Friday, 23 October 2009

Contacting Island Record Company

In order to complete your music video, we have had to abide by all Island Records copyright laws, so in order to still achieve our plans of using a Florence and The Machine record. Therefore we sent and email to the record company to ask permission to use "you've got the love".

Here is a print screen of the email.


Copyright are important beacuse they have laws that are set-up to promote the creation of new things and ideas. If the laws didn't exist then some people may not be willing to share their ideas with others and we would then have fewer new innovations.Copyright is needed so people don't steal other peoples work, and it is protected.

Friday, 2 October 2009

Mise-en-scene

Setting/Location:

Starts- The start of the music will be of a youngish good looking girl, dressed smart for work coming out of her flat. We want to use this as a first establishing shot to set the scene, this will show her Independence and motivation to get to work despite her own personal problems. The building will be working class flats as this could appear to all types of audiences. Also some people could easily relate to the character. We will use either are own house or flats or a friends for this.














We want to use some kind of flats like this or someones home such as there pictures.

Both from google images


Second Scene- The Girl gets into her car and drives along the road to work. This will be a point of view shot to show exactly where she is going, so the audience can track her journey. She also turns on the car radio and the song continues through that while she drives to her destination. After her journey to work, she then Parks her car, gets out and walks the street to work. The street we will use will be a normal back ally leading into a town center, then there will be a building site which she walks past with the music playing out of the building site radio. The building site will be typical, such as work being done to the road, developing a building more or drain work, anything we can find available to fit our criteria.


All images from Google.




This is something like the building site we will try and find. This one is perfect as people can certainly see what it is. The next picture will be similar to our shot of the girl Turing on the radio in her car. The final picture will be similar to the car we will use.


Middle-After this the character then walks into work and gets comfortable at her desk, only to see a pile of paperwork, then her manager comes in an puts a load more paper work onto her desk. We are going to try and create an office type working space within our limits of college, home or any space we can get hold of. We will try and get hold of some desks, computers, chairs, anything that stages a business type office space. We choose to use a typical office layout so again the audience can relate to the space and to make it seem more realistic and believable to the viewers. Also so that the audience can see exactly what we want to portrait and they know exactly that it is a work space.

Just like the first picture is what we want to create while the girl is at work she gets piles of work put on her desk, to show stress. The second picture is use full as it can help us see how to create a typical working space.

Fourth Scene- After leaving work, she goes back into her car and drives home. she stumbles into her flat after the hard boring day at work, She drops her stuff and begins to get ready for a night on the town, she puts the music on as she does her hair and makeup in the mirror. During this time a buzzer go off at let times to show more and more friends arriving, to keep her company an cheer her up from her hard day. The building will be the same as the first establishing shot, so already thew viewers know she at her home and the video is kept consistent. We will only use one room of the flat, (lounge), the lounge we are going to use has all white rooms, this will being out the contrast and brighten the colours in the room. There is 2 white leather sofas opposite each other table in the middle, the window is situated above the sofa u see as u walk in, then there is a CD player on the left as she walks into the room, there is a TV on the opposite side to the CD player. Opposite the window there is a canvas painted picture of a sunset ( this is blue, orange and yellow). Next to the TV there is a big mirror, this will be the use for when she gets ready. We are going to use all there things as they are all typical homely objects, this will make it seem more realistic, and the audience will be again able to recognise that its a lounge. We are going to film a friends flat and lounge.



The first image is perfect for how we want our lounge to look. We will do our best to make it similar of if not homely and real. The second picture is just a rough idea of the girl getting ready with her friends in front of the mirror.

End- All the girls are on the street of Brighton, heading towards the pier for a wild night out, after a busy day. We will use a group of friends plus our main girl actress all dressed up, as they would in real life. To film, we will simply to following them as they start there night. Most of it will be not be staged, and we will track them as if they where on a actual girls night out. In our shots we will be using Brighton Pier, the beach, the promenade and Brighton's surroundings; as we find them.


Costume & Make-up:

First Scene, the actress will be dressed smartly as she is going to work. Her hair tied up of her face, smart shirt and a pencil skirt, Small black pumps or heals, glasses. Her make-up will be minimal and natural. We will use our own smart cloths for this, as we then don't need to buy it especially.

Second Scene the actress will be exactly the same as she was in the first scene.

Middle Scene again the actress will be dressed and have the same make-up as above.

Forth Scene, at the beginning she will be dressed the same as she is coming back from work. Then she begins to get ready. Here is where is will wear a more dressy top and jeans or a dress perhaps and her make-up will be exaggerated and bold. We will use one of our own tops, jeans and make-up for this.

