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Mise-en-Scene

This post is about the Mise-en-scene for our music video and quite honestly, I should be the last person to write it. Primarily because...

The Shot List

Shot lists for music videos have to be much more specific than for films. Due to the time constraints, every second and half-a-second has...

Preliminary Exercise 2- Otherside

We felt that since we had gotten permission to shoot on the school grounds for just one day, it was best if we tested out the entire...

The Storyboard

I made the storyboard for my AS project on behalf of my group last year and since I have a general interest in drawing, I was tasked to...

The Moodboard

Abdullah created the official moodboard for our Music Video peoject and, in his words, " Just popping in real quick to post my mood...

Selecting a Record Label

This post serves the purpose of finding out which Record Label would we have approached with our music video for Otherside if we were...

Shaping the concept for "Otherside"

We all finally sat down since we were running out of time and thought of doing some serious thinking. We really wanted to make an...

Record Labels

While we are still working on finalizing a concept for our music video, we were informed of the syllabus requirement that our fictitious...

Concept No.1 for Otherside?

So far we haven't decided on a basic concept that we can move on to developing. However, Abdullah did come up with something he would...

Decoding the Lyrics

The lyrics of Otherside are: Even your going Let it find you Even in hiding Find it knows you Rocking you to sleep From the Otherside...

Back to the Genre: Art Pop this time

This time again, Abdullah made the genre posts, its one of the perks of having a music genius on the team. For here onward, the words are...

New Beginnings: The New Song

After we dropped the idea, Abdullah revealed to us that he was already having reservations about "Retrograde" because he thought that he...

Not Again!!! History repeats itself

So it turns out that just like I had to drop a really good idea in A1, I had to drop one in A2 as well. At least on the bright side, we...

Preliminary Exercise 1- For Retrograde

Unlike last year, when the purpose of the preliminary exercise was to get us experience of using all that we had learned practically...

Developing the concept

In my last post about the lyrics, I gave a brief description of our intended concept. This post talks about how we developed it. Last...

Deciphering the Lyrics

Below are the lyrics for "Retrograde" by James Blake: You’re on your own In a world you’ve grown Few more years to go, Don’t let the...

The Song is decided!!!

After we continued to bring up more songs and reject them, Adbullah brought up “Retrograde”, by James Blake. He played it on his phone...

Trying to decide the song

My group and I have spent numerous hours trying to decide the song. Yes, hours! We are following a simple procedure of where we all...

Electronic: Deciding our music video genre

An interesting fact about my A2 group is that the rest of the three members are each geniuses in at least one field. Abdullah happens to...

Research Survey

This year I decided to make the research survey and my group mates allowed me to do so. Since last year my group used Survey Monkey, this...

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