Finding Our Actors And Actress!

Firstly we had some difficulties finding our actors and actresses however with a little bit of effort and research we used people who matched the characteristics of our video theme, we used 4 actresses and 3 actors. 


In the first scene we used Fatiat, she had to play crazy in the first shot then become a drug addict. Second scene we used Daniel and Makeda who were a disturbed couple at breaking point, lastly we used Memunatu and Faidat who acted as the lesbian couple breaking up. Overall the actors and actresses did a great work!

Shooting Schedule..

This is our shooting schedule for our filming, we used this time table to follow a routine so we can get everything done fairly quickly. 

Questionaire/Survey..!!

We carried out a survey to find out more relevant information for our music video using survey monkey, we asked people from facebook and twitter to fill in the questions as the majority of our audience are from facebook and twitter.

Audience Research..!

Audience Research... on Prezi

Research & Ideas!

My group have used ideas from various of music videos we want to use these ideas and combine this with our own music video, however we will use each music video for different aspects of our music video, for example we will use drake-'headlines' for the very fast cut in shots for our edits, also we will use JoJo-'marvins room' for the phone conversation with the boy and girl, to show a realistic phone conversation between the actors.

Change of Chorus!!

Original Chorus:

'Even though im on my own                    
I still have the seat to my throne
this world is a game, aint that a shame
and am I the one to blame'

Originally our chorus was based around the fact that our charcters are all alone and this idea inspired us to create this chorus, i still have the seat to my throne protrays that the characters are alone howver they still have their pride, world is a game shows the difficulties that all the charcaters have had to face, ain that a shame shows that the characters are prepared for life ahead. Overall the chorus is refering back to the moral of the song.

New Chorus

Even though I'm on my own,
I am not alone
I still have the seat to my throne
Own, own, own...

We have changed the wordings of the lyrics due to the fact that our main singer was not able to match her  voice melody with the rythm therefore we have kept the same concept, but just changed the words and length of the chorus.

finally with statisfaction of the chorus, as a group we discussed how to make the chorus appealing to our audience therefore we used an example from All of the lights by Kayne West, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAfFfqiYLp0&ob=av3e, we were very interested with the flashing colour of the words for the chorus, we were then sure that we wanted our chorus to be similar to that,

By all these effects of the writing and colour scheme made us influenced to include this style for our own chorus in our music video.

Inspirations For Our Video!!

- Drake 'Headlines' -We used this video for an idea because of the effects of the quick flashing shots and transitions, therefore we would like to use this effect in our video as we believe the effect of this transition will make the flow of our video very good.  

  -JoJo "Marvins Room"- We used this as an inspiration for the phone conversation between the guy and girl, this gives a better effect for the song as it adds more realism into the video. 

As a group we chose to use 'Someone Like You' by Adele for our track, this is because the track itself is slow and can be relatable to a emotional music video, our video will portray alot of emotions and therefore we wanted a track that will be calm and have a slow beat to match the convention. 

'The A team' by Ed Sheeran was also an idea because we wanted the black and white effects throughout the first scene, this gives a more simplistic effect and also portrays the message of the song.