Initial Meeting

For our A Level Media coursework, Myself, Georgia, Nathan and Carli will all be working in one group. We have decided that we will most likely work well together as we seem to have a very good mixture of skills, some are creative, and others are organised etc.
In our first meeting we discussed what genre of music we would all be most comfortable making the music video for. We decided that we needed to do some research into the existing media products of different genres and then compare results. We analysed two music videos of different genres each;

Bethany- 'Trance' and 'Drum & Bass'
Georgia- 'R&B' and 'Rock'
Nathan- 'Indie' and 'Rap'
Carli- 'Pop' and 'Grime'

We discovered that most of the genres would involve very complicated videos, and despite being a difficult genre, it would be more appropriate to us, as a group, if we made a video using a song that was in the R&B genre, as this is the type of genre that all of the members in the group are most familiar with.
We watched and discussed the features of a large number of music videos including 'Watcha Say by Jason Derulo', 'Baby By Me by 50 Cent and Ne-Yo', and 'Broken Strings by James Morrison and Nelly Furtado'. We made a list of the elements of the music videos that we liked and then conversed on what we should include in our own. We all had a large number of ideas.

However, despite, having both a large amount and wide variety of ideas for an R&B music video, we decided that it would not fit the materials we have available to us. For example, R&B videos are very expensive to make; they usually include fast cars, clubs, dancers etc. and this would not fit the task appropriately, as we are a group of A Level students.

So, as a result, we had to reconsider the genre that we would take a song from, to use to produce our music video.