Story Board for Music Video

 First Scene:

Our music video of ‘somebody that I used to know’ will be about a friend group where one of the members began to drift away from being left out. The music video will start off with a flashback filmed at a high angle where everyone within the group is hanging out and playing video games. The scene will show how the friendship first started out and how no one was being left out. The outfits will be all themed to show how they are a group.

Second Scene: 

The next scene will pan upwards to show two of the girls playing on the swings at the park while the girl that will leave the group stands on the side talking with them. She isn’t being left out, just showing how the girls are already beginning to separate from her. 

Third Scene:

Within the third scene, the camera will be tracking them as they walk. The scene will show the two girls talking as they walk ahead of the other girl who is left all alone. During this scene is when the girl's clothes will begin to start losing the theme that the other girls are doing.

Fourth Scene:

The fourth scene will be filmed with the camera close up into the two girls' phones as they take a selfie with one another. The other girl will be only shown on frame barely and the selfie will barely contain her. 

Fifth Scene:

The group will be sitting at a picnic table at the park and the two girls will leave and happily chat as the other girl tries to quickly pick up her belongings. This shot will be filmed as a mid-shot.

Sixth Scene: 

The sixth scene will cut to present time and show the group in line for ice cream. The two girls will be facing one another and excitedly chatting as the other one is sadly looking down at her hands. The girl’s clothes will be horribly out of place among the summery vibes of everyone else. 

Seventh Scene:

The next scene will showcase the out of place girl trying but ultimately failing to gain the others attention and to keep up with them. The other girls will ignore her.

Eighth Scene: 

The next scene will be filmed with a tilt and show her trying to grab onto one of her friends. The friend will shrug her off and walk faster ahead. 

Ninth Scene: 

The ninth scene will be the filming of a one-person shot with the left out girl standing as she’s being abandoned. The atmosphere of the scene will be depressing and isolating. 

Tenth Scene:

Then the atmosphere will change as the camera shows a two shot of two friends laughing with one another. They will be messing around and all together just having fun.

Eleventh Scene:

The next scene will show the friends walking off to the beach without the girl. The shot will be filmed over the shoulder as the friends are walking towards the sea with their back to the cameras. 

Twelfth Scene:

The final scene will be shot directly on the beach. The girl's old friend’s will be sitting closer to the water as she is sitting further from them and the water. The scene will  be a pan out shot.

The scenes will follow about one-two lines of lyrics each.

 

 

   

    

 

Music Video PLanning blog

 Props - For this music video, we decided on going for a story that follows a group of friends that slowly fall apart as one person drifts away. Since we want to capture a scene with the friends on the beach, beach towels, hats and beach balls will be present.

Costumes - This part will be very easy in our opinion as we will have regular swimming wear or just causal clothing. Though their will be scenes that won't be on the beach so their might be changes in clothing. For the swimming wear, it will completely up to the actors of what they are comfortable on wearing this shoot. Nothing to covered or revealing will be disagreed upon as the actors concern worths more. I'm sure most outfits people would chose are short pants with a t-shirt.

Schedule - Be aware that these dates might not accurate as we will need to see for ourselves if these can work with our schedules.

11/16/2021, our group will finalize our ideas of what we want for this project.

11/17/2021, our group will gather the need props for this and decide upon days that we will be up to shoot the clips. 

11/19/2021, our group will complete the storyboard for the story that will be present in the music video. 

11/23/2021, our group will begin to film clips for this project.

11/30/2021, our group will be completely done with the filming process and will be moving on to editing and finalizing what we got.

Location List - Our main location is on a beach, possibly at night but we will see. There are other possible places like the park where we would like to take a few scenes in. Also some scenes in the respected group member household. 

Back Up Plan - A lot of miscommunication that happened because of this topic and for this we have come o the idea. If bad weather stops us from filing one day we will take it upon ourselves to shoot scenes for a another clip at a n another location. If one of our actors were to be missing and can't be able to attend for scenes they are in, we will simply edit them out of being in that certain scene and add another to take their place. Same goes if the camera person were to be missing,we will simply have one of our actors to take control of that situation.

