How theories link with our narrative idea

We have recently been learning about different theories, in our non-practical lessons, and how they can link in with our music video narratives, for example:

Genre theory across media forms
When learning genre theory we read about Negus and he found that attempts to break with conventions often meets with rejection from the audience. We kept that in mind when creating our video and we've followed the conventions of music videos and the rock genre pretty closely. For example we have band shots in our video which were done in a small room, this is normally done in rock music videos.

Narrative theory
Our Narrative could link to Barthes 'Hermeneutic Code' because in our video we never fully explain the stalkers background of how she became so obsessed with the band, and then at the end we have the flame falling to the floor which doesn't really close the story of the stalker so she become a mystery to the audience and it could lead them to try and guess what happened next.

Inside booklet for CD

Before starting the inside section of my CD case I decided to have a look at some of the CD's I own and what their booklets included.

The CD's I looked at where: Young Guns - All Our Kings Are Dead, You Me At Six - Sinners Never Sleep and Jimmy Eat World - Invented. These are all bands that come from a similar genre to Paramore.

Their inside booklet mainly consisted of lyrics to each song on the album, a few pictures and thank you's at the end, so I decided to follow this for mine. I have got the lyrics on a plain black background in white text mixed with pages of band shots (some behind the scene, some real). I have also kept it plain at the moment as it's a first draft, so I can always go back and add some more detail if needed.

Ancillary task development

Album release poster - 1st draft

CD front and back cover - 1st draft

Shots of filming

Idea development / New narrative shots

After viewing our narrative and band shots together on Premier Pro and showing it to one of our teachers we realised that our video was lacking excitement as nothing really happened and people weren't understanding that the first person they saw with the band wasn't actually in the band. So we had a group discussion and decided that we would need to develop our idea further.

Our new idea, which is still linked to our previous one of jealousy, is to have our narrative shots showing the progression of a 'super fan' who is obsessive and has loads of posters of the band (could be seen as a stalker). The shots will show how her love of Paramore builds up to a point where she is seen with posters of the band all over her wall like a shrine. We would then have normal band shots of the band running through the video as well.

To avoid having the band shots in our school gym we went location scouting the other day and found some run down areas which could be potential places to have as a location for our band shots. Locations we found were:

 A boiler room 

A run down garden

Band Shots - School gym

We filmed another set of band shots which would have been cut in with the narrative of our video, however when we uploaded the footage we didn't think they would work. We thought that the the shots we took were good but because we used our school gym you could see a basketball hoop in the background and didn't think that fitted in with the mise-en-scene of our video.

We also took some band shots, which we could use for our ancillary tasks because we would be able to darken the background, therefore hiding the basketball hoop.

For example: Before editing

After editing