Practice video

This is the video I created as a member of another group to enable us to become familiar with the software. Looking back at the video, I can immediately spot many faults with the camera work and mise-en-scene. I am hopefully going to greatly improve when creating my final music video. The brief set to us was simply 'The Journey', our job to creatively represent thios. We choose a girls journey from being a geek and being bullied to becoming an attractive girl.

The Kooks- She moves in her own way

Practise Music Video from Lucy Simonds on Vimeo.

The Ghost Frequency?

The Ghost Frequency are a UK band signed to the label City Rockers. Formed in a bedroom in spring 2005, they begun writing and recording songs. With a drummer now part of the team, they began rehersing for live shows in 2006. After a year of writing and gigging, attempting to gain a audience, they were signed up by City Rockers and begun work on their debut single 'Nightmare' which was released as a limited edition 7" red vinyl in August 2007, with the accompanying video becoming a favourite on the MTV2 channel as well as on YouTube.

After a phase of success, including including joining Hadouken! on their UK tour as main support, the band split in spring 2009 with some band members going on to be involved in individual projects.

This picture of the band caught my eye as it shows their punky and rocky personality with their creative side being represented with the editing.

Choosing the song...

After swaying away from using 'Insomnia' as our song, we had to take a few steps back and find a appropriate song for our ideas. This involved asking around, finding people that could give us some possible songs to go with our idea. Luckily, everyone was happy to co-operate and we got quite a few possible songs. We went through the list and listened to the songs one by one, one after another and wrote down our honest opinions of each song.

Unfortuneately, Lucy Simonds was absent for this lesson. However, we knew that she liked The Ghost Frequency song as she was the one that found and liked the song and then proposed it as a strong possibility to me and Runi.

After listening to the list of songs, we went on to agree with Lucy that The Ghost Frequency- Nightmare was most appropriate and fitted the theme that we wanted. Finally, we have found a song :)

Second Group Meeting..

In this meeting, our ideas changed dramatically. Now, we plan to use Insomnia by Faithless.

For this song, we plan to portay the suffering of a young woman who has been negatively affected due to lack of sleep. This may be due to drugs and alchohol but we have not yet decided on this yet. We also think the style of song will broaden our choices in the editing process as the pace changes throughout the song.

We have choosen to use the version of this song that contains hardly any lyrics as we want the music to be dominant, not the singer.

After proposing this idea to our teacher, we decided to change the song again. We realised that Insomnia was anthem known across the world, meaning our video would not be original.

The Ghost frequency- NIGHTMARE!

This is the song that we are now planning to use for the media video. The song is hardly known, allowing us to experiment with the shots we wish to use as well as the story line.

First Group Meeting

I am working in a group with Lucy Simonds and Fahmina Ali for this project. Working as a group will be a benefit for us as it allows us to share our creative ideas, meaning that the final product will be at the best level possible.

In our first discussion as a group, we started to decide about the most important factor of the music video... the song! After searching through the thousands of options we had in front of us, we decided on the option of Lily Allen- LDN. We liked this song as it told a story that could be portrayed in creative way with one member of our group being the main character. However, after a deeper group discussion we decided that our video would be too similar to the original staring Lily Allen. Our idea for this song is to have our main character on an adventure around London town, experiencing the different walks of life, but after viewing the original video, this idea is too similar.

Brief

The task ahead of us is to create a promotion package for the release of an album, which is to include a music promo video along with the choice of a website home page for the band, a cover for its release as park of the digipak or a magazine advertisement for the digipak.

As a group we have decided to create a website home page along with a cover for the albums release.

What is a digipak?

'Digipak is a patented style of compact disc or DVD packaging' - Wikipedia. Below is an example of a 6 panel digipak for the popular band Oasis. This gives me a clear idea of what is expected to be produced.