SurveyMonkey of audiences responses

Question: would you listen to this kind of music?

Question: What do you think will be happening in this music video?

Answers: 

"Kissin"
"Like a spiritual club dancing"
"There would be a story playing for the song"
"A couple falling in love"
"A journey of some sort. Either a personal journey of an individual finding themselves and discovering where they belong or a story of some sort- perhaps a relationship break up"
"A man isolated in a place with cutaways of a lonely woman"
"Young people loving life and relationships"
"Heartbreak and soul searching"
"Something sad or emotional"

From these responses, in our video we will try to include clear representations of the theme of love specifically looking at heartbreak and distress. A few audience responses said that it would most likely be young people which is perfect as our main actor is still a young adult.

Question: What time of day do you think the video will be set?

From this response it is clear that shooting at sunset as well as a combination of all of the above would be the best. We may occur some issues whilst filming in dim light as the quality may not be good, however, if successful it would add to the creativity of the shots.

Question: Who do you expect the main actor to be?

The audience have favoured a female actor and that is who we shall be using for our video.

Question: What do you think they would be wearing?

The audience have given a mixture of results including, Plain, Hipster and Trendy clothing. To combine all three, clothing that is sold in Urban Outfitters is often alternative, on trend but at the same time they also offer plain clothing. This would be a perfect place to source any costumes that we don't already have.

Question: What sort of locations would you expect to see?





Fields and empty areas was an answer that was picked by all but one audience member. This means that we will most certainly incorporate that into our video as well as Busy city/town to juxtapose them. This would fit in with the theory by Blumer and Katz as our audiences could use our media as a form of escapsim and the locations that the audiences have chosen would tie in with this regardless if it was a busy or empty location as the main character would always look isolated as they are alone. 



The survey- https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/HY9CT8S

Lip syncing practise

• EBI:
• dan brought his props and came on time to filming.
• make sure that the image fit in with the original (make sure that each shot is timed correctly).
• make sure the Naomi doesn't mess up the storyboard.
• research further into filming locations and try to find locations that are more suitable.
• camera angles were bad so make sure that Naomi watches the video before filming.
• took more time to film and perfect the shots
• very bad camera, grainy
• WWW:
• lip syncing
• the curtain
• we learnt new editing skills

what challenges did we overcome - 

• dan being late
• lack of props

our copy is not as exact as we would have liked it to be, because of the length of shots and the bad picture quality. 

what have we learnt for next time- to plan it properly before we start performing, play the track and watch the video whilst recording so that the shots are timed correctly and each movement is replicated.

Target Audience Feedback

Members of our target audience:

Members of our target audiences said that the enjoyed the song and thought that we had the opportunity to work with the music to benefit us. 

Iconic directors of music videos

One iconic director of music videos in Eric Wareheim, who directed music videos including Beach House, 'Wishes' and MGMT, 'The Youth'. In both of these music videos, Wareheim decided to use bright colours in the music video, which fits with his comedy act of Tim and Eric. Wareheim is an iconic director as his music videos are very distinctive and bold, matching the comical element of his personality. This can be especially highlighted in the music video for MGMT's 'The Youth', where is it relatable to the 80s.  As clearly shown in the music video for 'The Youth', the members of the band have bright clothing with glitter, which is relatable back to the 80's.



Another iconic director of music videos is Floria Sigismira, who directed music videos of bands including: The Runaways (Cherry Bomb) and The Tea Party (A certain slant of light). In the music videos that she produces, there is a certain element of a gothic nature about them, linking into the rock genre of music. This is very distinctive and relatable to her.

Symbolic code and technical code of our video

Vlog pitch

Pitch Plan