Preparation

Before we start out music video, there is a few steps we need to take. First being the innicial idea and choice in song. The song we have chosen is Magic - B.O.B ft. Rivers Cuomo.

Image: Rivers Cuomo & B.O.B (Magic).

We chose this song as we feel it is very suitable for the upbeat idea we have. Our idea is to have a person waking up in the morning and making his way to an audition which he is the judge of. When he gets there, all different auditionees will sing the 1st verse of the song and when the chorus comes back, the man will walk out the audition through a door and go on to sing the chorus, ready for him to come back to the audition to watch more hopefulls sing the 2nd verse. for the final chorus the man will get annoyed at the lack of talent and sing the rest of the song himself. This idea goes well with the song as it is very upbeat and we can use a variety of shots and quick cuts.

After we seltected 'Magic', we had to create a shot by shot storyboard which will assist us and give us guidelines when filming. Storyboards are very important when filming as if you don't have them you may go off track and lose control of what you are filming.

Ideas

In a nut shell... We have been discussing ideas to do for our music video, and have came up with a few ideas. We have came up with a few ideas with a variety of songs:

B.O.B - Magic ft. Rivers Cuomo: We feel this song is suitable as it has a good beat and will allow us to use various types of shots in out video. We will all enjoy filming this video as it is the type of music we like which will give us motivation when filming. The idea that we have is to have one of us walking to an audition whilst singing and using a variety of shots, show the person entering the audition and setting him self up to be the judge, then various artists will do an audition singing this song to create irony within our filming.

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Can't Stop: This song has a great fast paced beat which will force us to make quick cuts which I feel will make the whole video better as fast paced cuts generally build up tension and make people want to see it more. We want to use the same idea as we believe it will be the best idea.

The Stranglers - Peaches: Peaches by The Stranglers is a slower song to the rest of our ideas, but we feel we could get a great effect from the song. There are not much lyrics to this song, although it has a great beat and goes very well with our idea.

The White Stripes - 7 Nation Army: The bass and guitar solo's in this song will create a good effect and allow us to make good and fun cuts in our video. We like this song as a group and feel it will go down well in terms of using it for a final piece.

Music Video Ideas

Me and my group have been doing a lot of research and looking all over the web to find the right track to use for our Music Video. YouTube has been a great source for us, and we have used it to our advantage. After a lot of debating, we decided that an Indie style song would be the best for us as we feel it will allow us to use a variety of shots and a quick paced video. Originally we wanted to do a Hip Hop style video but then realised that choosing music that we like is not necessarily the best idea.

Song Choice Possibilities:

·         All American Rejects - It Ends Tonight

·         Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Can’t Stop

·         Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent

·         The Kooks - Naïve

All of these songs have the style we would like and start off slow as we agreed. We want a song that has a slow start and gradually gets louder and faster; this is due to one of the ideas that we have come up with for the video; I suggested that we do an audition seen to start off slowly, with the artists being the judge watching different style auditions sing the chosen song, the when the song gets louder and faster, the artist gets fed up and sings the song himself. This is just one of the idea we have come up with.