We all sat down to create one rough storyboard within our group for when were going to start filming our performance and narrative shots for our music video. Each part of the story board included positioning, including angles and how far or close the camera was going to be in the shot, what props were going to be in the shot and the positioning of the camera relating with the person.
We produced two separate storyboards, one focussing on our performance shots and the other one focussing on the narrative part of our music video.
I found by creating a storyboard it will really help us when we come to filming our music video because we will have a clear idea of the different shots that need to be filmed.
Me and my group have sat down to create a rough shot list for our music video and created a simple storyboard that was going to help us when it came to filming our music video. We have looked at the different shots for both performance ad narative. We have looked at different shot types including different angles that we are hoping to include within our music video.
Shot List
Location: Classroom
Types of shot: Performance
-Close up shot – straight ahead
-Close up shot – from the left side
-Close up shot – from the right side
-Medium shot – straight ahead
-Medium shot – from the left side
-Medium shot – from the right side
-Tracking shot – forward and back
-Tracking shot – around the main singer
-Extreme close up – from the side of her mouth
Location: Classroom
Types of shot: Narrative
-Long shot – from the left side
-Long shot – straight ahead
-Medium shot – straight ahead on main girl with girls behind her
-Medium shot – from the side “ “
-Close up – straight ahead of main singer and other pupils
-Tracking shot – around the action within the classroom
-Tracking shot – in and out of the action
-Extreme close up – straight ahead of singers face
-Tracking shot – in and out and around Romy as she sings
We have decided that Olivia and Romy who are both in the group that I am working with will take the main role of Jessie J within our music video. In the video we see a mini Jessie J and Jessie J herself. We are going to film all of the performance shots with Olivia as Jessie J singing in the classroom location and Romy will play the younger Jessie in the narrative shots and few performance shots where we see her singing.
We have asked people within our media class to sit in the narrative shot in the classroom where we see mini Jessie surrounded by other pupils within the classroom. The other shots where we see other people apart from Jessie J appearing in it for example, the three girls in the corridor, we have also asked people already in our class to be in these shots.
After coming to the decision that we were going to created a video for Jessie J's 'Whos Laughing Now' we knew that this would be simple enough to be able to recreate this video within our school to the highest standard that we were able to achieve. The video that we are going to create will portray our genre of Pop very well.
The main locations we were going to need to film in were the school; including classrooms, corridors, canteen, hall, hardcourts and surrouding outside locations on the school grounds.
The Classroom would be where all of our performance shots were going to take place. The other locations were going to be for all ofr the narrative shots, as we found the narrative for this music video was filmed in a school.
After thinking about this we decided that 2 members of the group were going to be involved in the music video, Romy and Olivia. This has meant that we have started to assign ourselves to different roles and with there being three of us within the group we can each have a go at everything for ourselves.
Mummy they call me names They wouldn't let me play I'd run home, sit and cry almost everyday 'Hey Jessica, you look like an alien With green skin you don't fit in this playpen' Well they pull my hair They took away my chair I keep it in and pretend that I didn't care 'Hey Jessica, you're so funny You've got teeth just like Bugs bunny'
Oh, so you think you know me now Have you forgotten how You would make me feel When you drag my spirit down But thank you for the pain It made me raise my game And I'm still rising, I'm still rising Yeah
So make your jokes Go for broke Blow your smoke You're not alone But who's laughing now But who's laughing now So raise the bar Hit me hard Play your cards Be a star But who's laughing now But who's laughing now
Cos I'm in L.A You think I've made my fame If it makes us friends When you only really know my name 'Oh Jessie, we knew you could make it I've got a track and I'd love you to take it' So now because I'm signed You think my pockets lined 4 years now and I'm still waiting in the line 'Oh Jessie, I saw you on youtube I tagged old photos from when we was at school'
Oh, so you think you know me now Have you forgotten how You would make me feel When you drag my spirit down But thank you for the pain It made me raise my game And I'm still rising, I'm still rising Yeah
So make your jokes Go for broke Blow your smoke You're not alone But who's laughing now But who's laughing now So raise the bar Hit me hard Play your cards Be a star But who's laughing now But who's laughing now
Jessie She broke out of the box Swallowed your pride You got that ego cough Let the haters hate You're like way too late See I got a message from you 'Hola, I'm proud of you' 'Oh my god babe your voice is like wow!' My reply: Who's laughing now
Oh, so you think you know me now Have you forgotten how You would make me feel When you drag my spirit down But thank you for the pain It made me raise my game And I'm still rising, I'm still rising Yeah
So make your jokes Go for broke Blow your smoke You're not alone But who's laughing now But who's laughing now So raise the bar Hit me hard Play your cards Be a star But who's laughing now But who's laughing now
So make your jokes Go for broke Blow your smoke You're not alone But who's laughing now But who's laughing now So raise the bar Hit me hard Play your cards Be a star But who's laughing now
Pop music is also know as 'popular music' and is aimed at a younger market. Music that is composed is usually short simple songs, where new variations of song are created from existing music that has already been composed.
As we have chosen to create a pop music video I have researched into a few music videos that have been produced for this genre and i have seen some very similar similarities. Many narrative shots are used within pop music video to make sure they are targeting the correct audience.
We have chosen to recreate Jessie J's music video for 'Who's Laughing Now'-
I chose this video as one of the videos that I was going to analyse during the research stage. I found that this meets its target audience and is directly aimed at them as the video is set in a school. Simple shots are used, for example all of Jessie's performance shots are in the same location. The narrative shots are a little more complicated but are shown well to keep the consistency of targeting their audience that they are aiming to target the video at.
Another Music video I chose to look at was Taylor Swift- You Belong With Me-
The whole video is made up of narative shots and presents a story all the way through about a girl falling in love with a boy. It is made up of many complicated shots and as I watched the video through a couple of times I decided that this was not really going to help me with my research because there were no performance shots to analyse. So I went on to look at Taylor Swift- Love Story
Which I found had both interesting performance and narative shots. The storyline behind this video was the same sort of story that 'You Belong With Me' was trying to present, so in that respect, both the narative shots in both of the Taylor Swift videos were similar.
Having both performance shots and narative within a music video is typical pop video that we would expect to see to fit in with the pop genre. Showing consistency throughout the video to keep up a storyline for people to watch, appeals massivly to the 'pop genre' target audience.
We have decided to create a music video for Jessie J's song 'Who's Laughing Now'
After looking at her music video -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsxSxF3JKeU- We have decided to follow the same sort of idea as it has done in the music video so that it will be a lot easier for the group to be in the school environment and not have to travel every time there is filming that needs to be done.
By already being in our location the only other things we need to think about properly are our props, which are most likely to be accessible to us in school already.
Having looked more into depth at the lyrics of the song has helped us focus more on the narrative of the song as in the original music video, very little performance shots are used. We want to be able to create a music video that has the correct balance between both performance and narrative shots.
We do not have a final idea of exact shots for performance shots and narrative shots and where each exact location is going to be, but after further research into genre and location we will have a much clearer idea of what we want to achieve within our music video.
