Diary of Major Events

September 8th: This is the day we started to construct our blogs by adding the summer homework onto it.

September 9th: We started to think of our initial ideas for the narrative and performance elements of our video and a song that would go with them.

September 10th - 11th: After a lot of deliberation we finally chose the song we would use for our music video, this was ‘Pretty Visitors’ by the Arctic Monkeys. We felt that it covered our groups wide range of musical tastes and also thought the songs ever changing tempo would give us a wide choice to base our video on.We also started to think of narratives to use with the video. We decided to play on the theme of insomnia.

September 14th - 15th - We organised to shoot some of the performance footage. This involved choosing suitable actors and utilising the equipment available.
We chose reliable actors and brought in our own instruments to ensure that we would be able to film without any drawbacks. We were also able to use the stage lighting to get a more ‘rock’ effect.The filming went smoothly and we were able to get good footage of the band at many different angles.

September- 16th - 18th: We uploaded the footage onto the computer and imported into Premiere Elements and started to synchronise it to the song. THE START OF OUR MUSIC VIDEO!!

September 21st - 25th: We started to think beyond our planning and began to produce material for our audience research, such as a questionnaire containing suitable questions. Band research was also necessary so we could produce an effective video. The next few weeks were devoted to more major video planning and research such as mentioned above.

October 10th: We decided to use our free time to our advantage and film our first scenes for our music videos narrative. We filmed at Northumberland Park as we thought it would give a nice eerie affect to our storyline.

October 12th – 21st : We started to put our performance and narrative elements together to produce a rough cut to show to our peers as to receive feedback. This peer assessment highlighted the problems with our video and we decided a re-shoot of both elements was necessary as to obtain the highest grade possible.

October 21st – 23rd: This week we went through ‘Music Video Theory’ and the Theorists. We found this very useful but thought less time spent on it may have helped us on the production side.

October half term: We booked out equipment for over the holiday and shot some more narrative footage in a new location. We used The Quarry as it had better scenery and a more secluded feel.

November 2nd: We started our new video with the narrative footage shot over half term.

November 3rd: We had used our time to our advantage and started on some ideas for a DVD cover. We came together as a group and decided on which one had more appealing features. We also started to think about and produce our advert.

November 13th: We got up at early before school and went to the quarry to shoot a new performance element. This involved submerging a drum kit in the water and performing the song in there also. We decided to get new actors in as our other ones were unreliable!

November 10th-24th: As we got new actors in we decided to film our narrative again! But this time we used better props and came up with new scenes to add to our video, to keep it interesting.

November 25th: DEADLINE