Component 3 - Development

This blog contains the process of developing the music video

When we first gathered as a group, we did not waste time in discussing what genre of music we want to do. We debated on several genres, such as electronic or rock, but settled on RnB. We created a shared google docs document to compile our ideas for artist names, potential casts, and a general idea of what the music video will contain.

Artist name 

Decision: vertical phone shots banned, fade out before spoken word

Singer + Character sing in the same place

Artist Name Ideas

• Tukang bakso jalan sudirman - irrelevant

• Sate Madura Men Niki - Samameni - thats cringe, thats our own band name

• Bufo Ferulabitus - Means Cane Toad

• Te Amo 

• Our Lovely Years - song title skip

• Lil meatball - horrible

• Liebe

• Das Bett in Flammen - the bed in flames, irrelevant

• Uncertainty 

• Orange Winter - ????

• Yellow Winter - Piss

• Infant Consumer - first to go

• Amerika - strange, doesn’t fit

• Bed wetter - No, Just no

• High az - no

• Homietime - skip

• Sonne - possible

• Bodjo telu - what

• Hysteresis -

• Analepsis - 

• Arjuna 

• Ardjoena

• Djoen

• Jun

• Juniiah

We settled with the name 'Jun' as our research of artists of similar genres says that simple names are the way to go. Not only is it short and simple, it is easy to say and very recognisable, so it stays in audience's minds more. 

Casts

Cast:

• Baron/Deva/Melon

• Davin + Melody

• Kenrick (incredibly shy)  + Nico/Steven

• Danny + Nay

• Niki + Rania 

Screen test: Stage directions + improv - emphasis on body language

Calon Star:

• Juna - priority

• Kenrick - audition

• Deva - audition (grabfood driver)

• Steven

• Timo

• Maxi

 Screen test: Lip sync to “Out of Time”

When After having decided the artist's image as indie and softboy, we scouted the students at school to see who fits this role the most. After not much debate, we settled on our friend, Arjuna Nakao. He fits the softboy fashion, wearing baggy clothing. We made a rudimentary and crude screenplay to test the potential casts. As for the couple actors, we had a list of several people, but settled on our own people, Niki and Rania. This is mainly for practicality as it is incredibly difficult to coordinate shootings with people outside our media studies group.

Storyline

Timeline

• Carscene

• Cutaway - breakup

• Meet Cute - Cafe 

• Last few months - singer starts singing

• PDKT

• Happy Hour

• Top 10 Star Wars Betrayals

• Sad Hour

• Cope

• —---------------------------------------- nah

• Recover

• PDKT another

• Mann gegen mann

Scene ideas:

• Clubbing

• Karaoke

• Beach

• Makan-makan

• Car front camera scene

Storyboard

Storyboard

Box - Box - Box

Box - Box - Box 

Early sketches

When The images above are the initial storyboards we made for our early scenes. From previous projects we discovered that detailed storyboards are not important. However, we can't settle on simple sketches, so we decided to make newer, better ones.

Example of one of the scenes

We wanted to make better storyboards, so we asked our friends who are talented in drawing to assist and teach us skills in storyboarding and drawing. We also watched several YouTube videos on how to storyboard and draw better. We learnt that it is important to draw grid lines, which will make shooting easy and help the cameraman put into perspective of what shot we want.

Location scouting

#1 Selfie time ID - photo booth living world

#2 Mertasari Beach

#3 Genteng Biru Alley

#4 Level 21 Mall

#5 Sanur Beach

#6 Regents School

Relfection: Progress for this project has admittedly been slower than previous projects due to our time being cut by a semester break, distancing us from each other. However, we still managed to develop this project quite well, and I would say the quality of several of our works, such as storyboarding, has improved significantly thanks to us learning from the internet, friends, and our teacher, Mr. Nick.