A2 Music Video - Copyright Letter to ELEMENT

Copyright Letter

Here is a screenshot showing that i have sent a email to the producers of the song Madcon - Beggin'. I am waiting for a response from the producing company ELEMENT. They will be saying whether we are allowed to use the song or not in our music video.

A2 Music Video - Choosing our song

Choosing our song

It was hard to pick a song, so we decided to talk about ideas (Me and Jamie) of what sort of music we can use, so we wrote them down and we then narrowed them down and had to pick between 3 songs which were:

Macdon - Beggin'

The first idea for this song was there are going to be one or two homeless people who dance for money, so begging. Then one day while thier dancing a proper dance crew copme across them/him/her, then they decided that they want them to be in thier crew with them. The homeless person/people get into the crew succesfully and then are not homless anymore. I guess the message for this particular video is that if you have a dream you should never give up, you should keep chasing it till you got it.

Macdon - Beggin'

The second idea for this song was that there is a person that has got him/herself into trouble with the wrong people and there wanted by the people who are chasing him/her. There are several different people chasing him/her for the same reason as there all part of the same group, it turns into a free running chase quickly and the person gets caught and then starts begging for them not to hurt him/her.

Lanal Del Ray (Cedric Gerval Remiz)

The idea for this song was that a boy or girl is looking through old pictures and then she comes across a picture that had her/his ex girlfriend/boyfriend and then the image would turn into a video and it would bring bad sad memorys from the summer.

Year 13: A2 Overview

Preliminary Task 2 - Music Video Remake - Final Product

Final product

Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song | AS Media Product

Here is our final production of the music video that we had to recreate. It took us 6 hours in total to get it done as we had to learn the moves and we tried to get the moves and steps as accurate as we could. There was only one bit where it slipped up and is where Bruno Mars (Michael) turned the other way but then quickly tried to correct it, we done it to the best standard as we could. Also another problem with filming was the room was slightly to small, the length of the room was fine but the width of the room weren't as big as we would of liked to have it but everything went great, it was also very fun and exciting to do but it was also hard, we all enjoyed recreating the music video.

Preliminary Task 2 - Music Video Remake - Health and Safety

Health and safety

Must of us were first aid qualified due to doing a course a few months ago so we have the qualifications to help someone if they were to hurt themselves but no one did at the end so it was all good.

As you can see in the picture this is the chair we was using for Michael to sit on

As we was only dancing and not doing anything silly or dangerous there weren't a lot of dangers that were around, except from Michael (Bruno Mars) using the chair I could only see that was the only danger which was minor. 

Again the location we was filming at was Jamie's house (my partner). The only problem with doing our filming in his house was that we was limited to space so we had to try and use as much of it as possible meaning when we were dancing we was slightly cramped together but we made it work and done a great piece of work. 

Preliminary Task 2 - Music Video Remake - Reason why we choose this song

The whole point in doing this product is to re-create a popular music video. Me and Jamie have decided to re-create Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song. the reason to why we wanted and chose to do this was because it looked good to do, it also looked fun to re-do. It would also be easy filming it as we didn't have to change the camera position and also didn't have to change the angles of the shots so this means we will have the option to either do it in one whole shot or split it into two half's as in the official video Bruno Mars covers the camera half way in the song so that's an opportunity to cut there and then learn the rest of the video.

Preliminary Task 2 - Music Video Remake - Storyboard

Storyboard