Location

The location of our filming is still up in the air as we had previously planned to use a pub called The Perch in New Brighton which is owned by one of our group's family members. However this could be difficult as we would have to work around the times in which the pub is open and closed leaving us with a small amount of time to work in the early hours of the morning which further restricts us as some group members may not be available at these times





Therefore we have had to use initiative and plan another location which we can use in case we can not use our first choice. We came to the conclusion that we could use a restaurant owned by a group members family. Furthermore the restaurant actually fits in to our theme as we are featuring characters with a hispanic background. Sombreros is also closer to all members of the group making it easier to access for everyone as well as providing an appropriate backdrop for the setting of our film.

Storyboards

During our discussions today we decided we were going to draw any ideas that came into our heads and decide on which ones would be suitable for the song and if they would be relevant or not. From these options it will also assist us in deciding which direction we are aspiring to go in such as the mood of the video.for example the bottom left box of the picture on the left giving connotations of a tragedy and sadness along with the one on the middle right.

 Our group have all agreed that our music video will be a mixture video combining performance and narrative ideas in the music video. Such as shots of us playing instruments, and also telling some sort of chronological story to follow.
The ideas for this video has been heavily influenced by the music video for our song choice, so we have decided to copy this as it adheres to Goodwin's theory of the music video matching the lyrics featured in the song.

Moodboard

This Moodboard is a representation of all of the types of items that me and my Media group will be using during the music video in order to create a Western atmosphere. With items such as rifles, Spanish styled guitars, sombreros and Stetsons having connotations of Mexico and Texas during the 19th Century. This will be particularly effective at making it obvious to the audience that the theme of the video is Western as each of these things are part of the Western stereotype grown from films such as the famous Western 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' (1966) and 'Young guns' (1988). Furthermore, so to address the conventions in relation to the hard rock genre, we are going to include multiple performance shots to show the mix of concept and performance within the video. An example of this mixture is 'Jeremy' by Pearl Jam ,a rock band itself, which has a music video with evidence of performance and concept ideas as the music video seems to follow no narrative and be very disjointed.

Planning Issues 2

A large proportion of the ideas that we originally had had to be disregarded as we were going to do a rap song but the implied difficulties of trying to achieve the balance between being an authentic video that accurately represents the rap genre and being deemed suitable for a school board to mark is difficult e.g usually rap videos may have illicit substances, scantily clad women and heavy weaponry which we firstly cant get a hold of and secondly can not be seen to be endorsing as students in a school.

These extracts from Young Thug's 'Again' display the blatant drug glamorisation and the glorifying of heavy grade weapons.

Furthermore the focus on things such as lyrics and plain instruments makes it difficult to use a rap song which does not live up to those conventions.








However the rock genre lives up to these expectations which makes it an obvious choice for our final music video.