Music Video Research

        Coming off our commercial, we were still in a rough patch. We didn't really train ourselves to be ready for this music video because of a lack proper computer instruction. Once we got through this, the biggest thing I learned was the importance of making sure you got a correct shot before leaving. This was a key because we had to re take several shoots to get a shot good because we only realized we had bad shots when we were in the editing process. Another thing we were still struggling with was editing on Pinnacle, we ended up using our home computers and this was ok because we all knew how to edit, but not being able to edit on Pinnacle may catch up to us.  Moving forward, we were excited to move into the music video because me and my group were all very coherent on our song. Another thing we were ready for was our new group. We all like each other and all think along the same lines when it comes to music, so we think this process will go smother.
        At first, we were having major issues with our groups. Another pair kept trying to steal our group members, and there was a whole argument over who got who. Eventually, I ended up with who I wanted, Alex and Jorge. We ran through several songs like "Start With Me" and "90210," but these songs were ruled out because they cursed and we wanted to stay away from this in our projects. We ended up picking "Closed on Sunday" by Kanye West, this song fits into the rap genre but it isn't typical, it is very slow and doesn't really embody that classical rap sound. We liked this song because we thought it would be slow enough to add all the effects we wanted, but fast enough to not bore the audience and lose their interest.
        With the song "Closed on Sunday", the first 40 seconds of the song is a instrumental. Our group got the idea to shoot B-roll for this section of the song. The B-roll will contain: Low angles, High angles, Tracking shot, Pans, and Tilts. We were also thinking about having the Chic-Fil-A write"Closed on Sunday's" on their big sign. After the instrumental is done playing, Kayne West starts to sing about how Chic-Fil-A is closed on Sunday's. For this we thought it would be best to, have the actors in the music video, dress up casually. Kanye usually wear jeans, shorts, and T-shirts in his music videos, which gives him the simple sense of style. The actors will look depressed, once arriving at Chic-Fil-A and noticing that it's closed. This scene will be a tracking shot of the actors and close-ups of their facial expressions. For the editing portion of our Music video, we will align our transitions in footage, with the lyrics and beats of the song. We shall add effects to make the music video visuals more appealing.