order to place the clips in. We did some editing together first of all putting clips into order and cutting some clips down, getting rid of the footage we can not use. Then after that I needed to go and speak to my tutor for about 20 minutes, during this Lysette did a lot of the editing. We added in the song yesterday as well so we made sure the miming was in time with the song. After I came back Lysette had to go and do the same thing so I did about 20 minutes of editing as well. When I came back, Lysette told me that it went a bit wrong and some of the timing was a bit off. So what I did when I was editing on my own was; I completed scrapped the editing we had already done and started fresh. So we have different clips in parts of the song that are done. One of the main reasons for this is because we need to film a lot more, which we are doing on Monday. We are next going to edit next Thursday. This is when we hopefully have all of our filming done; involving the miming parts and the boyfriend clips. The next time we edit we will be finishing it off by adding in different transitions and effects and credits as well. We will have a good 2 hours to do this but if we are not able to finish we will ask to use the Laptop throughout the day on Friday so we can get the editing done.

A2 Music Video: Editing Part 1

Today we started the editing of the footage we have already shot of our music video. We didn't do a lot of editing during this lesson because it did take a long time for the footage to import from the camera to the laptop. When it finally did import we were just looking over the clips that we already have and we have got a lot of footage that we can use. Along with this we have got a lot of footage that we can not use like the clips when I am laughing and forget the words. We also noticed in a few of the shots; not many that the tripod was in the way. When we were filming we forgot to move it out of the way. We didn't even notice it was there untill we started this editing. Next time we film, we will make sure that we hide the tripod if we do not use it. We tried to put the clips in to order but we have a lot of three minute clips so we need to cut them down when we next edit. We couldn't do it this lesson because we didn't have enough time. We are editing again tomorrow so hopefully we get more done tomorrow.

A2 Music Video: First day of filming

We decided that today would be the day that we would film for our music video. This is because the weather was very gloomy and there a lot of fog today so this would give the atmosphere more an effect. When we first started filming we used the tripod and it was me singing to the camera in front of a lot of trees and the fog. Then we became a bit more creative and more confident. Lysette took the camera of the tripod and started using different shots like; high angle shots, low angle shots, birds eye view shots, close-ups, over the shoulder shots and head shots. We used a variety of these shots when we were filming. We also used a panning shot where we filming me singing; where Lysette walked in a circle filming me. We filmed a lot of footage today so we know we have got a lot of film we can use. We were out for a good two hours filming today. Although when we film another day I would like a good whole day to film so we can get as much done as possible. Filming went very well and we are going to film with Jake for the boyfriend clips hopefully sometime next week.

A2 Music Video: Costume

When looking at the costume we didn't want to refer to Michelle Branch's style because it is too depressing and black. We wanted our artist (me) to have a rocker/indie look but not look gothic because a lot of people get these confused with each other. We were looking through our wardrobe and came across these and made some conclusions about them.

Skinny Blue Jeans:

We saw this pair of skinny blue jeans and thought they would go with therocker/indie look. Making ME look like a real fashion icon and a real artist. When you see a lot of artists in this genre they are often wearing skinny jeans because they express a punk look that is not too dressed up and casual.

Denim Waist Coat:


Focusing on the denim waistcoat, we wanted ME to look quite casual yet stylish as well because all of the female artists are looking very stylish these day in they're music videos. This isn't too out there, we havent dressed our artist up ina big pink dress or blace lace clothes. We have made our artist look very stylish and classy.





Muli-coloured jumper:


When we was looking through our wardrobe we came accross this jumper. We thought with the waist coat it would look very classy and quite indie witha pair of jeans. Although in the music video is in fact quite sad, we wanted to make her outfit quite happy like this colourful jumper. This is because we want her to look like she loves seeing the boy she misses and is happy this way.



Coat:


Along with the jeans, waistcoat and jumper we thought that the outfit needed a coat. One because it will be freezing outside and Two because the outfit needed something to make it look a bit more punky like the genre of song we have chosen.







Boots:

At first; we couldn't decide on shoes. Then we saw these boots. They are muddy, filthy and just wrecked. We thought this would be a nice touch because it looks like the artist has been looking everywhere in the mud for the boy she sings about in the song. She sees him everywhere in her dreams because he is really dead in real life and she loves seeing him even though he is only in her dreams, although she does look for him outside of her dreams.

A2 Music Video: Michelle Branch's Style

The original artist that sings the song that we are creating our own music video for is; Michelle Branch. I would describe this song as quite Indie/Pop and maybe soft rock. This will be incorporated in Michelle's individual style. As you can tell from her style, Michelle is quite punky. Although we are not incorporating her colour of style which is mostly black, we are incorporating her make up like Kelly Clarkson. We are also incorporating how she acts and mimes in her music video, her emotion and her overall person.

