Storyboarding completed

My group and I finally finished storyboarding for our music video. We decided to draw the shots on post-it notes so if anything needed to be changed it could be done so efficiently. It filming is anything like last year then the storyboards will be very helpful when filming as it will give us direction in which shots we need to film which will mean less time filming and more time editing. Tara was very kind to put all the pages in order and take a picture which is shown below. We are currently in the process of deciding how to film our animatic which will hopefully be finished soon. 

Empty Gold and Take shelter mix

During todays lesson my group and I were looking up videos that we could use as inspiration for our music video. We came across the video 'Take Shelter' by the music group 'Years and Years.' We really liked some of the effects used in the music video so we put the Empty Gold audio over the Take Shelter video to see if the visuals suited our song. We were surprised with how many links their were between the videos therefore this is definitely a music video we can take inspiration from. Below is our Empty Gold and Take Shelter mix.

Storyboarding

In Wednesdays lesson we carried on storyboarding for our music video. At the moment we have got a rough idea of how we want the beginning to be but we are still trying to figure out how the middle and end will go. We have a few ideas, for example leaves being projected onto the protagonists body, but we're not sure yet at what part of the music video it will go.

Lip syncing vlog

During Fridays lesson we presented our Lip singing video to the rest of the class. I found it very easy to see when we were actually singing and when we were only mouthing the words as it didn't look very realistic when we were not singing, therefore for future reference I think we should always sing along, no matter how bad we may sound.
Below is a vlog of our lip syncing process...

Mac 5 lip sync practice

This weeks task was to create a video of our group having a go at lip singing the words to our song Empty Gold. Although it was very fun to film we learnt how long it takes to film and hard it is to get the lip singing to match up with the song.
I found when I was actually singing the song it looked a lot more realistic then when I just mouthed the words so therefore when we come to film our music video I think our main protagonist, Tayla, should actually sing along with the song instead of just mouthing the words.
Below is our lip sync practice...

Song Permission

In Fridays lesson we had to email the producer of Halsey 'Empty Gold' asking permission to use the song for our music video. As we have no intention of selling the finished product we thought it highly unlikely that their would be any problem using it but we thought it would be best to email the producer to be on the safe side as we didn't want their to be any copyright issues. We emailed them from Rhinannes media email.

Here is a photo of our email. As we wanted the email to be perfect we spend a lot of time changing it around. 

We had some difficulty sending the email, as we had typed the email address incorrectly, which made us all stressed.

Interesting Music video

Tayla came across the music video 'Cigarette Daydream' by 'Cage the Elephant' when looking for an interesting music video. After she showed it to me and the rest of our group we all agreed that we loved how their is an intro before the music plays to explain the narrative of the video. We also loved the fact that some off the video was in black and white as it made the video more mysterious and dark. We are thinking of having some of our music video in black and white so we could definitely take inspiration from this.