One direction- What makes you beautiful

This is my practice music video task which we did to prepare for the final project and familiarize ourselves with  iMovie and using the cameras. In order to make this video we had to consider the audience to the song and then through mise en scene convey the narrative video to the audience. In the video the band are seen to be strolling through a countryside lane after having a muck around in the park, these are all joyful fun scenes to compliment the upbeat song.

Ideology behind video

From my understanding of the lyrics of the song its telling a story of young love and people growing up together wishing they can continue to grow together. It is a joyful song that We are going to narrate from a couples perspective looking back at their younger days they spent together. The main feature of the video will be a good out to the zoo the couple went to as one of their earliest dates.



Original Song and Lyrics

"Wouldn't It Be Nice"

Wouldn't it be nice if we were older
Then we wouldn't have to wait so long
And wouldn't it be nice to live together
In the kind of world where we belong

You know its gonna make it that much better
When we can say goodnight and stay together

Wouldn't it be nice if we could wake up
In the morning when the day is new
And after having spent the day together
Hold each other close the whole night through

Happy times together we've been spending
I wish that every kiss was neverending
Wouldn't it be nice

Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray it might come true
Baby then there wouldn't be a single thing we couldn't do
We could be married
And then we'd be happy

Wouldn't it be nice

You know it seems the more we talk about it
It only makes it worse to live without it
But lets talk about it
Wouldn't it be nice

Good night my baby
Sleep tight my baby

Research on Genre

The beach boys are a pop rock band that started creating their music during the early 60s, they are also classed as a surf band hence the name the beach boys. The characteristics of this genre of music include a more upbeat tempo in comparison to conventional rock according to the R Middleton in Studying popular music one of his studies carried out in the early 90s. Pop rock is a mix of the conventions of popular music light lyrical and catchy rhythms with a high concentration of guitar usage simular to conventional rock. Examples modern pop rock bands includes Maaron 5, Scouting for Girls and before them bands like The beach boys and The cranberries.

Genre music video moodboard

I made this mood board to aid my creatively during the brainstorm phrase of our project I constructed this in order to understand exactly what the genre of pop rock was all about and it also gave me an idea of where to start the actual research after looking and discovering which bands were in this genres and how they target their audience this would become useful to us in the planning of the video and promotion pack. 

Brainstorm

 In our group we decided to make a mind map in order to allow us to visualise our ideas then after from the ideas listed we could start to biuld the plot of the music video and start choosing locations to shoot the scenes and the actors we are gonna use. In order to mae it easier to see who was contributing which ideas in our group we all used different colur pens to note our ideas.
Sophie used the pink pen
Ricky used the green pen
Maxwell used the blue pen

We all developed some good ideas but then we used a purple pen to circle our favourite ideas and the ideas we are most likely to use for the project. Our ideas where mostly of filming different stages of a relationship which worked well with the song choice. We decided to make the video seem as if it was a 

Brief

This picture was taken was taken of me and my group during our first brainstorm session this was when we first decided to do a music video. From the left its ricky lawrence, sophie harten and then last on the right is me. We decided to produce the music video and the promo package including the digipak of the album the video is from and a webpage promoting the aritist. In our group we are gonna work together in order to meet the production criteria set out to us in our briefs.
In order to ensure our video is successful we have been briefed to complete this checklist;

Planning
Research
Digipack
Poster
Costume and makeup
Props
Lighting
Time managment
Space
Organisation
Good lipsynching
Large variety of shots
Good use of editing
Good blog.
A interesting and believable performance.
A interesting setting.
Evaluation