Editing

Paulo Nutini

Paulo Nutini has many conventions in his videos which we are interested in. In 'New Shoes' I like how he is always walking towards the camera which I think is a shot which we could use.

More Inspirations

Taylor Swift - Mine



Shania Twain - Any Man of Mine



James Taylor - (I've got to) Stop Thinkin' Bout That

Inspirations

Suzanna Vaga - Luka


We like the overlap at which starts at 0.09, and we could use this to show both characters in different places but thinking about each other. All of our inspirations carry the same theme of 'folk rock/country pop'.

Results

 These are my results which I collected from the Surveymonkey questionnaire. I processed the graphs in Microsoft Excel and we now have a greater idea of what to include and not to include in our video.

Questionnaire and results

To find out exactly what our target audience was and what their needs were, we conducted a questionnaire on http://www.surveymonkey.com/ which is an easy and free site to distribute questionnaires.

This screen shot shows my first question which I put in, and proof of the website which I used. There are more questions below. After this was completed, I emailed four males and four females to make it a fair test, to find out their needs and wants from a music video.

 

Email - Permission

We asked permission from Polly Paulusma by email to ask whether we could use her song. Due to them being family friends, Tom also conversed with her but to make things more official she suggested we emailed her on Sunday 5th December:

Dear Polly,
I am writing on behalf of myself, Rachel Procter, and Tom Bowers; we are A2 Media Studies students at Saffron Walden County High School Sixth Form. For our A2 media task we have to create a music video and ancillary tasks which consist of a digipak and  a magazine advert. Our work will be assessed by the OCR exam board.
We would love to use your song 'Back to the Start' as we feel the song has the potential for us to produce a creative, quality music video gaining the maximum possible marks.
On copyright grounds we need to ask your permission to use the song. We will not be producing this video for profit or any other commercial purposes. We will be posting it on our coursework blog at www.blogger.com and we shall show you the finished product to assure you it is only for coursework purposes.
If you could reply on this email address as to whether we have permission, we would both really appreciate it.
Thank you for your time.
Yours sincerely
Rachel Procter and Tom Bowers.

Polly referred us to One Little Indian records who replied:

Tom and Rachel,
I work for Polly Paulusma at One Little Indian Records.
Polly has written to me and expressed her wish for you to be able to use her work as part of your media studies course.
I am writing to confirm that Polly and One Little Indian Records are very happy to grant you all the permissions necessary to use Polly's song 'Back To The Start' in your media studies course as outlined in your e-mail below.
Thanks
Derek

Derek Birkett
One Little Island Records
34 Trinity Cresent
London
SW17 7AE
Telephone: 0208 772 7600

Storyboard

We storyboarded our ideas, however the scanner is not working at the moment and will be updated soon.

Profile of Polly Paulusma

Profile taken from Wikipedia

Polly Paulusma is an English singer-songwriter. Her first album, Scissors in my Pocket, was largely recorded and produced by herself at her home. A second album, Cosmic Rosy Spine Kites (a virtual anagram of the title of the first album) features the same tracks, four of which were recorded with a string quartet (and without guitars or percussion); the rest at a gig in Manchester, England, where she supported Jamie Cullum. Apart from Jamie Cullum she has also supported other artists on tour including Marianne Faithfull and Coldplay and played at the Glastonbury Festival in 2005.

As well as using computer-based methods to self-produce her first album, Polly and her management have arguably made good use of the internet and contemporary methods of distribution to reach a larger potential audience: signed to One Little Indian Records, two of Polly's tracks ("Over the Hill" and the live version of "She Moves in Secret Ways") were issued as free downloads through Apple's iTunes Store. This has possibly led to greater exposure for a niche artist on a UK-based independent record label than might otherwise have been expected or previously possible. Polly has also used her profile at MySpace.com, her own website, blogs on both websites and a link to a forum on the latter to connect with her fans and keep them up-to-date on her touring and recording plans.

Polly announced on her web site that her daughter Valentine Constance Mae was born on 10 November 2006 (coincidentally Polly's own birthday). Paulusma's third album "Fingers and Thumbs" was released in the June 2007. The cover shoot was done when Polly was 38 weeks pregnant.

Polly and her husband, Mike, live in the thinnest home in London. Located in Battersea, the 7-foot-7-inch-wide (2.31 m) home is where Paulusma recorded her first album "Scissors in my Pocket," as well as the demos for "fingers & thumbs."

Annotated lyrics

These are the lyrics to the song which we annotated before filming. It can be seen from this that our ideas have changed and have been manipulated compared to our final product.

Synopsis

Our video will be of a love theme, where a boy has cheated on a girl at a party. We are going to include flashbacks of both of them where their relationship is working and when it is not. They realise that they love each other and are ready to forgive what each other has done, and the picture and colours become clearer towards the end. The cinematography and the mise-en-scene will make contrasts between the two characters, and the way we are planning to edit will show their despair.

Locations

We have decided to film in Cambridge, and we have permission to film in Trinity College which we are going to visit next week. We are currently waiting for permission to use a tripod within the college as they have said we need special permission to use a tripod but not for a handheld camera. There are many isolated spaces within the beautiful grounds which will be perfect for our film.

Polly Paulusma - Back to the Start

You've got something to hide
You can run all you like
'Cross plains and over mountains
The chains you drag behind you leave track marks in the air
You're asleep on your feet
And all the people you meet
'Cross plains and over mountains
Fooled by mirrors, think the light is shining bright in there

Come on, come on
We're going back to the beginning
I took a wrong turn
And you take it to heart so easy
When you come home
I will be waiting by the fire
And we'll take it all back to the start

What you trying to prove?
If you love it then let it fly
'Cross plains and over mountains
When you left her you kept a little feather in your hands
She's your rose-fingered dawn
So why are you gone
'Cross plains and over mountains
Peering out into the dark to see what light remains?

Come on, come on
We're going back to the beginning
I took a wrong turn
And you take it to heart so easy
When you come home
I will be waiting by the fire
And we'll take it all back to the start
Yeah, we'll take it all back to the start

Come on, come on
We're going back to the beginning
I took a wrong turn
And you take it to heart so easy
When you come home
I will be waiting by the fire
And we'll take it all back to the start
Yeah, we'll take it all back to the start
Yeah, we'll take it all back to the start

New!

I am now working with Tom Bowers and we have chosen a new song, location and are nearly ready to film. I will upload planning notes after every lesson about our progress. I have been unable to blog so I have a few weeks worth of material to upload.
Our new song is 'Back to the Start' by Polly Paulusma. We chose an uncopyrighted artist as it is easier to gain access and have permission to use the song, and Polly is also a family friend of Tom's. The song is different from my last choice but we have many inspriations to work with. We know that we have less time than everybody else and so we are trying our hardest to get up to speed with the rest of our group.