All of our group have got a photo that puts our phone numbers together, this is so that if any of us needs to contact another member of the group, for whatever reason, we all have each others numbers.
In the photo, obviously the numbers aren't finished, this is because it isn't a good idea to put each others numbers on the internet as that would make it easy for someone to contact us even though we have never spoken to them in the past.

We have been given all the cast for the music video that we asked for. We have gotten, Frankie Beetlestone, Gabby Gilliat, August Berner and Eddie Eglington. The cast have reassured us that they have learnt their role in the song thoroughly, this means that we can minimise the risk of them messing up their parts on the day, as that will only shorten a limited time period.

To reduce any errors of shooting on the day, we will use our timeline to guide us on exactly what to shoot, this gives us an almost script for the shots that we are going to use.

The costume for the band is following the theme of 70s bands as the song has a 70s twang to it with the various instruments. The band unanimously decided on the costuame and the style that we wanted as it is a style that we are all fond of, following a similar design to music greats from the 70s such as the Beatles sergeant peppers phase.

The cast has had to change. The lead singer for the band has left the video and we have searched for a new lead singer. We found a girl called Gabby who is in the same house as the rest of the band which makes them all very easy to rehearse. The rest of the band is the same, we have August Berner, Eddie Eglington and Frankie Beetlestone. The new cas fit the music video well as shown from the screen-capture above. They fit the archetypal 70s band look which was the thing that we e
wanted to display in the music video.

|I struggled editing the video as there was not enough elements that we could do on the the day of the test shoot, however, I was still able to produce a test shoot and on the day when we have an extra element, it should be easier to film.

A rather heated discussion with the group and an almost intervention from our teachers may have created tensions within the group, however, are at least working on a new and improved idea. The constant shapeshifting of our idea has led to confusion in the group which I believe is the origin of the conflict, my sensical understanding of the idea removes the idea of the girl watching tv and the band appearing across the different channels, instead, it is now a behind the scenes styled performance video between photoshoots, makeup, and performing.
                    
                    
The Birdman aesthetic is for the make up scene with the light bulbs around the mirror, the behind the scene photoshoots will look like the middle gif and it is undecided but we may have them in between sets.

The redesign of the music video leads us to commit even more to a seventies styling of the band which we will do with costume.

For the four set designs that we need to make, we have decided to simplify common sets that would be associated with the genre that we are portraying with the sets

Music video

stick to a common theme that is seen within modern music videos which is bright colourful lights and maybe mirrors as seen within the fashion walkway scene in the neon demon

Game Show

A common layout is the podiums with people behind them and two podiums in the middle and instead of having a board to show the scores, do it in graphics that we can make in after effects, make it similar to shows like a league of their own and family feud

Chat Show

The stereotypical set of two sofas and a table, put them in front of a green screen and add a city scape behind them as that is the typical set make it similar to shows like Jimmy Fallon and Jonathan Ross

Behind the scenes photography shoot

Have someone taking the photos of the band with them posing and the lead singer lip syncing while having the photos taken, make it similar to a keeping up with the Kardashians

Our cast list has been finalised.

The group and I have been debating about the lead singer of the band for quite a while and we finally came to an agreement. An added bonus of our cast is that they are all in the same house, which is the house that I am in, this makes rehearsals a lot easier as we will be able to get them together fairly easily. We chose our cast based on their look as we didn't want to get people that looked out of place in the music video, we have asked them all if they play or have played the instruments that we want them to, all three of them have said yes and the lead singer said that she is willing to do the video.

Our cast involves:
Frankie

Eddie

In our lessons this week we each made a prezi of artists that our similar to our chosen artist, Gin Wigmore.

After much deliberation of which genre we would put her in we still couldn't decide between blues rock and jazz pop, so we decided that she was both as a few of her songs are more blues rock and other such as beatnik trip (the song we are doing our music video to) are more jazz pop.

I was analysing Jessica Hernandez and The Deltas.

We sent a copyright request to Island Records for permission to use the song for the music video, we received no reply.