Budget

We have a budget for our music video which doesn't effect us greatly in how good the music video turns out but does have some restrictions. We have a camera already that we own within our group from one of our group members and the tripod that we would us for some of the shots is lent to us by the school that we can borrow over a period of time in order for us to get the filming in that we need to make our music video. The location that we want to film our project is in walking/cycling distance and this is how we are going to travel to the locations a majority of the time. The one cost that is going to be needed is a train ticket each as one of our shots is on a train and in the station. As this is a cost to us individual, we will then make a day of it and try and find more locations once at our destination from the train to film another scene. This will work out as our music video is about our main character travelling around and meeting people so every new place is a potential new shot.

Our Facebook page

Facebook is a social networking site that has over 1.15 billion users across all ages groups. This is a free site to make pages and profiles. These facts make Facebook the best social networking site to use to create a page for our music video to make people aware of what we are doing in the production stage and the final piece at the end. The main target audience of this site is women which is our audience preference for our music video, making it a perfect site to post on to target directly to the right people we are aiming to attract to watch our project of The Shape Of The Earth - Alone In This music video.




We created the page with the title of the song music video so that people knew straight away what the page was and what it was about. People could also search this way if they was a fan of the group or the song so they have an interest into how we are making this music video with this song. We also made a post to let the likers of the page know what the page was going to consist of and what we was going to be posting onto it in the near future all the way through the production up until the final product, being our music video. We are going to be putting our rough cuts, our ideas and pictures of the production and the storyboard so that everyone that looks at the page is updated and helps us to keep up with what we have done in the same way our blog does.

We have 16 likes on our page from friends and family which shows them all our page posts on their timeline and our pictures and videos that we post so they are always updated and in the know.  This page on Facebook has allowed us to put our music video and our research into the public and make our target audience aware to increase final video views and attention.

Our song choice

The Shape Of The Earth - Alone in this

Synopsis plan of our music video

The main character in our music video is going to have a back story of her being brought up in a bad home with a violent upbringing with her family of which she lives with. The music video will start with shouting and arguing whilst she is packing her bags to leave. This house is going to be full of very basic furniture and have a dark, grotty atmosphere and feel. This creates the look to the audience that the family is poor and has no care in their appearance or life in general. The song begins to start when the door slams and she leaves the house with her belongings and goes travelling alone to find friends and escape her family. We will be showing scenes of her on the train, walking through busy towns and quiet field, trying to find peace away from home. Along the way she meets people that shows her glimpses of happiness for them few minutes that she's with them. The music video all in all, suggesting to the audience that no matter where she goes and who she meets she will always be alone.

Location ideas

As in our video, it involves us travelling around so we will need may locations to get the effect we are aiming for. We are looking for places that are close to us that will look as if we are filming in more than one location and parts of the UK so that it creates the illusion to the audience that the main character is travelling around. These are the locations that we want to have in our music video;

• House
• Train station
• On the train
• Estate
• Crowded town
• Long roads

This is one of the ideas that we had for our music video as we wanted it to have that dark, misty feel and have it being filmed at different times of the day to creates the illusion that the video is over a long space of time. The train station is also one of the scenes that we want the main character to be seen in during the music video. We want her to be facing the side whilst the train goes by in order to show that time has past and she is waiting for her train. An empty looking train station also helps to show that it is very late and shows the audience that she has no where to go which helps to portray that she is travelling alone with nothing but the clothes in her hand luggage bag.

This is also another scene idea that we had in mind. This helps to show that the weather is changing over several days which again, helps the audience to realise that she is travelling for a long period of time. The dark effect that we are aiming for is just how this image shows. We want some shots of the main character walking through open spaces with a lonely road like this picture suggests. Having the rain drops on the camera lens like this, is creating the handheld camera feel that we are trying to make during her travelling sequence of the music video.



 

Time and weather thought

We have decided that we are going to film our music video over different days and at different times of the day so that we can make the illusion to the audience that its going over a long period of time. This is why the weather changing over days and shots are going to look good and add to the effect that we are aiming to create with the long time period setting.

Equipment list

There are some technical equipment that we will need to use in order for this music video to work efficiently and be how we want it be. This will be things such as;

• Tripods
• Our digital camera
• Recording studio and a computer programme called 'Audacity'
• Computer/ computer programmes (Adobe Premiere Pro)
• Mobile phone

Other equipment that we are going to need is a ladder so that we can do the birds-eye shot that we want in the beginning of our music video will look good and be steady when we take the shot.