Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Lyrics Break Down


Verse 1

As long as you love me, yeah (3.1 Seconds)
We're under pressure, (2.7 Seconds)
Seven billion people in the world trying to fit in (3.5 Seconds)
Keep it together, (2 Seconds)
Smile on your face even though your heart is frowning (3.8 Seconds)
But hey now, you know, girl, (2.7 Seconds)
We both know it's a cruel world (3 seconds)
But I will take my chances (6 seconds)

Chorus

As long as you love me (2 seconds)
We could be starving, we could be homeless, we could be broke (4 seconds)
As long as you love me (2 seconds)
I'll be your platinum, I'll be your silver, I'll be your gold (4.5 seconds)
As long as you love, love, love, love me (7 seconds)
As long as you love, love, love, love me (8 seconds)

Verse 2

I'll be your soldier (2 seconds)
Fighting every second of the day for your dreams, girl (3.5 seconds)
I'll be your whole world (2.5 seconds)
You can be my Destiny's Child on the scene girl (4 seconds)
So don't stress, don't cry, we don't need no wings to fly (6 seconds)
Just take my hand..... (6 seconds)

Chorus 

As long as you love me (2 seconds)
We could be starving, we could be homeless, we could be broke (4 seconds)
As long as you love me (2 seconds)
I'll be your platinum, I'll be your silver, I'll be your gold (4.5 seconds)
As long as you love, love, love, love me (7 seconds)
As long as you love, love, love, love me (8 seconds)

Verse 3

I don't know if this makes sense, but you're my hallelujah (4 seconds)
Give me a time and place, and I'll rendezvous, and I'll fly you to it (4 seconds)
I'll beat you there (1 second)
Girl you know I got you (2 seconds)
Us, trust... (1 second)
A couple of things I can't spell without you (2 seconds)
Now we are on top of the world, 'cause that's just how we do (3 seconds)
Used to tell me sky's the limit, now the sky's our point of view (3 seconds)
Man now we stepping out like, "Whoa" (Oh God) (2 seconds)
Cameras point and shoot (shoot) (2 seconds)
Ask me what's my best side, I stand back and point at you ( 3 seconds)
You, you the one that I argue with (1 second)
I feel like I need a new girl to be bothered with (1 seconds)
But the grass ain't always greener on the other side (2 seconds)
It's green where you water it (1 seconds)
So I know we got issues baby true true true (2 seconds)
But I'd rather work on this with you (2 seconds)
Than to go ahead and start with someone new (2 seconds)
As long as you love me (1 second)

Chorus 

Aslong as you love me (1 second)
We could be starving, we could be homeless, we could be broke (6 seconds)
Aslong as you love me (1 second)
I'll be your platinum, I'll be your silver, I'll be your gold (5 seconds)
Aslong as you loveeeee (7 seconds) (It's all I need, it's all I want baby, starts half way through for 6)
Aslong as you loveeeee (7 seconds) (Everything I need, for 3 seconds throughout)
Aslong as you love me, you love me (3 seconds)
You love me yeahhhh (2 seconds)
Aslong as you love, you love me, you love me yeahhh, aslong as you love me yeahhhhhhh... (10 seconds)


We have timed the lyrics in order to know how much time we have for each scene so we can be as accurate as possible when filming.

Lesson 16/10/13

In this lesson, we discussed our idea's as a group, such as fahsion choices, locations that we want to use, actors and more. We feel that we have picked the right song and it will be a success once we figured out what we want to do with the lyrics. We will post in the next couple of days with a decided view of or plans.

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Mood Board

Props

Acoustic Guitar
Lighting sets
Different clothing for each character that we use
Mobile
Pictures in frame
Accessories for characters and set
Jewellery

Actors
Daniel Stinchcomb
Graeme McCullough
John Masters

Fashion Choices
High tops
Leather/Baseball Jacket
T shirts, printed jumpers
Skinny Jeans
Jewellery

Locations
Croxteth Park
Albert Dock
Croxteth Hall
Beach front, sea front
Pier Head
Docks
Otters-pool hills and sea front
Museum Steps
Bedroom of house
Street


We all came sat down and came up with this mood board of ideas.

Props: We thought that we would go with these choices as they all are essential in a song like this, obviously the guitar with the song being completely acoustic. We also have a lead actor in Daniel that can play guitar so it will look much more realistic. We will obviously have different sets of clothing for the video with every location change we do. We will have pictures, just incase we decide to use them in the narrative as we are yet to decide what are storyline will be completely.

Actors
We have 3 actors for this video. Daniel will be our main actor throughout, being our selection as Justin in the story. Graeme and John will be used as extra, potential Daniel's friends, but we will decide that at a later date when we finish our planning of the narrative.

