Budget

We have a budget for our music video which doesn't effect us greatly in how good the music video turns out but does have some restrictions. We have a camera already that we own within our group from one of our group members and the tripod that we would us for some of the shots is lent to us by the school that we can borrow over a period of time in order for us to get the filming in that we need to make our music video. The location that we want to film our project is in walking/cycling distance and this is how we are going to travel to the locations a majority of the time. The one cost that is going to be needed is a train ticket each as one of our shots is on a train and in the station. As this is a cost to us individual, we will then make a day of it and try and find more locations once at our destination from the train to film another scene. This will work out as our music video is about our main character travelling around and meeting people so every new place is a potential new shot.

Facebook page

Facebook is a social networking site that has over 1.15 billion users across all ages groups. This is a free site to make pages and profiles. These facts make Facebook the best social networking site to use to create a page for our music video to make people aware of what we are doing in the production stage and the final piece at the end. The main target audience of this site is women which is our audience preference for our music video, making it a perfect site to post on to target directly to the right people we are aiming to attract to watch our project of The Shape Of The Earth - Alone In This music video.



We created the page with the title of the song music video so that people knew straight away what the page was and what it was about. People could also search this way if they was a fan of the group or the song so they have an interest into how we are making this music video with this song. We also made a post to let the likers of the page know what the page was going to consist of and what we was going to be posting onto it in the near future all the way through the production up until the final product, being our music video. We are going to be putting our rough cuts, our ideas and pictures of the production and the storyboard so that everyone that looks at the page is updated and helps us to keep up with what we have done in the same way our blog does.

We have 16 likes on our page from friends and family which shows them all our page posts on their timeline and our pictures and videos that we post so they are always updated and in the know.  This page on Facebook has allowed us to put our music video and our research into the public and make our target audience aware to increase final video views and attention.

Our idea for filming

We have decided that we are going to film our music video over different days and at different times of the day so that we can make the illusion to the audience that its going over a long period of time. This is why the weather changing over days and shots are going to look good and add to the effect that we are aiming to create with the long time period setting.

Synopsis of our music video

The main character in our music video is going to have a back story at the beginning, where she is being brought up in a bad home with a violent upbringing. The music videos starts with shouting and arguing from parents, so she starts packing  her bag to leave. This house is going to be very basic with simple furniture and have a dark, grotty atmosphere and feeling to it. This creates the look to the audience that the family is poor and has no care in their appearance or life in general. She then leaves the house with her belongings and goes travelling alone to escape her family and find friends. We will be showing scenes of her on the train, walking through busy towns and quiet fields. Along the way she meets people in different places where she visits which shows us her happiness for a few minutes and in this part of the music video it will be more colourful to suggest this. However the music video is trying to portray that even though she is travelling around with a lot of people, she still feels alone.

Location list

As in our video, it involves us travelling around a, we will need may locations to get the effect we are aiming for, these are the locations that we want; 

• House
• Train station
• On the train
• Estate
• Crowded town
• Long roads

One of the main scenes that will be shown in our music video is the train station, we want a misty, gloomy feel to it as it will link into the way that she's feeling at that moment.  We want good shots of trains and the way she's travelling because its her getting away from the place that she has bad memories in. When shes on the train we want her to be longing out the window, so we can see shes desperate to be somewhere else, we want the shot to be of hr side of her face and part of the window and the scenery so we can feel kind of what shes feeling too.

This is also another scene idea that we had in mind. This helps to show that the weather is changing over several days which again, helps the audience to realise that she is travelling for a long period of time. The dark effect that we are aiming for is just how this image shows. We want some shots of the main character walking through open spaces with a lonely road like this picture suggests. Having the rain drops on the camera lens, this is creating the handheld camera feel that we are trying to make during her travelling sequence of the music video. We think by having open spaces with just her in the scene it shows her loneliness. 

Digital Technology that we are going to use

There are some technical equipment that we will need to use in order for this music video to work efficiently and be how we want it be. This will be things such as;

• Tripods
• Our digital camera
• Recording studio and a computer programme called 'Audacity'
• Computer/ computer programmes (Adobe Premiere Pro)
• Mobile phone

Other equipment that we are going to need is a ladder so that we can do the birds-eye shot that we want in the beginning of our music video will look good and be steady when we take the shot.

Costume Idea

This is the costume idea for the main character in our music video. We have chosen loose fitting clothing such as a jumper and baggy jeans to create a 'don't care' attitude look. This stereotypically indicates that they are negative in their selves and that she comes from a bad upbringing to have a depressive image. We will also have her wearing a beanie in order to hide her hair to show that she hasn't done anything with it because she couldn't be bothered and she didn't have the time to do that to show that she just wants to get out the house and don't care what she looks like as this is the character idea that we are trying to portray.