Music video storyline

After uploading all of the footage we filmed in the green screen we found that we had little idea how to place the footage in any order, as well as keep the audience interested (as the footage mainly shows a waist to head medium close up shots). This has made us realize the importance of a narrative within the footage in order to show us a sense of direction and interest for the audience.

We have decided to set a narrative next to the man on the moon garages as the bright colors will help fit with the mise en scene.

Sparklers

As the song provides quite a bouncy bright atmosphere, we have come up with the idea of possibly using sparklers to create shapes, patterns and words in the sky

further ideas

After viewing our rough video cut and considering our ideas, we have decided to change some of our original ideas. We have decided to film most of the video in green screen and, depending on how it looks, re-film the whole song on a different location to edit clips from each of the filming sessions together.
some ideas that we have are to place boxes on our heads and continue dance routines.
we also want to film people on spacehoppers and speed up the footage. also dressed up people running around could look good if eddited correctly.
we have thought about the style of bright costumes to use and the dance routines we will use during the filming.

Green Screen backgrounds

Our video will include a mixture of shots between the green screen and public streets.

We began researching the types of images backgrounds we could include as well as the possibility of filming out own backgrounds - like shown in the student example of "bird flu"


Examples of our own moving images could be -

somebody bouncing a brightly colored ball

Toy animals - moving in a formation

People using pen scribbles.

A kettle going off with steam

Inspired by our existing music video research and the 60s theme in the Dee-lite grove is in the soul music video, we could possibly include retro - 60s wallpaper,patterns and colors.

Brightly colored absrtract backgrounds will also suit the genre and mood of the song.

We could also include a selection of multicultural background images that fit the costume and theme of the artists image.

Costume ideas

After the evaluation of our test footage and further research into student examples we have decided that the "chav vs geeks" dance off idea might not have the same impact as a more abstract costume such as aliens,cowboys or robots.

We feel that a more fully loaded, abstract costume will make us appear less obvious to the audience making the performance more interesting.

we have also decided to perhaps include the use of space hoppers in our performance as it would fit with the bouncy beat of the music.

Here are a couple of images brainstorming the possible costumes / items we can use in the video

Blog feedback and Targets

When the class looked at our blogs we received feedback, we were told that our blog is pretty detailed,
however we might want to use different varied camera angles in the final piece.
We also need more information on equipment and costume,
they said that the location shots looked good and that the test footage shows good movement that fitted in with the movement and that the image research in the band as good and detailed, also that if the transactions are clearly worked out the footage would be good if it is funny.
We asked the question do you think the combination of green screen and location shots will work ( as seen in the test film)
they responded by saying if we are consistent with the green screen and we use special effects it would work well.

animatics feedback

After the rest of the class viewed our animations video, they responded with encouragement and criticism which we found very helpful with furthering our ideas for the music video.
Some of the positive feedback that we got was included-
it shows typical qualities of a dance video
it sounds as though it will be funny
the structure of the video is clear

we were also warned by the rest of the class that-
we will need to edit the video fast paced so that it will go with the video
if we used the same idea throughout the video it may get boring
it is difficult to make people deliberately dance and it may look fake

We have taken this feedback into consideration and will apply it to how we shoot the footage and edit it.