Meeting Four

Meeting Four

Present: Zoe and Jasmine (Paul absent)

Agenda:
- Disucss final idea in more detail, and specifically:
- Think of more 'strange guests' and who could possibly play them
- Discuss costumes

Picnic Couple

Boy:
Who could play them? Paul
Costume? Either all in black with neon accessories, or dressed in completely normal, plain clothes
Where from? Paul

Girl:
Who could play them? Beaty
Costume? Either all in black with neon accessories, or dressed in completely normal, plain clothes
Where from? Beaty

Strange Guests

Magician: Performs traditional magic tricks, but wrong. See example in previous meeting notes.
Who could play them? Coryan, Ben Blume
Costume? Shirt, suit, bow tie, top hat, wand
Where from? Ask Coryan, or make some of it, ie wand

Clown: Traditional pranks. See example in previous meeting notes
Who could play them? Sezan
Costume? Wig (orange), brightly coloured clothes, dungarees, crazy tie, loads of make-up
Where from? Ask Hannah about dungarees, find rest of items from around our houses

Tutu people: Women wearing tutus and fairy wings, who blow bubbles/throw glitter or confetti
Who could play them? Zoe and Jasmine, Hannah
Costume? One purple tutu and wings, one pink tutu and wings, possibly one white tutu and wings. Pink and purple eyeshadow and nail varnish, possibly fake eyelashes
Where from? Zoe and Jasmine, possibly Hannah

Bunnies: Women dressed as bunnies, playing clap games in the background
Who could play them? Elanor, Hannah
Costume? Bunny ears, pink noses, white jeans, white shirts/t-shirts
Where from? Zoe, Jasmine, Elanor, Hannah

Pirate: Trying to scare picnic couple, they don't react
Who could play them? Ally, Emily
Costume? Pirate hat and bandana, white shirt, black waistcoat, black trousers, sword
Where from? Zoe - Hat, Jasmine - Bandana, Ally - other

Bride: Running around in her dress
Who could play them? Steph, Toni
Costume? Bride-like dress
Where from? Pauls sister

Person in a toga: Walking around eating grapes/throwing grapes at the picnic couple
Who could play them? Zahra, Ezinne
Costume? Toga
Where from? Use a white sheet

Targets:
- Ask possible actors if they would like to be in it
- Ask people about costumes, start gathering clothing and props

Discussed by Zoe and Jasmine
Typed by Zoe

Meeting 3

17/07/07

Present: Zoe, Jasmine

Agenda:
-Final Track Choice
-Further discussion of Final Idea

Final Track agreed on; Who's gonna sing? - Prototypes
Ask miss B for confirmation

Brief synopsis of Final Idea

Beginning:

Lego at beginning, close up, and hands playing with it, bright colour nails, close up of her nails. Mainly wearing black, contrasting with lego and her nails.


For the verses

Real life recreation of what she was creating with the lego, picnic scene. Boy and girl having a picnic, everything looks really normal at first.

Then strange guests arrive, poking their heads from behind of a tree, the two picnic people carry on as normal. The strange guests run around the tree and picnic area, sped up editing.

Magician doing a failed magic act, for example; tries to pull a rabbit out of a hat, it turns out to be a cat.
Clown: Doing typical clown acts; for example squirting water at the picnic couple, but they don’t react.
Tutu woman; blowing bubbles/ confetti


When the chorus comes;

Change from green background, cross zoom, to white background. White sheet back drop and one on the floor, the couple have a paint fight with poster paints.


Ending:

Go back to the lego person fallen asleep.


Targets: scout parks and take photos of possible locations.
Think about possible characters and actors for next meeting


Discussed by Zoe and Jasmine
Typed by Jasmine

Meeting Two Notes

Meeting Two
Date and Time: Tuesday 3rd July, 9:30 - 10:50
Members Present: All

Focus: Further Song Discussion and reduction to 10 final choices

Suggested Songs

Paul
Mr Brightside: Too well known song/video (2004)
Who's Gonna Sing?: Already has a video (not well known) - Possibility
Rock 'n' Roll Queen: Too well known song/video
Devil: Group didn't like song
Bohemian Like You: Group likes song, already has a video - Possibility
A Little Respect: Quite well known song/video, quite old (pre '00s)
Where is my Mind: No video, textual link with Fight Club, Paul/Zoe like song, Jasmine unsure - Possibility
Processed Beats: Has a video (not well known), group likes song - Possibility

