AS2 - Task Five

Final Outcome

After weeks of filming and editing I am glad to say here is my final piece of the music video and I am proud on what I have produced.

AS2 - Task Four

Costumes and Props

Character Name: Cieron
Costume: Smart dress code	Props: Sport equipment Car
Character Name: Emmanuel
Costume: Smart dress code	Props: Sports equipment

Proposal Prepared by Cieron, Stephen, Emmanuel

In this task we will be creating a music video, the song that we will be doing as part of this music video is a song by Austin Mahone, this song is called “say somethin” We will be recording mainly on the Robert Clack leisure centre and Robert Clack upper school and we will be getting in as many people as we can to help with recording

Risk Assessment

Group Members:     Stephen, Cieron, Emmanuel                                                                                Location:

Hazard	Person(s) at Risk	Likelihood of Hazard 1 – Extremely Unlikely 5 – Extremely Likely	Severity of Hazard Outcomes 1 – Very Low Risk 5 – Very High Risk	Risk Level (Likelihood + Severity) 2	Measures to Take to Manage Risk	Risk Managed? Y/N
Falling over	Camera man	2	1	3	Take slow, small steps to ensure they do not fall over	Y
Run over by a car	Recording crew	1	2	3	Keep a respectable distance from the car Make sure someone who drives is behind the wheel of the car	Y

Contacts

Emergency Service:    999
Robert Clack School:   020 8270 4222
Other Contacts:           


Production schedule

Programme title: Music Video- Say somethin (Ausin Mahone)
Writer: Austin Mahone
Name/role:

Cieron: Singer
Emmanuel: Actor
Stephen: Director/camera man

Location Visit Sheet Programme Title: Say somethin- Music video Client: Writer: Austin Mahone Producer: Stephen, Cieron, Emmanuel Director: Stephen Date:

Rough Sketch/Explanation of location and key points to note Robert Clack Upper school Access to location via: Gosfield road Name and number of location contact: Robert Clack Upper School- 020 8270 4200

Health and Safety Issues to note: ●      Slippery floor ●      People falling over ●      Been hit by a car

Potential Filming Problems : ●      Bad weather ●      Not been able to get actors/actresses ●      Locations unavailable ●      Actors/actresses ill

Additional Notes:  (map of area/weather forecast etc)

Production Budget
Item	Cost
Canon XA10 camera Manfronto monopod Velbon basic tripod Sandisk 16gb extreme pro SD card Costumes Travel expenses	£220 for 4 days £1 for 1 day £24 for 4 days £16 for 4 days £30 £10
	Total Production Budget: £301

Shot List
Scene	Shot Number	Description
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44	Mid shot of playing basketball Mid shot of girl walking past Close up of looking at girl go past Mid shot of friend pushing singer over Mid-long shot of girl walking away Close up of door opening Mid shot of playing game Mid-close up of singer singing to the camera Mid to close-Camera follows Mid- to close- singing, camera follows Mid shot- cut scene of playing a game Mid-long- sings to camera, camera follows Mid-long, still follow singer Long shot of singer leaving Mid to long of singer leaving gate Close up- singer bumps into girl Close up of singer smiling Close up of girl smiling Mid shot, singing inside the singers car Long shot- still singing Over the shoulder shot of girl working Close up from behind- back to car Mid to long shot of singer driving Close-mid shot, sitting on the front of the car Mid shot- tries to open 6 form door Mid shot- singer opens door Mid shot- girls falls through door, singer catches her Close up- both smile at each other Mid shot- walks girl to class mid to close up- teacher calls up the singer in front of class Mid- starts to sing to the camera Mid to long- sings with friends Mid to close- still singing Close- still singing Mid- singer and girl alone Mid- mini party with gathering of friends Mid to close- singer and girl looks at each other Close- start singing Mid - everybody dancing Mid- singer having mini dance of Close- people enjoying party Long- dance off while singing long - still dancing Mid to long- singer and girl drives away

AS2 - Task Three

Analysing Our Song

As you can see in the video above it shows the song that we have chosen as a group, this song is called Say Somethin by Austin Mahone.
There are many reasons to why we have chosen this song, but our main reasons for choosing this song is that we knew it was going to work well when it came to getting some ideas together. As well as this we played the song to a few of our colleagues at once they listened to it once it was in their head for the rest of the day meaning that this is a catchy song.

