Locations

The locations we have been filming at have included my house mainly, the train station, Jakes's house.

Risk Assessment

This is the risk assessment of the locations we shot in, it explains the risks and hazards that we had and how we plan to overcome them. It is very useful as it has made us aware of the health and safety points that we have to take into account.

Pitch

We had the task of presenting our video idea in a 'dragons den' style to our teacher to see how she would perceive it and approve it as a successful idea.

We presented our idea, but as we did so we realized how very much it would not work. The interpretation of death did not fit the tone of the song which was actually quite fast pace upbeat song.

So we went back to the discussion within our group - we listened repeatedly to the song - despite the halfway gone being perceived as death it could also be about a relationship.

It would be much easier to convey, it is also much more realistic to film a video as it is such a common theme to appear within music videos. It made us rethink very carefully our next video idea - not only did we need a good storyline, it needed to fit in with the tone and lyrics of the song !

Group discussions

We had thorough group discussions throughout lessons - deciding upon ideas and how we interpreted the music. We realised how very difficult that the task was going to be - not only did we have a to have a good storyline that the audience would understand but we needed locations that would be sutible and people to star in our video that would take it seriously and would fit the roles of our characters.

Pitch Planning

We have as a group had many discussions about the the story boarding of our music video -

These have included possible

Settings/ Locations for filming

The people we will be using

Mise- en-scene - costumes, props, daytime/nightime

Editing - Transitions

Sound - reference to lyrics

Halfway Gone - Lifehouse

Song Ideas

We had a brainstorm of the possible song choices we could use -

The conventions that we were looking for it to include were a strong storyline, with meaningful lyrics, but also one that was not well known - in the charts so it could not be compared to the original video or have high expectations.

These were the ideas that we came up with -

The Editors - No sound but the wind

Snow Patrol - You could be happy

The Killers - When you were young

Chase & Status - Heavy

Coldplay - White Shadows

Example - Fast Cars

Bloc Party - Signs

Kele - Everything you wanted

The Xx - Islands

Love you better - Maccabees

25 to Life - Eminem

Miami to Ibiza - Swedish House Mafia

We have originally decided on using the song Halfway there - Lifehouse

Brief

We have started the media course for A2 and been given a summary of the tasks we have to carry out for next year.

This is the brief that I believe I will be following for this year within my group, as it seems the most attainable and we will be able to do a large amount of research to it.

1. A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options:

a website homepage for the band;
a cover for its release as part of the digipak (CD/DVD package);
a magazine advertisement for the digipak (CD/DVD package).