Ideas.

We are still deciding as a group what to do for our music video, while we have a few ideas we still need to work out what elements to include because we have a few such as toy cars, a young girl and an young boy, color powder, glow in the dark paint, and throwing a boyfriend characters clothes out of a window. Because we have so many ideas I thought it might be helpful to put together the song and one of the ideas to see if it fits the song and see also how other people who have used the girlfriend throws out boys clothes did it and how we might. For this I used clips from the song Honestly. Obviously this is a very rough and short edit, however, i think it will be useful and is some inspiration for when we come to story-boarding.

Lyric Analysis

Lip Sync task.

We decided to use the song Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus as we both knew the lyrics well. This wasn't so much of a creative task more practice based, however there were certain shots that needed to be included like close ups and long shots. Although we filmed long shots we didn't include any of them in the video, this is partly because we also had to include both of us in the video and we had difficulty recording the right parts of the song we needed, which means that in order for it to flow we had to cut some of the bits out. To make sure that this doesn't happen in the final project, we will film more footage, and also I think it that we should film all the song in each scene, so that there aren't these kind of issues in editing.The lip syncing of the video isn't perfect throughout, which obviously have to be smoothed out in our final, to make sure we can do this we will keep a note of which track we use to film with so that when we put it in editing its seamless. Another thing we will be sure to do is make sure the formatting on the camera is correct as we had some issues where the frame size is different than we originally shot it, for example some of the top of our heads are cut of.
This practice was really useful and I think some things worked well, the performance and lighting both being such things. The setting we chose also worked well with the song.

Films, videos, photos- real media texts that have influenced us

The first image is a mood board I created to show some of the things that are not music videos that have inspired me, such as the neon fashion trend of summer, the Holi Festivals, Paint Parties, and the photographer Lara Jade.

The second is a advert made by Persil, this has been on TV alot recently and shows a young girl in a pale white dress being hit by a number of staining foods. I really love how simple this is, the nature with the food. This has definatley been a huge inspiration for some of my ideas for the music video.

Genre Research: Pop