The Shooting Schedule

09.00-10.00- We left at nine and it took as an hour to get into Brighton.

10.15-10.45- We met our artist and even though we know where we wanted to shoot our music video it took some time to get to the location and set up.

10.45-11.00- We have finished filming at one of our locations and decided to move on.

11.15-12.30- We spent quite a lot more time than we planned on making a street shot because of the immense amount of cars and people.

12.45-13.15- We were walking to get our lunch and then we have realised that we could do shots of her walking hence spent more time on walking to the burger bar.

13.30-14.30- We spent quite a lot of time waiting for our member of the crew to get to the location where we were at, because he had to get the batteries. Therefore, lunch took us longer than expected.

14.45- 15.00 Back to filming. The shot in the park that we have planned did not work out because there were too many people. However, we still managed to lose some time on attempting to set up the set.

15.30-16.30- We spent an hour walking around Brighton and filming Rosie May near different symbolic locations (Brighton Wheel). This would provide us with a large amount of shots that we could use for our editing.

17.00-18.00- We got to the Brighton beach and filmed the great finale on the pier. We spent an hour on getting different perspectives and creating the perfect image.

Change of Settings

Unfortunately we had to drop the idea about narratives. We will have no narratives at all and the thing we will concentrate on mostly will be our artist and one main narrative of her walking around Brighton. If the necessity stands, we will use green screen for narratives but currently we are just thinking on concentrating on our main artist. This would mean that in our video we would have many shots of our main artist walking around in urban parts of Brighton. This is quite similar to the video bellow. Except we would concentrate on different elements such as our artist and her lip sync, instead of just getting the whole city in our shot.

 These changes had to take place because we realised that e could not use certain locations and moreover, our narratives did not have a proper ending in the end that would nicely fit our ideas. Therefore, what we are going for at the moment is that we are going to show how Rosie travels around Brighton from one destination to another one. Probably her journey from the sea up to the view point at the park. This would represent her birth and journey of life to here she is now. This will attract audiences because it will tell them about her and how she has developed through her life.

    We would also like to portray her as a new artist and she is exploring the city whilst singing her song. This would attract male audiences because she is young and attractive. Moreover, people who live in Brighton would feel obliged to purchase her CDs because we would have so many famous Brighton places in it.

The chosen locations are shown below...

Queens park

Greek church

Sea front, Kemp Town

Prior Shoot Day Problems

Unfortunately two members of our cast can not attend the shoot on Friday which means a change in plans. We will continue to travel to Brighton at 8.45am on Friday, however, we will do this without the extra members of cast for the other narrative strands due to their inability to leave school on the day. We will instead aim to shoot the separate narrative strands of the rooftops in the studio at school in front of a green screen of the Brighton view which will be filmed on the shoot day. This will therefore mean our group can solely focus on Rosie May's performance elements and star image during the shoot, which is the most important aspect of the video due to this being her first appearance in the public eye and music industry.

Conversations with Rosie May

Music Video Influences

Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy is similar to the music video in which we want to create. The way in which Massive Attack's video is filmed through the streets of an urban location is exactly what we are planning to do for part of our video in Brighton, laying down tracks and filming around the Lanes in Brighton. From the very first meeting with Rosie May she communicated to us the fact that she personally wanted to prioritise the inclusion of an urban location with lip-syncing shots of her walking through the streets. For me, I believe the urban setting adds an edge to the video. Rather than the video just being a stereotypical interpretation of another pop song, our music video will look back at the past with our incorporation of a 60s theme as well as adding an urban streak, with the help of the location and accessories of the outfits such as chains and hoop earrings. The way in which Massive Attack have chosen an urban location to solely dedicate their music video to has the effect of viewing the song as urban and real.



In The Verve's Bitter Sweet Symphony they use the same urban setting and use of tracking shots along the streets in order to add an urban vibe to the song. However, in contrast to Massive Attack's video, The Verve choose to use a blue filter for filming which therefore adds a depressing feel to the music video, reflecting on the band's genre of music to a heightened extent. In Rosie May's case, her music video will be a mixture between the two videos due to the title of her song being 'Morning Blues' therefore incorporating a sense of slight gloominess yet it does not feel as depressing as The Verve's and therefore also relates to Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy.

Music Video Brighton Setting

Our group are shooting our music video in Brighton. The setting is Hotel Du Vin and we are planning on using the terraces of the hotel to film the video. This will provide us with views of the sea as well as the city of Brighton delivering the urban sense to the video that Rosie primarily wanted from a video shoot in London. The hotel is especially expensive therefore having a classy mise-en-scene. The hotel also has old aspects to the architecture and interior design which adds a vintage vibe to the setting which ties in with Rosie May's star image. As she is an organic star she wants to be depicted in a retro style which we are communicating in our music video through the 60s themed costumes. 

Notifying Cast Members of Shoot Day