Finished Busted Video.

This is our finished video of Busted's What I Go To School For. Overall we are fairly pleased with the video, but time constraints meant we couldn't do anything more to improve it.

For obvious reasons, we had to leave the out the shots where the animals are mating. Mostly because we can't post that kind of thing in our coursework, and secondly because we didn't have the footage anyway to put in. That meant we were forced to fill it with various other shots, or extend the ones we always had.

Busted Props List/ Actors.

Before we were allowed to go and film our Busted videos, we had to create a list of props that we would need in our video, and also list the actors we were using.

Still in our groups of seven or eight, my group came up with this list-
- School location (this could be broken down into classroom and outside shots).
- 3 guitars, for the outside shots.
- School uniforms for all the actors involved.
- Whiteboard or blackboard for the opening shot sequence, plus a pen to write on it.
- Pencil, for the part of the video that matches up to the lyrics "I drop my pencil on the floor, she bends down and shows me more".
- Projector, for the shots including the animals mating on the screen (we were unable to get hold of the relevant footage, so we decided as a class to leave these shots out and just extend our existing shots instead).

Our actors list was-
- Charlie, Tim Andrews/ Josh Stevens.
- Matt, Me/ Mikey Elliot.
- James, Ricken Ram/ Daniel Bailey
- Teacher, ...
- Girl that turns around, Emmy Garner.
- Girl that dances in single shot, Owain Anderson.
- Screaming groupies, The rest of the class.

Storyboard.

This is the group effort for the storyboard we did for the Busted music video. Excuse the varying styles in drawing, it was done by 7 different people in total! The lines through some of the pictures were done as each shot was filmed, so that we knew which shots we had and hadn't done.

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Busted, What I Go To School For.

For our preliminary music video task, we were told to get in groups of 7 or 8 and then create a storyboard for the first 1 minute and 14 seconds of the video above. In our group, we split up into 3 seperate mini-groups and storyboarded 25 seconds of the video each to save time. I helped do the first 25 seconds, along with Catherine. See the next post for the storyboard!

Within the part of the film we were told to do, the actual contents of the video certainly illustrate the lyrics through use of images and actions. For example, the line "I drop my pencil on the floor, she bends down and shows me more" is matched with the imagery of the teacher in the video doing exactly that, as one of the band members drops a pencil off his desk. This fits in with Andrew Goodwins theory of illustration in music videos. Another theory that this video fits in with is Laura Mulveys male gaze theory, as the teacher is constantly shown as something that the male actors/ bend members in the video tend to gaze at a lot. The video also includes a lot of close up shots of the band members throughout, as is pretty much conventional in any music video.