Jasmine
Je Veux Te Voir: Zoe doesn't like the fact it's in french, group likes song
First Love: Famous song/video
Lego: Better song choices, not too famous
About your dress: Has a good video, group likes song, recent - Possibility
Spit at Stars: Video already, restrictive due to dominance of lyrics
Backfire at the Disco: No video, group likes song, restrictive due to dominance of lyrics
Tell Me: No video, group likes song, some restrictive due to dominance of lyrics - Possibility
Good Shoes: Not a famous video, group doesn't like the song
October First Account: Not lively enough, weird song
Bucky: Too hard, Zoe and Jasmine like the song, Paul didn't

Zoe
I Believe: Has a video (but only a promo), not sure about song
Dreadlock Holiday: Has a video (quite old), famous song, difficult genre of music
Flowers: No video, Jasmine really likes the song, limitations of genre
Car: Has a video (quite old), famous song
Automatic: Has a video (not famous), group likes song - Possibility
Pop the Glock: No video, Jasmine and Zoe likes the song, Paul didn't
I go hard, I go home: No video, heavy electro, no lyrics
Place Your Hands: Good song, has a video
Dancing in the Moonlight: Has a video (quite old), good song - Possibility
One Horse Town: Has a video, Paul and Zoe like song, Jasmine didn't
Someday: Famous song/video, group likes song - Possibility
A Message To You Rudy: Group likes song, famous song/video, quite old
The Guilt: Explicit language
The Narcissist: Group likes song, no video
California: No video, group likes song, restrictive due to dominance of lyrics
The Start of Something: Group likes song, no video - Possibility
Gotta Reason: Paul and Zoe like song, Jasmine didn't, no video
Creeping up the Backstairs: Group likes song, has a video - Possibility
One Week: Group likes song, has a video (old, not famous), song is famous - Possibility
Pinch Me: Group likes song, has a video

Targets for next meeting
To come up with initial ideas for the contents of the video

Disscussed by whole group, written and typed by Paul

Meeting One Notes

Meeting One
Date and Time: Monday 2nd July, 9:30 - 10:50
Members present: All

Focus: Song Discussion/Aims and targets for the brief and overall project

Aims:
- To produce an effective modern music video which fits the criteria of the brief
- For our music video to be unusual, and draw in the target audience

Possible songs:
Song for Clay - Bloc Party (Paul)
Patins - CSS (Zoe)

Song 1: Bloc Party
Pros
- Easy song to fit different styles of video to (ie narrative- or performance-based)
- Good rhythm

Cons
- Lyrics are hard to understand
- Too heavy/rocky - we believe this genre has too many conventions, and so we wouldn't be able to construct an obscure narrative, which was one of our aims

Song 2: CSS
Pros
- Unusual song and different style - allows us to comply with our aim of producing a more unusual and obscure video
- Lack of conventions for genre allows originality and creativity

Cons
- Focus isn't on the lyrics

End Result
We decided that, as one member of the group didn't like the CSS song and another member of the group didn't like the Bloc Party song, we would say no to both for now and try to think of some other possibilities which would appeal more to all members of the group

Other Choices
Space and the Woods - Late of the Pier (Zoe)
Pop the Glock - Uffie (Zoe)
Rebellion Lies - ArcadeFire (Paul)

We then decided to discuss genre, making lists of genres we didn't particularly want to work with, genres that were possible, and genres that we particularly liked.

Dislike:
- Grime (too difficult)
- Rap (too difficult)
- Dance (too difficult)
- Hard Rock (too many existing conventions)
- Country and Western (not modern enough)

Possible:
- Techno
- Drum and Bass
- Reggae

Like:
- Indie
- Nu-rave
- Alternative

Targets for next meeting:
- Each member of the group should compile a list of at least 10 possible song choices on their blog
- Each member of the group should do an ideas brainstorm or a synopsis for one idea on their blog

Discussed by whole group, scribed by Zoe and Paul, typed by Zoe