Location Scouting For Our Music Video

Below are pictures we took at Waxham/Winnterton On Sea for our music video setting.

This close up first picture shows the sucluded setting in between all the marshes and grass and the church tower in the distance shows how far away they are from civilisation. And how they don't want to be interrupted.

The purpose of this close up, overhead shot could be in our video, in the way that the beach fire could be in the middle and everyone can be sitting around it, but it is surrounded by grass and plants to show they are cut off from the rest of the beach/world.


This long distance shot would be good for the two lovers to be walking hand in hand in the distance, and it connotates how they are alone on the beach with only the horizon in view which connotes the empitness and still setting of the beach and that no one else matters at that point in time and that they have distanced themselves away from the group to get closer to each other. Also it shows they have moved away from the group to show that they want to be alone and closer to each other in private.

This long song shows the length of the beach, and how much space they have just between a small group of them. This shot would be good against the sunset to connotate the relaxed calming atmosphere of the sandy dunes in the wind.

This shot would be good for the 2 lovers to walk past, or away from towards the sea as it is looks as if you as the audience cannot be seen by the lovers and it gives the impression that what is happening between them is private as they are trying to be out of your view.

This shot gives the connotation of the friends being alone in the wilderness that is the beach. With the sun setting on the beach in this shot, and the cast behind the grass would give the right atmosphere and feel we are wanting to create for our music video.

Music And Media Investigation Proposal.

Topic: "How are females represented in RnB/Pop videos such as Girls Aloud/Beyonce compared to genres such as Rock/Heavy Metal and bands such as Avenged Sevenfold, Paramore and Good Charlotte".

Reason for choosing this topic: I am interested in finding out opinions of peers of different ages, to see if age comes into the type of reaction i get from a music video in these genres. I also am interested in researching into the genres and artists/bands videos to see if the stereotype of these genres is true in all of their music videos or if it is just true in some. It would also be interesting to analyse and debate why women are represented the same or differently in different genres. I also picked just a few bands and only 2 genres of music to compare as otherwise it would be to broad of an area, but i tried to pick two completely different genres that are likely to be listened to by different people. If there was more time, i would have looked at these genres maybe 15-20 years ago and see if they are represented in the same way as today or whether this has developed over time - this may be because it has become more acceptable for women to be seen as sex object and that music videos are more popular now because of increasing use of technology.

What do you expect to find out: A general idea as to why women are represented in different ways in different genres and by different bands and if age/gender and social class come into how people react to the videos. Such as men may find women in a pop video attractive, but women may find this degrading. And also what the public who consume these music videos think of the videos and why, i also expect to have some varied opinions according to age, gender, and what genre they themselves favour.

How will it help develop understanding for the Year 13 coursework: Hopefully this piece of research will help me influence how my group and I portray the role of a woman in our music video, and how we would like an album cover to look for our song, depending on its genre. It will also help to get opinions of others to understand what they would like to see in our video. Although this does not focus on the acoustic genre - which our song is. I chose this because we still have to represent any women in our video in a way in which a varied audience will appreciate and I wanted to focus on opposing genres with lots of bands within them, where as acoustic is a smaller genre - although I know the research I find will still help my year 13 coursework.

How will you express your findings: In an essay/booklet style with some graphs for my results.

What research will you carry out: Watching music videos made for the bands in different genres, and compare myself, write my own views and opinions and why I think they are represented in this way. Then ask a variety of people their opinions in the form on a questionnaire on which ones show women in a better light, and why they think this, and then complete a way of presenting their data and opinions.

Looking at the album and single covers of the bands and compare for example an album cover of girls aloud to an album cover of avenged sevenfold and again write my own opinion and the opinion of my peers.

Meeting and Shooting Timetable.

Here are the dates we met up and discussed the first stages of making our music video:


Tuesday 8th September - Discussion about song choice and initial ideas for what we think should go into a music video.


Wednesday 9th September - Final choice of music video and discussions about about the plot and what/who we could use in our video.


Thursday 10th September - We started planning, and filling out idea sheets, deciding when we should start filming, finalising our narrative, thinking about who to cast in our video, and where to shoot our video.


Saturday 12th September - Planning was continued, but was more focussed on started storyboards and what props/costumes we would need.


Monday 14th September - Location scouting in Waxham and Winterton on Sea. Pictures and shots taken of the beach and dunes we may use in our video.

Narrative/Plot of our music video

Once we had interperated the meaning of the lyrics to the song, we made our first draft for the plow. Below is a simple draft of the plot, next to the lyrics to show how the lyrics coinside with the plot.

Meaning of our lyrics

To help us decided on the narrative and plot of our music video, we decided it would be a good idea to try and interperate the meaning of the lyrics. We asked George Brook, the artist, what he was thinking about when he wrote the song and what the words meant.
We also thought about what we thought the lyrics meant to us, and what we thought he could have been thinking whilst writing the song.

We thought the use of the word 'light' would symbolise how who he is singing about was lighting up his life, that that there was a spark of light between them. The lyrics 'I see the way that you do' and 'I see the light that you do' would seem to symbolise that they are thinking the same thing and have many things in common, and are both falling for each other and feel the same way about each other.

Although the contrasting lyrics of 'cause its right, that this light won't shine, i dont know, you don't know, no one knows why' seems to say that their relationship cannot work, but there is no real explanation as to why, and they cannot seem to work out why it cannot work.

Treatment For Your Music Video

Name of artist: George Brook
Title of track: Time for this light to shine

Outline of ideas:
filmed on the coast/beach
Sun setting/early evening
Campfire
Group of friends including 2 lovers

What resouces will you need?:
8 actors
firewood
acousitc guitar

Justification of ideas in relation to genre and artist:
Chilled out acoustic sound of the guitar compliments the location of the beach.
The lyrics of the song go well with the plot of 2 lovers.
Name of song goes well with 'fire' idea.

Unconventional Music Video.

The music video below is unconventional as it goes against the norms of a music video, Red Hot Chili Peppers are an established band - therefore have the chance to do something different with their videos, and not have themselves appear so much, but animated characters of themselves.

This video is likably different as it keeps your attention throughout by changing characters and locations with the video being like a video game, and the members of the band have to compete and battle to beat what they come across in lots of action.

I think this video is appealing to both genders but is more appealing to the males because it relates to a video game which is typically seen as a male past time.

The mise en scene for this video is appealing as it is every changing and is colourful in its appearance, and there is no other music video like this that i have seen or tried to find. This proves the video is unconventional and different as it is original.

I think the band and label decided this would be good for the band as it appeals to its audience, it does not need to have the band as the starring role as they are established and well known and have built up a huge fan base.

New Blog.

This is my new Year 13 A2 media blog.