Record Labels

Here is my research into 2 UK record companies and 1 from the US. I focused on the more independent companies as this is what my music video is more likely to follow into. As, for the indie genre, having a more independent record company is quite conventional and will help to emphasise the image of the band/artist and appeal to/attract fans. I focused on one from the US as this is where many record companies start, mainly the more mainstream companies.

Age Restrictions

This is my PowerPoint on age restrictions, I have explored the new introduction of age restriction laws that may come around on Youtube and other programmes in the next couple of years. This will reduce how exposed younger generations are to explicit content.

Talent release form

 This is our groups talent release form. I am part of the group however, feature in our music video as the artist. I had to fill this out and sign it to agree to be in our music video. Because i will be in every lesson i am already committing as much as the rest of our group... so i only rounded off roughly between when we are filming and the locations just vary.

Location Permission

Below are the emails that we have sent to a variety of churches to get permission to film in their churches, we have also put the responses from our emails. 

Trinity Church Sutton:

All Saints Carshalton: 

Reply:

St Mary's Merton: 

St Mary's Beddington: 

Replies:

  St Patrick's Church, Wallington:

Their response:

Christ Church, Sutton:

   

 

Reply:

 

In addition to the churches, we are planning to film in more urban settings within London. After some research, we chose; Southbank, Brick Lane and Leake Street Tunnel as these all have a unique and urban setting. We have also chosen area's with 'legal graffiti' which we will use in our shots to match the urban setting and feel;

Brick Lane:

Southbank;

Leake Street Tunnel:

Age restrictions

 


                
                   

Animatic

 Our Animatic:

After creating our storyboard, we have put all the shots into an animatic with our chosen song in the background in order to see if our shots work with the music and to test the timing of shots. This was helpful as we were able to discover that we had too many shots to fit into the timing of the music which meant that we were able to cut out unnecessary shots and ensure that we were only included well planned and needed shots. It has also allowed us test the shots and change the orders that they were initially placed in for our storyboard as we were able to evaluate how smoothly the shots flowed into another, and whether they were relevant with where they were placed.

This will show an initial idea to our concept, however we still expect to develop on this as we move into the physical creation and editing of the music video.

       

  

2nd draft

To improve, we cropped out the table in the background as this keeps the focus on the animatic shots;

Age restriction for music videos