Preliminary Task

In our preliminary group, we decided to use the song ‘So This Is Great Britain’, a debut album by the Holloways to create a music video for. The songs lyrical meanings have a sarcastic tone about Great Britain about how the economy is failing and how the uniqueness of Great Britain has been washed away. We therefore created a mind map of ideas about what to include in our video, and we decided that the best idea was to go round central London, filming famous and well-known landmarks that represent Great Britain. We thought that by filming the main performance sequences behind a wall full of graffiti gave off the message that peoples respect for this country has degraded, and it also relates to the rebellious rock theme of the song. We tried to connect the artist with the audience by using a lot of close up camera shots of the artist and made the artist look directly into the camera so the fans can identify more with the artist. I thought that this was effective so therefore plan to use it in our official music video. We also filmed sequences a drum player, playing along to the beat of the song, however decided not to use this in the video as it didn’t look professional or even realistic. I believe that overall we worked together in creating a successful music video, however, we learned many thing such as what is good to use and what isn’t so we can apply this to our official music video to make it as good as possible!