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Ideas on what we need to do, in order to start creating our music vieeo. Sorry the writing isn't that clear!!!

Music Inspiration...

I found Nickelback's "Photograph" music video. I really like this video because the video tells a story. The lyrics are shown in the story. We want our lyrics to be shown through our music video. I also like the use of different settings that are used in this video, and the amount of different shots that are used keep the audience gripped and it makes it more exciting for an audience watching the video having lots of different shots.

Theorists we have decided our music video will follow...

Our music video will follow Roland Barthes narrative theory. Our music video will have a closed narrative theory as it will have one single story line that will unravel through the song. It is also going to be a linear narrative as there will no flash backs within our Music video. We will also apply “The Semantic Code” within our music video because we want to have symbols that we will have connotations and denotations so that our audience will be gripped to our music video because they can have their own interpretations from our video. This will also create a conncection with the audience as we are involving them in our music video.

CD cover idea...

As we have both been looking at Greendays video "Wake me up when september ends" I decided to have a look at their album cover. I like quite a lot about the cover. I like the simple cover scheme. The 3 colours stand out and it instantly draws you in. The picture is has no band members on the cover and for our CD cover we want to be able to have a abstract picture because we think this will attract our audience more. However there are some things that i don't like about the picture. I think the picture shows blood and we don't want violence on our CD cover but the colour scheme we may use.

Our Pitch Review...

The pitch that we did today didn't go as well as i'd exepcted. After a long hard think about it, I now know exactly what i want to achieve for our music video. We have specified our genre of music and it's now soft rock, our audience will get more of an idea of what our music actually sounds like. We have then had to think about our target audience and whether this will appeal to our target audience. We didn't think it did so we have now changed our target audience to 25-34 as we feel that they will enjoy our music more.

Music Video research

I have found this Video of Celine Dion "My heart will go on". Her music is classified as soft rock. I chose this song because the song tells a story and the story is shown through the music video. However in this music video the artist is shown and in our music video we want to make it a little different because we just want to show our story through the music video because we want our audience to be completely gripped to our story.

Genre of our music video changed...

I feel that the genre of music video that is rock wasn't specific enough. So we want to make it clear that the genre of our music video is Rock but our music video is more softer rock. So we are going to classify the genre of our music video as "Soft Rock". Soft rock is a style of music which uses techniques of rock and roll and is also referred to as Mellow rock, Light rock or Easy rock. Soft rock usually contains elements of Folk Rock and singer-songwriter pop to make a softer sound and an easy listen. We feel that our music isn't heavy rock and it is softer rock. Having classified our genre we have know changed our target audience as we feel that are target audience will appeal more to 25-34. We still feel that a younger audience will listen to this that's why we are still targeting younger people but we feel that our target audience we chose before was too young.

Target audience changed...

We have decided to change our target audience as we think 16-50 is too broad and we have know tightened our audience. We have know decided to change our target audience to 16-30 as we feel this is a smaller audience type to aim our music video at. We feel that our music is popular for the target audience that we have chosen. Our target audience will also be people that like the genre of "rock" in our age range which will be a lot of people as "rock" is mostly popular amongst the younger generation.

Watching "The Royal Tenembaums"

In class i watched "The Royal Tenembaums" and it gave me some inspirations for my music video. In this film there are a lot of hidden meaning and a lot of connotations in this video which makes it a lot more in interesting for an audience watching this film. The director was very clever in doing this and it gives the audience their chance of having their own interpretations. I don't want our music video to be complicated but i want to be able to create a connection with the audience by allowing the audience to come up with their own interpretations. Having different symbols within our video will allow the audience to see the different connotations and this will create a connection.

Some more inspiration..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bap-oZI-Grc

The reason why i like this video is because the video tells a story about the song, this is what we want to do with our music video. We want to show the story that is hidden in our song. Some songs are difficult to know what they are exactly about, we want our song to tell a story, however we want to have a lot of different meanings to our story so that the audience can come up with different interpretations so it makes it more interesting for the audience.

Some inspiration...

From 0.47 in this song i think would be a good shot for our music video as the lyrics in our song talk about the rain so we want a good shot in our song. "Standing out in the pouring rain".

More about our idea

We have decided that the audience of our music video is going to be people aged 16-50 and the style of music is going to be rock. We feel that this style would mostly appeal to this age group. We wanted to use a large target audience for one to challenge ourselves as we are going to have to appeal to a lot of people but also we thought that our music video would appeal to a wide target audience. We feel that this target group can realate to the song as they will understand the song and if we did the song aimed at younger people they may not fully understand the song.

Our idea

We have now decided to do a band video, webpage and Cd cover combination. We decided to go with this idea as we have friends that live near by us that have formed a band and we think that it would be good to make a music video as it would both show our creative side. We will film loads of different shots. We have both got an interest in music and i write songs and i am really passionate about writing. It will allow us to explore the different aspects of the media industry with creating a website for the band as well as a CD cover and a Music video. This idea will give us a greater motivation into making the video as music is one of our interests and we listen to music everyday. First of all we are going to be researching on Youtube and finding examples of Music videos similar to the genre of music that are music video is going to be about and we will see the different shots that are used in different music videos, so we can get the inspiration and can adapt these shots and see what works and what doesn't work.