Additional Screenshots

Love Triangle Scene

For this part of the music video we chose to have the female sat on the bench alone looking on her phone, something which a lot of modern teenagers always use waiting for someone to come and see her. We decided to have another male come to see her even though she is meant to be with somebody else and this is a good example of a love triangle that happens in everyday life. 

We thought that having the male walk up towards the female and show him hug her, the audience will instantly think that something is going to happen, as this isnt the same guy that was shown at the start of the video. A hug symbolises that they like that person as they want to get close towards them which again is a romance convention.

A close up shot allows the audience to see the facial expressions on both the actors,  and the females facial expression allows the audience to see that she is happy but we had the male looking towards the female so that we couldn't see his facial expression and this left the audience thinking what is his facial expression and how does he feel. They both wore casual clothing as this allowed them to be the same as all other teenagers and they don't stand out from anyone else, and this shows that they are the same and they even though they might differ from other teenagers they all go through the same situations at some points in their lives.

We wanted a long shot to show the audience the female and the male sat on the bench alone. We thought that the park was the best location for this situation because a park is a location that couples go for walks and picnics, and we wanted to show somewhere that other people would be able to associate as well as they might be in the same situation as the female in the video.

We wanted to have her boyfriend also enter the scene as this is a good example of a typical love triangle, and he walks into the scene to see his girlfriend sat there laughing and flirting with another guy, and because he is upset he reacts badly and takes it out on the other male instead of the female.

In this screenshot you see the two males pushing each other around with implies that something has gone wrong and as we see the guy in the black coat push the other guy the audience can see that it is the other male that is in the wrong. This leaves the female stood in the middle of the two and she realises that she has done wrong, and this is the point in the song when everything starts to go wrong for her as she slowly loses everyone that meant something to her, and this fits well with the lyrics of the song and also the theme of the song, which is something that you typically see is pop music videos.



In this screenshot we see the female walk away with the other male, leaving her boyfriend stood there alone. Again this may not have been what the audience were expecting to happen as they could of expected her to go back with her boyfriend. We chose to have this situation, as when we were researching what good ideas to put into our music video we found a love triangle attracted a lot of audience's attention. We used a mid shot for this, as we felt this focused more onto the couple and situation happening, instead of a long shot where the focus could have been taken away from showing more background.



Photo album scene

I felt that this shot over the shoulder was a good shot to use here as it allowed the audience to see the female and also what she was looking at. We wanted to include a photo album somewhere into the music video and we felt it would be more appropriate towards the end when she reflects on what she has done throughout the video.

In this screenshot we see the female getting to a certain photo in the album then taking it out of the album and ripping it in two leaving her on one of the torn sides and him on the other. This symbolises the female realising that she cant keep hoping that everything is going to go back to how it used to be with him, when she ruined everything. She then turns around and on this moment the lyrics say 'Im going to make it on my own' and this shows that she doesnt need anybody else she can cope just fine on her own.

We used a long shot here to show the female throwing the two torn pieces of photo onto the floor, so that the audience can see that even though she is looking through old memories of her and her ex, she has decided to move on and is going to make it on her own. At the point when she starts throwing the pieces of picture onto the floor and the moment they land on the floor the lyics 'Im going to make it on my own' are sung and this implies that she doesnt need him anymore and she is going to make it on her own. We did slow this clip down in the video to create more emphasis on what is actually happening and therefore the audience can see what is on the picture.

We then zoomed in from a long shot to a close up, to allow the audience to clearly see the picture torn in two on the floor. We thought that this clearly symbolises a relationship over when she decides she doesnt need anybody else to make her happy, and even though she is alone now she is going to make it on her own. We wanted quite a plain background so therefore the audience could focus more onto both parts of the photo. I think positioning the torn half of the female on the top half of the shot and the torn half of the male on the bottom half of the shot implies that maybe she has come out of this stronger, and that she is now looking down on the male.

 

Location Shots

We filmed at the local park, as we thought this location matches the generic romance conventions and it was a different location to all the others shown in the music video. We chose one bench for the main characters to sit on, as this was on the river bank and this is known as a romantic location for couples to go. A park can be quite an isolated area when there is no-one else there, and we were lucky to be able to film in an empty park and this can also highlight one of the characters isolation.

Shot list for the park scene

Shot number	Shot used	Characters/Description
1	Long shot	To show the female sat down on the bench waiting for the male to turn up
2	Long shot	To show the male walking up towards the female
3	Mid shot	Show the male and the female hug, this matches the romance conventions
4	Mid shot	Show the female and the male sat on the bench talking without realising her boyfriend is stood on the side-lines watching
5	Long shot	To show the male walking towards the female and the other male on the bench
6	Mid shot	To show the two males squaring up to each other, and the female in the middle of it all
7	Long shot	To show all the arguing between the couple and the male
8	Long shot	To show the female walking away with the male leaving her boyfriend stood on his own
9	Long shot	Of the male stood alone wondering what went wrong

We designed a shot list, so that when we went out to film we knew exactly what shots we wanted and in what order we were going to film them as well. For the park scene we didn't film them in the order shown here though, we did all the long shots that we needed first and then did the mid shots and close up's that were also needed. 

