Narrative Idea

Today, we have started planning the shoot by the lyrics. We decided that we need seven actors for this video.
I have also watched a video a link to which I will include below to see the common shot types used in the v9deos for this style of music.

We have also decided that we are going to use 3 locations to film this video.
We have also finalized the performance idea.

Creative Ideas

Today in class we have decided on a song that we are going to stage. After coming up with 2 best ideas we choice the one that we both agree on. We have also started thinking about the performance idea.
These are the lyrics of the song chosen by my group:

Heavy

They built you a cage of diamonds and gold
most beautiful place for you to grow old
They brought you the moon and served you the lie
and all that you wanted was freedom to fly

It’s heavy
but you are not the only one
who’s tired of giving
afraid of the oblivion
Could it be that your curse is a bliss?
But the crown on your head never felt this heavy

Harness your rage, take a leap of faith
to claim back you soul before it’s too late
Show them no fear, sing them goodbye
Leave all but you heart and you’re free to fly

It’s heavy
but you are not the only one
who’s tired of giving
afraid of the oblivion
Could it be that your curse is a bliss?
But the weight of the world never felt this heavy

Take the evident leap of faith
Don’t you be afraid

It’s heavy
but you are not the only one
who’s tired of giving
afraid of the oblivion
Could it be that your curse is a bliss?
But the cross that you bear never felt this heavy

You are not the only one
who’s tired of living
afraid of the oblivion
Cause the crown on your head, the smile that you wear
the cross that you bear never felt this heavy
The crown on your head never felt this
heavy

Introduction

Welcome to my A2 media Blog!!!
I will be posting regular updates on here about each stage of the coursework.

This is the link for a timetoast that I have created to illustrate the scheme of work:

http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/a2-media-production-shedule

Below is my production schedule for this coursework unit.

Stage 1.	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Sat	Sun
Creative ideas and scheduling   To be completed by 14th Sept. 2012	Choose a team	Decide on a few possible choises of a song for a music video	Choose a song, start thinking about creative ideas
Stage 2.	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Sat	Sun
Research & case studies   17th Sept.2012			Hand in case studies
Stage 3.	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Sat	Sun
Treatment   24th Sept 2012	Present ideas to the class	Make changes to the treatment, upload both versions to blog, print out the final version to hand in.
Stage 4.	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Sat	Sun
Focus groups/ pitch   1st Oct. 2012
Stage 5.	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Sat	Sun
Pre-production   15th Oct.2012	Start working on the storyboard	Team meeting to discuss the progress of the preproduction documents	Plan auditions of actors		Auditions (another session next week)
Stage 6.	Day 1,6,11	Day 2,7,12	Day 3,8,13	Day 4,9,14	Day 5,10/15	Day 6	Sun
Shooting the video   12th Nov. 2012	Plan when the filming is going to take place		Get all the actors to sign a release form and give out the lyrics	Crew meeting	Filming in the TV Studio	Filming on location
Stage 7.	Day 1,6,11	Day 2,7,12	Day 3,8,13	Day 4,9,14	Day 5,10,15	Sat	Sun
Editing   30th November 2012	Editing	Editing	Editing	Editing	Editing
Stage 8.	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Sat	Sun
Production of the poster   11th Jan 2012	Gathering case studies of similar genre digipacks and magazine adverts	Gathering case studies of similar genre digipacks and magazine adverts	Gathering case studies of similar genre digipacks and magazine adverts	Producing the mock-up cover and inside inserts of the album	Producing the cover and inside inserts of the album
Stage 9.	Mon	Tues	Weds	Thurs	Fri	Sat	Sun
Post-production focus groups   21st jan 2012	Producing a survey for audience feedback	Gathering audience feedback	Analysing feedback
Stage 10.	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Sat	Sun
Planning and Writing-up evaluation   4th feb. 2012	Writing the anwsers to the 4 questions in bullet points	Add theories to the answers	Evaluate development of skills with media software		Find some website for presentation of the evaluation	Finish writing up the evaluation
Stage 11.	Mon	Tues	Weds	Thurs	Fri	Sat	Sun
Producing the evaluation using creative media presentation software   16th march 2012	Producing presentations with online software	Producing presentations with online software	Producing presentations with online software	Producing presentations with online software	Producing presentations with online software
Wk. 12	Mon	Tues	Weds	Thurs	Fri	Sat	Sun
Wk. 13	Mon	Tues	Weds	Thurs	Fri	Sat	Sun