Planning:Filming Location Scouting

The location which we would like to use is located in Sheffield but are awaiting a response from the owners of the location for permission to film there. However, even though is further drive than our other option we believe it is better suited to our needs. The old warehouse bares resemblance to the scene of Reservoir Dogs that our music video will attempt to parody so is exactly what we are looking for.

 

 

Just in case we are unable to get our desired location we went and scouted another location.With this location being in Chesterfield it would make filing much easier. However this set was a little cramped and needed to be cleared if we were to use it for filming the Reservoir Dogs scene there but it did offer a perfect back drop for the scene we had in mind. The main downside to this location was that area of space we were given was in fact so small that we would have to record our band performance shots at another location which would take even more time to film and would not really fit with the band shots we had already planned out.

Research: YouTube Case Study

As i am going to be using YouTube a lot throughout this media course, I thought it would be a good idea to do a case study on the website and explain how I am going to be using it myself:

Planning: Permission Request

To ensure that our music video does not get taken off YouTube due to copyright issues I decided to  send an email to Stealer's Wheels record company (A&M Records) requesting permission to use the song fairly:

Planning:Rough storyboard-Steelers Wheel Stuck in the middle with you

Our group created a rough story board to give ourselves an idea of what shots and ideas we could use in our final music video. We will be doing another story board to finalise our ideas in preperation for filming.

Planning: Pitch Video

Here is our pitch video, where we pitched our music video ideas to a production company. In this video we discuss why we have chosen the song  'Stuck in the Middle With You' for our music video, how we are going to incorporate intertextual references to the movie 'Reservoir Dog's' and why as well as discussing the theme we are going to be aiming for in the music video.

Planning:Song decision making

Our group was unable to come to up with a decision for which song we should pick to do for our music video. After some debating, we decided it would be best to get the collection of songs that we though would be worth considering doing for our music video and put it up for a vote. After listening to each song,we rated them on how much we liked/wanted for it to be the song for our music video, out of 10.



After the votes were calculated and compared it was decided that Stuck in the middle with you by Steelers Wheel would be our song choice for our music video.

Research:Iconic Music Videos

This post shows research i have done to find some of the most iconic music videos ever created. Through researching these videos i have been able to learn of some shots and ideas i can later use in my own music video.