Potential album cover

This is Nancy Sinatra's album cover. I think that this is the most suitable album cover that i've found because it's very 60's and is easy to recreate with Jo.

Our animatic + Evaluation

I'm happy with my storyboard animatic because now we know what we're doing. Although there are gaps and some dodgy edits, I think the concept of a love story is evident.

The big gap at the start of the clip is going to be filled with an establishing shot of the attic and then a tracking shot of Jo walking in. We underestimated how many storyboard frames we had to do, hence the gap and the repetition of some shots. I also think that most of our pictures are very unclear as no-one in the group is good at drawing. This makes it hard to understand whats happening.

Whilst editing we had some new ideas, for example the quick crosscuts and fade at 2:37. We did these crosscuts because we felt that, although everything flowed well, it had no variety and was quite boring. Initially we cut each shot for every beat. This became extremely repetitive so we mixed it up and didn't always cut to the beat.

Overall I think our storyboard and animatic was fairly successful as it has structured are shots so now it will be easier on the shooting day because we will know what we have to do. Editing the storyboards was also very useful for getting use to final cut pro again. I think I would have found it a lot harder to edit the real thing with ought having to edit this. We can now learn from our mistakes and hopefully make a good music video.

Digipack ideas

Here are some of the album covers that we think have the same feel as the album cover we are going to make:

In terms of the website we are going to make for Jo, we looked at other artists websites for inspiration. Here are a few of the websites we looked at:

Storyboards

Final treatment

Jo Birchall – Something to say

The Concept of our music video, is about a relationship in the past set in the 60’s with the style of old romance movies, We want it to be personal to the singer, so we had the idea of her watching a home movie of perhaps a relationship of someone related to her whilst she longs for a similar relationship for herself. We would therefore start with a home projector, with old film. We would have her lip syncing whilst watching the film as one performance element. The second performance element would be her with the band actually performing with the projections in the background which can be out in with after effects. The narrative would be a relationship between a boy and a girl in the 60’s, we would have a 60’s theme to it, and set it as a first date. We aim to have the mood as romantic and sensitive to show Jo’s innocent and girly side to her star image, Jo’s music is generally about love and relationships so we want to keep the mood of this video to fit with her general style and genre of her songs showing the beauty of romance and young love.

Detail of specific shots

There would be shots of him picking her up in an old style car, then shots of them pulling in to a car park. We would then have them walking along a street hand in hand talking and laughing by the moonlight, then we would have him leading her up a staircase to a roof terrace which he has decorated and made to look beautiful and fairytale like, they begin to slow dance and then they end with a kiss.

costume and props

Polesden Lacy

We found this national trust park called Polesden Lacy in Dorking which is ideal for our music video scene with the couple playing around in a park. This location is very open and has a lot of trees, making it suitable for our video.