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Storyboards

This is the anamatic for our song good morning. It is made up of the storyboard and put together into an animatic. Each shot on the screen shows the amount of time that the shot will be shown for, in time with the music.

List of props, Costumes, make-up and equipment.

Concept

What is the concept you have decided on.  Sketchs, locations costume special effects

This is the sort of costume that we have decided on, I drew the sketch of one of the characters who will be rapping one verse of the song. He says a line 'while they get their Ipod Shuffle on', so we have decided to incorporate the I pod into the scene, by having the artist jogging with headphones on, and singing to the camera while it looks like he is going for a jog. We have decided to then dress his costume as something you would go for a jog in, so tracksuit bottoms or lose trousers, and a T-shirt and trainers. The Ipod and headphones are also part of the costume. 

We decided that one of the locations was going to be a park bench, where the artist would wake up, and think about the night before. The idea is that the artist never got home that night, and that people are texting him worried, (where are you, 'good morning' etc) The location has to look bright and there needs to be good lighting because it shows that it is early in the morning. We are also going to use props such as empty beer cans and rubbish to show that he was probably intoxicated the night before and the audience get an idea of what happened the night before. 

We have also decided to use a special effect within our music video. We want to use the title in the song by having lots of shots that are related to the phrase 'Good Morning'. We are planning on going into London and filming the sun coming up and then when we put it into final cut we are going to speed it up so that we see the sun rise over the whole of london in a few seconds. This represents the idea of good morning. 

Image Annotation

Hip Hop artists have a certain stereotypical way of looking. They like to represent the money they own and like to show that they are successful by wearing lots of jewellery that is big and outrageous so that people notice it. It is a statement of wealth. Often in their music videos they use exotic destinations to set the music video or use expensive looking items such as big cars. And as you can see from the photo above of the three artists on a boat they have a huge helicopter behind them which shows them as dangerous and makes them all interesting artists.
Some other Hip Hop artists use other stereotypes, which relate more to Rap music. For instance they will wear simplistic clothing with just jewellery to focus on and will set the music video in an underground scene, a dark tunnel, a shady area. This is so the audience can focus solely on the lyrics of the song and focus on the meaning behind them.

They also commonly have lots of tattoos to show that they are different from other artists and it is also a statement of power. To be covered in meaningful tattoos it shows the artist as a strong character and makes them look scary and intimidating.

Lyrics Annotation

Song Details

We decided to use the song 'Good Morning' By Scorcher, Wretch 32 and Kay Young to make our music video to as we feel that the lyrics of this song are very fitting to the genre of Hip Hop as the lyrics themselves also promote the artists, and they talk about thier success.

We also chose this song because it doesnt already have a music video to it and we think it is a good representation of a stereotypical Hip Hop song as it talks about money and success.

Technical Tutorials- Final Cut

Final Cut.
We used a green screen and filmed a music video recording the song 'Last Friday Night- Katy Perry'. We recorded it on three different cameras including using the Fig Rig to have hand held close ups of the artists faces. We then uploaded the three different bits of footage onto final cut and put them together to create the music video draft. We wanted to see how final cut worked and also how the three cameras were effective when creating the music video.
We put a green screen in the background so that if we wanted we could change the background to what we wanted, it was useful using the green screen and using final cut as it was practice for when we use final cut to edit our proper music video.

Roles

The responsibilities within our group were distributed evenly. We decided to give each member a group of jobs to do each and then if we all stick to what we've been given we will be able to film a good music video successfully.

My role within the making of the music videos is Costume, Props and Makeup. I have to arrange who is going to be wearing what whilst shooting the music video and the props that we are going to use throughout the shooting of the music video and the photo shoot. The make up that the artists are going to wear is going to be minimalistic, the artists are probably not going to wear any makeup as the male artists within hip hop videos tend to not wear much make up. They are going to be wearing a reasonably plain t-shirt and jeans, and then they are going to be wearing a sort of statement necklace that shows their success and power. It also shows that they are making money as an artist. The only props that are needed are the Ipod and the use of a park bench. The IPod has been provided by me.

Drew's role within making the music video is to film the entire music video using three different cameras so that we can edit the three videos together, and so that we have plenty of spare footage to play around with to create a successful music video. He also has the role of organising the cameras so that we have them booked for the dates in our shooting schedule. So that we definitely have a camera for when we need to film.

Jordan's role within making the music video is to be the main character in the music video and also to recruit all the other members of the music video so that we have characters to fit the genre exactly. He then has to ask them if they will take part in the music video and has to get them to sign the talent release form.

Initial Ideas

We decided upon the theme of Hip Hop music videos as we think that it will be interesting to make and have been influenced by lots of musicians work and think it will be an effective music video to make. We discussed all of our initial ideas as a group and made a mind map on paper, we have then extended this by making individual mind maps on Bubbl as well. We worked together as a group to make our mind map and everyone shared valuble ideas together.  

Assessment 10/10/11 MCU

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