Edited Images - By Lorena

These images are edited to have different effects, so that i could choose the best one for my digi-pack.

Image chosen for the ancillary text - by Siham

These image's are the images that i have chosen from a load of differenet angled images. These image's is the original one taken. The reason why i chose these image's is because its appealing, it looks the buyer straight in the eye and is an alrounded good image's to use.
Image's taken by lorena montes

Final Version Of Music Video - Editied By Siham and Lorena Filmed By Siham and Bradley

Rough Cut Of Music Video - Edited By Siham and Lorena Filmed By Siham, Lorena and Bradley

Conventions Of Genre - By Bradley

The genre we have used is in between urban soul and rock. I say this because i feel that the song "heartbeat" begins slow and then midway of the song the bass of the beat then kicks in. Our song inflicts aspects of rock as it is remixed by chase and status. The genre rock is known for its heavy, over the top bass and instruments; in our video we hear this more towards midway of the song. Over the years Rock has changed it has gone from progressive rock to glam rock to soft, hard and heavy metal rock Our song lies between soft and progressive rock as it dose not have the profound bass of the instruments from the beginning. The urban side of the music comes from whats know as music that is radio fromat. The term was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a play list made up entirely of hip/hop, rap, contemporary R&B, more urban-styled pop. Urban contemporary was developed through the characteristics of genres such as R&B and soul. Our artist Nneka herself is listed as a R&B, souland hip/hop singer.

Summary of Artist - By Siham

Nneka From Nigeria is a Hamburg resident, Singer/Songwriter Roots sensation Nneka is back following her highly acclaimed debut album 'Victim of Truth' which the Sunday Times in the United Kingdom described to be 'as good as The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill'. Even though Nneka sings more than raps, she names hip hop as her primary musical root and most important source of inspiration. Her lyrics reflect much of her history and life in Nigeria as well as her time spent in Western Europe. Her songs stress the issues of capitalism, poverty and war and are often loaded with moral and biblical messages and references. She admits she feels at home on stage performing whether to an army of fans at festivals or busking on the streets of London. Now armed with a growing reputation as a consummate live performer, she continues to tour and gig across Europe with the likes of fellow compatriot R&B group Styl-Plus, dancehall superstar Sean Paul, Seeed, Bilal and Gnarls Barkley at the same time working on the completion of her studies in Germany (Anthropology) whilst recording new songs.

Minutes from Meeting

no1. Feedback was: there weren't enough flashbacks to the parts with Bradley and Lorena. There isn't enough performance, there should be more close ups of the artists, more intertextual references such as 'The Grudge' when Lorena is stalking Bradley. Positive comments was that the story is clear and the editing is effective.

no2. We decided that we need to film more footage so Heather is going to book the camera today so that we can film this weekend. Filming will include locations like the theatre. Heather is going to book the theatre with Mr Hitchenson for Saturday from 10-2. Another location will be Bradley's house so we can get footage of Lorena going in through the window.

no3. Editing will take place on Monday and Lorena and Bradley will be in charge of this.

no4. Siham has selected images for the ancillary text and is going to post them to the blog. Bradley has designed the pages so Lorena just needs to edit the images for the 1st draft to be complete.

Group Meeting

AGENDA 3rd February 2010

no1. Get feedback from Mr Skinner and discuss outcomes
no2. Organise another shoot
no3. Organise editing
no4. Check progress on ancillary texts

Animatic Storyboard - by Siham

Summary Of Original Video - By Bradley

When watching the original video by Nneka i found it surprising as by listening to the song itself i imagined it to be different. The song is a song that talks about love and heartache, so i imagined to see in the video s broken romance of some sort. The was set in Africa and the majority of the scenes was Nneka performing in like a distraught area with random people walking around the streets like everyday life; some scenes included Nneka herself in her home or friends home laughing with a friend and doing her hair, other scenes was of children playing games like table tennis. These images that she hes left with the view don't actually make sense with the song. i didn't find this video to have many many conventions of the genre. The colours used in the video did not complement the tone and beat of the song as the colours that she used were dusty beige's, blacks, browns and khaki greens. her image itself plays a lot in the video as she does not really seem to have tried hard to make herself look good.
We already had an idea of what we wanted to be in our video just by listening to the song itself without watching this video. Our ideas are completely different and will hopefully challenge the conventions of the genre.

Lyric Annotation - By Bradley

Location 4 - Images taken by siham

These images are of the room that we will use in the music video.These images are taken by Danny. This is a good location for our music video as it full fills what we need to complete theses particular scenes and create a scence of reality.

Location 3 - By Siham

This location is the school theatre, situated in Bishop Challoner School E1 we used this for performance.

Synopsis - By Siham and Heather

This song is about the pain and heartache that a female goes through, in which this is shown in the video. At the beginning of our video we will see a female starting off the song singing in a park, showing her pain and reminiscing of the pain she was put through by her partner. in this we will have flashback images of them arguing. The following scene we have the boy at home trying to turn the TV on but i doesn't work until he hits it. after a while he goes off to sleep but keeps on having nightmares of his girlfriend who turns into having an obsession with him and generates an anger toward him which he see in his nightmare. throughout the video we see cut back clips of him tossing and turning constantly in his sleep; flashbacks of the couple together are seen in this stage. midway we see a complete different side to the artist (the girl) as she turns devilish and completely crazy to the point she follows him home and looks into his window while sleeping. Towards the end we see her crawling towards him up his bed whilst he is sleeping and then he wakes up to find her not there and it was all a nightmare.

By Siham Allali & Heather Jean Aromin

Location 2 - By Siham

This location is Albert Gardens Tower Hamlets, London E1, UK.

Locations - By Siham

This is one of the locations we used to shoot the music video.
This location is Arbour Square Tower Hamlets, London E1, UK.
we actually used this location for the first couple of scenes in our music video.



By Siham Allali