Inspiration Found From: The A Team - Ed Sheeran

My group and I really like this music video it tells a powerful story to the viewer. Through the use of camera angles, it is a very fast moving, and busy video, focusing on one girl as she struggles with life. The use of the black and white effect create alot of contrast in the video, and making the white lights stand out against the dark background, captivating the audience.

Roland Barthes 5 Narratives Codes

In our groups we were asked to research a music video that featured Roland Barthes 5 narrative codes. We decided to look at the music video 'A Team' by new artist Ed Sheeran. This was a previous music video we had gain inspiration from and felt it was good to work with as it a low budget video that is something we as a group could easily match and produce.

Inspiration Found From: Ordinary People by John Legend

Another Music Video we have found inspiration in is 'John Legend - Ordinary People'. This Music Video is very similar to our Music Video ideas, as we have decided to focus on capturing different couples and focusing on the up's and down's of relationships. Similarly this Music Video focuses on different couples and scenes in between the artist singing. We also want to aim to use lip syncing once again as it proves to be very appealing to the audience, and after researching A2 Music Video's online, we have found that it can be done very successfully.

Get Ahead OCR Media Studies

In lesson, our Media Studie teacher showed us a very helpful website called: 'Get Ahead OCR Media Studies'. The Website features lots of inner questions being answered, for example: 'Theory for the A2 Exam' and also lots of very successful Music Video's also from A2 Media Studies students.

'The Vixens', scoring full marks for their A2 Music Video was shown to us, and gave us a run of ideas, and alot of confidence, as we were shown how to do it properly. Some of the ideas we had were thinking about adding lip syncing to our Music Video, reenforcing the fact that it is a Music Video, not a short story. Also, we found that video blogs were an exciting and unique way to update our blogs, and will definately research this in the days to come.

Organiser: Planning Our Time

Weekly Update: Planning Our Time

Starting Our Editing!

We have now uploaded all of our individual filming onto the Apple Mac in our Media Studies room and have used seperate folders to keep ontop of organisation as we know who filmed what. After a few hours of waiting, we have finally rendered all our shots on Final Cut Pro.

We have all watched through each other's individual shots, gaining ideas and understanding their influences and their own ideas. This has proved very useful as we have now got several new ideas, that we wish to take further and have planned a date to all film together, combining our ideas. I have begun cutting and ordering the scenes so that it is alot more orgnaised, and we can see what more we need to film to meet our final deadline. We aim to complete all of our filming, by the end of November. At present we have about 10-15 minutes of footage to work from so we better get to it!

Location Shots & Stills

First Lot Of Filming Complete

I have completed my filming through half term and have focused on the sad times of relationships, (post break up) as my male actors unfortunately had to cancel. This was still a very productive week of filming, as I was able to capture different aspects of relationship's. I plan to film the happy times of relationships to capture the good times as well, adding contrast. I plan to do this within the next two weeks as at present i am concentrating on my current footage and editing it.

I will make the footage all black and white as it appears more professional in black and white due to the camera's lack of high tech equipment, that professional Music Video artists own. I will also cut out the bits that I am not happy with, and the bits that went wrong so I can show the rest of my group my ideas and we can therefore swap these ideas and inspirations and combine them.

Our Half Term Plan

During half term, my group and I will book out a camera and each use it for 3 days of our Half Term period. We have decided to do this as we feel that it will help us gain alot of contrasting and exciting ideas which we can later put together. We have planned to film all together very soon, after we know exacly what we want to capture and have a storming Storyboad already set up. After we get back from Half Term, we will all each individually upload our footage onto Final Cut Pro, and edit it how we want our footage to appear and then show it to our fellow group mates.