Production Meeting Summary: Week of 29 September - 3 October

Our agenda for the week

This week we created an agenda to ensure we got as much as we could done. In the first group meeting on tuesday, we took a group photo, uploaded our steal-o-matic to Youtube and checked our chosen track for copyright. In our second, longer production meeting on Thursday we started deciding on the structure of the video, the costumes, setups, and image of the band.

Notes on the visual progression of the video

As we didn't want our video to have a proper narrative, we thought we should make a list of the ways that our video would progress over the course of the track. We came up with changes in costume (at least 3 or 4), faster paced editing towards the end, different setups, and the number/scale of props increasing (we would have bigger/more props towards the end).

Notes on different setups

We came up with 2 main setups (plus miscellaneous ones, which are to be decided), one being the performance setup with all the amps and instruments, the other being an empty set where the band will interact with various props.

Notes on the band's image

We created the personalities of the band members and the band as a whole. Our band is playful, fun, young, happy, laid-back, vintage and all friends with each other. Kayvon's character is the leader of the band, he's stylish, confident, cool and modest. Gavin's character is funny, relaxed and happy and my character is a tomboy, who is relaxed, aspirational and quirky.

By working out the band's identities, we could more easily create their costumes for the different setups.

Notes on costume

We made a rough list on costume options for each of the characters for the different setups. We had to take into account that all the band members had to have an individual style, especially the two boys. We also looked into some fun costumes, which we could use to help with the visual progression of the video.

Notes on the meaning of the lyrics

We also looked at the song's lyrics and analysed them, looking at key themes for the song. We thought we could use these themes of nostalgia, coming-of-age and youth as the core meaning of many of our creative decisions in the style of the music video, album cover and website.