Choosing Our Brief And Brainstorming Ideas

In this lesson we as a class split ourselves into groups in which we would be making our music video together. I decided that I wanted to work with Luke, Aaron and Luke. Once we had settled down we were them given the 7 briefs to look through in order to decide which we wanted to make a music video for. Once we had looked through all of the briefs we narrowed it down to three briefs and then selected this one from the three as this specific brief match each of our thoughts and ideas. What we all liked most about this brief was mostly that the dislikes of 'Magma' was pop videos and no one in the group wanted to make a pop video. The best thing about this criteria that the group liked was that the artist didn't need to feature within the music video and the greatest thing about the dance/house genre is that it can be as random as you want it to be.

Now that we had chosen the brief that we wanted to make a music video for, we then began to look into greater detail at how we may need to change the brief so that it matched what we may want to do with regards to our ideas. The only thing that we wanted to change on our brief was the name of the band as we thought that this wasn't really a good name for an upcoming DJ (it didn't really stand out). So we brainstormed new ideas for the name of the DJ and we also began to think of some ideas which may take place within our music video. As you can see below these are the ideas that we thought of within our group.

Ideas
Some of our ideas include;

• Having plenty of dance routines throughout our music video to make it into a very dancey video.
• To have four main dancers within the video. I think four is the best number as it's not too overwhelming and at the same time it's not too boring.
• I think our main idea is based around spoofing other iconic pop videos. The reason why we have chosen this as our main idea is because we feel that our artists, DJ Boosh doesn't like cheesy pop videos and so we think that spoofing the videos would be the best idea for our music video.
• Some of the music videos that we wish to spoof include; Queen - I Want To Break Free (which will include dressing up in drag), perhaps some S Club 7 music videos, The Ketchup song and even a new chart topper at the moment called Gangnam Style.
• What we plan to do is use the scenes from each of these videos and use their dance routines in order to spoof the videos.
• We plan to use random cosutmes that include morph suits and drag (for the Queen video) in order to hide our dancers identities but at the same time make it loom fun.
• I think it would be a good idea to add a rewind effect within our video to add a bit of fun to the video.
• Our locations could include us being anywhere, so we have decided at the moment to keep that at an open option as the pop videos that we may want us to do could lead us anywhere from a living room in a house or even a gym.