Storyboard

My group and I made a rough storyboard of how we want and plan our music video to be, however we know this will not go completely to plan when out on location.

Email for Permission

As we did previously with our past songs, we emailed PVRS's management and record label to ask permission to use their song 'White Noise' for our music video, to avoid any copyright issues. We are still waiting for a reply!

Possible Locations

There are many possible locations that we could film Stef lip syncing in. We are aware that we need to make the lip syncing exciting because it can easily become boring. Therefore, we want to have various locations that are more adventurous than just a blank wall, for example, which will mostly be rural to stick to the conventions of the indie/rock genre. These are a few possible locations that we will explore whilst out filming.

New Song and Concept (4)

Although we decided as a group that our idea to make our music video to Nina Nesbitt's 'Stay Out' was going to be our final idea no matter what, as we started filming and trying to produce all of the ideas we had in mind, none of them were working for us. Because we found that this song and concept wasn't working out, we have decided to change our song and concept for the last time, to Pvris' 'White Noise'. We have decided not to produce a narrative video and keep it simple combining the skills we have as a group, such as Emily's eye for creative shots. Therefore, we will have elements of lip syncing but mostly a series of abstract shots, and use our editing skills to produce an ascetically pleasing music video, rather than a video with a narrative. These are the lyrics to our song:

                                                        "White Noise"

It's hard to be what you need through a static screen.
Been trying to speak for weeks and weeks.
Open my mouth,
All that comes out is white noise and incomprehensible sounds,
And all you ever do is turn me down.

I'm watching.
I'm waiting.
I'm aching.
Suffocating.
I'm breathing.
I'm speaking.
Can you hear me?
I'm screaming for you.

Day by day,
I'm slowly replaced in your picture frames.
A brand new face on your pillowcase.
Come the night you dim the lights and close the blinds,
But I still see them running down your spine,
Cause I illuminate the room,
Just enough to watch you.

I'm watching.
I'm waiting.
I'm aching.
Suffocating.
I'm breathing.
I'm speaking.
Can you hear me?
I'm screaming for you.

Sick of the lack of signal.
Sick of the lack of touch.
Sick of the static voice.
It's not enough, it's not enough.
Baby it's hard to be just what you need when all I speak is static screams.
Can you hear me?

I'm watching.
I'm waiting.
I'm aching.
Suffocating.
I'm breathing.
I'm speaking.
Can you hear me?

I'm screaming for you.

   

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Filming (Day 1)

My group began filming while I was unwell, and they managed to film and edit the first line of our music video. They used stop animation for the iconography of the Rolling Stones t-shirt, for the lyrics "He's got a Rolling Stones tee, but he only knows one song".

Iconography

Iconography is something we are plan to use in our music video as we have found many music videos that have used it really effectively. One example of this is in Wilkinson's video for 'Afterglow':

Many of the lyrics in 'Stay Out' are perfect for the use of iconography, for example "He's got a Rolling Stones tee, but he only knows one song", where we plan to use stop motion to create the effect of a Rolling Stones t-shirt. The references to time and dates are also useful as we can use a flip calendar to show dates or time passing by.

BFI Trip (South Bank)

We recently went on a trip to the BFI in South Bank as a media class to research further into making our music videos. There we met the chief examiner, Pete Fraiser, and he talked to us about the key steps of making a music video effectively and using our  time wisely, including guiding us on key shot types and features of a music video that we need to include to make it successful, for example, aspects of performance and ensuring we have conformed to using the theory of 'star quality'.
We also got the chance to listen to the director speak to us about some of the music videos he has had the chance to work on. We were lucky enough to hear about his thought process when planning some of the videos such as 'Autophilia' by The Bluetones and 'It's raining men' by Geri Halliwell.