Music Video Research

  Today we started our second project and its a music video, since we finished the Nike commercial. The new project is a music video, that is two times as long as the previous project being 1 minute and 15 seconds long. the project is also going to be film out side of school. the work will be harder because of what was previously stated before and because our group is half as small. The group is now just me and Paige, and Zeke and Eli are in their own group with Peter, so we will  have a lot more work between the two of us. For the project we have some room for creative expression. we could make our music video any genera, but it has to be school appropriate. The music video can be about someone lips siccing the words of the song or a story. We could film our project anywhere so we are probably going to film in a park. this project seems to be a new challenge, but we will overcome it.

     For our music video we chose the song, My Girl by The Temptations. For our music video we plan to use dogs as the subject. This will be a different way to represent the song because the song is not perceived as a song about dogs. The dogs will represent 'my girl'. We will use many different dogs so the video is not to repetitive. We will include different shots and angles to show the dogs and owners. For example, when we show running scenes of the dogs it will be either a pan, tilt or a tracking shot. We will also have high, low and eye-level angles so every shot looks different. We will show a shot of one dog every time the song says 'my girl'. This will give the video structure that follows along with the music.

  Our songs genre is 60's pop.this era is were pop over took rock as the most popular genre.
there is no real conventions in 60's pop camera angles, movements and types of shots because
Music videos were not invented yet. Although there is no music videos for 60's pop, we are going to break conventions by making the music video modern, while keeping the 60's pop ascetic in mind.

1.Costumes: The costumes that the actors are going to where are going to be casual park clothes, but not wearing any long sleeves or pants, just shorts, and tee-shirts.

2.Lighting: We will use natural lighting from the sun for our lighting. We preferably film at a time were you can not see the shadows of the camera man in the shots, like midday were the sun is directly above

3.Actors: The actors we will be using are going to be humans and dogs. We have a good selection of dogs for this project, that are all girls, which fit with the song

4.Music: There will be no music other than the actual song playing in our music video.

5.Props: The props we will be using are leaches, headphones, and other casual dog walking things.

6.Setting: The setting will be in a park. The park that we chose to film in is Harbor island, because it is very close to were we live