A2 Music Video: 'Everywhere' Actors

At the moment we have two definite actors. We have an idea that may involve one more actor but we need to discuss that in more detail.

The first actress that will be in our music video will be myself. We chose myself to be in our music video because it is convenient for us. This is because if we have someone from the group singing, we can trust each other to take the music video seriously and take time to prepare and film the video.

The other actor is Jake who will be playing the part of my boyfriend. We chose Jake for our video because for our original idea he was the only one who took it seriously. Jake is also taking Drama at A level and has helped us in the past for our practise music video and he was very good and very helpful.

A2 Music Video: Example Artists That We Want to Model Our Singer After

When looking at the style and the all round persona of the artist, we have chosen to look at the style of these four artists particularly. The artist on the left is Demi Lovato. Even though in this picture she looks quite peaceful, Demi is quite a punk pop chick. In this picure I thought she looked quite indie, this is the style that I want our artist to portray along with POP as well.

This artist is Selena Gomez.

We think she has a punk rock edge that we want to incorporate into our artists style. As you can see she is also quite girly as well, we also want to incorporate this into our artist too.

The artist above is Sara Barielles, Sara was part of our list of song choices. Her style of song is like the song we have chosen. Her style is like Demi's; it's Indie. This is why we want to try and incorporate her style.

This artist is Kelly Clarkson, Kelly's style of music is very punk/pop. Her style is a reflection of her music; it is very punky. Her make up is quite dark like in the picture so we want to try and make our artist's make up like this. We also want to try and use Kelly's hairstyle making it quite messy, showing a punky look.

So overall we are looking for quite a casual Indie/Rock style for clothes but a punky look for the make-up and hair. This is because it is a reflection of the indie/pop song we are doing the music video for.

A2 Music Video:Audience Profile for Michelle Branch's: Everywhere

Age: For this music video and song we wanted to know who the audience watching and listening to it would be. This is so would could incorporate they're thoughts and interests into the music video. We thught that the age of people watching our music video would be early teens. This song is soft punk and pop, with also an indie edge. We thought that 12-15 year olds will just be getting into music at this time and will be looking at which genre to listen to and which suits them. These are also the adoslescent years for the teens, this song expresses a bit of rebelience with the soft punk that the teens will listen to when going through the stages of these years.


Gender: The gender
This song is by a female artist singing about a boy. So it is more likely that the audience gender would be females. This song will relate to them is their having their first crush which they will be because the age of this video/song is 12-15 year olds.

Social Class:
There isn't really a social class with teenagers. They are all the same class, going through the same things. They will be at school and living with their parents.

Interests/Hobbies:
The interests of these teenage girls would probably be; music and boys. Not just these, there will be a lot more interests as well. Their hobbies may consist of being a hopeful musician themselves.

A2 Music Video: Idea: Everywhere

Our idea for the music is based around the sound, not really the narrative of the lyrics because they don't really narrate anything. They just have a basis idea about a girl who's in love witha boy who only exists in her dreams, not in real life. We are kind of using this idea. We are just making it so that the singer did have a boyfriend but he died in a car accident which will be at the start of the music video. It is our idea that she is singing about; even though he is dead, she sees him everywhere in her dreams and she loves seeing him again but wants him to exist out of her dreams as well. Most of the singing parts of the song will be on the field near where my sister and I live. We hope it will be quite foggy that day as well because it will add more an atmosphere to the music video.

A2 Music Video: Michelle Branch's 'Everywhere' Lyrics

Everywhere Lyrics


These are the lyrics to Michelle Branch's; Everywhere. Even though I know most of the words, when we are going to film I want a copy of them with me. We want to pay attention to the lyrics because we want our music video to be a half performance music video and a half narrative music video. This is because we want to show a range of skills we are going to use involving both of the strategies of filming. We wanted a mix, showing the singer singing the song and also scenes with our idea that we have finally chosen. Our music video is based on the base idea of the lyrics which is; about a girl who loves a boy who doesn't exist. She describes how she only sees him in her sleep and in real life he is no where to be seen. We are changing this idea a bit because we don't want to copy the whole song, we want our own ideas to be in the music video.

The Lyrics
Turn it inside out so I can see
The part of you that's drifting over me
And when I wake you're, you're never there
But when I sleep you're, you're everywhere
You're everywhere

Just tell me how I got this far
Just tell me why you're here and who you are
'Cause every time I look
You're never there
And every time I sleep
You're always there

'Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I close my eyes it's you I see
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
I'm not alone

I recognize the way you make me feel
It's hard to think that
You might not be real
I sense it now, the water's getting deep
I try to wash the pain away from me
Away from me

'Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I close my eyes it's you I see
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
I'm not alone

I am not alone
Whoa, oh, oooh, oh

And when I touch your hand
It's then I understand
The beauty that's within
It's now that we begin
You always light my way
I hope there never comes a day
No matter where I go
I always feel you so

'Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I close my eyes it's you I see
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
'Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I catch my breath
It's you I breathe
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone

You're in everyone I see
So tell me
Do you see me?

