Changes to the song timing

We attended a study day, based around the production of music videos, at the BFI in Southwark. Here, we were advised to keep our song short, with a maximum time limit of approximately three minutes. We realised that our song was a lot longer than three minutes at just over four and a half minutes. To solve this issue, we decided to cut our song in order to make the length shorter. We felt that the perfect timing to cut the song was at 03:13, where we faded the song out.

Also, we were instructed not to have too many different locations. To follow this order, we decided to change location of the scene where Hakan proposes to Hilary. We will film it at Grovelands Park, where we will also film shots 16 to 20. Therefore, we will have one less location which is a positive result.

In addition, we were told that close ups are an essential part of music videos. Therefore, we will be attempting to include many more close ups of our main characters, especially Hilary.

Our Film Treatment

We decided to record our film treatment and you can watch it below:

Also included, are the notes which we used to guide us in what we said...

To get an idea of what other Media Studies students thought of our Film treatment, we asked 3 of them to watch it and comment on one improvement that could be made. Their comments are shown below.
We decided to ask Media Studies students specifically as they are the ones that fit our target audience and have knowledge of what our music video should contain.

The Animatic

Shared below is our animatic:

Our Rnb Music Video Survey Results & Analysis

As we attend a girl's school, it was difficult to approach males and question them in time. Therefore, we used alternative ways to get their opinions across. We used applications such as 'Whatsapp' and various other forms of communication. Some examples are shown below.

1. Whatsapp

 

2. Facebook messenger

3. Text messaging

Analysis of the Survey Results:

 

Our RnB Music Video Survey

Below is an example of the survey we used to question our target audience. We tried to aim it as accurately as possible when handing them out, which will be described in our results.
Our target audience are the younger generation with ages ranging from 16-25. This is because they would be the people who can mostly relate to the lyrics in Beyonce's Brown eyes song - the beginning stages of a relationship.

An example of our Survey:

Storyboard

Please note that the two previous posts refer to the initial storyboard and some of the updated storyboards.

 However, due to feedback we gained from our target audience (of the film treatment) and to better our music video, we made further changes to these storyboards.

Consequently, you will experience that our final piece differs, in certain areas, from our storyboards.

Updated storyboard

 We have made some changed to the initial storyboards. Below our images of our updated storyboards.