Tennis Court - Lorde - Initial Ideas

Change of music video song choice

Myself, Abbie and Amy made the decision to change songs, initially we were using the song 'Take a Walk by Passion Pit'. However the closer we came to begin filming the more problems we had with the song. Firstly, when creating the story board we felt like our ideas for the music video were running out of steam and the initial ideals we had weren't great too either. When looking over the story board and attempting to see the our pictures in real life, we couldn't imagine it to be good content which made less confident about creating the video. Another problem we came across was that the singer for the song 'Take A Walk' was male, and we was having difficulty coming up with a reason for why a female was the lead in the song, as it was inconvenient for us to get a male singer. We also didn't think that our ideas were realistic and achievable for the timescale we have, as our idea for the song was to travel to different locations and get footage, this was proving difficult as to when we were going to do it due to us all having other commitments and not being avalible to travel to locations like Sheffield at the same time.


The song that we have decided to change to is 'Tennis Courts' by Lorde. We felt like this song would be much more suitable as we are able to use suitable locations located closer to use which are more accessible and easy to get to, meaning we are able to film on more occasions. The lead sing is also female, this means we can get someone from our group is able to be the lead singer in our video which means we don't have to find someone out of our group to do it which is much more suitable. We also have a much clearer idea for this song, which will make story boarding it much more easier. here is the song with lyrics:

Final story board - Passion Pit - Take A Walk

Although in the end we didn't end up doing this song, I still think that we have learnt a lot from creating the majority of the story board to this song. As it has gave us better knowledge on how to story board to a high standard, and has been good practice. Here is how far we got with the story board before changing songs:

Target Audience for our music video

Editing Time Lapse ideas

While writing our story board we had the idea of starting our music video with various different time lapses to set the scene. For this reason, i did some research into different time lapses to find out how effective they are and which angles would be best to use and which times of the day would be most suitable. Here is an example of one i found on YouTube.

How to use a green screen

As we are coming towards the time where we are required to begin filming our music video, I think now is the perfect time to develop my knowledge on different editing techniques and how to do different things. This will mean I have an idea of what to do before we try different new things.
Below is a video I watch on how to make a green screen video, I decided to do some research into how to use a green screen as for our chorus the idea is that a range of different people will be walking to the lyrics 'take a walk' and in the background there will be a wide range of different locations from around the world. And we are hoping to achieve this by using a green screen. Although we are going to be practicing with the green screen before we film the actual music video using the green screen, watching this video has given me a good idea on how to use it before we actually have a go.

The Story Board!

We are currently completing the storyboard, which is taking much longer than expected as we have found it hard to think of a range of different ideas. We have only covered around 55 seconds of the song, meaning we need to speed up and complete the story board as the song is 4 minuets and 25 seconds long and we are unable to focus on filming until this stage of the planning is finished. Here are some pictures of where were at with the story board: