Draft Storyboard

Bars in the song

Draft storyboard

To successfully create a music video we need to split the song into bars of four notes. Then we made notes on some of the ideas we have as to which parts are narrative and which are performance.

In addition to this we have created a draft storyboard of our initial idea. This will be useful in creating our storyboard and planning our music video.

Practice CD Covers

To prepare for our ancillary tasks, we have created an idea for an album cover. For this practice piece, we used the font from existing Bastille albums. This has been cut out so that a black and white image can been seen through it. However, we decided that this did not look right. So on another practice piece, we adjusted the position of words so that it was closer to the edge of the cover. We also altered the opacity of the foreground so that the image can be seen over the whole of the cover and the letters revealed a lighter grey background.

We decided that this second practice piece looked a lot better and will make something like this for our final piece. However, it will be slightly different as we will use a different font so that it is different from Bastille's albums. In addition a different image will be used. It will be composed, framed and taken carefully.

First Ideas

We proposed some initial ideas to a group of people that are members of our audience. Taking inspiration from the original music video, CD cover and audience ideas, we came up with some initial ideas.

We have decided to follow the pattern of the original music video and do a mixture of performance and narrative. The performance aspect of the music video will be an audition. Several different people will audition for the role of being in the narrative. The narrative will feature the last person to audition who will be the 'winner' of the audition. The video will be edited in a manner so that the narrative will follow each audition. The narrative will be in black and white while the auditions will be in colour. This is to be able to distinguish the difference between the narrative and performance.

Our initial idea for the CD cover is to have a black or dark grey background and have the album name and  title cut out to reveal and image below. This image will also be white to fit in with the idea of the narrative being the same. To link to the name of the album being 'Bad Blood' we are considering giving the cut out letters a reddish hue.