1st Filming Day

After filming and reviewing the footage I have more than enough footage to fill the first half, today I focused on just Penny and Pippas parts on New Brighton beach and have tried to get a range of shots. I am really pleased with the majority of the shots, however, some of the shots where I am walking to follow the actor the video is too unstable and I will need to re film shots and take more care in the stability of the shots.

I am planning for 2 more filming days, the first one will be finishing the footage of Penny and Pippa on the beach finishing filming some scenes and also refilming parts that didn't go to plan and need to be included in the music video. The last filming day will be working on the lip syncing shots with Jack who is the artist of this song, there may be additional filming days that need adding but the current plan is only for 2 more.

Music Label

I have created a logo for the label behind my music video, album and poster. The label behind it all is called 'TB Productions'

I created the logo in Adobe Photoshop and used a bold font that was also current and stood out over a plain font. I put the text between two thin rectangles to make the text stand out more and added a crown over the top to make the logo look more proffesional and makes it more eyecatching.

Video Plan

Using the place holders in iMovie i have created a plan on what footage I want to include in my music video and in what order. Although I will likely change some parts and reorder the footage in the future this will help to guide me into what shots I need to film on my filming days.

Location

After looking at my 3 possible locations, looking at my style models and considering the theme behind the video I have chosen to film most of my video at New Brighton Beach

The theme of the video is happiness and the story behind it is the connection between Penny and Pippa (Dog) and them having a happy day out together. When I think about the beach it is a common place for people to go to for a fun day out and where they create memories and enjoy each others company, and I feel this location will fit well with the music video and allow the story to stand out more and for the theme to be recognised.

Style Models

Throughout my video, I am going to use a range of style models to inspire me to create my video, I will use a range of videos that will inspire me in different ways.

1. TIEKS - Sunshine feat. Dan Harkna - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALvep1RsGQ0

The reason I will be using this as a style model is because it features dogs throughout the video and my video is going to feature a dog throughout most of the video, I will be looking at what angles they use to film the dogs and using that to inspire the angles I will use to film Pippa (the dog).

2. American Authors - Best Day of My Life - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y66j_BUCBMY

As my song is quite an upbeat happy song and the video is going to show happiness and good times I will be using the music video as another style model, 'best day of my life' is a happy song and uses a range of shots throughout their music video so I will be using some of the activities they do in the video and recreate them in my video, and use the angles and framing in their music video to help decide on what angles I will use for my video.

Editing

In the pre-lim task, I used Final Cut Pro to edit the music video and found it easy to use, for the main task I am going to use a more advanced piece of software called Adobe Premier Pro CS6 to give me more tools to edit my video, allowing it to look more professional.

Although for the planning process I used iMovie to take advantage of one of the effects they have which allows you to use a placeholder which includes animations of what you want in that part of the film, this allowed me to get a more realistic view of what the final product would look like once complete.

Actors

For my music video I will be using 3 actors

Penny

Penny will be one of the main actors used within the video, Penny won't be the artist lip syncing within the video but instead telling a story of having good times to fit in with the music.









Pippa

Pippa is also one of the main actors within the video, she will be working with Penny to show the story of good times and to show the connection she has with Penny.







Jack

Jack (on the left) will be the artist in the video, he won't feature as much as Penny and Pippa but will be doing the main Lip Syncing parts to the video.

Video Storyline

In the video I am planning to include lots of 'happy' shots betwen Penny and Pippa. The video itself won't show a strong storyline that tells a long story, instead it will be a short storyline showing a day out between Penny and Pippa and the connection they have.

The song is very upbeat and gives off happy vibes so the video shown will show Jack having a good time while lip syncing, and Penny and Pippa having a good time.

Overall it is quite a simple storyline that doesn't really need to be closely followed to understand but instead gives off postive vibes making the audience feel happy after watching the video.

Potential Locations

I am currently in the process of choosing locations for my music video, 3 main locations I'm looking at are:

-Frodsham Hill
-Frodsham Caves
-New Brighton/Leasowe Beach

Music Choice

After planning I have chosen to move away from the idea of a love story and more towards and happy upbeat song, I have looked at different songs and come down to the final choice of:

R. Kelly - Ignition (Vicejoy Remix)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncNzC8WgtPI