Song Choice

Over the holidays, we have spoken as a group to our performer (Tavonga) to discuss our original ideas for the music video that we will create together. We could not just choose any RnB because we needed to know that Tavonga was happy and comfortable with the song. This is why we contacted him and discussed the 3 songs that we were thinking about which were: Miss Independent by Ne-yo, Excuse me miss by Chris Brown or So sick by Ne-yo. Myself, Beth and Eboni were comfortable with any of these songs based on the videos that were originally constructed for them. The lyrics are all meaningful from which we have looked into and so we had to confirm with Tavonga, which one would be his preferred song.

Tavonga's personal preference was So Sick by Ne-yo and so we will research further into this video which includes the RnB conventions that are challenged and conformed to so that we can decide how we will conform to the video or challenge it. Now have decided on this, we can prepare in terms of location, props that will be needed, the types of camera shots along with general mise en scene. It means that we can begin filming very soon and begin edit any footage.

In lesson, we discussed the general, initial ideas in terms of location and discussed where would look professional whilst being realistic with the locations that we can get to. We discussed how we would get to these places and who would come to assist with the filming and performing. Miss has booked the room for Apple Macs in the next 2 weeks and so we know that we need to begin filming by then. Beth has also made a rough production schedule that we will try to stick to and this says that we will begin to film next week. We need to take into consideration our commitments to Sixth form and how early it goes dark based on our filming possibilities and so this we all be planned before hand.

This is the song that we have chosen.