First Blog!

We are Q1-10 who consists of Kirsty Leslie, Louise Housden and Becky Ponting! We will be making a music video following these deadline..
Pitch: 10th September
Animatic: 19th September
Rough Cut: 10th October
Final Video: 7th November
Picture House Screening: 12th November
Writing Draft: 1st December

Our first duty in this music video project was to choose the track and artist from a list of 13 potential songs. We listened to each one individually before making our choice of two finalists. Our first choice is 'Milkmaid' by Kid Harpoon, and our second is 'Heavy Metal Drummer' by Wilco. The reason we liked these tracks was because they followed a narrative, which is the type of video we would like to create. They were upbeat and happy, which inspired us to create an exciting and colourful video! The genre of both songs are Indie Pop, which suits our decision to make an alternative video without real people being in it. Our initial ideas were to make paper/cardboard characters and use iStop Motion to make a 2d story come alive!

We will animate the milkmaid character and following the narrative within the lyrics we will create a short story within a stage for the milkmaid taking each of the lyrics literally, e.g. her hands were big, character gets big hands. A milkmaid is quite an old fashioned concept, we feel this should be displayed in this style, so the video will be stylized to a specific time period e.g. 1930's, 1940's.