Treatment pitch

In Fridays lesson my group and I delivered our treatment pitch. Overall I felt it went well as from the feedback other class members gave us people had said they generally liked our idea. We also read through the constructive criticism we got which was very helpful. Below are videos of our treatment pitch and our group response to the treatment pitch and audience feedback. I have also put a photo of our audience feedback below too.

Treatment pitch prezi

Below is my group's treatment pitch prezi which has all the details of our ideas for our music video which we hope to centre around the fairytale 'Red riding hood.'

Halsey Empty Gold

After deciding to do Empty Gold by Halsey my group put together all our ideas for the music video. Below is a prezi of our ideas.

Song analysis

In the lesson today we were looking over our annotations of 'Empty Gold' and 'Beggin for thread'. Although we previously made the decision to chose 'Empty Gold' we were having doubts as we also had a lot of ideas for 'Begggin for thread'. We finally decided to stick with our decision of 'Empty Gold' as we thought that the ideas we had for 'Beggin for thread' could be incorporated with our ideas for 'Empty Gold'.  Below are our annotations of the two songs. 

Halsey's Empty Gold lyrics

My group and I chose the song Empty Gold because we thought that we had more ideas about how to create our music video than with any other of the songs. Below are the lyrics to Empty Gold...

I, I must confess

How hard I tried to breathe

Through the trees of loneliness.

And you, you must confess

How hard you need to see

Through the heart beating out my chest.

Feel like we've been falling down 

Like these autumn leaves.

But baby don't let winter come, 

Don't let our hearts freeze.

If the morning light don't steal our soul,

We will walk away from empty gold.

Dark as midnight sun,

Smoke as black as charcoal

Fills into our fragile lungs.

Cause when our demons come,

Dancing in the shadows, 

To a game that can't be won.

Feel like we've been falling down 

Like these autumn leaves.

But baby don't let Winter come, 

Don't let our hearts freeze.

If the morning light don't steal our soul,

We will walk away from empty gold.

If the morning light don't steal our soul,

We will walk away from empty gold.

We're the underdogs in this world alone

I'm a believer, got a fever running through my bones.

We're the alley cats and they can throw their stones

They can break our hearts, they won't take our souls.

We're the underdogs in this world alone

I'm a believer, got a fever running through my bones.

We're the alley cats and they can throw their stones

They can break our hearts, they won't take our souls.

If the morning light don't steal our soul,

We will walk away from empty gold.

If the morning light don't steal our soul,

We will walk away from empty gold.

We will walk away from empty gold.

Mac 5's first vlog!

In todays lesson my group and I finally decided on our music video which is Empty gold by Halsey. After annotating 4 different songs that we were deciding upon we finally made the decision to chose empty gold as we had more ideas on where to go with the music video than with the other 3 songs.
We are now working towards our treatment pitch which we will present next Friday. Below is a vlog explaining more about our song and why we chose it.

Moodboards for Coattails

Below is a prezi of mood boards for the song Coattails by Broods. At the moment my group and I are torn between a couple of songs, Coattails being one of them, however tomorrow we are sure we will choose the final song.

Indie Demographic

As my group and I are doing the Indie Genre I have been doing a lot of research about it to learn the age genre and gender indie music is mostly listened by. From researching online I found that Indie music is mostly listened by 15-24 year old males. To back these statistics up I created a questionnaire to see who listens to indie music. I asked 2 people from each gender from 7 different age groups. My results are below...


Questionnaire:
Do you listen to Indie music?

Females:
10-15- 0/2
16-20- 2/2
21-25-1/2
26-30-1/2
31-40- 1/2
41-60- 0/2
61+- 0/2

Males:
10-15- 1/2
16-20- 2/2
21-25-2/2
26-30-1/2
31-40- 1/2
41-60- 1/2
61+- 0/2

From my results it is evident that Indie music is mainly popular within males as out of the 14 males I asked 8 males said they listened to Indie music whereas only 5 females said they listen to Indie. It is also apparent that Indie music is mostly listened by people aged 16-25 as out of the 13 people that said they listened to Indie music 7 of the people were in the categories 16-20 and 21-25. This means that when my group and I come to make our music video our target audience will be around this age range. However, although males on average listen to Indie music more, we want to direct our music video mainly at the female gender by using females in our video. As a group we feel that their aren't enough female Indie singers out there and so want to challenge the idea that Indie is mainly liked by males by getting females involved.

