Costume/Props/Makeup Organisation

Costume/Props	Source	Potential cost	Person in charge
Suit (patch work)	Charity shops/dads
Wig	Rachel	Free	Rachel
Rings	Rosie-diamond Plastic ring?	Free Free	Rosie Emma?
Props-spinning plates/Diablo	Rachel	Free	Rachel
Bowler hat with flower	Rachel	Free	Rachel
Tight skirt	Rosie	Free	Rosie
Blouse with buttons	Rosie/Rachel	Free	Rosie/Rachel
Posh suit	Joe?	Free	Joe?
Clown Makeup	Emma	Max: £3	Emma

This is a table that shows how the costumes will be sorted out. It shows all of the costumes/props/makeup that we will need and who will be in charge of it and how much it will cost. 

Time Management

In our group was have assigned tasks to different people, to make the process of planning easier and smoother. There are a number of different things that need to be completed and these are as follows:

Time Management - Ongoing blog posts by all of the group, these will be used to check that we have completed all of the tasks and that everything is going to plan

Research Into Target Audience - This will be in the form of a focus group, organised by Emma. The focus group will be held at 12 'o' clock on Thursday 26th January, this will be filmed and posted on the blog

Performers And Casting - This will include photographs of the actors and a grid to show who is playing which role, This is something that Rosie will be in charge of

Organisation Of Locations/Permission - This will include a risk assessment, photographs of the risks involved, Photographs of the location and a formal letter to ask for permission from the Ludlow Assembly Rooms. Jack will be in charge of this section

Costumes And Props - This will include sourcing of costumes and props, photographs of costumes, photographs of props and the person in charge of each costume. I will be in charge of tis section

Audience Profile Analysis

In our pitch we included an audience profile, this slideshow is a more detailed version of the target audience, people that we think will listen to the genre of music we have chosen and that our music video will appeal too.

Audience profile pres

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The Pitch

Pitch on Prezi

Research and Planning: Inspiration

After changing our song from "party all summer" to "who's laughing now" we have come up with some ideas that have been influenced by existing music videos. We decided to change our song as we will be filming in january and it would be hard to make a realistic summer environment. 




The first and most obvious music video that has inspired us is "who laughing now" by Jessie J, as this song has the same name as us, its instant inspiration but we will have to make sure that we don't copy things straight from the video as it is a different genre of music. 

In this music video is shows Jessie J as her younger self, being bullied for looking different to the other girls and looking like a but of a tom boy, the moral of the video is that Jessie J is now the one laughing at them as she is now a famous singer, and is popular due to her individual style and interesting voice. 
The ways in which the video has inspired us:

• The main character in the video comes out on top in the end
• Set in a school
• The concept of revenge 
• Although a lot of areas are redundant the entropic elements are fitted in really well, which is something we hope to achieve in our own music video.

Another music video that inspired us is Panic at the Disco-I write sins not tragedies. As we would like to add some entropic elements to our mainly redundant ideas, we would like to include the idea of clowns, to give the video a theatrical feel. The music video by Panic at the Disco includes similar elements that may be slightly over the top for our video, but still they have created inspiration. 

The basic idea of the video is a wedding in a church. when the lead singer and a group of other people burst into the church wearing fancy dress and circus outfits, they then take their seats as if they are guests at the wedding.

The things that I like about this video are:

• The basic idea of the video is very redundant of a normal wedding in a traditional church, this redundant feel makes the entropic elements seem even weirder than they are.
• The variation of entropy used is really creative
• The video is very performance based but the performance is mixed into the narrative side really well

Probably the most similar genre to our song is the next video, Paramore-Misery Business.  The video is very similar to the style and story line that we aspire to achieve. The video shows a popular girl in a high school walking through the corridors and being mean to everyone. 

It is narrative and performance based at the same time and these two style join at the end when the lead singer appears in the corridor with the "popular" girl and wipes all her makeup off her face to reveal an ordinary girl. I really like the redundancy of the typical American high school and the typical popular girl, who everyone is scared off and wants to be friends with. Although the story line isn't to closely related the story line we are developing, there are many elements that we hope will feature in our video. 

Digipak Analysis: Arctic Monkeys-Whatever people say I am, That's what I'm not

This album by the Arctic Monkeys is a conceptual album and this is shown in the simplistic design and photography that has been used when creating the digipak. The album and band name aren’t shown anywhere on the exterior of the CD case, and even inside only the album name is mentioned on the cover of the booklet that is included. 

The fact that the band name isn’t mentioned anywhere on the digipak could mean that the band don’t want to be judged or labelled by how their music sounds, as if they just want people to listen to the music on the album without being influenced by others opinions of the band.

The cover image is of a man smoking a cigarette, the photograph is in black and white and is very simple, as if its just a snapshot, this could be to represent the person or band as everyday people who do normal things and have the same problems in life as the people that listen to their music. It looks as if the man is sat against a wooden wall, perhaps in a bus stop or in a smoking area outside a nightclub or bar. 

On the back of the album is a photograph with exactly the same technical features but the man has his head in his hands, as if he’s crying or is upset, when these two images are separate its hard to see a link, but when you find out the name of the album the message becomes clearer. On the front the man is perceived as a confident young lad, who has no worries and doesn’t care what anyone thinks of him, the image on the back could be showing how the young lad feels on the inside, about deeper worries and troubles that are going on in his life. These two images only portray a message when they are linked back to the album title-whatever people say I am, That’s what I’m not.

The songs on the album can all be related to the nightclub and bar scene, such as “dancing shoes” and “I bet you look good on the dance floor” and this also relates to the appearance of the young man featured on the digipak.

The interior of the digipak continues with the simplistic and basic appearance, where the songs on the album are repeated on the inside cover. 

The image on the CD is also in black and white and looks like an image of an ashtray, I don’t think that this image is portraying a message and has been used purely to create a cool appearance to the album.

 The booklet inside the album is full of colour photographs of people that others would consider everyday normal people, for example a trainee standing on the bus or some friends eating takeaway food in the back of a taxi. All of these people are what you would see everyday, and probably wouldn’t notice, but when studying their faces it is clear that there are deeper meanings to the images. Each of the people have sad or worried faces which makes people think there is something more harrowing going on in their lives. 

Creativity Analysis

During this project me and my group will have to use creativity a lot, we will have to think up new and original ideas in order to get create a music video of our own.
What is creativity?
Creativity is making something new, for example a new idea, product, piece of work/art, etc. Some people find it easy to be creative and come up with original ideas and others have to really push themselves.
How can you be more creative?
I believe that enable yourself to become more creative you just have to do it, you have think outside the box, using things that inspire you along the way.
Where does it come from?
I think that creativity comes from emotions and how you are feeling at a particular time, if you are really interested in something the creativity should just come with the interest to research the topic.
What role does it play in creating a media production?
When creating something to do with the media, e.g a music video you have to be creative in order to arrive at an original outcome that you are pleased with. 

What does creativity depend on?
Sir Ken Robinson says that creativity depends on whether someone is prepared to be wrong and make mistakes. He says that if people are not willing to do this they will "grow out of creativity".
Creativity is...
The ability to create original ideas yourself using only research and inspiration as help.
Do I Agree with Sir Ken Robinson's theory?
Yes I actually do agree with what he says, as a creative person myself you have to be prepared to take risks and potentially make mistakes and suggest the wrong things, but by doing these things you do come out with a original idea. 

In response to the "How To Stimulate the Creative Process" I don't think that creativity is something you can make happen, I think it is more about ideas coming to you or researching things that gives you creative ideas in general, and I don't think it can be stimulated.