Fashion Choices
We have decided to go with the options above as they are current, up to date and will look good in a video of this kind. We will have different sets of clothes as we can't shoot a full video in one set of clothes, so we will change throughout. We have used a theme of high tops, jeans (skinny as well), T shirts and leather Jackets. We thought that this would be a good way to go as this is a regular theme of clothing among our Target audience at the moment.

Locations
We have thought of many locations, this is so we have many options when it comes to picking, we want to keep an open mind, especially with a song like this. The beach/sea front and Otters-pool hills are  a potential option as they show a diverse background as big bold backgrounds are quite popular now days. It will set a good tone for the song and will look professional. We also have the bedroom and street options as we will need them to tell the story. The museum steps may also be a good place to end the video as it has quite a slow ending.





This is a mood board that we created to show some of the things that we want to use and locations we want to go for our video. They will not be exactly the same but something along them lines.

Permission

This is a print screen of the email sent to Schoolboy Records, we have emailed them asking permission to use the track that we have selected to use as the song for our video. We have done this because we have to ensure that we are not breaching copyright laws by using the track as we will be posting our video onto our group blog and onto YouTube. We are currently waiting for a reply, if we get emailed back another post will be put up with the response we get from the company.

As Long As You Love Me (In the Media)

How has 'As Long As  You Love Me' been used in the media?

As long as you love me by Justin Bieber
 was first released on June 11, 2012 as a promotional single from the album, and one month later it was released as the album's second single. The track features American rapper Big Sean.

As part of promotion for "As Long As You Love Me", a music video, which was filmed in early July 2012, was released. Prior to the release of the video, Bieber revealed that a minute-long clip of the video was due to be broadcast following an episode of America's Got Talent; however, much to the displeasure of Bieber and his fans, the clip wasn't shown. NBC later revealed that technical difficulties prevented the clip from being aired. The full video was later premiered on Bieber's official YouTube page on July 12, 2012. Bieber very rarely referred to the video as a "music video", but rather as a "short film". Directed by Anthony Mandler.

Justin bieber went on to promote his song on well known TV Programs such as Dancing with the stars one of the biggest shows in america. 






He also performed this song on the biggest American TV show Saturday Night Live -


Action Plan

In a previous lesson we got together as a group and ran through a checklist of things that we would all have to discuss about our music video project. We did this so that we can organise the different sections of our coursework and we can tick off what we have done to keep us on a schedule. This will also help us with our time management because we can set targets for when each stimulus is to be completed by. 

Producing an action plan will help the group to keep on track and produce a high quality piece of coursework. This action plan is for the setting up of our music video to get us up to the point that we will be ready to record. This is because there is a lot of research and preparation that we need to complete before we can begin filming.

Monday, 7 October 2013

Ideas we had along the way



This was one of our first ideas, as the lyrics have such a powerful message in them it would be a good project to undertake. We looked at the lyrics and seen what we could do with the song, yet we couldn't agree on whether we wanted to use it for our project. Only 2 out of the 4 of us agreed on it, so we decided to look at other ideas.



This was another song that we looked at, as 2 of us in the group have a liking for rock music. We liked the thought of doing performance and a narrative in the same video, which in most rock videos is the case. But we then thought that we didn't want to follow to much in the footsteps of the original video, so we moved away from this song.



We looked at this song as it a very popular song with over 100+ million views on YouTube. The lyrics also have a big role to play in the song, but we couldn't think of an idea that the whole group agreed on so that it would be a successful project t undertake.

Wednesday, 2 October 2013

How we got to where we are

We had many discussions about songs that we could use for our video, ranging from many different genre's across the board. We thought about Rap, Rock, R&B. Our initial thought was Rap/R&B but when we sat down and further discussed this genre and come up with some songs we realised that it was quite difficult. Due to the fact that making a narrative for this genre is not easy, as people have there own opinions on the more popular Rap songs already. 

After we had further discussed and looked at our research we come to the conclusion that a love song is the easiest and best option.

Our first song choice was The Fray- How to save a life, We began to look at some research and possible concepts for the video then decided that this had been done to many times. Therefore it would be difficult to make this our own.

Then we came up with the idea of Justin Bieber's 'As long as you love me'. We then discussed possible concepts and narratives for the video and came up with some good ideas and locations for filming. However we thought that the speed of the song was too fast for the 'Love Song' concept. Then we decided the Acoustic version of the song was the best option, as this is a slower and more intermit approach to the song. With this, we have already decided on our main actor for the video and are drawing up plans line by line so that we can get the video planning actually right so that we can start shooting the project as soon as possible. We as a group are confident that this song will give us the best chance of gaining as higher marks as possible.

Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Questionnaire



This is the questionnaire that our group has put together to find out what you all think about our song choice.

Our Music Video

The song that we are using for our music video is Justin Bieber's "As long as you love me" acoustic version. We finally decided on this song as we thought that were many ideas we could incorporate into our making of a music video for this song. With 4 people bring ideas to the video, this will help us create a better product overall, and we will get our research and website design done quicker so we can get on with filming our main product.