Our progress to date.

So far we have researched a variety of music videos, CD covers and magazine adverts that inspire us and that will help us gain our own ideas for our coursework. These all fit into our genre that we have focused on and we will take certain characteristics of them and adapt them to create our own ideas. We have analysed these contexts to help us understand how they are made, how they fit into the current industry and appeal to their target audiences. Now we have done this research, we have selected our song, band name, band genre and band members. Our band is called PABLO AND THE PEOPLE and it includes 3 band members. We have chosen the song 'One night in October' by Little Comets as they fit perfectly into our indie genre. We like how simple the band's style and performances are in their low budget videos so this will help us be more creative and imaginative for our own video. We have mind mapped a range of ideas as to what our video will include. We did this by analysing the lyrics carefully and adapting these into a story of our own as our video will be illustrative. We are also including band performances in the video to appeal to our target audience and highlight the band's personality and talent. Now we have created a story alongside our lyrics which has acted as a mini storyboard, we are now at the stage at storyboarding each specific shot. We will also soon be doing a photo shoot with our band members to express their style. For additional ideas whilst storyboarding our video, we will still be posting other examples of videos, CD covers and magazine adverts which inspire us and that we can develop more ideas from.