Intial Ideas for 4 AM - Melanie Fiona

For our initial ideas I decided to make a glog. this allowed me to plan out all our ideas in a more creative way through layering images and adding the actual.
to watch and use the actual glog, please go to our Initial Ideas Glog Post

Firstly, we separated out ideas into images and text.
The images displayed items such as clothing, location and equipment
The text explained our two plot, which would be shown in the video through performance and narrative.

Cast - The People that will feature our Music Video

Cast

In the music video there will be one main male artist and two female artists/dancers.

This is one of the two female artists/dancers. Shanike is going to be our main girl. Sarah will only be used during the performance scenes

This is the main male artist. The reason why he was chosen was because he is able to look the part for the video and he can also act for the music video.

Miguel - The Artist

MIGUEL
For our media project we have decided to do the song, Adorn by the R&B artist Miguel.
Miguel's Website

History

Miguel Jontel Pimentel was born on the 23rd october 1986. he was first signed to Drop Squad Records after graduating from high school in 2000, due to a change of image he signed to Jive Records in 2007 where he released his first album All I Want You. although the album wasn't successful immediately, it became a sleeper hit and gradually went up the album chart in the Billboard 100 until it reached certified gold, selling 404,000 copies in the US alone.

Image

His image is very prominent and is often seen as the first indicator to his music. He is all known to have a smart hipster style. He is known for having tight suit with quirky accessories. The colours he usually wears are either bright and bold and black with a futuristic.

The first image displays Miguel signature style by having the qurky bow tie along with the suit like cardigan. As well as this he also has his staple futuristic glasses, which are seen in alot of his looks.
We would be taking inspiration of this by using both a bow tie and a pair of Ray-Bans, taking inspiration from his glasses.

This is another one of his looks where he uses the glasses again and he has more of a rock edge.

I alot of his clothes also consist of leather jackets, which  we would also be adapting for our video .

Albums

All I Want Is You

Kaleidoscope Dream

Animatic For Our Music Video

Jessica and I had left Sath and Prince in charge of the animatic and this is what they came up with. I felt that this was successful because that got the shot in time with the lyrics and I felt that the shots were carefully thought out.

This is what they got up to behind the scenes:

To begin with, Prince and Sath started watching the official music video for our song choice 'Adorn'. As they were watching the music video, they wrote down the different shots and angles in the music video.

  They wrote down every single shot that was used in the entire music video and the length of each cut. By the time they had finished the entire song, they had a couple pages of shots to group and analyse.

After they had all of the shots, they started analysing them to show which shots were most used and how effectively they was used.

Once they had analysed the different shots used in the actual music video, they started to write down shots for our own music video.

Once the shots were written down, they drew them out so we can put them onto our animatic.

Once they finished the drawing, they had uploaded them onto the computer and cropped them out into smaller pictures of each individual shots.

Once all of that was done, they opened up 'Final Cut Pro' and inserted all of the pictures and the song.

Once they had all we needed onto final cut, they started putting pictures onto the timeline according to the song.

Location and Costume Shots

Here is an animoto of the clothes and the location that will or may be used during our video.




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Song Choice And Lyrics Analysis

Song Choice and Lyrics Analysis

We have decided to create a music video for the song, Adorn by Miguel. We have chosen this song for multiple reasons. Firstly, we feel that this is a prime example of the male R&B genre without it including rap within the song. This will allow us to use conventions of the R&B genre within the video and it will turn turn out realistic and successful. Secondly, it is done by a male figure which allow us to interpret more views from both sexes which can often make a video more approachable to the real world if it was to be chosen. Thirdly, the song includes an older, new jack swing sound which allow us to more away from it being a typical R&B vulgar video to it being classy and looking a lot more naturally effective. Fourthly, the artist allows us to use his star power to bring a swerve and sophistication to our main character and the back up dancers.

Finally, the song allows us to include both performance and narrative and the performance within narrative, often seen in the R&B genre. This would allow our video to fit in with other videos around today successfully. the bet of the song would allow us to create close up of moving object even though there wont be a band present.

We decided to create a poster, displaying the lyrics, the analysis and what the artist wanted it to portray and the way we would portray it in our music video.

Pitch For Our Music Video

In order to make our music video process more professional we had to create and present a teacher for our teacher on our song choice and music video ideas.
During our pitch we decided to made a mood board on our school board.