Millie's Year 13 Media Blog

Attached below is a link to my 1 minute music video that I did with Suranne as a practice task in preparation for my final year 13 media studies course work. This helped to develop both my filming and editing skills. https://youtu.be/aby3rHyJ9Po

Attached below is a link to mine and Suranne's 30 second recreation of the Billie Eilish Bad Guy music video.  https://youtu.be/pksU360x2iw

My Artist (Daisy Hart) is going to be represented as a sweet girl next door as I want her target audience of teenage and young adult girls to be able to relate to her and her music about the troubles of love as a young woman. I am going to use flowers in the video and on my website to help build on this brand identity of my artist. I am going to use a mixed approach with the lip-syncing part being spread throughout the video and I want her to be playing the piano whilst she sings. The rest of the video will consist of almost a montage style of happy moments contrasted with the vast amount of sad moments that my artist feels within her toxic relationship. I am going to contrast dark lighting with high-key lighting to add to the representation of these happy and sad moments. 

A lot of inspiration for my music video has come from Olivia Rodrigo's Drivers License music video:   The opening shot of the video uses very dark lighting which sets the scene for the rest of the video and also perhaps shows how she is feeling which is upset and very down because of her recent breakup. We also see the use of a longshot to show only one car on the road that could represent how she feels alone. I am going to incorporate dark lighting and colours into my own video to also represent how my artist is feeling as she feels trapped in this toxic relationship.  The next shot is contrasted to the last one with the use of high key lighting and golden colours. We can see here that the Artist seems quite concealed by the way she is stood in this shot perhaps suggesting that she doesn't feel confident about who she is and maybe she has lost a part of herself by losing someone she loves. I am inspired by this contrast of low key and high key lighting and I am going to use t...

 I am going start planing my music video by coming up with my artist and their overall image. I am also going to set up my Wix band website in preparation for my music video. The production  tasks I have chosen to complete are the "you're such a cliche" task and the short drama task. This is so i can practice my filming and editing skills. I am also going to make a log of the work i am completing over the next couple of weeks below: Monday 20th September - Filmed short drama Tuesday 21st September - Compared and contrasted newspapers  Wednesday 22nd September - Finished the compare newspapers task and worked on my band website Thursday 23rd September - Filmed cliché music video  Friday 24th September - Continued filming cliché music video Monday 27th September - Started editing short drama  Tuesday 28th September - Finished editing Short drama  Wednesday 29th September - Edited Cliché video  Thursday 30th September - Finished editing cliché video ...