Research Blog Music Video

 Research blog: Music Video  Conventions 

Song: Somebody I used to know

Genre: Alternative/Indie, Rock

My group is making a Music Video using the song, Somebody That I Used to Know. This song is by Gotye. Gotye is an artist that released this song in July 2011. In the original music video, the audience sees a man trying to blend into a wall and a woman who obviously is not worried about blending into the background. She steps outside of the area that she was blending into and confronts the man. The man does not look back at the woman. Throughout the video, the man stays in the same position. However, at the end of the video he turns to look at her when all the paint that blended her into the background shed. In the beginning of the original music video, the singer sings calmly, to emphasize a sort of peace. However, as the video progresses, you see things go into a kind of disarray and the two singers are at a screaming match. It is important to recognize the details of the original music video because it gives us insight on what the codes and conventions of the song are.

Conventions

• Despite the codes of the song that could be used for my group’s music video, there are quite a lot of arrangements that are habitable and accepted.

• It is obvious that the artists are singing about the ending of a relationship. So, my group’s music video will be about some kind of loss, whether it be from a friendship or relationship, this is something that needs to be expressed in order for the music video to make sense.

• Another thing that has to be addressed is the disunity that happens and that is expressed as the singers both raise their voices. My group’s music video has to represent the disagreement happening between the 2 characters in order for the story and the song to compliment each other.

Codes

• There are many signs that the lyrics in the song have the potential to be portrayed in a different light for my group's Music Video.

• The loss of a relationship that was mentioned as conventions could be portrayed as a friendship instead of a romantic relationship.

• My group can portray someone leaving a town out of their own desire. We could even portray someone who is rejecting the help of someone else.

Music Video Group Blog

 For the music video, I will once again work with Rose, Zahra, and Vanessa. I believe with our last project, we worked as a well formed team. Rose started off as our camera woman then turned into our star actor. Zahra made props then took over as camera woman. We'll just have to remind her to not film vertical. Then there's me! I'm usually the one acting and making sure everyone stays on task. Finally we have Vanessa, our wonderful editor. This time around, hopefully she can act in it! I trust these girls a lot. 

For the music video, we kind of have no idea what to do so far. Originally, me and Rose wanted to do a horror video. We scratch the idea when we were informed of what are later projects will be. Vanessa said she wants to do a video where we're at the beach or pool. Personally, I kinda don't want to do that because I don't like those locations and I really don't want to wear a bathing suit. I know I can wear something else but I would stand out too much then. I don't want to do a corny story line either. Which is what we'll most likely do with our location atmosphere. 

Hopefully everyone can meet up to film for this assignment. I just don't want this to be a mess. 

Introduction blog music video

  Hello,

My name is Shannon McCauley. I'm in my Sophomore year of high school. I am currently taking Aice Media Studies. This class, while looking incredibly difficult, looks kind of fun. I have never had a class like this one before and I'm curious to see how I will improve with this course. I'm most excited for the storyboards and music video. 

The storyboards I feel like would be a good way to improve my art and honestly it just sounds super fun. The music video I believe I will thrive in. I already have some ideas in mind! I know for sure I want to film at least something in the woods for this class. I also want to include a scene where someone is drench. I also want one where someone is destroying a cake, I love those type of scenes in stuff. 

I'm quite scare for the commercial and the film I believe we have to do at the end of the year. The commercial scares me because I have absolutely no clue on what to do and the fact that we have such little time to film it also freaks me out. 

This class freaks me out a lot. I have no idea what I'm doing in this class which is new. I usually know what my classes are going to be like but this subject is something I've never try. I have absolutely no idea how to edit videos. I have no idea on filming either. Plus these assignments are going to have us working with a lot of people which I have a hard time doing but even so I must carry on from my doubts and work hard in this class.