Music choice and Location

Deciding on what genre to do was very important and difficult as we were thinking of what impact it might on the audience and what music genre is commonly listened to, which can apply to both young and old audience. We both came to an agreement that POP was the most listened to genre and it can appeal to the target audience.

After selecting POP as our genre, our major issue was the actual song that is enjoyable and that would lyrically apply to both age world, something that happens in every day life, we listened to all sorts of music, mainly slow love songs such unbreak my heart by Toni Braxton, irresistible by Jessica Simpson e.t.c after listening to all sorts of songs, we got fade up and started thinking of location maybe that might trigger an enjoyable song that would go well with the location.

Pondering on location was also a little difficult because we wanted something with a sentimental feeling. It didn't take us long as, when the images of Salford quays, thought it was perfect and it has the sort of feeling we wanted.

We went back to choosing the song, that was ideal for the location and the audience would know why the location was chosen, as we discussing i was listening to songs on my Mp3, and also trying to visualise the sort of song that was needed, then i came across the song by Elise Estrada to unlove you, i discussed with the group and we thought it was a good choose.

1st day of filming

5th October 2009
Today we went out filming, we meet up with each other at 8:30 at a place where we all know, then we walk all round Manchester looking for an ideal place to film. We found all kinds of perfect locations but we were not able to use them because there was all kinds of problems like no way in and the building was under construction. Throughout the day, while trying to find a good place, we started thinking of changing the scences and locations a bit so we can find a good location more easily, we had the idea of having the scene in a abandon building, but we could not find any which suited us. we started thinking that the location could be a nice place, so that the character could go to, to get away from reality but we really want a dark and cold location to film because it suited the song that we are using.

After walking around for 40 mins we finally found the ideal place to film. We started setting up the camera, before we started to film we acted and discuss where the characters was going to be, how they was going to enter the scene, where the camera was going to be place and what actions the characters was going to do in the scene. When we finally were ready to film, we place the the camera in to great position, we turned the camera on and after 3 mins of filming without recording it, the camera turn it self off because the battery pack was low on power. We did not get any footage today but we were able to know in detail what was going to happen in that scene, so the did was not a complete waste.

Story Boarding

1st October,2009

Today we finished creating the storyboard for our music video. We were able to complete 4 storyboard sheets because our music video is only 3mins 12 seconds long and does not require a lot of detailed drawing as its a pretty much straight forward acting routine and in addition we have tried to avoid any over complicated camera shots and angles so that the audience does not misinterpret the story the video is trying to convey. my group members and i decided that our music would involve mostly a performance a few illustrations and probably no disjunctures, this is because our music is telling a love story so we need things to be pretty straight forward.



while creating the storyboard we made note of the camera angles and shots that we would be using most of often and also the kind of lighteneing that would be suitable for the scenes.

• Our first shot is an establishing shot of the opening location where the first scene begins.


• Then slowly as the camera pans around the location it sets on the person singing with a close up shot, so that the audience can see her emotions.


• The next shot is a mid long shot gradually forming into a long shot as the cahracter walks off towards a door.


• As she goes through the door she appears to be going down the staircairs, when she turns around and there's a point of view mid shot of something she is looking at.


• then she turns around to continue going down the stairs with a low angle mid- long shot.


• There is then the scene where she opens the door from de staircase and finds her self in her sitting room watching a video that seems to reflect a love sharing relationship and this is an over the shoulder shot so that the audience can see what she's looking at from her point of view.


• There's then a middle shot as she comes out of her house unto a street and this develops into a long shot as she walks down the street towards the river.


• As she gets closer to the river there is a wide shot of her walking past the river.


• Standing near the river she looks into it and thre is point of view shot of what she sees in the river
• She moves away from the river then there is a wide a shot of her walking towards a bench.
• whilst sitting on the bench there is a long shot enough to see both characters in the scene
• However in the next scene even though this is still a long shot with her sitting on the bench the second character would not be in the scene as she turns around to see what is behind her.
• In the next scene is the main character running nervously away from the river towards an abandoned building this would be a mid long shot.
• the next scene would a be a wide shot of the abandoned building which gradually moves into a mid shot showing the character sitting on the floor with a picture frame in her hand.
• There is then a point of view shot of the female character looking up to the male figure this would be in a mid long shot.
• there is then a middle shot of both of them arguing using a two shot.
• then all of a sudden th female character grabs the picture frame and this would be a mid shot.
• There is then a slow motion midshot as she throws the frame and it smashes into a wall.
• suddenly there is a quick close up rewind of everything that has just happened to a scene where she is lying fast asleep in her sofa in her sitting room.
• The next scene would be a gradual zoom in close up unto her eyes as she sleeps then suddenly she opens her eyes and the song ends

We chose to use the rewinding technique so that so that the audience would realise that the character was having a dream of events, she feared could happen to her.