meetings

Thursday is our presentation and as a group we still need to come up with an appropriate treatment, it doesn't have to be finalised but atleast a draft version that we can pitch to the rest of the class.
Hannah and I are going to have a meeting period 2+3 to think up a treatment and then Tom will meet us at break and give his feedback on it.
If need be we are going to stay thorugh lunck until our treatment is complete.
Our target is to have a final treatment by the end of the day so we can crack on with the planning for our presentation thursday.

Once all the above is complete then we will have to break up who is doing what for our presentation. Individually we should have ready different things and then during the presentation we pitch the idea and song together and according to what you had to research you can talk about it to the rest of the group.

TO DO LIST:
1. The track itself
2. What you know about the track, and the original band/artist
3. The genre of the music and the signifiers of this
4. The target audience you intend to appeal to
5. Your treatment for the video which should include visual references (stills and video)
6. Your treatment should give a strong sense of the overall style, mise-en-scene, mood and theme of your idea.
7. You should be able to discuss in terms of Goodwins questions on B2 (using B7 to help you)

Group meeting number 3

Friday 18/09/09
On friday we had our meeting with Miss.
The first thing we had to do was show miss the song we chose, and her feedback was:

She immediately loved the song and thought it was a really good choice. Earlier that day Hannah and I had done a few brainstorms and so we talked through them to Tom and miss.
We spoke about how we could imagine a lot of quick paced shots, something with a retro vintage theme to it.
A few things we all really liked the idea of were, a sequence of shots where her outfits are going to change numerous times (ref: 'Moodswings'- Charlotte Church), also a fade in fade out shot (ref: 'Unfaithful' - Rihanna) we thought this would look very effective while she is walking down london streets early evening.

Miss then showed us a video that was made in 2003, 'i believe' - joGo, the whole video wasn't much based on the lyrics but on the style and performance which is exactly what we want.


Above is the video, the changing constume throughout the video is really effective and is the sort of thing we thought would suit our song. We would rather it not be continuously but instead intercut with a slight narrative.


Additionally, because the song we've chosen is a just over 2minutes, we thought - again relating to Rihanna's 'Unfaithful'- we would include an intro and outro, this will consist of a 20sec narrative at the beginning with no music and again at the end. Not only does it help us with the short track issues but it also really helps with the idea we have because we don't want to have a full on narrative, therefore including it at the start and end it will look much more effective.

Overall, I am very happy that miss has agreed to our choice of song because it means we dont have to waste anymore of our precious time picking another tune we all agree on. In addition, the fact she likes our ideas is even better cos it means we're on the same level.

To be done for monday:
we each need to come prepared to our meeting with a treatment and then from there we can pick out our favorite parts from each and piece together the perfect treatment.

Group meetings

Our first group meeting was on wednesday 16/09/09-

This meeting didn't go too well, we only accomplished choosing a genre. We were hoping to have a track and treatment by today but that didn't happen. As we we adament we needed a a track by the end of the week in order to start planning our pitch for next thursday.

Therefore, we arranged another meeting for thursday.



Our second meeting was on 17/09/09-

This meeting was much more successful as we managed to start our group blog and we found a song at which we all really like. Yesterday we also arranged a meeting to see Miss.Blackborow friday lunchtime. So we're hoping that she likes the song too and so we can get on with making up a treatment and starting our presentation.

I'm really happy we've now made a start on things and then once a treatment is made we will spend to next following weeks editing it until we are completely happy with it and ready for shooting.

Our initial song is April March- Chick Habit


When listening to this song i can imagine there being lots of girl actors and a few sequences of fast paced shots. I have an image of watching the artist singing and then cutting away to girls dancing in the street, looking very happy and quirky.
This song is very contradicting, if you were to just listen to the tune you would expect this song to be accompanied with cheerful lyrics, however looking at the lyrics they aren't as lovely as you would expect. I really like this, i think it gives something unique and really makes an audience want to listen to over and over again. Because if you do the sterotypical sad song with a sad track then people will become bored of it much more easily.


Our next meeting is today at lunchtime with miss, to decide whether our chosen track is worthy enough or not.