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Group Meetings
On Thursday 21st October we found out who are other group members are and decided to have our first ever group meeting there and then. We discussed our individual intentions to combine ideas and reach mutual decisions for a rough direction of what we intend to aim for. We unanimously decided on three major aspects in the end.
1. We don't want a slow song, We want to be able to use fast, short cuts so we consequently need an upbeat track to accomodate this.
2. We don't want anything too serious. Facing real life issues for instance is too heavy we feel for our first ever music video, besides, we want to have fun and experiment with this project.
3. We'd really like to construct a conventional music video, as conventions we believe are definitely there for a reason.
None of us were biased to any particular genre, we all have a variety of tastes in different types of music, so we agreed to go away over half term and each come back with a couple of song ideas each that follow our previous conclusions: fast, fun and relitively conventional.
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Over the half term I looked at a wide range of videos and felt strongly about Nickelback's - Burn It To The Ground. I even started to draw up a plan for the introductory series of shots.
When I presented this to Amy and Sophie and explained what I had come up with over half term, neither of them felt connected to the song I had chosen, so the idea was rejected however it has still given me a small insight into how time consuming and detailed the planning process will have to be.

Nickelback - Burn It to the Ground Intro Plan

We also decided that we'd like our music video to have a narrative as well as a "live" performance and lip syncing, as we believe that all the most successful music videos are set up in this way and we personally find them more engaging and to watch as they manage to hold our attention. It also gives us a chance to learn new skills rather than focusing on purely a narrative, for instance.
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Today we had our second group meeting - Thursday 4th Novemeber - where we bounced song ideas off of eachother. I shared the idea of Eminem songs: Spacebound and So Bad, though neither were found to be appropriate for what we're looking for. Sophie suggested a perfect track however the lyrics were in German, which, as none of us speak German we decided would be too difficult and time consuming to learn to lip sync. Not to mention we'd have to translate the lyrics to work out what the song is about before we could even begin to think of a storyline for a narrative. Amy put forward a couple of Calvin Harris songs which although good, were far too famous already for us to focus on without being influenced by the original videos.
We also created our group blog - http://emma-amy-sophie.blogspot.com/ - where we all worked together to decide on our details. Amy and myself then wrote our first post together on the day's progress whilst Sophie looked up more possible songs. Amy then helped Sophie whilst I created our blog's graphology. It took three attempts to get it in a way that all three of us were content with, but the end result stuck. I also added a link list to make it easier for us to navigate to our individual pages as well as our school's media blogs.
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