Location Mood Boards

Rooftop moodboard 1 from sophiamusmarmedia

Using Coats song 'Oceans

Coasts - Oceans from Duncan Roe on Vimeo.

We were looking on Soundcloud for options for our music video and came across the band Coats. The song is indie/alternative rock so it is similar to the songs we had before, we have emailed them and they have agreed to letting us use the song.

Group Discussion: Can we get the song finished in time?

In our group we have been discussing the song. Jem said today the song might not be completely finished, so we had to think about either using the song he produced and wrote himself which lasts 2:53 minutes. The song we have heard already is really well recorded and sounds good so we would like to use that; unless we pressure Jem to get the full song recorded in a recording studio in time.

The other option is to use a cover he has done but then the song will not sound as authentic and we will have to change the whole story line for the song.  

Pre: Styling Mood Board

Here is a basic 'Styling Mood Board' of what we want our artists style to look like. This was just a simple one to get an idea of what we all wanted and we will put up a more detailed one closer to the time.

Styling mood board from sophiamusmarmedia

Looking and discussing locations for our music video

We spoke to Jem yesterday and discussed the whole prospect for our music video; and where explained to him where we wanted to shoot and why. Jem does busking by London Bridge because that's where he lives; he showed us a video of him busking and the location was really good for our music video. In the back ground there was lots going on and there is a great view of The River Thames. This will add some authenticity to our video and will look really good with the rest of the locations we currently have planned.

Here attached is the video of Jem busking so you get the idea of why we wanted to use this for our video:

Pre-Production Planning

Yesterday, we booked the artist for our music video and made sure he was available for the dates we wanted. We talked through with him the ideas for the music video; the pitch, styling and changing the lyrics as prior he had explicit language. He agreed this was okay and is gonna send a clean set of lyrics through to us so we can start our timeline for the music video.

Screen Testing: Choosing our artist

Here we took a few candid photos of our new artist Jeremy Sanderson-Nash who is going to be in our music video and we are also using his own song. This is going to work really well because he will already know the lyrics; so he will be really good with singing it and knowing it already.