Initial Planning Meeting

In our first meeting as a production group we looked at different genres of music videos and we analyzed them, we initially wanted to do ‘Whats My Name’- By Rihanna– however we came up with an alternate idea and suggested to do it to Adele- Set fire to the rain as she felt it would be good to take a different incite on the song, and we could make our own interpretations to the song, as there wasn’t a music video on it

However we suggested to involve more narrative as well as performance, and then discussed a range of creative ideas for the video looking at it from only a performance style and then all narrative and then both, coming to the general conclusion that we all wanted to involve narrative and performance into our video. In addition to this, there will be 3 main characters in the music video, but with flashbacks of a young male in some of the scenes.

Furthermore during our focus group we discussed everyone’s interpretation of the song; and it seemed as though everyone had similar ideas to the lyrics of the chosen song so all our ideas seemed to come together as one. We printed off the lyrics and did a detailed analysis at what the words and took our own explanation of the words. We all suggested the possible locations that we could do the music video at we then agreed on locations and discussed appropriate costume that will suit the genre of the song. Then moving on to group roles concluding that all three girls Nadia, Laura and Sharmaine will perform in the video, however we will also be taking equal share in filming the parts when its not our turn and we will be filming the scenes whilst taking note of what went wrong and what went well.

Within our meeting we planned to film around town, near St Ann's Square (Deansgate) to convey the theme of the song. There are parts of our music video will be taking place in different area's of Deansgate, near waterfalls and gardens to show a variety of shots, that will go along with our chosen song. As a team we had a focus group meeting where we decided that we also wanted the locations of our music video to be on the Blackpool pleasure beach located in Blackpool, therefore we will have to make our own way there. In addition to this we will be setting some of the scenes in the studio located at our college.