Focus Group

We decided to host a focus group with our target audience, this allows us to gain feedback from the group we hope to aim our video at. The overall outcome was positive, they all liked our concept and agreed that it would be something they would enjoy watching. They did offer some suggestions and positive criticisms that we will take into account when making our music video.

Filming Notes for Thursday 2nd of February

Actors needed: Rosie and Luke
Props/Costumes needed: 

• Rosie and Luke's costumes, 
• props for the clown and facepaint

Shots of Luke and Rosie (clown and girlfriend):

• Backstage shot of talking and hugging
• Putting on the makeup in the mirror 
• Point of view shot from the clown and from the audience
• Action shots of clown (Spinning plates, diablo, bunting)
• Clown dropping everything
• Scrabbling around to pick everything up
• Sad audience with some people leaving
• Happy face when the clown throws the bunting up
• As bunting comes down the clowns face is sad
• Crying shots gradually getting worse
• Backstage shot of the mirror and ring shot
• Separate shot of Rosie and Luke walking by the river

Story board as a Video

In our groups we had been talking about ideas that we had, and they were all getting very jumbled and we were finding it hard to remember them. In order to stop all of the confusion and get organised we have created a storyboard that allows us to have an order to our many ideas, it will also help us to be more efficient when we come to shooting, and will stop as wasting our time and ideas we wont be using. 

Facebook Page

After talking about our initial ideas and ways that we can split tasks up, we decided that it would be a good idea to create a Facebook group so that we can use this to communicate with each other quickly and easily outside of college. The group will be useful when it comes to planning and organising the filming aspects of our project and to keep up to date with how we are all getting on with our assigned tasks. As members we will be able to upload photographs, comment on ideas and share what we have found. When the casting has been finalised, this will also be another platform in which to communicate with our actors. The group will also be useful at times when we are not all able to meet up, meaning that we can communicate with the other members of our group when they are at home. This will mean that we can really make use of the time we have for planning and make sure that we all understand what each member of the group is doing.

Actors and Casting

 This week we have been talking to and organising the actors for the main roles in our music video. As a group we discussed who we would like to fulfill each role, who we desired to play it and who was realistic to cast. 

After the discussion we asked our chosen actors if they would like to be part of our project, luckily they agreed. We then began to make a 'Time Plan' for each actor showing the times in the week that they would be available to film. We also made a list with confirmation of each persons role and contact details for each cast member.

It has been confirmed that Luke Evans will be playing the role of 'Clown'. Luke is pictured on either side wearing a bright green T-shirt and cardigan. We think that Luke is right for this part as he is a drama student with experience playing main roles in both college productions. We chose Luke as a desired actor because he will be able to fully appreciate what we are looking for with our music video.

 We have also received confirmation that Joe Lacey will be playing the part of 'Rich Man'. Joe is pictured to the right photographed in black & white. We think that Joe is suitable for this role as he has had acting experience at high school and has been involved in the college production both with acting and dancing roles. He is also available to take part with the filming on the days that we desire.


It has also been confirmed that Rosie Turner will be playing the woman's role. We think that she would be suitable for this part as she is available to take part in the filming during our media lessons and will be able to fully understand what is needed whilst filming.






The table to the left shows a 'Time Plan' for each actor. the lesson periods marked in red are the times that the person is unavailable and the ones marked in green are when they are available.We have created this chart so that we can easily refer back to it when we are planning to film. 

We are also aware that we will need to cast some extras to act as audience members for a very small part of the filming. This is something we plan to do closer to the filming date as organisation of groups of people can be difficult and often unreliable. Extras will be asked to appear in our music video prior to the week before filming.

As well as a time plan we have also created a grid to show casting information. We have taken down telephone numbers and contact details for each of our actors so that we can call them in event of them not showing up to filming. 

Mood Board

This is a mood board of all of our ideas for the music video, we have gotten these ideas from group discussions and by starting to storyboard our video.

Audience feedback

Audience feedback

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After presenting our pitch we asked the other groups to answer a few questions that we had, and these questions are what the slideshow above explains