Equipment Information (Charlotte)

For our music video, we will be using the following equipment:

Nikon Camera
We will be filming the majority of our video with a Nikon camera that we will be borrowing from a friend. It will help us record our footage in high quality and will allow us to get shots that look professional.

Tripod
We will be steadying our camera on a tripod to make sure that our shots are not shaky and can be placed exactly where we want them to be. 

Smart Phones
We will be filming some of our footage on our smartphones to get a more familiar and natural effect.

Apple Mac
We will be using an Apple Mac computer to edit our footage and add any special effects

This will help us when it comes to making our own music video because it shows us the equipment we are going to use. The equipment we are going to use will help us achieve everything we want in the music video because we will be able to film a variety of shots with and without a tripod. The equipment will allow us to achieve everything we want in the music video because with this equipment it will enable us to get all of the shots we have planned to do and the images that we need for our digipak and magazine advert

Casting/Auditioning Information (Charlotte + Harry)

In our music video, we need to cast 3 main characters as well as background characters to populate the shots and make them look better. In order to cast the 3 main characters, we made a list of requirements for each character and then made a list of people that would meet the requirements, approaching each person to see if they could do it and then selecting the best choice.

Character 1: Narrative_Boy
Requirements: This character needs to be a male teenager that dresses in a typical teenage style, such as denim jeans and baggy clothing. He has to be quite young looking, and ideally be quite tall, but this is low priority. 

Potential casting choices:
-Michael Binns
-Callum Bond
-Samuel Wade

Chosen casting choice: Michael Binns

Character 2: Narrative_Girl
Requirements: This character needs to be a teenage girl that dresses in a typical teenage style, and ideally is shorter than the male narrative character.

Potential casting choices:
-Charlotte Briggs
-Audrey Briggs
-Emily Smith

Chosen casting choice: Charlotte Briggs

Character 3: Performance_Boy
Requirements: This character needs to be a teenage boy that dresses in a similar style to the artist(s) in Owl City (AKA a blend of the hipster and mainstream styles). They ideally need to be quite tall.

Potential casting choices:
-Michael Binns
-Harry Smith
-Samuel Wade

Chosen casting choice: Michael Binns

Draft Shotlist (Harry)

Draft Shotlist

- Panning shot

- Close up shot

- Medium Shot

- Extreme Close up Shot

- Long Shot

-Tracking Shot

Shot Number	Shot Type	Length
1	Panning	4 seconds
2	Close up	3 seconds
3	Medium	2.5 seconds
4	Extreme close up	1 second
5	Long	3.5 seconds
6	Tracking	4 seconds

When we are filming in the recording studio there will be multiple cameras set up to provide a variety of different camera angles for this part of the music video

Lighting Notes (Samuel)

When we film in the recording studio, the lighting we will use is high key lighting because high key lighting denotes happiness, excitement and elation and all of these emotions feature in the music video and the song is upbeat and the high key lighting in our music video will reflect this. There will also be low key lighting in our music video to reflect deeper emotions that are shown in the video.

For most of our music video, we will be utilising natural lighting so that we can effectively portray the narrative which is based around a boy and a girl having a "good time", this will consist mainly of the two characters playing together in a local park. We will be using high key lighting when we go to film the lip syncing part of the video in the recording studio, this will help to make it easier to see the actors' faces in the music video.

Ideas For Magazine Advert (Harry)

Harry

Charlotte

Samuel

These are our ideas for our magazine advert, Two of us have gone with the ideas of having the magazine advert reflect the hit song of the album which is "Good Time" where as the other person has gone with the artist as a form of exposing the artist and the bands songs at the same time. The ideas we will take from these are the record label, "featuring hit single" and the picture of the artist as this is most doable considering it will be very hard to take a picture like the other two. We will combine all of the magazine adverts by using features fromall of them such as the logos used and the fonts used.

Ideas for Digipak (Harry)

Harry

Charlotte

Samuel

Here are the digipaks our group created, the ideas we will take from this is certainly having the artist feature in the digpak as well as displaying all of the right songs and having big text to make the album name and artist stand out. When we came to our final decision we decided to incorporate the best bits from all of our digipaks so we used picture similar to Charlotte's digipak to show them having a good time and we chose to have the artist on the cover as shown in my digpak (Harry) and we chose the layout of Samuel's digipak as we thought this would be the best combination.

Animatic Storyboard (Samuel)

This is animatic storyboard which is where you film your storyboard with the correct timings and play music over the top of it, to simulate the music video. We have done this to show how our film could like and give an idea of what could be going on in the music video. This will also help us when it comes to the timing of our video because we will be able to use these timings as a rough plan for when we film and edit which would help us a lot in these two stages.

Location Scouting (Charlotte)

Locations:

-Setting 1
Charlotte's House
Rooms used: Attic bedroom, living room, bathroom maybe.







-Setting 2:
Samuel's house
Rooms used: Bedroom, stairway.





-Inside of a car (Maybe)
Charlotte's mothers car.

-Setting 3
Recording studio at CVHS






These locations will help with our song as they will be showing how the actors are having a "good time". Location Scouting will help with our music video because we will know where to go which will make filming on the day much easier because we know where we're going.