End Scene, there will be a few girls who are all dressed up for a girls night out. They will have lots of make-up and wearing dresses or jeans and a top. Again we will use our own cloths and make-up that we can find.

Lighting:

During the first and second scene we will use natural light from the sun. we dont need artificial light for those scenes because both scenes are outside, except the bit where she is in her car, then we can use the light that's comes from the windows. The Middle Scene we will use both artificial and natural light as its an office type working space. We can use the lights and use natural light that comes in from the windows. Forth Scene we will use again both natural and artificial lighting, first natural as she drives home then the lights in the lounge to show her getting ready; for this we can also use other artificial lighting such as lamps. Finally for the end we can use again the natural nightime lighting and also use the artificial lighting for brighton pier.

Colour:

For most of our video we will use just normal colours. In the begging as she is going to work we will use duller colours to show that her work is boring and then as she begings to get ready things will brighten up, such as her clothes and the lighting in the room; this will emphasise that she is having fun.

Initial Ideas

My inspiration:

There are many other artists that are similar to Florence and The Machine. There are a main few that i think stand out in beeing similar to them.

1. Lily Allen



This is from Lily Allen 22 video where she and some other girls are getting ready in the mirror. After seeing this we thought it looked really effective using the camera as if its the mirror or just having girls all getting ready together, so we want to re-create this in our video. Here is her video.







2. Kate Nash

Kate Marie Nash was born 6 July 1987. She is an English singer and songwriter based in London. She had a UK hit Foundations in 2007, followed by the platinum selling UK number 1 album Made Of Bricks.



Kate Nash is also very similar to Florence And The Machine. Her style of music is aslo indie. I really think she was inspiration to Florence And The Machine as she was already making music befor they where.









Here is one of her very sucessfull music videos- The Pumpkin Song. I love this video as its all in a cartoon type visual, it all looks surreal. Many artists have taken this approach within some of there music videos. I would of loved to do something like this but as a group we thought it didnt go well with the song.

Planning - Story bording

A storyboard is a sequence of images, usally hand drawn, that visualises and sequences each shot of how it will be represented in a video. There is also imofrmation about any diologue, movements or any specific objects that should also be in the frame.The drawings dont have to be high qualitie,it should be basic so it is understood.

storyboading tips-

-Draw in pencil- this allows you to make changes easier
-Number the shots. This makes it easier to identify specific parts of the film when discussing with others.
-Make short notes, breif explanations of what happends in the shot
-Use small frames, this makes drawing the storyboard quicker
-Avoid stick men
-Note the camera postition


After discussing our final initial ideas and concluding on all of our ideas, we created a story bord, this helps us layout and finalize each shot and idea and what order they go in . We can use this as a template, so when it comes to shooting we know exacly what to do.











Introduction



Florence and the Machine released their debut album 'Lungs' on 6 July 2009. The album has topped the number 2 position in the UK and number 13 in Europe. As of the 6of August the album has sold over 100,000 copies in the UK and by the 10 of August it had been at the number 2 position for five straight weeks.
Many of the songs on the album where written as reactions to what was a temporary break-up with Welch's boyfriend. Welch says "He prefers me not to talk about it. It's funny then singing about it."

Florence and the machine, they are a fairly new group. They are an alternative rock band, there music is generally referred to as soul-inspired indie music. The band if formed of the main singer Florence Welch and a collaboration or other artists who back her up. The bands recent album, lungs was released on July 6th 2009 and it was number 2 in the charts for its first five weeks. Florence and The Machines music is well known across rhe music media and is very well praised. They have also playes at major music festivles in 2008; Glastonbury, Reading, Leeds and T4 in the Park.

The lyrics to youve got the love:

Sometimes I feel like throwing my hands up in the air
I know I can count on you
Sometimes I feel like saying "Lord I just don't care"
But you've got the love I need To see me through

Sometimes it seems that the going is just too rough
And things go wrong no matter what I do
Now and then it seems that life is just too much
But you've got the love I need to see me through

When food is gone you are my daily meal
When friends are gone I know my savior's love is real
Your love is real

You got the love
You got the love
You got the love
You got the love
You got the love
You got the love

Time after time I think "Oh Lord what's the use?"
Time after time I think it's just no good
Sooner or later in life, the things you love you loose
But you got the love I need to see me through

You got the love
You got the love
You got the love
You got the love
You got the love
You got the love

Sometimes I feel like throwing my hands up in the air
I know I can count on you
Sometimes I feel like saying "Lord I just don't care"
But you've got the love I need to see me through

You got the love
You got the love
You got the love
You got the love
You got the love
You got the love

[ Florence And The Machine Lyrics are found on www.songlyrics.com ]

This is there official website:
http://florenceandthemachine.net/