Initial Ideas...

SONG CHOICE...

Upbeat 

Fast tempo

Strong voice and music

ARTIST...

Female

Male 

Duet 

Band

Solo

Target Audience...

Teenagers

12-21

Female/Male

GENRE...

Indie 

Rock

Pop

Alternative

Metal

R&B

Selecting our artist and song...

From our target audience research we found that they want a solo singer and preferably female with a strong upbeat and confident sound.

As our first step to finding an artist, we asked people we knew (friends and family) if they were singers themselves or whether they knew anyone that would happily take part in our project. We found that most of the suggestions were bands and this is not what our audience were looking for and the solo singers were more slow paced than confident and upbeat.

The second step was to search on social media sited to see if we could find a local artist suitable for our project. We looked on MySpace, Facebook and Twitter but we still had no success. 

The third step was to look at unsigned artist websites which we knew held a lot of unsigned artist that would be willing to let us use their music for publicity. However, we still found that these songs were not upbeat enough to what we wanted and some of the music was very outdated. We eventually found the artist Jessica Drake whose sample music we really liked. After hearing her song, we went to her own website which we found her album and chose the song that we wanted from it.

Our chosen artist is Jessica Drake and the song is 'You You You'

Music Video on Prezi

Our Plan...

In order to stay on schedule throughout our project, we have devised a plan which shows the order we need to complete tasks in. Hopefully, this will allow us to be on target at all times when making our music video...




Research

- Initial ideas of what kind of artist(s) and song to use. (mind map)

- Audience Research (questionnaire, graphs, analysis, spoken interviews)

- Choose an artist and a song, and show why we came to the descision (Prezi)

- More exsisting video research, more specific (written) 

- Analyse song feed back (short clip on the mac of our discussion)

- Requesting email permission to use the song (print out of the email chain) 

Planning

- Casting (asking target audience, positives and negaives, audition)

- Decide if we want a narrative or a performance

- Decide on a setting/ settings

- Find the locations and check feasability of them (positives and negatives with pictures)

- Discuss ideas (group mic)

- Story board ideas (hand drawn storyboard)
- Audience feedback on storyboard, change if necessary (filmed interview)

- Photo storyboard and analyse (imovie with pauses)

- Anamatic storyboard (video clip)

- Outfit, makeup and hair ideas and experiments (pictures and videos)

- Camera Experiments and Shots (paused iMovie)

- Health and Safety (Prezi and videos/ group discussions