Research for our music video

Notes for the planning of our music video

Artist- Carly Jones
Age- 15
Student at Reepham high school

First I looked at “Empire state of mind” by Alicia Keys, this influenced us as the music and lyrics are similar to the ones in which our artist writes. When we first came across Carly we found her on www.wohomusic.net a music social network and website where users are able to listen to music online, find gigs and chat with artists, bands and fans from all over the world. We listened to the songs she sung however they we all traditional songs from well known artists around the country e.g. Florence and the machine – Howl. We could not use any of these song as we were asked to find an artist who has written there own music and lyrics. Myself and my group then went and spoke to Carly and asked her if she writes her own music and with luck on our side she does. When I first listened to her music it reminded me of Alicia Keys - Empire state of mind, just because of the tune and particular lyrics. We were extremely happy when Carly agreed to sing for us as we can do a photo shoot for the album cover and promotion of the song and make our music video performance based.

Initial Ideas

• From hearing her style of music I really have a image in my head of her playing on a dark stage with nothing else around her bar a piano.

• Dress code – Black dress, very formal. The aim is to get look of a professional artist.

• We have spoken to a make-up artist and we have also spoken to a hair stylist, they have both agreed and are willing to help us through our music video.

• The location we have looked at is in the high school with the piano however the piano is NOT on the stage so we are using the recording music room with a long board placed around the room with a black sheet with small lights coming through which makes the scene looks more sophisticated and will make the scene more calm and will make Carly stand out.

• However this may change depending on how Carly feels as we want her to feel as comfortable as possible e.g. she may not want to sing live she may want to lip sync.

• Another problem is we don’t want our music video to be boring so after hearing her song and analyzing the lyrics we will then decide whether we need more of a narrative based than performance.