Production Diary 4

Lip Syncing Practice, today we practiced on our lip syncing practice, with the Closer lyrics playing in the background making it easier when it comes to our shoot in London and In the forest in Brentwood we will know what we are saying and it helps with getting our timing with the song because timing is everything when it comes to lip syncing timing is everything if you fail to perfect the timing it will not work due to the fact that it will look like there is a problem with filming and it will make our music video look very bad

Reflection On The First Day Of Filming.

When we first went filming it was quite a big struggle as i did not go with my partner so i really did not know what the structure of our music video was going to be on and what parts she was filming and what parts she was not going to film till we meet up to go and film, we started of the day by taking a few pictures trying to get a cover for the music video production and to get a poster however that was not going great as the sun just kept interrupting with the main artists face so we decided to just start recording the opening scene with me and my friends walking down the hill, the first mistake we made was that we were filming with the phone portrait instead of landscape and we shot quite a few good scenes with it however it was just that in was portrait which is why when you see on our finished product the scene that was filmed with my friends had white all over the edges, but every mistake has a reason for it, this then meant the next time i went out to film i would know exactly what to do and what not to do as well.

Where Can I Find Music Videos

There are various sites you can find a music video or even upload your own music videos, finding music videos can go on various websites such as,

YouTube, YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for a original content creators and advertises, YouTube is part of Google  

Vevo Is another Website or App where you can find music videos On March 12, 2013 Vevo launched VevoTV, an advertising supported internet television channel running 24 hours a day, featuring blocks of music videos and specials. The channel is only available to viewers in North America and Germany, with Geographical IP address blocking being used to enforce the restriction

Production DIary 3

Today I went up to London Embankment to go start our filming and location shots, this was the first time i went up to Embankment and it was during the Christmas season so they were a lot of lights so the scene was properly set, however i could not film that day due to how it would contrast our music video so i could only record the location shots which we included in our final production                                                                                                  

C Biz- Money March

Location - There are two location this music video seems to be set in and that is an empty studio and another one in a expensive hotel, the empty studio seems to be all white and this is used to put emphasis on the designer clothes they are wearing, especially how most of them are wearing colourful clothing.

They are even highlighting the types of shoes they are wearing and how they are showing off because it is expensive.

Representation- There are 2 representations in the music video one for gender and another for ethnicity, the first one we see in the video is a bit of gender representation how women are portrayed in music video as the Star IMAGE is throwing money on her backside, also in the picture below you can see one of the men in the video wearing a ski mask which is just proving the stereotype of black people being robbers.

Star Image

Name - Jordy Murphy
Age - 19
Height - 6ft 3

Production Diary 3

In this week we looked at the video itself and we decided to make our star image a male and with a tall frame and someone quite young so he would appeal to our target audience age group and be easy for him to lip sync the lyrics to the female star image, and that is where the lip sync training began to happen with me and my partner and teacher, trying to help me understand the timing because timing seems to be the key element when lip syncing because any little slip ups it will be very noticeable and might ruin the whole music video

Production Diary 2

After we have discussed as a group and decided the type of video we will be doing, we both went to scout the location that we will be shooting our music video at, i chose the forest as it is a secluded location and it shows the distance from me and my partner and also i will film somewhere busy to show the contrast and how it has to match the lyrics also because if it does not the music video will not make sense whatsoever so this week we did a bit of location scouting

Production Diary

During the first week i was given the Music video syllabus by media teacher so we had to do a bit of research on Pop and how to make a productive music video so using this as a form of inspiration to do our own so we talked about what we wanted to do and how we picked our artist and made he`s profile then started talking about days we could go out and start filming and which location would suit the type of music video we wanted.

The Pitch

First Shot is with me and friends up in a Forest In Harold Hill, walking and Laughing then there is  another shot of me and my friends in the same location but walking normally and then I am in the house doing the lip syncing while drinking a bottle of vodka then me and georgia go up Brentwood that is when i get her number and we start talking and it is just showing how we fell in love immediately then we go back and walk back together