Classwork: Persona

We did this classwork in class together, as a team.

Reflection:

Completing this classwork allowed us to gain more knowledge on Persona which helped us decide how we want to portray our character in the music video, on social media, and in real life. A slight problem we encountered while doing this classwork was that we couldn't decide on a single artist to research, since we all had different artists in mind. But later, we agreed on researching Billie Eilish's persona because we felt that her persona was quite straightforward.

Meanwhile, we've already made a decision for the persona of our own character in our music video project, so the last part didn't take much time to complete.

Classwork: Technical Elements, Theories, etc.

This is an individual classwork which I completed on the Canva slides below.

Reflection:

Completing this classwork wasn't that challenging, since all I had to do was summarise what I've learned in class regarding these topics. Though at first, I misunderstood this classwork as being a group task, not individual. This delayed the completion of this classwork a bit, but in the end I managed to finish this quite quickly.

Lyrics Sheet & Storyboard

Below is a Canva document for both the lyrics sheet and storyboard for this project. These were done by Kenzo, but we all gave inputs and suggestions along the way.

The storyboard is on the next page.

Reflection:

Having both storyboard and lyrics sheet prior to the production stage of our music video project really helped us visualise our ideas and see whether the shots we had in mind will work when paired together. The lyrics sheet was a new task that our teacher had us complete, and it really helped make visualisation easier due to the nature of shots being reused back to back in various music videos, which would've been a bit confusing and tedious if done solely with a storyboard.

Moodboard

This is our moodboard for the music video project. This was made mostly by Kenzo, with a bit of help from the rest of us.

The reason we're going for this style and color is because we want to show the character's loneliness in neon-lit locations, which matches our chosen song's theme of emotional fatigue and isolation from depression. This moodboard helps convey all these emotions, which we will try to bring into our music video.

Reflection:

This is our first time being tasked with making a moodboard alongside the usual pre-production tasks. So far, it's helped us better visualise our music video, and also the steps that we need to take to bring this atmosphere to our music video. While Kenzo did most of the moodboard, I helped make some decisions on what color and atmosphere that should be present in this moodboard, since we'll be featuring those in our music video.

Location Scout & Risk Assessment

This is the location scout and risk assessment for our music video project. This was researched and written by Kenneth (me) and Candra.

Reflection:

Doing research on the available locations to shoot at, as well as assessing the risks, has really helped us better visualise our ideas for the music video. But all these might still change since we're still in the pre-production stage. A problem we encountered was that we didn't have much information on unique places here that we can gain access to. So, we had to utilise search engines to get a better idea of the locations available for us to shoot at, that also has the feel of being a dark gloomy isolated place.