NEW SONG CHOICE. B.O.B ft. Hayley Williams & Eminem. Airplanes.

Our first song choice was Bryan Adams - Summer of '69. After much deliberation, we chose to change our song, we didn't think that we had enough of a story line to proceed with our first song choice. 


I am now working as a group of 2 with Megan, we decided upon the song 'Airplanes' by B.O.B as we have many ideas on what we could put together to make a successful music video. The current music video created by the artists doesn't really have a story line to it, so therefore it also gives us a great opportunity as we won't be able to take ideas from their video. which means that the ideas are all ours and we will be able to take credit or them all. I would consider this song from the Rap/Hip Hop genre.


A few initial ideas in which we have had are; 

• having our artists sitting on roof tops, this way we would be able to have them closer to the sky and the Airplanes.
• we also had the idea of having many different people from entirely different backgrounds and then all of them being linked and brought together via a headphone cable.
• another idea we had was to have all the different people linked via a star. 'the shooting star' this would have been ideal as then we could have had the link with the song, and not just something completely random.

We have also thought about what our ancillary tasks are going to contain and also look like. Here are a few ideas in which we have had.

• we have thought about putting a few cut out pictures of the artists on the front cover.
• having our main artist at the front and the other two placed more towards the back.
• we have also had the idea of having different shots of the artists scattered all over a surface and making a collage out of them, with stars and aeroplanes around the outside.
• we have decided that our digital pack is going to have a link to the song via the artists and the stars.

We need to create a poster for the advertisement of our song. 

Megan and myself have come up with a few ideas of how we could have the artists when they are performing. Here are a few ideas in which we have had; 

• we are going to have our female performer sat on a bay window, holding on to a sentimental object. This is very precious to her as it means that she is getting over her tragedy. At the end of the song you see her on a rooftop with the other two performers and she has made it big. 
• the performer who is taking the place of Eminem. We see him firstly in an environment of a gymnasium, this is where he grew up singing and rapping and where he has written his own songs.
• B.O.B's performer will be in a room in which symbolises his character enormously, it represents and gives the audience a brilliant visual description in how he was brought up.

Research & Planning

I am working in a group of 4, Myself, Megan, Gemma and Sarah. We have looked into many possible songs to use;

Kiss With a Fist - Florence and the Machine.


Put Your Records On - Corrine Bailey Rae


All Star - Smash Mouth


I Can't Dance - Genesis


Dance Dance - Fall Out Boy



We looked into the possibility of doing all of these songs and more. We then narrowed it down to two possible songs.

Photograph - Nickleback





When the Sun Goes Down - Arctic Monkeys




This is the song in which we decided on as a group to perform.
We then wrote to the Arctic Monekys and asked for their permission to use their song.

We decided after about a week that we didn't want to do Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down, and that we believed doing an  80s song. We thought to do this song because there would be a lot of things which could be done with the lyrics and beat.

Bryan Adams - Summer of '69 




We then looked atalbum covers. To do this we went onto the google search engine and looked at summer album covers. These are the ones we found.

We chose these examples because they are very close to the ideas in which we have for our album cover.

We have had many ideas on what to do for our album cover. 
We have had ideas of doing a beach shot, overlooking the sea with the sun rising or setting above it.
We have also thought about taking a photograph, of the band with their instruments, outside on the school field.
Making some of the colours stand out more than others has also been an idea. We got this idea from the above album cover of Paramore. The lead singer has been made to stand out by wearing different colours and also by her hair colour, where as the rest of the band are all wearing black.
But the main decision made by our group has been to make it colourful, either by making it black and white and pulling out certain colours to stand out or to just make the colours stand out more than normal. 

We then looked at locations for the first part of our song. We decided that we are going to have shots of the band playing 'Summer of '69'  first of all. Here are some of the locations we have in mind.

After finding these locations we then had to discuss the location itself and if it was going to be suitable for the shoot. We discovered that it might be an issue. The issue being that we may have many people in the background.

We then searched for another location and found this location.

We then researched weather, we were hoping to film on Wednesday 6th June 2011. This would give us chance to get everyone who we need at the same time. 

Questionnaire Analysis. 

1. Are you MALE/ FEMALE? 

2. What age group are you in? (13-16) (17-19) (20+) 

3. On a rating scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest, how often do you listen to music?  

4. On a rating scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the lowest how often do you watch/ listen to music videos? 

5. Do you like music videos? (YES/NO) (circle one) explain your answer.

Here are some of the comments that were given on our qeustionnaire.

'Yes I like music and I like videos, so put the two together and you come up with a wondeful form of communication.'

'They give a visual form to music instead of just listening to it.'

'They can add depth to the song. More entertaining than just music videos.'

'Yes, they expand on the music and create a new package.'

'Adds depth to the song.'

'Because music videos often help visualise what the song is about.'

'When you're watching and listning to music and tv it makes it more interesting.'

'I like them :).'

'Because they are enjoyable to watch it, i also think they are important as they explain this song.' 
 
6. What do feel is important in a music video? (tick 3) 
  

Shot List.

1st verse.

1 - Close up of amp being plugged in.
   - Close up of Tom M testing the guitar (Strumming)
2 - Mid shot of Tom M playing guitar and singing
   - pan across to Tom B playing guitar
   - close up of hand playing the guitar
3 - close up of Tom M singing
   - close up of just mouth singing
4 - Wide shot of George playing drums
   - close up of George's hands playing the drums

2nd verse.
  
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Brief

A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with a cover for its release as part of a digipak (CD/DVD package) and a magazine advertisement for the digipak (CD/DVD package).