Meeting 30th September

In our meeting today we discussed what we need to do on the day of our test shoot with our main actor, which we have organised for Wednesday 5th October.

We will need to test:
- Lipsynching
- Performance
- Costume
- Make-Up
- Shots
- Locations
We will also take some stills of the main actor.

Costumewise we need to decide on:
- Shoes
- Jeans
- Cardigans/Jackets
- T-shirts

In preparation we have decided on the exact shots we would like to test and will post a shot list shortly

- Group -

Meeting...

In our lesson yesterday we discussed ideas for our video. Watching the 'Celebration' video, I realised that the floor is wood, so if we can't find a plain studio then a stage could work if it's lit properly. As we have suggested before, we could show the boys when they were younger which we thought we could do this in black and white. Tanya also suggested doing stop motion for this part of the video to make it appear more like a home video. The boys could also be in a school uniform further highlighting their connection to each other, so its made clearer to the audience. We thought the boys could be doing something that people expect of boys for example playing a video game or playing football. We also have started to plan for our final treatment and have decided to use the half day today to get ready for our pitch.
- Mel, for the group -

Initial Ideas for 'Anyone But Him'

Today in our meeting we looked at the songs that we each have found and also looked for others. We looked at Mr Hudson's 'Anyone But Him' in a bit more detail and came up with some initial ideas for the video.

Overall the basic story is that Mr H. dated a girl, they broke up and then his best friend went behind his back and started dating her. When he finds out he is telling her that he excepts that she's moved on but doesn't want her to move on with his best friend. His friend has betrayed him and is now really arrogant about it as we can tell in his rap.

- We thought we could show ECUs and the silhuette of the second guy until he starts rapping meaning that he would be a mysterious figure until we see him.
- We realised we could play on the rivalry and could show the two artists to be complete opposites
- We also thought that we could do flashbacks to them as children, suggesting that they are lifelong friends and thats why the main singer is saying 'Anyone But Him' as its his best friend that has turned on him and become arrogant and cocky.
-We also thought we could cut to shots of the girl a couple of times, and cut to shots of the girl with the new guy.

- Group -

First Meeting

Welcome to our group blog, we can't wait to get started...
We had a very quick meeting at break today and we have all quickly discussed the songs we have in mind. We're going to have another group meeting next week to discuss things further, and hopefully finalise a song.
- Mel, for the group -