The song we have decided to choose for our music video is called 'Snap Clap' by Icona Pop, which is a modern twist on the American 'Clapping Song' (See vid below)
It was originally written by Lincoln Chase. However, some of the lyrics were borrowed from 'little rubber dolly' and they also feature instructions of a clapping game.
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clapping_Song ] Before a lot of technology was founded, children used to play clapping games to entertain themselves. They found it fun- this is something that I think we can reflect in our video and we can also add some clapping shots to represent this and stylise the clapping game being used in a pop song. The chorus in our song is repeated over and over and this is also like the clapping game.
Today we began to storyboard our idea as this will allow us to really think about every single shot in the video, from lighting to camera angles, to props, costumes and sets and length of the shot. We took our timeline then each took a sheet of the storyboard so that the work was spread evenly between the four of us.
Our Storyboard:
By storyboarding our idea, this allowed us to focus on every single detail of our music video. From what camera angles and movements we want to use, Costumes, Make up, Lighting and choreography.
We decided to create our timeline this week as then it makes it clear to us what the structure is. In our lessons this week we will be doing our timeline, so we know exactly where the structure of our music video so that we can come up with ideas and images of what we want to be in our music video at a certain time or frame on the timeline. The lyrics play quite a big role in this part as we can look at them and they can give us an idea, such as the line "3, 6, 9" we want lights to flash up. We want to see how the mise-en-scene goes with he lyrics in the song. The lyrics in the song are quite random and are repeated a lot, so its negative as we don't know what to put in there but also positive as we can create anything we want. We have decided that our music video will have loads of visual aspects to it so the viewer will be interested. All the different sets, costumes, lights and props will make the music video look really crazy and cool.
As we all go to boarding school, some of us arent in the same house and we also live so far away from eachother on the weekends. The phone signall at school isnt great either so we thought we would make a facebook group to communicate with eachother so we can post all our ideas/questions/pictures/inspiraiton on there which is set so only the four of us can see it. This is a really easy and quick way of communicating with eachother.
Ollie Allgrove come into school to have a chat with us about who he works for and what he does. He works for Passion Pictures, which is an independant production company. They mainly produce feature films, TV commercials, nature documentaries and music videos. I found his talk interesting as I learned things I didnt know about the industry, such as sometimes there will need to be more than one director if the film has animation as they will need a completely new director for the animation side of things as they all specialise in different areas. I also thought it was interesting when he was talking about music videos, He said music videos only used to be played on TV, however they started to die out a little bit until youtube came along, which gave artists their own voice and then the videos become available for people to download and watch not only on their TV, but they could also download it and watch it on their mobile phones and tablets. Finally, I found it interesting when he talked about the band they produced a music video for with barely any budget, but the director liked the idea of a man jumping off a building, however this was going to be way over their budget as they would have to hire a stunt man etc, so instead, they tied a camera to some helium balloons and created some fake legs and it gave the same effect- this was interesting to listen to especially as we are creating music videos with not really any budget, it makes you think alot more creatively.
3, 6, 9, the goose drank wine The monkey chewed tobacco on the streetcar line The line broke, the monkey got choked, And they all went to heaven in a little rowboat Clap, clap Clap, snap Clap, pat Clap, snap Clap, clap Everybody dance to the music 3, 6, 9, the goose drank wine The monkey chewed tobacco on the streetcar line, The line broke, the monkey got choked And they all went to heaven in a little rowboat Clap, clap Clap, snap Clap, pat Clap, snap Clap, clap Everybody dance to the music Mama told me She can't control me 3, 6, 9, the goose drank wine The monkey chewed tobacco on the streetcar line The line broke, the monkey got choked And they all went to heaven in a little rowboat Clap, clap Clap, snap Clap, clap Clap, snap Clap, clap Clap your hands and dance to the music
Today we began to storyboard our idea as this will allow us to really think about every single shot in the video, from lighting to camera angles, to props, costumes and sets and length of the shot. 
I found his talk interesting as I learned things I didnt know about the industry, such as sometimes there will need to be more than one director if the film has animation as they will need a completely new director for the animation side of things as they all specialise in different areas. I also thought it was interesting when he was talking about music videos, He said music videos only used to be played on TV, however they started to die out a little bit until youtube came along, which gave artists their own voice and then the videos become available for people to download and watch not only on their TV, but they could also download it and watch it on their mobile phones and tablets. Finally, I found it interesting when he talked about the band they produced a music video for with barely any budget, but the director liked the idea of a man jumping off a building, however this was going to be way over their budget as they would have to hire a stunt man etc, so instead, they tied a camera to some helium balloons and created some fake legs and it gave the same effect- this was interesting to listen to especially as we are creating music videos with not really any budget, it makes you think alot more creatively.