A2 Music Video: Idea from an Original Music Video

In Paramore's; 'Decode' music video for the film Twilight. They film the singer in the woods just singing, they use a lot of other scenes and effects but we got our idea of just the singer singing in a field from this. In this video she is sining in the woods with a hat and just a jumper and jeans on. We want to create this affect in our music video.

This is Paramores Music Video for Decode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvnkAtWcKYg

A2 Music Video: New list of song choices

When thinking of new song choices and ideas, we wanted a female artist and a song that would suit one of us ( myself or Lysette.) While looking at different song choices we were putting things like; female artists, number ones of the 2000's, every number one in the last ten years. This is because we wanted to choose a song that we both know throughout because we can't waste time learning it now. These are the songs that we were looking at;



Katy Perry- Thinking of you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdGZBRAwW74


We thought of this song because it is a simple song about a girl feeling guilty about being with another boy after her boyfriend was killed in the war. I quite liked this song because I thought it would be quite easy to film but Lysette thought the opposite so we decided against this song because we wanted to agree on the song we choose.

Avril Lavigne - When your gone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R95CkWaLNo


We wanted the song that we chose to be quite a rock, pop song but not too busy and loud in the camera work. We just wanted a girl singing to make it quite simple with clips of other things involved. Then we decided it would be quite hard to do because of the original music video and i'ts expectations so we decided not to do it.

Vanessa Carlton- Ordinary day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdmbjaReGmY


We thought this song would be quite good to do because it's quite simple and sweet, then we began to think of ideas. We then realised we couldn't think of ONE idea. This is why we chose against the song.

Vanessa Carlton- A Thousand miles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwkej79U3ek

We then looked at another Vanessa Carlton song because we thought her songs were just the style of music we were looking for. We came accross A thousand Miles. Everyone knows this song and video; where she is playing a moving piano. As we discovered from the last song by her; we had no ideas for this song because it isn't really a narrative song. We again, rejected this song.

Taylor Swift- Love story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xg3vE8Ie_E

We then looked at Love Story by Taylor Swift. We both love this song and I really wanted to do this song for our music video. However Lysette didn't, we wanted to agree on a song together so we got rid of this idea. Lysette then persuaded me to see that because the original music video was such a big production; we wouldn't be able to live up to it and handle the expectations.

Leona Lewis- Bleeding love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQfoJcseK7M

Everyone has heard of this song and the singer that sung it. As the last music video originally done, we saw it as too much of a big production. We also thought if we chose this song we would just copy the music video because of the narrative in the song. This is what we didn't want, we want to use our original own ideas.

Lindsay Lohan- Over

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEEQ8JO9l_g

My sister found this song by Lindsay Lohan and we both have heard it in the past. We knew it but not really well enough to do a music video to it. We needed one of us to sing it, so we needed to know the complete lyrics. We don't have enough time to learn the words because we changed our idea so we went against this song.

Michelle Branch- Everywhere

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc9k3-fwwYM

We then came accross this song. Michelle Branch's song: Everywhere. This song was out a few years ago in America. We loved this song back then and still do now. We both know all the lyrics for it and could allready think of ideas for it. We decided that this was going to be our final song choice. I will post the ideas we had on a sperate blog.

A2 Music Video: New song choice original ideas

We decided to change our whole idea because we wanted to just use us two as actresses because we released from our other idea that we can only rely on each other. This meant we needed to think of a song for the music video, this means we just want a song by a female artist. We were looking at the original list that we had set out for ourselves, looking at the songs only by the female artists we had put down.

Taylor Swift- You belong with me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuNIsY6JdUw

When we were going through ideas, I really wanted to do this song because I love it and the video aswell. We decided on this song for a while, then changed our minds. This song is kind of classic pop and counrty at the same time. We love the genre pop so this is why we wanted to choose this song. In the music video; it is about a nerdy girl telling the boy she loves that she is better for him than his over obsessed girlfriend. So we wanted to base the song around the original video. We chose against this song because we thought that we could never live up to the video. Everyone knows and loves the video. We thought we couldn't make it as good and as well done as it so we chose not to do it. We didn't want to do it and have finished it knowing we are going to be compared to the original video and it not being as good. So we wanted to do a song we know we can do and won't be such a big production

Kate Nash- Foundations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryH5cga0yUI

We thought of this particular song because it is very easy and simple to do. This song is about a girl breaking up with her boyfriend because she doesn't like him anymore. We thought it would be quite simple to do because it would just be a girl singing and acting like she hates her boyfriend. So we liked this choice. Untill we began to deeply think about it. We didn't want to aim for something too easy and boring. We wanted to challenge ourselves. So we decided against this idea.

