Filming- what we're going to do

My partner and I have planned to film on Wednesday 16th February, a lot later than the rest of the class. This is due to poor organisation skills and communication with our characters. We have booked a camera and both Nicole and I and our characters can make it. We'll be going straight after school Wednesday afternoon, so that it will still be light when we get there. We also need to film the flashbacks in a house, so we are using our friends house who lives round the corner from school, making it easy to get to and from.

Examples of Digipaks

Avril Lavigne: Greatest Hits

Alicia Keys: Greatest Hits

Disc 1

1. Teenage Love Affair

2. Gangsta Louin'

3. No One

4. If I Ain't Got You

5. Fallin'

6. Like You'll Never See Me Again

7. Unbreakable

8. A Woman's Worth

9. You Don't Know My Name

10. Where Do We Go From Here

11. Diary

12. Superwoman

13. Girlfriend

14. Harma

15. Wrackless Love

16. How Come You Don't Call Me

17. Every Little Bit Hurts

18. Someday We'll All Be Free

Disc 2

1. Go Ahead

2. Heartburn

3. Rock Wit U

4. Tell You Something

5. If I Was Youe Woman- Walk On By

6. Lovin U

7. I Need You

8. Stolen Moments

9. Nobody Not Really

10. Troubles

11. The Thing About Love

12. Dragon Days

13. Butterfly2

14. Lesson Learned

15. Wake Up

16. Goodbye

17. So Simple

18. Streets Of New York (City Life)

Ace of Base: Greatest Hits

 Disc 1

1.      Happy Nation

2.      All That She Wants

3.      The Sign

4.      Wheel Of Fortune

5.      Living In Danger

6.      Don't Turn Around

7.      Young And Proud

8.      VOULEZ - VOUS DANSER

9.      WAITING FOR MAGIC

10.  Fashion Party

11.  Beautiful Life

12.  My Mind

13.  Dancer In A Daydream

14.  Hear Me Calling

15.  Cruel Summer

16.  Lucky Love

17.  Hallo Hallo

18.  Never Gonna Say I'm Sorry

19.  Blooming

Disc 2

1.  Life Is A Flower

2.  He Decides

3.  My déjà vu

4.  Just'n'Image

5.  I Pray

6.  Adventures In Paradise

7.  Always Have Always Will

8.  C’Est La Vie Always

9.  Cecilia

10.  Donnie

11.  Dr Sun

12.  Love In December

13.  Tokyo Girl

14.  Travel To Romantis

15.  You And I

16.  Don't Go Away

17.  Edge Of Heaven

18.  Everytime It Rains

19.  Que Sera

Beyonce: I Am... Sacha Fierce Deluxe Edition

Disc 1

1. If I Were A Boy
2. Halo
3. Disappear
4. Broken-Hearted Girl
5. Ave Maria
6. Smash Into You
7. Satellites
8. That's Why You're Beautiful
9. Single Ladies(Put A Ring On It)
10. Radio
11. Diva
12. Sweet Dreams
13. Video Phone
14. Hello
15. Ego
16. Scared Of Lonely

Bonus Video:
17. Single Ladies(Put A Ring On It)
18. If I Were A Boy (Live At MTV EMAS 2008)
19. If I Were A Boy



Our Characters

We have decided to use Louise Davies and Jordan Reynolds as our main characters in our music video. They will play a teenage couple, who are not allowed to see eachother by one anothers parents. Louise and Jordan are already friends from school, so they will have no problem in acting together.
Louise was chosen from 3 girls, who are all exceptionally talented and all take part in Drama productions in and outside of school. Louise knows and likes the song, as she thoroughly enjoys the Punk Rock genre.
Jordan was also chosen from 3 boys, yet out of the 3, only 1 boy was a Drama student, but we chose against him because we thought Jordan's appearance suited the character and genre better. 

Music Video Task

My task is to plan and produce a music video, researching into the genre of the band I have chosen to use and discover what my target audience likes to see in a music video. I have looked at and analysed many music videos and done furhter reseach into the band I have chosen.
I also have to produce a digipak and a magazine article so I am also researching those, looking at and analysing other digipaks and magazine articles from other bands in a similar genre.

What is a Digipak?

A digipak is a new format of CD packaging made of card, "digipak editions" of CD's usually have extra tracks and are limited edition. Digipak's can flip open like a book, or it can have three parts, so that one portion of the packaging opens to the right and one to the left, with the CD in the center portion.

This is an example of a Digipak

Making a good music video

To find out what our target audience likes in music videos, we gave out questionnaires asking what they like to see, such as themes and effects. We found that not many people like to see animation and they like to have a narrative. This was good to hear as we were planning on having a narrative instead of performance anyway.
We want to make the video memorable and interesting, so we have added ideas that are different and original that we have not seen in many recent music videos. The acting had to be good, so we have chosen a girl from the A Level Drama class and a boy who doesn't do Drama at school, but thoroughly enjoys acting. We plan to have different camera shots and editing, making the video interesting and not the same as all the other contemporary music videos.

Storyboard

As a group, Nicole, Jordan and I we decided that the storyboard Jordan and I planned was not suitable as he is no longer in our group. Therefore, Nicole and I have planned another, which we think has better ideas and is more appropriate.