We have chosen these locations because it will allow us to portray our two characters having a "good time", for example, in the recording studio, the two actors will be singing to the song thus having a "good time". The two house locations have been chosen primarily because it will help portray the two friends getting ready to go out and have a "good time".

Props Information (Charlotte)

In our music video, we will be using the following props;

Firefly jar
We will be using a fake firefly jar prop to add lighting to the scene and give it a free, cheerful atmosphere.

Fairy Lights
We will be using fairy lights in some scenes to not only add lighting, but to show that a scene is cheerful due to fairy lights being associated with cheerful, bright places.

Phone
Both of the characters in the narrative will have a phone that will show them communicating with other people and help move the narrative along.

Record Player
Our music video will have a record player in it to show where some of the diagetic sound is coming from. It will not actually play music as we will be editing the music in, but it will make the scene look more realistic.

Football

In our music video we will use a football to show one of the many ways are actors are having a "good time" in the music video

This will help us when we're making our music video as we will know exactly what we need to get to make sure the scene runs smoothly.

Costume information (Samuel)

For our music video, we need to identify specific costumes for our actors / actresses that will suit and complement the video and lyrics.

All of our actors will be wearing teenage-style clothing, this will include a t-shirt, jeans and some trainers. Our main character will be wearing a leather jacket along with a plain t-shirt, jeans and trainers. The reason for this choice of costume is that we want to relate our video to our target audience which is teenagers and if the artist in the video is wearing clothing that is similar to what teenagers wear, they will be able to relate to the video and it will seem similar to their own style of clothing.

On the left is how we would visualise our main artist to be wearing a leather jacket. We think that a leather jacket will portray our main artist in the way that we're looking for because it will make them look like an authentic music artist.

Another reason for which we have decided to have our artist wear a leather jacket for our music video is that it is a durable because if you do loads of activities having a "good time", the jacket will not be liable to being ripped because leather is a tough material, as opposed to a fleece or hoodie which is easily rippable.

Filming Schedule (Samuel + Harry)

Filming Schedule

Filming dates – October 2017

Monday 16^th After school Recording studio – booked

Monday 23^rd – 12:00 – 16:00

Tuesday 24^th – 12:00 – 16:00

Wednesday 25^th – 12:00 – 16:00

Filming Dates – November 2017

Wednesday 8th After school Recording Studio
Saturday 11th – 12:00 – 16:00

Location: Houses of Samuel (House 1) and Charlotte (House 2) in Great Leighs and recording studio in Eastman building in CVHS and Great Leighs Park.

This is a filming schedule, its where you plan what days you can film so it makes it easier to plan other events to do with the music video as well. This will help us when it comes to making our own music video because it gives us a plan of when we can do filming so we can then have time to edit the music video during the week.

Draft Storyboard (Harry and Charlotte)

This is our draft storyboard, this will help us when it comes to making our own music video because it gives us an overall plan of what we need to do for each part of the song.

Rough plan for music video (Harry)

This is our rough plan for our music video, this is a very brief plan of what would happen in the music video, with the music video being split into three stages, the timings on the sheet are for how long each set of lines is, which will help us when it comes to editing as we will know the timings so we can decide where footage should be going. This will help us when it comes to making our own music video as it gives us a basic plan of what to do if we are stuck.

Group Research into Music Videos by Our Chosen Artist (Group)

Music videos by Owl City tend to be upbeat because of the song and in one of the videos which is "Good Time" this features a whole lot of friends driving to a beach house and having a big party at this venue which is upbeat. Although the lyrics to "Fireflies" are about his insomnia, the song still manages to sound upbeat when listening to it especially when you watch the video which features the artist Adam Young playing a piano while various toys are coming alive around him. However Owl City aka Adam Young has also done a song called "Vanilla Twilight" which is completely different to his other songs as he could be singing about the death of his wife or girlfriend because the song starts with "The stars lean down to kiss you" showing that she is being taken away.

One of Owl City's most common features in all of their music videos is that they all feature the artist themselves as Adam Young features in all of the music videos. In Owl City music videos, Adam Young is always shown playing himself in them and never plays any other character than himself.

Group Research into Chosen Artist (Group)

Our chosen artist is Owl City who is also known as Adam Young. In 2007 while he was living at his parents home in Owatonna, Minnesota. He started making music in his parents basement with a computer and a few instruments because he was plagued with his insomnia and his irregular sleeping patterns, this led to him creating songs that related to the genre electropop and after he had made a song he would then upload the song to MySpace for everyone on their to listen to. This is where he gained a lot of attention because lots of people were enjoying his songs. One song in particular "Hello Seattle" led to Owl City/Adam Young getting his first record contract with Universal Republic Records in 2008 because of his MySpace song.



He has released five albums including Ocean Eyes which went platinum with RIAA and ARIA as well as going gold with BPI and MC. One of the singles on that album, "Fireflies" went to number one in the UK singles chart and it also went number one in the US Billboard top 100. Having knowledge of the artist will help us when it comes to creating our music video because we will know how the artist likes to portray himself and others in his music videos.