Colbie Callait- Falling for you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPCRbuL4Oh8

We thought of this song after we decided against Kate Nash. This is because although they are quite similar, we liked the song and the overall story a lot better. The song is about a girl thinking she has fallen for a boy. So we thought this would be quite easy to do again but whats different about this song so Kate Nashes is; we had more of a plan and more ideas for it. So it wouldn't be as boring. In the end we decided that this song was again; too boring. We wanted to do something with a bit more rythym and some you could tap your foot to.

Katy Perry- Teenage dream

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98WtmW-lfeE

This song is on our list because it is big at the moment and it is fresh in our minds so we know all of the lyrics, we know what the song is about and we know the music video. We like song because it's quite fast and isn't slow like a lot of our other choices. So we thought we could handle doing this song. Then we began to think about it properly and almost just after we chose it said that it was too fast and too much of a big song and production to film with just one camera and a tripod. We thought we were being a bit over ambitious.

Sara Barielles- King of anything

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv0WrCoA3TA

With this song, we decided it would be our final music video song choice. We had this decided for about a week. We had a set idea on it aswell. The song is about a girl saying that her boyfriend tells her what to do, what she should wear and she's fed up of it. She's basically saying; Who died and made you king? We had an idea of doing a bit of narrative for the music video but also a lot of singing as well because we want the girl to be singing in it as well.

We looked at all of these songs and decided that, still none of them appealed to us so we were going to make a new list of female artists to choose from.

A2 Music Video: Filming!

Today was the day we planned to film. We only managed to film a bit. This is because the weather was VERY bad. It was raining the whole time and it was too dark to even see the boys. The boys were not taking the filming seriously either. So after we got home from filming we were thinking of changing our whole idea. We were going to discuss it in more detail later on.

A2 Music Video: Preparation

For filming the music video, I wanted to check what time we were filming. I posted on my sisters Facebook asking her when we were going to film tomorrow. I received quite a quick response.

A2 Media - Conversation Joe's Storyline?

My sister and I were having a conversation about what Joe's storyline is going to be in the music video. We decided that he was going to comfort a girl who has received some bad new from the hospital. We don't really know what the bad new is because we've just got an idea of the camera showing the hospital, the sad girl and Joe helping the girl. It won't be a very long storyline because the clip doesn't need to be that long because we already have a main storyline for Jake because he has his own verse in the song. This is just an idea that we have had, we don't know whether we are actually going to use it yet.

A2 Music Video: Preparation MASKS!

Today we went into to Pound Land to have a look for cheap masks for the boys to wear in the music video. We saw these cute masks. We bought four of these masks because there are four super hero boys in our music video. Although they aren't boys masks; they are for girls. We just thought they are cheap because they are only a pound each and it will be easy to make them a bit more masculine. What Lysette and I are thinking of doing is; cutting of the holding stick, removing the feather, putting some elastic through them and turning them the other way so there is no glitter on the front so they won't look so feminine. We are hoping to do this tonight ready for filming tomorrow. It won't take us very long get these done hopefully. So we have our main costume sorted, the boys are just wearing they're own casual clothes so the music video won't look so overdone and cheesy.

A2 Music Video: Preparation

We already decided that we were going to film with the boys straight after school on Thursday. So I wanted to keep checking they were OK with it still. So I posted on they're facebook's, so they would reply to me to make sure filming was still on.

A2 Music Video: Preparation

At school today; we decided we were going to do some filming for the music video after school, around our area where we live. We decided with the boys, that we would film on Thursday because this is the day where that they are all available to film. All four of them are coming over to be in our music video straight after school.

A2 Music Video: Possible Actors

We haven't got the extra girls yet for the music video, we thought that us two (my sister and I) would just be the boys girlfriends in the music video. This would make it a lot easier because we wouldn't have to find time where everyone was available to film. If we use us in it we know we will be able to do it so it's just much more achievable this way.

A2 Music Video: Preparation

To make the music video look much more real, we wanted to give all the boys a copy of the lyrics and tell them which parts they will be miming to, so they know what they are singing and when; When it comes to filming it. Jake and Chad both said they will sing a verse each for us, so we had highlighted the bits they are singing and hopefully they will learn it for next week. Even though some of the music video doesn't involve miming, we want all the boys to know the song fully just incase we can't achieve what we want to with the narrative clips.

A copy of the boys lyrics and two copies for us as well.