Lyric sheet + Storyboard

 This part of my blog will detail the planning and storyboard of our project

Lyrics Sheet

This was done in class together to collaborate and combine our ideas together before starting the storyboard.

However, we felt like the time we were provided was not sufficient to let our ideas properly develop so Regine moved our discussion to Canva

This was a lot more helpful as we were able to easily collaborate through comments. Here are some of the discussions I had with Regine

And here are some additional communication from our WhatsApp group chat

As there was a lot of changes, we decided to create a lyric sheet to outline our narrative.

New Lyric sheet

Storyboard

This was done by Regine

A storyboard, defined by Teachfloor, is said to be "a visual representation of a story, often in the form of illustrations or images, arranged in a specific order to show the sequence of events in a film, video, etc."

 

I had taken the time to learn a little more on storyboards and what is expected through this blog by the BBC - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z2vrhv4/revision/2 - however my teacher had ended up providing us templates to aid in our storyboard process. It included 2 templates, one wth 4 large boxes for detailed and another with 8 smaller boxes. Our teacher had suggested us to draw out the scenes from a singular location rather than planning the cuts between a performance to a b-roll, with the intention of reducing confusion in the narrative. Because of this, most shots did not have a defined duration, as it can vary depending on where it will be placed in the editing phase.

By the second detailed page, we were asked to show our progress to our teacher and he was able to give us suggestions on our storyboard and narrative. He informed us on his concern over how well we would be able to communicate the different flashbacks/timestamps that were happening since we did not have access to actors of different ages, which prompted him to suggest a different approach of one flashback and a continous display of the artist's journey through her career from the mother's camera perspective. We, as a group, all agreed to this new narrative as it felt as though our message could be delivered more clearly and readjusted our previous planning to fit towards it. 

In these first few pages, I had used 2 pages of big boxes to draw out my ideas in detail, however, I will be switching to the pages with smaller boxes moving on to be more time-efficient. Since I would focus less on detail, I will be able to spend more time in ensuring the ideas all throughout the video will be comprehensable (due to the limited space to write descriptions) to both my team members and my teacher. This is the continuation of the storyboard.

There are still some scenes missing, which include the scene from the bridge as my team and I had not been able to have the time to properly discuss our next plan of action and realign our vision. Thus there will be more to come. However, for the sake of the due date, this will be all to submit at the current moment.

Reflection:

• Doing a lyric sheet really helped us ensure that we all have the same understanding of our ideas for the music video and that our production can remain consistent by avoiding miscommunication. I also found it really enjoyable as it was fun to hear other people ideas and share my own
• The feedback our teacher gave us provided a lot of insightful perspectives to consider. It felt a bit demotivating as we needed to find a way to work around our issues but I'm grateful for it as it let us prevent the our finished product being decoded incorrectly by the audience

Moodboard

This part of my blog will detail the moodboard we have created for inspiration

media moodboard

Since we wanted our music video to be representative of our artist's past, we wanted it to feel dreamy and nostalgic. We have two moodboards to represent this. The first one represents our artist as coming from a rural area, we want the music video to reflect this by including more rural locations featuring a lot of nature and less infrastructure. The other one will reflect her moving into the city to pursue her dreams so will feature more modern-looking infrastructure

Reflection:

• I found doing this storyboard fun as it was nice to put our ideas together. It also helped us visualise our music video, making sure that we all understood the direction we were going towards
• A lot of our struggles from this music video came from the fact that we wanted to do a city scene. One of our options would be doing a POV shot as I was going to Jakarta so we could make it appear like it was the artist exploring the city for the first time while another option was to do it in a more city-like area in Bali. However, we decided not to go with either of these as we were worried the reading would not be decoded well by the audience

Theory of Stardom

 In class we studied the theory of stardom by Richard Dyer. Here are our classroom notes about the celebrity Beabadoobee

Link in case embed fails: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qa51MnDvs6a2joscYT-aAp3Y3xlMWSe-nvEgUK0hRIA/edit?usp=sharing

Reflection:

• I personally found this theory to be fascinating and fun to learn as it made me reflect on why we may view certain influencers a certain way
• I also found it beneficial as it shows us how we can apply this theory to our star to make her more appealing to the audience

Final Magazine

Front Cover

Contents Page

Double Page Spread

GOOGLE DRIVE LINK: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v0gKQwQEt7GuFXKrYI6L8D4nbUT8bwg-/view?usp=drive_link

Critical Self Reflection 4

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Critical Self Reflection 3

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Critical Self Reflection 2

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Script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uKOWEorrr-JJ3w0XdbLmUAy5md1nvBteOc6VjquZQDk/edit?usp=sharing