Band Name

Whilst creating our website on wix, we began thinking of band names that would match the image of the band. We started thinking of band names that were in the same genre as ours (e.g Arctic Monkeys, The View, The Pigeon Detectives, The Libertines). We wanted to make sure the band name matched the look and style of the song we were using for our music video.

We came up with the band name 'The Spies' as we believed it had similarities to the above band names of popular indie artists. The band name we used also meant we could play around with creating an interesting logo.

Also, our featuring artist Lady Sovereign would need renaming, but this time we needed to think up an artist name that would fit the grime/hip-hop genre. We came up with the name Miss Currency and we took influence for this name from several different female hip-hop and grime artists 

Meeting 8

Yesterday whilst overviewing our music video so far we decided the lyrics needed more of a narrative that matched the song rather than just being an artist performance video throughout. The lyrics matched a narrative that would involve someone holding down a nine to five job that they didn't enjoy, we had the idea of using several different jobs (2 or 3) adding the idea of intertextuality to the music video. The first job idea that we had was an office job, this would be easy to complete as all we would need is a suit and a desk with a few different props, we were also keen on using a blank white background throughtout this scene and we knew of a few different locations that we could do this in.

Meeting Seven

PUT IN STORYBOARD AND MIND-MAP AND IMAGES RELATED TO PROGRESSION OF IDEA 

Meeting Six

We had once again altered our idea slightly, whilst we were still focused on using intertextuality in the song 'Nine 2 Five' by The Ordinary Boys and Lady Sovereign, we decided we wanted to change our idea from a news reporter to a man who holds down several different 9 to 5 jobs, as we felt that this would match the lyrics to better effect and would also give us more props, costumes and locations to play around with. We also decided that as Lady Sovereign was only a featuring artist in the video she would have no involvement in the job aspect of the video and her input would be purely performance based. We were also interested in the idea of using clocks in the music video as there are lots of different references to time in the song.

Meeting Five

Now we had scrapped the 'St Jimmy' Green Day idea we now went on to further our thoughts related to the 'Nine 2 Five' news reporter idea, we went on to find some music videos that had already been produced with this use of intertextuality implemented into them, here are two examples that we had found:

By furthering our research on these kind of music videos we now had a better idea of how we could put this into our own music video. We also came up with the idea of using both a news desk and a news anchor scene giving us a range of different locations to use in our music video.

Meeting Four

We decided that it would not be possible to use 'St Jimmy' by Green Day as the band already has an established image that was well known on a global scale, and it would be difficult to produce a green day related music video without including a band performance that was similar to that of Green Day's. This also meant that we could not use similar well-known punk bands as they generally follow the same image and attitude, this now meant that we would persist with the 'Nine 2 Five' news reporter idea.

Meeting Three

We decided to scrap the Daft Punk 'Technologic' idea as we felt the lyrics and repetitive beat of the song meant we could do limited things with the song which may lead to our video coming across as boring. After this change in idea we came up with two other songs that we were interested in developing into our music video, these were 'St. Jimmy' by Green Day and 'Nine 2 Five' by The Ordinary Boys and Lady Sovereign.

We were interested in using either of these two songs as it meant we could develop and idea which involved intertextuality. Firstly with the song St. Jimmy we had the idea of involving a Jeremy Kyle style show and with Nine to Five we realised the lyrics may match the job of a news reporter, we had seen this job involved in a few videos beforehand.

Below are the two songs we are interested in using for our music video:

Meeting Two

SCAN IN ROUGH NOTES AND BRIEF IMAGES AND STORYBOARD IDEA 

Meeting One

Our first initial idea for our A2 music video task involved the song 'Technologic' by Daft Punk, I liked the idea of using this song as it had a qwerky beat and repetitive lyrics that we could play with, there was also a robotic voice used for the lyrics which is another idea we could play around with. Our first initial idea was to use a split screen that would divide into further screens as the verse/chorus progressed, this would give make the video stand out from other videos in the dance music genre. I would also interested in developing a rave/dance scene band performance with the use of strobing and a crowd scene. We briefly thought of using V for Vendetta masks for the band member/s to fit the strange and peculiar nature of the song. Ofcourse it is only early days in coming up with a final idea for our music video so our overall idea is subject to change.