Today we were told about our music video challenge, and what it involves. This project will be different in comparison to our last music video. Instead of producing a video which we are acting in, we have been set the challenge of approaching a local band and offering to make them a music video. This project is designed to make us approach our tasks in a more professional way, and prepare us for the big wild world of work. Having to contact local bands will vastly improve our communication skills. At some point we will also have to set up a filming date, in which our group and the band/artist meet up and record footage for the up and coming video. This will have to be organised, and therefore will improve our organisation skills. Like the other group projects we have done in the past, one of the main aims for me is to work well with the other members of my group. A group of people that get on well can work quickly and efficiently, this is what I hope our group will achieve.
The first task of this project was to get ourselves into groups of four. I paired up with Holly, Scott and Stephen. Once in groups, we were given a large A3 sheet between us. On this sheet we were meant to note down as many local bands and solo artists as we could. This would give us a wide variety of bands to choose from. Scott was not here during this lesson, but we powered on regardless. With Stephen and I searching for local bands on the internet, and Holly writing them down as we found them, we soon had a sheet filled with bands and artists from all kinds of music genres. One of the artists that "caught our eye" was Alice Wilkinson: a Pop/R&B singer from Cherry Hinton Cambridge. After listening to a few of her tracks on Youtube, we all decided that we liked the genre of music she was singing and her unique voice.
