I've listened to this song before but I had never watched or seen the music video to it until it came up on a music channel that I was watching on TV. I deciced to upload the video to my blog as it is from the electropop genre and so is the song we have chosen to produce a music video to. I think that it represents the electropop genre well through the style of dress, make-up, patterns, colour, graphics and editing techniques.

Filming Preliminary Video

Today was a long but extremely fun day. Andrea, My Boyfriend and I came back to mine after school to film our prelim in my room because that is where Lily Allen spends 30 seconds of her time in the video. We previously made a storyboard for it which Andrea brought along to make it easier and more organised for us to do. We had 16 shots to film in total and managed to get them all done. Andrea done the filming and I was Lily Allen along with a bit of my boyfriend in it. We made sure that we took our time and made it look as similar to the actual video as possible. Andrea and I even went out shopping today to buy some props for it. I bought gold earings, a gold necklace and a gold ring to go with the Lily Allen look and Andrea bought the chocolate and crisps that i had to eat several times during the filming process. We filmed the same shots several times till we got the best one. It's now ten to ten, Andrea left about twenty minutes ago... That's how long we spent on filming for our 30 second prelim video. It was fun to dress up for it and eat all the junk food! but most importantly it was good practice and fun for us both.

Preliminary Video Choice

In this lesson we were asked to find a simple music video that we can copy just as a practice. We only have to make up to a minute of it. This will help us get into the mood of filming and editing again and will help us when we are making our actual music videos.

We have chosen to make about 30 seconds of this video as it i quite simple to do. We have chosen for me to be Lily Allen.

Here's the music video:



Here's our storyboard:

Shots for Smile - Lily Allen:

1.  Singer eating chocolate, mid - shot, panning into face/
2. Singer and guy on bed, lying on side, wider shot
3. Side shot with arms crossed, sitting up on bed, mid shot.
4. Close up from below, checking phone
5. Mid shot lying on side eating crisps
6. Same shot as 3., from sitting flops onto bed, mid shot
7. Head and shoulder shot from slightly below, looking up.
8. Panning shot with her and male on bed reading book
9. More of shot 5
10. Same as shot 1, finishing chocolate.
11. More of shots 9 and 5
12. wide shot showing her sitting on bed from front
13. Close up from her level of her looking into the camera
14. panning shot of her sitting on bed, panning as she sings 'When you first left me I was wanting more'
15. Mid shot of her sitting on bed, not singing
16. Similar to 13, but singing 'what dya do that for?'