Storyboard

After getting all our ideas together and sending off the permission letter, we started planning our shots out on the storyboards shown below. The storyboards are ordered by number on the top, ranging from 1 to 4a.

Please note: we crossed out two shots on Storyboard 1a. This is because we drew the shots before matching the timing to it. When it came to deciding on how long to film the shot for, we realised that we'd have to make that particular area of the storyboard shorter in order to match the lyrics.

Beyoncé's history

To gain a greater understanding of Beyoncé's work and music, we researched into her History. We saw how she has changed and all of this successes.

Beyoncé from perer050308

Research of RnB Music Videos

We analysed RnB music videos that were similar to that of our song choice 'brown eyes', this is presented below.

Textual analysis of music videos (1) from perer050308

Letter to Sony Music Entertainment

Before we started producing our music video, we wrote a letter to Sony Music Entertainment - the recording label of Beyonce's song 'Brown Eyes', asking for permission. The letter stated as follows:

Sony Music Entertainment
9 Derry Street London
Greater London
W8 5HY

09^th November 2012

St Anne’s Catholic High School
Oakthorpe Road
London
N13 5TY

 

 Dear Sir/Madam,

 We are writing with regards to Beyoncé Knowles’ song Brown eyes. As A2 Media Studies students at Saint Anne’s Catholic High School for Girls, we have been given the task to produce a music video for a song of our choice.

As a group, we have decided to use ‘Brown Eyes’ as the song to our music video and ask for your permission to do so.

Yours Sincerely,

 

 

Beatriz Arredondo and Roshani Perera.

Mood Board

With inspiration from our initial ideas, along with further ideas, we created a mood board.

Our Initial Ideas

We started off by deciding on which genre we would like the music for our video to be and we chose RnB. This is because we both enjoy listening to music of this genre and are therefore familiar with the codes and conventions of RnB music videos.

Then, we started listening to our favourite songs and chose three which we thought would be convenient to use for our coursework. These were:

1. Beyonce - Brown Eyes
  

2. Beyonce - Dangerously in love 

3. Rihanna - Cry

After a discussion, we felt that Brown Eyes by Beyonce would be the best song to do our music video to.

Once we had decided on which song we were going to use for our music video, we jotted down our initial storyline ideas as shown below...

My AS Skills Audit

I used the experience of my AS Media Studies work to rate the criteria on the skills audit shown below. I will be aiming to improve the areas where I haven't scored highly, in my A2 course. I will do this through meeting the targets which I have set myself.