Shooting schedule for the park scene

Choosing when to go out and film was vital for us as we had to chose a day that all our characters were free if they were needed. We also made sure that if we were filming outside the weather was going to be appropriate for the scene, for example we didn't want to go out and film when the lyrics had nothing to do about rain. 

Day/Date	Scene	Day/Night	Shot description/summary	Location	Characters	Props Equip-ment
10th	1	Day	Long shot of female stood waiting	Park	Alice	Tripod
			Waiting for Tom the male	Park	Alice and Tom	Tripod
			Long shot of Tom walking towards the female	Park	Tom and Alice	Tripod
			Mid shot of Tom and Alice talking	Park	Tom and Alice	Tripod
			Pan camera to the right, to where her ex is stood watching them	Park	Tom, Lewis, Alice	Tripod
			Long shot showing Lewis walking towards both of them	Park	Alice, Tom, Lewis	Tripod
			Mid shot of the two males squaring up to each other	Park	Tom, Lewis	Tripod
			Mid shot of Alice stood in the middle of the two guys	Park	Lewis, Alice, Tom	Tripod
			Imagination, the female looks back and remembers the fight, then goes back to reality. Long shot	Park	Alice	Tripod

Now that we have nearly completed our music video, we have watched it through many times and decided that the best music channels for our video to be shown on that are target audience are more likely to watch are '4Music' and 'Viva'. Also the magazines that we could put our video advert in would be ones that our target audience are more likely to read for example 'Heat' and 'Ok'.

We thought one music channel that would be good to show our music video on would be Viva, as when we did our target audience interview, and asked other people in our chosen target audience they said one of their favourite music channels was Viva, as they played up to date music and it was stuff that they liked to listen to, and it was mainly pop music which is the same genre that we have chosen to do.

Another music channel that our target audience liked to listen to was 4Music. This was the top choice of music channels for our genre, because although Viva played pop music they also showed reality tv shows as well, whereas 4Music was more about getting the music to the audience and playing what they wanted to hear.

But it wasnt just music channels that our chosen target audience found out about new releases, they also saw magazine adverts for new songs in their favourite magazines and when we asked them what these were they said Heat, and Ok.

 

When asked what magazines our target audience prefered to listen to, they said Heat was one of their favourite because our target audience are more socialable people that want to keep up to date with the latest news and gossip, and this magazine gives the audience what they want to know. Along with the latest gossip they also advertised new song releases, and for this reason our target audience were able to know about new song releases.

Ok was also another choice when it came to what magazines our chosen target audience read because again like Heat, it gave them the celebrity gossip that they wanted to hear and also showed them new releases of songs and even top film releases and we thought this would be an ideal place to advertise our music video because more of our target audience want to read this brand of magazine.

Because our target audience were more socialable people and liked talking to their friends we thought some other places to advertise our music video would be online, on social networking sites.

Facebook and Twitter would be a good choice to advertise our product online because as our target audience are more socialable people they liked keeping up to date and talking to their friends all the time, Facebook was the ideal place for this. Also Twitter is becoming more and more popular with teenagers and celebrities and for this reason it is becoming more popular with our target audience so again we thought this would be an ideal place to also have adverts for our music video.




So overall after taking into consideration what our target audience wanted to see, and where they were more likely to see the adverts and watch the video, we chose on the basis of what was most popular with our target audience and would get more chance of people viewing it.

New ideas to add to the music video

As we show the female breaking up with her ex, towards the end of the music video when we showed this to the class they thought it would be better to show a reason why they split up, so for this we decided to look at some romance music videos and see what happens in them, and how we can decide what extra to put into ours.

When we looked at one, Keri Hilson - Knock you down feat Kanye West and Neyo, and towards the end of this video they show the main female Keri Hilson stood in the middle with the two guys on either side of her, and we wanted to include something like this into our music video. Also it showed split screens showing her with both of the males, but one she was arguing with and the other guy she was having fun and laughing with, and this is one of the ideas that we wanted to show in our video because it shows the audience her with another guy and this could be the reason why they split up and this is again meeting the conventions of romance music videos

In this screenshot we see the male who later on in the video becomes her ex, we see a split screen with him on the right and then letters on the left hand side up in flames, which could suggest that they are letters from an ex or someone that they dont want to remember anymore and they do this to get over somebody. 

In this image this is showing the split screens, of the female with the two different guys. When we first watched this we both instantly liked the idea of showing the female with one guy having fun but arguing with the other, as this sets the base for why they broke up.

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In this image, we see the female in the centre of the two males with them stood either side. Having the males stood staring at each other, squaring up to each other could imply that they are both dominant males and dont like being knocked down by the other. Neither of them are bothered by the female stood in the middle, and as they were fighting over her.





Some of the ideas that we thought would be good to include:

• Show the female having fun with another male, but with her ex stood watching her - she doesnt realise that her ex can see everything going on, and this is something that happens in a lot of relationships, but not many people realise.
• Have the female stood in between the two males squaring up to each other - it will show that she realises now what mess she has got herself into, and it is a situation that only she can get herself out of, but it will also show the damage that she has done to the males, as they are just the same as females they have emotions and feelings and these get hurt easily as well they just dont tend to show it.

When we asked some people from our target audience what sort of things they felt would help improve our video they said that showing a reason why they broke up, would make the story a lot clearer to them even though they understand what is going on anyway.