After Adam and Jay had finished drawing a particular scene, we took a picture of the frame, uploaded it to the computer and I tried to fit it in to the right place within the song.
The picture on the left, shows me using the Final Cut programme and composing the animatic, and the picture on the right shows Jay and Adam creating the story boards. 
The other idea that we had was to do with the London Eye. These are the two shots we got of the wheel. The shot from the front of the wheel was taken because we had the idea of filming the wheel front on and then speeding the footage up. Also known as over cranking we felt that showing footage of the wheel in a sped up motion would look effective to use at some point within the video. The picture below is another of the London Eye from a different angel. We were walking along a bridge and saw the view between some buildings and thought it was a very picturesque shot. We also noticed how the sun was positioned and thought we could take advantage of the different angels of the sun on different landmarks within London.
The shot shows FOUR different scenes that are divided over the screen. The shots that are shown above are of exactly the same thing, peoples feet, and in the scene, each person is tapping their feet in exactly the same way. This is an idea that we would like to use in our video. The vision that we have is to have our artist in four (or more) different locations, singing the exact part of the song and in the same position in the shot. This idea would work well as we could establish four different places that we would like to shoot, and then focus on one as the screen expands one quarter of the screen.
As stated, this is an idea that we will definitely want incorporate into our video to add that extra bit of authenticity.
Upon opening this program it looked slightly difficult to use but after a bit of prompting and playing around, I finally got the hang of it. So, with this on the home screen, I located the song that I wanted, in this case, the extract of our model Jack performing. Once the song was dragged into the program, the next thing to start doing was to listen to the song and see what parts I wanted to cut down. The original audio that I ended up editing can also be found here on YouTube, and from this you are able to see how much of the video I have edited out. After establishing which parts of the audio that I wanted to take out, it was time to begin the process.
Above is a screen grab of the edited piece that I have used for the mp3. It is obviously a lot smaller than the picture above this one and I also deleted the long introduction just so we only had the audio piece there and no long blank spaces. To me, this edited piece sounded great so far. I decided that if I was to put this straight onto my blog via an mp3 bar, then it may not sound right due to there being an abrupt ending. The vast majority of songs these days finish with music playing, however there is a significant volume reduction to play the song out. This is the effect that I used to complete the editing process.
Towards the top of the page, there is a bar that says about track volume. This is what I wanted, and after clicking on this, a blue bar below my edited piece popped up. The blue bar represented the volume, and in order to change this, I simply had to click the blue bar underneath the part of the song that I wanted to change the volume for, and then drag down to create a 'slope' in the line.
The end of the song that had its volume changed can be found below. As you can see, there are blue bubbles along the blue line. This is where I clicked and dragged down in order to change the volume. After playing around a bit and listening to the ending a few times, the grab on the left shows the end of the song with the final chosen volume levels.
After saving the song, the process on Garage Band was now completed. All that was left to do was to send the song to iTunes. This was as easy as clicking the 'Share' on the tool bar at the top of the screen and selecting 'send song to iTunes'. The song was obviously then sent to iTunes, and it appeared in the playlist as normal. 
to follow and the process is shown below. The process that was required to host the song was fairly easy to follow. When Google sites had loaded I had to click the create icon to make a new page. After the new page was created and named I then had to make the page able to take and upload mp3 formatted files. To do this I had to add a new page to the site. The page that then comes up is the one that is on the right of the screen. I had to change the bit where it says 'Web Page' to 'File Cabinet'. This format then allows you to upload any files from the computer such as mp3 files and videos. So, after the format was changed, I simply clicked create and the page was made. The next step was to actu
ally add the file that I wanted to that page. This was as easy as following the on-screen instruction. I chose my file from iTunes (where it was placed after the editing) and added it.
where it says 'Download' and from the drop down menu, choose 'Copy Link'. This was the hard bit over of the editing and hosting the music file. It was the easiest way to host the music rather than having to possibly pay for an account on another music hosting website. After finding the HTML code on another blogger site, a site dedicated to help other bloggers such as myself, all I had to do was enter the copied link into the correct place and add it to my post. (The HTML code that I used is below)
When we started to story board our ideas to the music video, we realised that we didn't have a model to appear in the video. This again is another aspect of the research that we should have considered at the start of the video. It would be no good doing all the research to find that we didn't actually have an appropriate person to appear in our video. We contemplated over who we could use and different people we named but quickly decided against because they were not the sort of person to fit our genre of music.
An iconic location that could be used in our video is the famous London Southbank. It is always busy with people commuting to and from work, going out for day trips, and also with tourists. The riverside walkway also hosts a number of different famous landmarks such as The Houses of Parliament, The Mayor's Office, The London Eye and Tower Bridge, all of which are identifiable to the public as being London's tourist attractions. These places would be good to film for large crowds and also a different number of people as tourists from all over the world travel to see the different destinations.
Wembley Way would be another great place to film. We could have a long shot of the whole of the walkway and see the stadium in the background looking at the different people that are walking below. This would give a notion of looking sense as the audience can see what other people do with their lives and either relate or differentiate it to their own life. It would be ideal to shoot this location completely empty to show how life has not yet started (due to the time of day) and then a later shot of the walkway packed with people showing how quickly life develops and how the world becomes busy. 
Tube stations are tricky locations to shoot in. There are so many across London that would benefit us and our video. One of our ideas for the video is to have our artist/actor singing with his guitar in a tube station watching life as it goes by. Although this could be a good idea, we have to appreciate that filming anything on the TFL (Transport For London) is very tricky due to the previous terrorist attacks. As a group, the only way we could decide on over coming this, should a tube station happen to appear in out video, and we are asked to move on, the best thing to do is plead ignorance and say we are students merrily filming some footage for our Media A-Level and we were unaware of the restrictions of filming in tube stations. The idea of the tube station, again can be used to show people moving about their everyday life and would show an audience the different types of people that live in the world.
Rock Music: developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the US and UK. Musically, rock has centered around the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with bass guitar and drums. Like pop-music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. An example of a rock band is The Beetles, on the right hand side.
Alternative rock consists of various sub-genres that have emerged from independent music - shortened to indie music - scene since the 1980s, such as grunge, BritPop, Gothic rock, Indie pop, and Indie rock. These genres are unified by their collective debt to the style or ethos of punk rock, which laid he groundwork for alternative music in the 1970s. An example of an alternative rock band, is The Goo Goo Dolls, shown on the left hand side.
ate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in the US and the UK. An example of a psychedelic rock band is that of Pink Floyd, as shown in the picture to the left.
As you can see, the average Alternative 'member' relies quite heavily on the media for entertainment. The table clearly shows how Alternative people enjoy heavy usage of Internet, TV, Magazines and Radio. If people were not interested in Radio, TV or the Internet, then there would be no point in creating the video. Obviously all music videos are filmed to accompany a particular song, and this is then played out to the public via certain TV channels. So what would be the point in making a music video to people who barely watch TV? As well as this, music videos appear all over the internet and compete to get the most amount of 'hits' - most views - so again, making a music video to someone who does not use the internet often would also, to me, seem non-beneficial.
The above picture shows the type of people that fit into the category of 'Alternative'. The picture was taken at Reading Music Festival, which is exactly the festival where Noel Gallagher would most likely play at. They normally dress in clothes such as skinny jeans and anything else that shops like TOPMAN or Urban Outfitters sell.
