Comparing blogs

After looking at the 'longroadmusicvideo' blogs, I have made a few comparisons from their blogs to mine.

What Went Well (Similar to mine) :

• Throughout their blogs they used a lot of description on the analyses of their genre using evidence to back it up.
• They have also placed a lot of different music videos which have been embedded from YouTube.

Even Better If (Improvements of mine) :

• They also included the location information that they used, which I could use to improve my blog and describing the actual location I am using.
• They have also taken screen shots of different website and advertising such as Myspace for the artist to show the artist image. This could help to improve my blog to get more screen shots.

However an improvement of their blogs was that throughout many of their blogs I found that they have too much text without any visual work, whereas my blog has at least one visual image in each blog post.

Shooting Schedule

For ever scene we film it would be better for us if we filmed each location with Siani lip syncing the how song in which we can use the different shots if we need to include more cuts within the video.

Fonts

Whilst looking at fonts Me and Siani have found this font have decided this font would most probably be used on our Cd Digi-pack and the advertising fonts.

However after having another look at the artist representation and different font, we have discussed that this wasn't really what we was looking for and decided we wanted more feminine but with an edge which is used in calligraphy writing.

Image Annotation

Siani has been chosen to be the artist because by looking at the artist of our song 'Blinding' by Florence in the Machine, and comparing her to Kate Bush and Tori Amos they all have a similar look such as the red hair.
However, for our artist I think we will change the artist to not being dull coloured but being quite plain with a bright accessories such as bright coloured eye lashes or mask.

Talent Release Form

A talent release form is used for a producer to get permission from their performers and if whilst filming someone is filmed within the shot and you decide to use the footage then you would need to get permission from the public to say that they give us permission to use the footage with them in it.

Storyboards

Lyric annotations

Concept

The concept of our music video is influenced by the fact that both Siani and I are both really camera shy, so we took this at our advantage and decided to use the concept of the music video through using masks and low key lighting to show the artist in shadows.

This can be shown in the music video for Look Blue Go purple - Circumspect Penelope, in which this girl band are performing in masks.

This video uses a lot of different shots this is mainly made up of close ups and mid shots of the artists with their masks, however the use of lighting in the video helps to show produce a shadow behind the artist.

Roles

Within our group there is only Siani and I, for our music video Siani as the artist, as she has the most alike image to the artists influenced such as Florence, Kate Bush and Tori Amos. We will both be sharing the roles equally with Siani being the artist and I will help with costume and filming.

Song Details

The song Siani and I have decided to use is 'Blinding' by Florence in the Machine. We decided to use this because it mentions the character of snow white and the image of tortured, distorted pale women and the song style is like being in a twisted dream state.