Monday 29 October 2012

Ideas...

In the double lesson before we broke up for the half term many things were discussed towards our music video. Also myself, Megan and Charlotte have an added group member Tolga he is now part of our group which we are all very pleased with due to his skilled camera work, and his useful ideas.

We printed out the lyrics of the song 'Ready To Go' and stuck them on a big piece of paper where we could write around them, we wanted to do this so we can look at each verse and have a vision as a group how we want the video to look for that part of the song.

Here are the song lyrics...

You're weird, in tears, too near and too far away,
He said, saw red, went home stayed in bed all day,
Your t'shirt, dish dirt,
Always love the one you hurt

It's a crack, I'm back yeah standing
On the rooftops shouting out,
Baby I'm ready to go
I'm back and ready to go
From the rooftops shout it out
It's a crack, I'm back yeah standing
On the rooftops having it
Baby I'm ready to go
I'm back and ready to go

From the rooftops shout it out, shout it out

You sleep, too deep, one week is another world
Big mouth, big mouth, drop out, drop out
You get what you deserve
You're stange, insane, one thing you can never change

It's a crack, I'm back yeah standing
On the rooftops shouting out,
Baby I'm ready to go
I'm back and ready to go
From the rooftops shout it out
It's a crack, I'm back yeah standing
On the rooftops having it
Baby I'm ready to go
I'm back and ready to go
From the rooftops shout it out, shout it out

Abused, confused, always love the one that
hurt ya hurt ya hurt ya

It's a crack, baby I'm ready to go
Baby I'm ready to go...
 
 
As i mentioned above myself and the group discussed ideas for our music video as well as locations and realistically thinking what we would be able to get our hands to film the video.
 
- The song has an intro which starts of soft then the electric guitar kicks in, we thought for this part of the song we could introduce ourselves as a band by us Dragonfly walking in slow motion. A location we are very confident in using in our music video is Greenwich, this has different areas which would suit nicely with the kind of music video we want to create.
 
- Throughout the video we had an idea of including clips of places in Greenwich such as the vintage shops, cafes, restauranst, park etc.
 
- We may add pictures to show 'behind the scene images'. We was thinking of using a picture editing tool, either instagram and cinegram.
 
-In the lesson as well as thinking of ideas we experimented with lighting which we could use to shoot in, whether we should keep it in normal lighting or mess around with the effects.
 
- Before videoing you need storyboards, but you need an idea first to draw the storyboards. A shot for the music video another idea we had was people would be chasing us (the band) whether it is paparazzi or groupies? Not yet decided. To hide from those who would be chasing us we would run into a vintage shop, preferably in Greenwich.
 
- Based from a line from the song 'on the rooftop shouting out' we want to aim to have a shot of us performing on a rooftop and this shot will be shown everytime these lyrics come up. Also being part of our performing shot which we want to include, based on it being filmed on a rooftop. There has been big discussion about  health and safety issues that would be  involved, we had an idea on doing it on the school roof but we need to ask someone high up in the school if this is okay.
 
- When filming a music video you have to think realistic about what you hope to achieve in your music video and what you can get your hands on to do this the way you planned it. An example of this being to get a drum kit on a rooftop or generally getting a drum kit for the music video. So yet again we had discussed to use a normal drum kit or an electric? Because we were basing it on vintage, retro is another idea we could use instead of vintage. As well an electric drum kit would add an 80s vibe and would make our music video retro/80s.
 
-Another performing idea was using my garden which would come across us documentry style footage of us recording the song in my garden. This is another one to think about.
 
As you can see we have thought about many things that we want to include in our music video, it is just the matter of making it work and getting the equitment we want also location is a big thing towards us finding out whether we can film there or not. More information will be posted on the blog to take you more to understanding our idea and making the finishing product.
 


Tuesday 23 October 2012

Logo ideas..

 This blog post you will be seeing some logo ideas we have been experimenting with and ideas we are pleased that with have came up with. Above is the name of our band 'DragonFly' due to being called this we have came up with an idea of including a dragonfly in the logo. As you can see we are using it as the letter 'Y', we have chose it there as we think the shape of the dragonfly suits and looks good there. Below are a couple more pictures of dragonflys that we are experimenting with the text and whether we should just use the outline of a dragonfly.



 
 

 
 
 



PITCH.

                      

Above is the pitch myself, Charlotte and Megan presented to our media class and teachers in our double lesson on Wednesday 17th, this post will let you look at our pitch and see what ideas we have came up with for our band DragonFly. We got filmed presenting our pitches, the video below is us doing that. We got feedback from our pitches which will be put on the blog. Me, Megan and Charlotte have discussed things from the feedback and came to realise some of our ideas weren't realstic based on location ideas.We re-listened to the song and came up with more ideas that we are pleased with and will hopefully start story boarding them.







Thursday 18 October 2012

Our song...Republica-Ready To Go.


Above is the music video of the song we have chosen which is Republica-Ready To Go, the genre of music is pop rock. We want our music video to look different, different that no one has done before. Towards Fragonfly being an all girl band we didn't want to be a typical girl group, we want to be a confident, soft rock girl band.




Bands To Look At!

 

Bands to Look At...

Paramore



Paramore are a four piece band with Hayley Williams as the lead singer, the reason me, Megan and Charlotte chose to look at this band is because of them having a female lead singer as we are an all girl band. Also because of her presence on stage as well as style, she is confident and out there which we want to take from to pur towards our video.


 
Warpaint
 
 
Another band that we have been looking at is Warpaint, the type of music they do is indie/soft rock. They are an all girl band which is another reason why we decided to look into them due to us being an all girl band we want to see what we can do differently to them to make us a new, fresh band (Dragonfly). Below is a link of one there songs 'Undertow', the to listen to it you need to click on the link names 'Warpaint-Unfertow'.
 
 

 
Warpaint-Undertow.



 

Tuesday 16 October 2012

Journal.

In today's lesson myself, Charlotte and Megan were adding more to our pitch which we are doing in powerpoint presentation. We will be presenting the pitch next double lesson on Wednesday 16/10/12, which after we have pitched will put on our blogs.

Mood Board...


The purpose of mine,Megan and Charlottes mood board is to give you a rough idea of what our music video will be like. What will be in it? Where the location is? Also what kind of look we want for our band Dragonfly. In this post i will include the mood board we made, which you will see includes many pictures, words and lyrics of the song we are doing. Undernead where i have wrote 'Mood Board', is the link to be able see pictures of our mood board on prezi.

 Mood Board.

Monday 15 October 2012

Response to Leanne...



My response to Leanne...i agree with everything that has been said and i don't have anything that needs to be discussed. All i know is that i need to be up to date, making sure i am doing blog posts weekly and be organised with my time and blog . I need to be more explanatory and detailed with all blog posts. I know what i need to do and its understandable that i should of done it at the time rather than later leaving myself to do it all at once. I need to SORT IT OUT!