Storyboard

this is the written story board for our video, this is all the shots throughout the video and the write up and description for all of them.

there was a copy made up consisting of images and pictures also with a write up and description but it is dated and ideas were changed so it isnt up to the date with all the latest ideas.

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Our Survey

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Our survey's results
we asked our survey to many different people of all different; ages, sex's, cultures, backgrounds, lifestyles so we could get a broad range of different results from people and to see how they felt and what they felt about the song. From doing this it helped us gain an insight into what sort or age group and target group of consumers that we would be aiming towards when doing the video. This is a key piece of research as essentially it would allow us to develop an idea of video style that we would be using as we would want it to stand out to the target market.

Alot of the results were saying that people understood that the song was an up-beat happy song with a fast tempo so we would to create a video which fits this style and for example we wouldnt have clips of people being sad or down as it wouldnt work with the lyrics and the tune. Aswell as happy people also thought that it was a song about love and a young couple so straight away this has given us an idea to work around.

unfortunately i cannot upload the video clips of the surveys being carried out.
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The original Song, Video & Lyrics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwTv62EcUsk

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 never ending
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 couldnt do
We could be married
And then wed 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

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What do i make of the lyrics?

After listening the video over and over again in my group we decided that the video was telling a story about a young couple wishing that they were older "wouldn't it be nice if we were older,........ and wouldn't it be nice to live together" and "when we could say goodnight and stay together" so because of this view that we had on the video we decided to do our video telling a story about a young couple who are completely in love together, and then maybe go to them being older towards the end of the video, all the way through the song it is up beat and a happy tone so it will be full of happy scenes to match the music.

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Watching the original video

After deciding which song we would like to do for this task we felt as if we should watch the video over a couple of times to see how they went about creating a video for it and what purpose/meaning their video had and what story it told.

From watching the video as listening to the lyrics properly we feel that the song is alot about friendship, the video seems to show they are a group of friends maybe growing old together and staying close. This lead us to deciding how to do our video, we are staying with the friendship story as well but ours is based on a bioy/girl friendship which is in fact a relationship, and will film all of our clips emphasising that so that the audience can feel/see the same story as we did.

As a result of watching the video there was a lot of awareness raised within our group about just how many differnt camera angles are used and how many differnt short clips there are. This was good for us to see as otherwise we may have just took it a doss and not put the effort in that we really needed to and the video would have looked really un-professional.

These are some screen shots from the video showing all different camera angles, and different clips varying from the band singing.

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Ted swede

This is my Ted Swede

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHnZYe4XGB8

This wasnt a very successful video as it just wasnt well planned, wasnt well filmed, and it wasnt taken particularly seriously, but a good point coming from that is that i can watch it and see how if you do not take it seriously then the video looks awful, and i can see how i have to improve and that how much of a difference good editing can make.

This gives me a drive to make this music video good, and if the music video will only be good if i put the effort in.

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Previous work

This is a video of previous work that i completed in year 12 at AS level. This task was set so it could be used a practice for lip syncing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxda7mUI5uI&list=UUzCuzU6TJVKZ_Khku1FndtQ&index=9&feature=plcp

From this task i noticed the sheer importance of the quality of the lip sync, if the lip syncing is bad then the video looks out of time and completely un-professional so this needs to be a key focus of ours when we are filming this. Also from filming this we realised how little planning we had done and that we felt a bit lost when it come to filming as we had no structure to follow, so when we are going to film we need to know clearly; what we are going to do, where we are going to do it and when we would do it so this then means that we will get on with it and wont have any difficulties.

We also need to consider Mise En Scene because from this video you can see that we are all wearing bags still and the location is just on a cycle track around the town. This adds a negative effect onto the video as professional vidoes are taken seriously and this just seems as more of a fool around. So for our new video this means in order for our video to look professional and look like it is serious and is meaning full we will need to plan what we will be wearing on the day so we wont have any issues (carrying bags) and we will use a number of different locations and a number of different scenes.

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