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.