Questionnaire Answers

We showed the pitch video so a group of 30 willing volunteers over facebook, all of these fitted between the target audience boundaries that we had already set out. We carried out the answering process over a website named 'snappoll' this allowed everyone to vote over the internet which was much easier and quicker than any other way that I could have done it. Bellow is what was found.

Song Permission (again)

I'll be the first to address the fact that gaining permission from our artist through twitter may not be the most 'conventional' method of requesting royalties to someones artwork out there. But it worked. I sent a message over the popular social networking site 'twitter' to Ed Sheeran (our artist) and quickly received back a message in response which clearly showed enthusiasm in allowing us to make a music video from his song 'one night'. This will be our last song change as we're scheduled to begin filming next week. However we already have a storyboard and shooting schedule which will be posted in the next couple of days when I am able to gain access to a scanner.. :)

Also I didn't realise when naming my twitter account that it would come into my media work, if I had I would have named it something with a bit more dignity.

It is important to gain permission to use someone's work before you use it as without such, it would be stealing something that belongs to them. By gaining permission we are allowed access to the song that you have asked for and without this it would be illegal to use their property for any commercial use.

Pitch

Bellow is the video of our pitch, it shows what we intend to do with our music video, we carried out a questionnaire to see what people thought of our ideas, the results will be in a following blog post

Storyboard

Changes

We have decided that our ideas for our music video are a bit generic, the song doesn't allow us to achieve our full potential that we know that we are capable of doing. We have now decided to change our location from my house/garden to somewhere that is not as common. My idea is to film an actor miming the words whilst in the woods where we can film them, this could be in the evening with a light pointing up at them. Also still using a narrative storyline to cut between the shots of the song being sung. We plan on making various changes throughout the process which I will keep posted on this blog.

Draft Storyboard

More location shots

This is a video carrying on from the location shots previously posted with annotations of what I intend to do with each of the locations.

Location Shots

Front of the house

The opening follows behind the main character not showing their face which in itself follows Goodwin's notion of looking. There is also a cut to the artist begining to sing with their star image motif on the microphone, the slow opening taken in one shot matches the music as it has a very slow, calm opening to the song. The camera then pans round the character as he knocks on the door and is now facing the opposite direction, the door then opens as a girl jumps out and hugs the boy. This part may be difficult to do as there may not be enough room to stand a good distance from the two after the door is knocked, if this is the case we could not go round the boy and just stay next to him in the begining.

Inside house: Kitchin, Stairs, Bedroom etc.

After close ups of drinks being poured etc. The boy then walks up the stairs as the camera tilts upwards, this may be difficult as the lighting leading up the stairs in our location may not be good enough, we could overcome this by using artificial lighting.

Garden

Shots in the garden and on the patio (next photo also) of the characters when they were younger, weather may be a problem in this however we will record it all in one go so that continuity is all the same.

Living Room

The next shot is of them talking in the living room and the boy putting the video into the player, this then moves into the family videos in the room that they are in during different times of the year Christmas, Halloween, New Years etc. Then behind the two of them as they face the television. These shots may be hard due to the fact that it might be difficult to show that time has passed since this was filmed and that these two children are infact the characters that have been in the music video so far.

My song

Annotated Lyrics

As piano plays person walks into recording studio and begins to sing.

My strings are broken and my heart is out of tune
Scene 1, 2 and 3

I wanted quiet but all I see is you
I don’t know anything

Cuts back to person singing

I stumbled forward and you let me walk away
Scene 4, 5, 6 and 7

We both know I’ll be running back to you someday
I don’t know anything

Singer

The earth is spinning but my feet are standing still
Scene 8, 9, 10 and 11

And the wind is biting but I’m fighting off the chill
I don’t know anything

Singer

So let’s pretend for just one minute
The world, the world, the world, the world
The world is mine but you’re not there

Scene 12, 13, 14 and 15

Singer

They say time’s a healer but my watch can’t tell the time
The left hand’s stuck six months ago and I can’t find the right
I don’t know anything

Scene 16, 17 and 18

The pen is stronger than any sharpened sword
But everything I write to you makes me feel like a fool
I don’t know anything

I feel like I can do anything
Why don’t you understand

Scene 19

Why don’t you see what I could be

Singer

Why can’t you see
I’d trade in the world for you.

Scene 20