When it comes to knowing about the song, it took us a while to get an idea on what the song is about. As a group we came to the decision that the songs was about the male singer and a girl that he likes, they are both shy to talk to one another throughout the music video so he made the song called 'Say Somethin' for them both. In the actual music video there is a storyline towards it all, it all starts off in the classroom with the singer with his friends having a great time in class, the bell goes and he leaves his classroom and walks down the corridor where he meets this girl he has been dreaming to meet, as the days go on he starts to get closer with her and as a happy ending and they become the dream couple. All of the verses are different but they have a similar meaning to them whilst the chorus is the same the whole way through.

AS2 - Task Two

Analysing Austin Mahone

In the image above shows the artist known as Austin Mahone who was born on April 4th 1996, as a singer you will need to see on who your audience will be. With Mahone it seems to be that his audience are teenagers from the age of 12 - 19 years of age. The good thing about this is that the artist is very young himself meaning that he will understand the younger generation on what types of songs they like and will listen to, when choosing this song it did not have many views on YouTube and till this day it has 63 million views which shows it is a very good song and he understands what the public want.

The genre of this music is pop and the subgenre would be music, the artist seems to look after himself by wearing named clothing brands and likes to keep up with the fashion. A reason for this could simply be his age seeing as he is still young.

AS2 - Task One

Choosing our song and getting permission from the artist

Before we started to film and plan out our music video, we had to gain permission in order to use the music seeing as it is not owned by us. If you were to use this music without any permission you can get into serious trouble and end up owing lots of money to the user. In our case we were granted permission and planned out everything as soon as we could. Any songs are most likely to be copyrighted, seeing as we gained access to use the song our copyright strike will be revoked and will not be a big issue.

Once we were gained access to the song we had to choose the right track from a music website, we decided to choose YouTube seeing as there are billions of videos on there already and we were guaranteed to find the one. In the end we decided to choose the lyric version as the song did not have any background noise unlike the official music video which gave us an opportunity to add in little extras that we wish to use, an example of this can be the use of an echo in the hall rather than students voices.

To conclude, we decided to choose this track as a group because we knew that it is very catchy and a lot of people would like this song. Whilst we was listening to this song we had an idea on what it was about and so many ideas running through our head meaning that we knew this was the one for us!

Task Five - Understanding the Techniques of Music Videos - “Elton John and Kiki Dee".

Here we have a video of our practice run at creating a short music video, the song that we used was by Elton John and Kiki Dee and the song is called 'Don't go breaking my heart'.
During this time we had two main characters playing the roll of Elton and Kiki whilst implementing different shots from low to high angle and different positions, we also added in background singers and using this shot we used a dolly cam to make the movement look smooth as possible. This was all done using one director and one camera person in order to make this all work perfectly.

Once all of the footage was recorded and saved on to the computer we then opened up our editing software (Adobe Premier PRO) and loaded all the relevant clips on to the timeline, we then added the music and used the two little screens and markers to get the syncing done properly, we then changed the camera angles by using different clips but we kept all of the clips on their using a layering technique so that it makes it easier to edit and get a better variety of camera angles.

The video above shows our final product yet there can be a lot of improvements done to the video.

Task Four - Understanding the Techniques of Music Videos – “The Pretender”

For this piece of work I created a short storyboard from a small section of the song 'The Pretender' by The Foo Fighters, for the small sequence we were told to do between 20 - 25 seconds and see how much shot variety there is in this music video. When it came to doing the storyboard we chose a starting point and drew it onto our storyboard, every time there was a change of a shot we would drew that down and do this every time it happened. Once I had done the time of 20-25 seconds I had to turn my storyboard into an animatic by taking pictures of my storyboard and uploading them to Adobe Premier Pro and making a video out of it.

When I was creating this storyboard I realised that shot variety plays an important part on when you are creating a music video especially if your music video is going to be fast paced. If you were to have a few shots and only changing them every so often it will leave your audience bored of the music video, however if you were to add a lot of different shots then you are more than likely to keep your audience engaged and get them to think what will come next. When it comes to knowing about your mise-en-scene, this also plays an important part seeing as it will need to match or make your music video look good.

With my storyboarding, for the music video I started to draw on the storyboard at 30 seconds and finished at 50 seconds.