Locations for Music Video: Forest

To help with us chose the most appropriate location for the main bulk of our video, we all went together to three different forests to establish which one we thought would fit best for our music video. These were Shorne forest in Gravesend, another forest in Gravesend and another in West Kings Down. We found that Shorne forest had too many skinny trees which we thought wasn't that appropriate as the girls in the video wouldn't be able to hide behind the trees as the were running away from the main male character, especially with the bit at the end where all three of the girls come round from behind the tree and kiss the boy as they wouldn't be able to hide themselves behind the trees therefore resulting down to not being able to include that scene.

The other woods in Gravesend seemed to have too many wide trees making it all look to spacush and not a very desirable location for the video. The woods in West Kings Down was the most appropriate as it had both skinny and wide trees making it varied and it look dark and mysterious with the sun beaming through the trees in some places. Below are picture of the chosen forest location.

Locations for Music Video: Journey Home

One of the locations for our music video is a station as the main male character goes to get the train home from work. We decided that Chislehurst station would be the most appropriate as the only time when its bust is between 7 and 10 and the rest of the day it is practially empty compared to other train stations such as Bromley South and St Mary Cray. We have decided that we we go to film around mid day which means that there will be hardly any members of the public around to get in the way of shots or to complain that we are even filming. Here are some images of the train station.

Locations for Music Video: Office

For one of the scenes for in our music video, we needed to find an office location. We found this very difficult to find and didn't know how we were going to come about it as we had to also film inside an office as well as outside. Luckily, Zara Pearce, one of the fantasy girls in the music video, asked her dad if we could use his offices on Sevenoaks Way. These offices weren't the best location as it was for a printing company. It would have been better if it was a block of offices as this is the sort of environment that we were looking forward. However, this still was appropriate to our video as it had desks and computers so it looked like an office environment inside. On the other hand, outside the building doesn't particularly look like a professional office as it had an old, wooden door. Overall, this location is appropriate enough for the office scene in our music video.

Copywrite Letter and the Companies Response

Copywrite is very important these days as many people do the same things as each other and get into trouble for it as it is illegal to copy someone else. We as a group had to ensure that before we even began to start planning our music video and all our ancinerally tasks with it, we gain permission from the music company that produces Jakatta music that is was fine to use their American Dream song. In order to do this we decided to write a letter explaining our circumstances and send it off to the company's address. Below is the letter asking for permission.

We were fortunate to receive a positive response back giving us permission to use this their song for our music video. Below is a copy of the letter form the company.

Locations for Music Video: Living Room

For the scene of the main male characters living room, we used Georgia Lateos house, the main girl in our music video. We used this as out of all of our houses, hers was the only one available that was free to film. Eventhough we could only use her house, it did have a 'homely' feeling to it when it got darker which was what were looking for concidering the main character has to fall alseep. The leather sofas and the black and white theme of the room shows is a benifit to us as this is a unisex colour scheme and therefore supports the factor that we are trying to portray of this house belonging to a boy. Here are a couple of images of this locations.

Exisitng Jakatta Products

As we have chosen to use the song 'American Dream' by Jakatta, it seems appropriate to analysis some of his existing products. Here is the original video for the song.

Jakatta - American Dream

This story behind this video seems to be that there is some sort of riote taking place, men with angry faces throwing and smashing things all over the place. To add to the dramatic effect of this, shots have been slowed down so that audience can gain a longer image of the sense of emotion that is on their faces. Whilst this is occurring, the shots are interrupted from glimpses of what looks like to be some sort of knitted dress. These shots seem to last for some time, preventing the viewers from seeing exactly what it is therefore building suspense. Then all over a sudden we get to see a close up shot of the woman face, mainly her closed eyes. No one seems to be noticing her and she seems to be in her own sort of fantasy. When the music goes from being quiet and goes back to load to riote gets more aggressive which is encouraged by the loudened tone and quickened pace of the music.

Here is also an image of the existing Jakatta album

The front cover of this Jakatta album seems quite plan simple due to the fairly due images that have been used. This is because Jakatta and his product do not seem to have a brand image, which can be supported by the music video.

Song Lyrics For Final Song Choice

These are the lyrics for our final song choice for our music video. Even though the genre of the song is Dance/House, there are still a few lines of lyrics in the song. Below are the annotations of the lyrics, explaining what they mean and how they can be related to the video. If you click on the image it will enlarge where you can read the lyrics and annotations clearly.

After going through which lines meant, we then annotated the lyrics to see how we could relate it to our video. We found that the lyrics seemed to work well with our music video as the few lines of lyrics can relate to the main girl in our video and how the boy chasing after her is deeply infatuated by her.