This may look simple, but never again will i proceed to create a storyboard on A3 paper, it is impossible to scan with an A4 scanner, therefore i had to piece together after scanning all of the sections. There is most likely a ridiculously easy way of constructing this, and I really wish I knew what it was.
The meat of my video! Finding and choosing actors willing to participate in my video i did not find too much of a challenge. However choosing the one girl for the mix, was a whole new story...
Within the video the lyrics sing "I think i'm in love with the girl next door" so i concluded instantly to the factual knowledge that i needed a perfect girl next door!
Easier said than done, they are pretty hard to find. She needed to fit this girl next door image, but what is that?! This is where I struggled.
After conducting a short survey of questions from the head to person, I discovered that a majority percieve the typical girl next door appearance to be; long blonde hair, naturally made up, however not ordinary. After much deliberation, none of the people I already had in mind were fitting the bill or my vision for the video. However after many conversations with fellow peers about my struggle, a friend quietly dropped Georgi's name into topic. Towards 10minutes later, it suddenly clicked in my head, that Georgi was my perfect girl next door. Beautiful long blonde hair, naturally pretty, and one of the quirkyest people I know. BINGO.
Whilst researching ideas for my video, and other past A2 media music videos, I came across this particular footage on Youtube. It was graded highly, and i feel has a great elemnt of fun within it. As this is exactly what I am looking to capture in my own video, I found it incredibly inspiring to watch, and to also make judgements on the do's and don'ts of filiming. Taking a negative approach to the video, i did find that something i now know i do not want to do, is for the my actors to be singing, I feel this would be tricky to time and would take away an element of story, as I suspect the audience would then be concentrating on the one character who is miming the words, as I found myself doing in this video, rather than the surroundings aswell. What i do like about this video is that it has a cheey aspect and is generally fun to view. Which is also the angle i would like to take.
The Libertines and The King Blues, are two bands of around similar genre to the song i have finally chosen to use within my music video! These album covers are also giving great insight and rough ideas, for the style i'll be creating for my CD digipak. The colours are bright and vivid in both, however i also like the element of cartoon within one, and the rock 'n' roll element of the comparison.
I have incorpoarted a music video (above) from 'The King Blues - Headbutt' I found the video and thought it was very plain and simple, however gives a great sense of fun to watch. The video walso did not seem overpowering by looking over professional, the quirkyness of the camera not being entirely still matched the upbeat and style of the band and the song. It was really nice to see, it is very much in keeping with their cheekyness, and the monkey is obviously there to match with the lyrics 'she will make a monkey out of me' so that was great to get an insight into the narrative within the song. This sort of music video was exactly the video I was hoping to be able to see from another band in the same sort of genre as the Mystery Jets, and this music video in particular has given me great inspiration and ideas.
So to start ticking off the timeline, I researched into who my taget audience will be, as of course if i do not know who my target audience are, what would be my base? After looking into similar genre's of the band MYSTERY JETS such as; THE KING BLUES, THE LIBERTINES AND THEMACCABEES added also with my own love for this style music, I realised it was my own age range that is my target audience. After then also considering the people around me and their ages, I realised that the variety would stretch from around fifteen onwards. Then as I researched further, from the knowledge of my own family and the different ranges within, i.e my brother of twenty two, It became clear they are versatile too many ages and are a very popular band with young university students following the ages of twenty onwards, as well as young teenagers.
My timetable using microsoft excel, i created a timeline marking each stage of construction, research and the design process for each month. So i know i am on time, and i am completing each piece at a steady pace, month by month in an organised order. Equalling less stress overall.
So i crossed the start line with a thoughtweb of all potential ideas for my music video. Just a rough idea of all; research required, potenial actors, bands, and the song that will indeed, make it's grand debut. I then created a simplified version, with the preferred band and potential song wanted for use in the video.
