Drafting and Planing

MGMT RECORD LABELS 

MGMT are signed to 5 record labels which are:

Sony Music Entertainment

Sony Records

RED Distribution 

Colombian Records

Cantora Records




Sony Music Entertainment 

Some artists who are also signed for Sony Music Entertainment are
Beyonce
Robbie Williams
Kesha
Jimi Hendrix

I will do some research based on these artists and their songs. Hopefully, It will allow me to take inspiration from their videos to help me find out the perfect type of video to fit this genre.
Some of this videos I am going to look at it the next weeks are:

Research Into Similar Products

From my previous blog post we can clearly see that I have had to change my song idea. I looked into MGMT 'Kids' and found out that a similar artist to them is Tame Impala. An example of a Tame Impala Song is called 'Feels Like We Only Go Backwards.'  As you can hear it has a very mellow vibe and I like the general gist of the song. Although it would not fit with my music video. I think that the MGMT song 'Kids' will work well. Although, this is an animated video I like the idea and I might try to incorporate some animation into mine. I hope that I stick with the idea I created and incorporate new ideas as well as the old ones.

Organisation

MGMT 

As I have to change my song this is the band I have looked into. This is some initial research on the band. 

They are an indie rock 2 piece who members are Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWygarden. They originated Connecticut, USA.   

They were formed in 2002-Present, 

Some Band who were associated with MGMT are Beck, Flaming Lips and Tame Impala. They have 73,032,251 views on YouTube on the song 'Kids.'

They have an official website called http://whoismgmt.tumblr.com/visualize

Research and Planning

This is a new song I am thinking of doing. It is called Kids. I think that due to the comments I received last lesson this song will fit more with the story line I have created. As you can see from the lyrics, if you look back to my previous blog post  my story line links to these lyrics. These lyrics clearly link to a child and therefore would link to the storyline. This also fits the indie genre in which I was thinking of doing. As I have already got a clear idea of my storyline I can hopefully incorparte the song into the story.






You were a child

Crawling on your knees toward him
Making momma so proud
But your voice is too loud
We like to watch you laughing
Picking insects off of plants
No time to think of consequences

Control yourself
Take only what you need from it
A family of trees wanting to be haunted

Control yourself
Take only what you need from it
A family of trees wanting to be haunted

The water is warm
But it's sending me shivers
A baby is born
Crying out for attention
Memories fade
Like looking through a fogged mirror

Drafting and Planning

After doing my presentation I received a variety of feedback regarding my song and my video idea. Overall I got some very good comments concerning my story line. They thought that the idea was unique and that it could work and that the editing would be hard but achievable. Then we start to talk about the song. I showed everyone which song I was considering which was Jamie T Emily's Heart. They like the pace and tone of the song but the Lyrics do not match. My story line is about a young child who has lost his parents whereas the song love and a girl. Therefore I am beginning to think of new song ideas which I will be posting about later. I am going to be sticking with the Indie genre and with having a song related to children.

Research and Planning

As mentioned in my presentation I am including a various amount of characters when filming my video. I will need 7 in total which are:

• Artist- Young Individual Male between 17-24
• Child (Star) - Young Boy 7-11
• Child's Father- Middle Aged Male in his 30s
• Child Mother- Middle Aged Female in her 30s
• Happy Child- Young female -9-14
• Happy Child's Mother- Mid 40s
• Happy Child's Fathers Mid to Late 40s

I will use a lot of my family for casting and hopefully ensuring that they suit the style which I want to portray. Although they don't have to be indie themselves they have to try to portray that within the video  

Drafting and Planning

These are some examples of Indie Digipaks. I am hoping to create my digipak based on these covers.As you can see most of them are plain colored and have similar features. I prefer the idea of having a image of something that is related to the album rather than the star. I will also use darker colours like black and white following the indie pop conventions for indie covers. I will use a picture because it links more closer to the stereotypical indie digipaks and can relate t the video and double page spread.