Cast list for my music video for 'Bad Blood.'

Due to the fact that my narrative does not span out and involve any other characters than a main boy and girl, my cast is small and provides a more focused, non-complicating story line that the audience will understand.

Male character:

Played by: Nathan Allen

Nathan is a long term friend of mine but not a student at Wyke College. He is currently partaking in a course on construction and electrical engineering elsewhere, and jumped on the opportunity to star in my video.
Nathan was a great choice for a main character in my music video due to the fact that the two of us constructed a previous music video for our GCSE Media in high school and received an A grade for the piece of coursework, of course GCSE and A-level are incomparable, but I think this will give me a slight advantage from past experience of the two of us working together on a media project.

Nathan is reliable and will fit to the shooting schedule, and dresses in the costume that I would like the character in my video to be in on a regular basis, this indie-rock costume fits the conventions of my chosen genre without the need to specifically purchase these clothes. He also has a vintage motorcycle which could fit perfectly with the genre conventions of indie rock, which I could include in several shots.


Female character:



Played by: Georgina Isitt

Georgina is a close friend of mine and studies Applied Science, Film studies and Psychology at Wyke. I have chosen her to be my second and final character because I know that she is reliable and more than capable of fitting the role of my female character, she also lives locally to the shooting areas that I have chosen so will be easily accessible, which is convenient due to the fact that many of my shots are planned to be taken at night.

Her appearance and the way she dresses also reflects the genre conventions and costume of a stereotypical indie female character. This will help me achieve a sense of realism with my characters, sticking close to the costume conventions of real music videos of this genre.

Animatic for my storyboard of my music video A2 project - 'Bad Blood' by Bastille

A few first practice shots for music video.

Before I go to my friends farm this weekend to light our fire that my video revolves around and hopefully film a majority of the music video, before travelling to the Humber Bridge to film other sections, I took the camera and tripod out and captured some first test shots.

Compiling several first clips I obtained on movie maker.

I did this in order to see what effects would work well when coming to producing my piece and editing it properly with my final shots.

 

Shooting schedule.

Saturday 23rd Oct  - Begin filming farm scene at night.

Monday 18th Nov - Take several daytime shots for instrumental.

Friday 22nd Nov - Shoot sunset shots.

Saturday 23rd Nov morning - Shoot sunrise shots

Saturday 23rd Nov evening - Shoot sunset shots, then light fire. Shoot most shots including the fire and motorcycle.

Tuesday 26th - Film any other filler shots.

To be added to.

Audience research - Blog poll findings.

From the poll that I carried out on my blog as part of my audience research, I have collected the following findings:

88% of the people who answered my poll were female, which could suggest that not only females mostly responded to fill out my poll, but that indie rock genre contains an audience that is female dominant.

To validate these results further I carried out extra research into the audience of Indie Rock and have found this to be true, supporting the answers to my poll.

100% of people who carried out my poll were 17 years old and every one of these people who answered my poll believe that 16-19 year olds are the main audience that consumes music videos most often. 85% of people who answered also think that the age group of 16-18 year olds search for and watch Indie Rock music videos most often.

These results show a clear corresponding pattern that the exact audience that have answered my poll believe that their age range watch the most music videos overall, as well as the majority agreeing that this age range watches indie rock videos the most, despite being given the option of selected 4 other varied age ranges. This majority pattern proves significant reliability to what is being answered.

I also posed a question to the audience on their favourite music genres. The results returned with 11% being interested in by R&B and soul the most, 22% interested mostly in the genre of Rap and Hip Hop, as well as acoustic. 44% of people who answered had a favourite genre of Dubstep and Dance music, and finally 66% of people preferred indie rock the most. Due to the fact that I have received answers from people that would mostly consider indie rock as their favourite music genre I feel as though these statistics from an audiences point of view have a clear pattern and have a certain
degree of accuracy.

Audience research - Focus group.

I posed several questions about my chosen form (music video) to a selection of students in order to find out what they want to see and what they like regarding music video. The answers I recieved allowed me to gain information which I will use to engineer my final media product to appeal to a larger audience, and how I could do this.