Action Plan

As a group we mind mapped some ideas of what we need to do to achieve our goals. Our main focus at the moment is to pick a song that we are going to use to create our video. Another important thing for us to do would be to pick the video setting.

Concept Ideas

Possible genres for us to use were:

Rock, Rap, Rap Rock, Pop and Hip Hop.
Artists we thought of were: Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Raleigh Ritchie, Alter Bridge and Evans Blue.


We came up with a few video ideas.

Our first possible idea would be of a band in 80s costume performing in an old empty hall playing to nobody. There would be a girl wandering around slightly seductively and the band pay no attention to her.

The second idea would be of a slow pop song cover, and the video would consist of a girl with her hood up walking slowly through the rain as everyone else moves past her. The song would be emotionally sad suggesting she hadn't moved on.

Another brief idea we had would be of a girl filled with hatred and jealousy toward a boys girlfrioend, she is obsessed with him. It is a sad song with a tragic ending.

We have narrowed our song choices down to these four:

Avenged Sevenfold - This Means War



Avenged Sevenfold - Requiem



Kanye West - Gorgeous



J Cole - Forbidden Fruit

Introduction and Background to the group

Our group for this consists of two people, Anthony Hill and Steven Brazier. Media Studies is considered our main subject and with the coursework being the most demanding, the one we'll be focusing on during A2.
We are both big music fans, with us going to concerts regularly and a lot of time spent listening to it as well as watching new music videos. We are both fans of a wide range of genres, such as heavy metal, rap and EDM. Sports such as football and basketball, as well as video games are also in our interests.

Anthony
Born - 18/3/1996
Anthony, mainly a rock fan, is pursuing a career in filmmaking so he will be the main influence of the technical and cinematography side of our production, with a more prominent talent in deciding the best framing/shots/editing. Linkin Park have produced some of his favourite videos, with them and their style being an influence.






Steven
Born - 20/11/1995
Steven, mainly a rap fan, takes more inspiration in the music itself and is the bigger fan of music in the group as opposed to the videos and TV/films. Because of his creative vision, the narrative and structure of the video will mostly come from his influence. Hype Williams is his biggest influence on creating music videos, who created many memorable and appealing videos for various artists.

Both of us have experience from a visit to the New York Film Academy, where we produced our own short clip and used professional equipment.