Narrative Update - Derelict London

After some feedback, I have come to the decision to slightly change my narrative and have a much more dramatic emphasis on the collapse of civilization and how the boy and girl are separated due to the collapse of civilization and the whole end of the world idea. 

 The idea is to find some derelict looking locations like the ones in the picture examples above. The first three are from Derelict London and are currently acting as a visual substitute for the actual locations that will be used. The last two pictures are from my friend's dad's Go-Kart business in Croydon and may be a potential location that I will use for my Music Video. Additionally during half-term as a final push for my planning stages I will be doing more location scouting for some derelict looking places in Morden and Sutton. I plan to make a video to showcase the derelict locations that I find and focus on the ones that I will definitely use in my Music Video, I have a couple of people who will accompany me in my video and help me find the best looking derelict locations for my video.

Year 13 Advice

It's interesting to see how the previous Media class looked back on the process and the advice is very helpful. It's interesting to think about planning and how that will pay off and how you need to make some unique and not just try to make a really simple, easy to make music video.

Record Label Permissions

 

In class we were asked to send a letter asking the record label for permission to use the song for my music video and then I had to screen capture the letter that I sent to the record label which in my case was Warner Brothers Music.

Props

In my music video I will be using 7 props which are: LED sunglasses, LED strips, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Drum Kit and Drumsticks. The only props that are still needed to acquire are the LED sunglasses and LED strips the instruments are all sorted with either my own instruments or my fellow student's instruments or the school's instruments.I have ordered the LED sunglasses and should hopefully have them for Friday's shoot. 

Pictures:

Bass Guitar:

Jack to Jack Lead:

 Microphone and Mic Stand:

Costumes

I have 4 main costumes for my music video which are all already acquired there are: the band costumes which is the black suit or leather jacket with a dark or light t-shirt and black jeans and then there is the girl's costume which is dark trousers a light top and an army camo jacket. i have yet to get all costume pictures but I will I have most of them by Fridays shoot and all of them by the weekend shoot.

Location Permissons

When planning I had to ask for the availability of certain rooms in school that I would like to use. I then screenshot the emails.

Record Labels

Location Post

The street location will be used in my video's narrative I have chosen the road that I live on Wickham Avenue in Cheam as it is a pretty quiet road which will help to show the characters being divided as well as it will be easy for us to film as there will be very little distractions. Additionally the street idea will help to show the corrupt society as it appears to be a normal street but once the characters are seen and appear to be cautious the audience will be able to understand my idea of having a corrupt society

I came up with the idea of using a forest when I took the pictures of my street as it is at the end of my street and it leads into Nonsuch Park. I thought using a forest in the narrative as well could be interesting as I could use to show how lost the characters are and how they just want to be able to find each other and to be accepted by society. The location also has very nice natural lighting and is a really good location to shoot at as it is quite and there are little to no distractions that could interrupt filming.

Music Video Animatic

Muse - The Groove Animatic A2 Media by jonesc462
This is my storyboard animatic for my music video and it features all my final ideas such as the band recording the song in the studio, the band performing with the LED lights and the narrative of the boy and girl being separated by a corrupt society.

Note: My idea for my narrative has slightly changed since posting this post rather than the boy and girl being separated from society they have been separated by the collapse of civilization and the the end of the world and when the audience sees the boy and girl they get the impression that they have been separated for quite sometime and are still searching for each other and are desperately trying to get back to each other.