Banks's music videos

In the lesson my group and I continued looking for a song for our music video. We came across the singer Banks and found two of her songs 'Goddess' and "beggin for thread' which we thought could both be songs used for our music video. After printing the lyrics and annotating them we decided not to use 'Goddess" because of the amount of profanity in the song. Below is the lyrics to both songs...


Goddess...

She gave it all, you gave her shit

She coulda done, just anything

Or anyone, cause she's a goddess

You never got this

You put her down, you liked her hopeless

To walk around, feeling unnoticed

You shoulda crowned her, cause she's a goddess

You never got this

Now you gotta deal with this glitch on your shoulder

Fucking with a goddess and you get a little colder

Yea it's colder, colder

Fucking with a goddess, and you get a little colder

Finally surfaced above doubts

Feeling above this, she came around

Cause she's a goddess, finally saw this

And now you're back, trying to claim her

Cause she's gone and now without her

You're all alone, cause she's a goddess

You shoulda saw this

Now you gotta deal with this glitch on your shoulder

Fucking with a goddess and you get a little colder

Yea it's colder, colder

Fucking with a goddess, and you get a little colder

[x2]

Now you gotta deal with this glitch on your shoulder

You're fucking with a goddess and you get a little colder

Yea you're colder, colder

You're fucking with a goddess, and you get a little colder

Beggin for thread...

So I got edges that scratch

And sometimes I don't got a filter

But I'm so tired of eating all of my misspoken words

I know my disposition gets confusing

My disproportionate reactions fuse with my eager state

That's why you wanna come out and play with me

Yeah

Why

Why

Why

Stooped down and out

You got me beggin for thread

To sew this hole up that you ripped in my head

Stupidly think you had it under control

Strapped down to something that you don't understand

Don't know what you were getting yourself into

You should have known

Secretly, I think you knew

I got some dirt on my shoes

My words can come out as a pistol

And I'm no good at aiming

But I can aim it at you

I know my actions, they may get confusing

But my unstable ways is my solution to even space

That's why you wanna come out and play with me, yeah

Stooped down and out

You got me beggin for thread

To sew this hole up that you ripped in my head

Stupidly think you had it under control

Strapped down to something that you don't understand

Don't know what you were getting yourself into

You should have known

Secretly, I think you knew

(Secretly I think you knew)

Hold it out, whoa

Try to hide it out but my tracks are better

Hold it out, whoa

Try to hide it out but my tracks are better

Hold it out, whoa

Try to hide it out but my tracks are better

Hold it out, whoa

Try to hide it out but my tracks are better

Stooped down and out

You got me beggin for thread

To sew this hole up that you ripped in my head

Stupidly think you had it under control

Strapped down to something that you don't understand

Don't know what you were getting yourself into

You should have known

Secretly, I think you knew

(Secretly I think you knew)

We are still considering `beggin for thread' along with some songs from Halsey. We will hopefully have decided a song by the end of the week. 

Music video song possibility

In todays lesson my group and I discussed what song we wanted to do for our music video. One of the songs that we have come up with is 'Hurricane' by Halsey. We found this song very interesting and thought it would be perfect for our music video. Below is the song.

MTV music awards 2015

On the 30th August 2015 the MTV music awards took place. It was very interesting to watch all of the music videos and to see the singers hoping that their music video(s) won an award. Below is a list of the winners...

 

As a media student about to create a music video I couldn't help paying particular attention to the Video of the year award. After making the preliminary exercise music video I have realised how much time it takes to make one and so for the quality of them all to be amazing is awe inspiring. If my group and I could make a music video half as good as any one of these I would be a very happy media student. In the end Taylor Swifts music video 'Bad Blood' won although I'm sure it was a close call as they are all fantastic videos.
Below is the winning music video...