Storyboard Part I

Above shows our first few scenes up to 1:35 of our chosen song 'I'll Lie Here'. We have presented our storyline in separate parts as the whiteboard wasn't big enough to have the whole storyboard on there and we have limited time before our markings are rubbed off.

Number of seconds on each shot:

1. 0:00-0:03 secs
2. 0:03-0:05
3. 0:05-0:07
4. 0:07-0:09
5. 0:09-0:11
6. 0:11-0:13
7. 0:13-0:15
8. 0:15-0:18
9. 0:18-0:26
10. 0:26-0:30
11. 0:30-0:36
12. 0:36-0:42
13. 0:42-0:48
14. 0:48-0:54
15. 0:54-1:00
16. 1:00-1:03
17. 1:03-1:16
18. 1:16-1:19
19. 1:19-1:21
20. 1:21-1:26
21. 1:26-1:31
22. 1:31-1:35

Lyrics For Mike Dignam 'I'll Lie Here'

You can rest your head upon my chest
I feel warmer with you there
Go to sleep my love I’ll watch over us
Drift to a peaceful place there’s no rush for you to wake

With your eyes closed and me as your pillow
It feels as though you were made to fit with me

Through your gentle breath I exhale my stress
I know I’ve found contentment in these sheets

You’re the escape from my daily routine
The calm in my storm you comfort me

So I’ll lie here
So I’ll lie here

If I could describe this moment
A unique feeling knowing
Although my hearts been broken
Wounds from others are closing

You whisper my name when you begin to wake
It’s the sweetest sound, reminding me that

You’re the escape from my daily routine
The calm in my storm you comfort me
 So I’ll lie here
I’ll lie here

If could change the weather I’d make it rain
So we could take shelter in this place,

Feeling your heartbeat is all I need

You’re the escape from my daily routine
The calm in my storm you comfort me

You’re the escape from my daily routine
The calm in my storm you comfort me


So I’ll lie here
I’ll lie here
I’ll lie here
I’ll lie here

With you

Meeting and Early Planning of Music Video

In our most recent meeting in class, my group and I started brainstorming ideas for our music video which would decipher the image of the artist through this. We thought of a rough idea for the whole video and different effects and cuts that could be used. Due to media and technological convergence, artists need to promote and advertise themselves more harder than ever as a lot more of the population use media platforms to view them. Therefore we need to be positive about the structure of the music video as this will be viewed by the audience of Mike on YouTube.
We started to think about 'how are we going to market our product and provide the right image portrayal of our chosen artist?'

Below shows the brainstorming board we created in class to demonstrate our initial ideas for the music video:-

Finding a Music Artist..

Meeting 13/09/2013

In the lesson today we discussed  one of the songs that we are considering for our music video. One of the music videos we are considering is I'll Lie Here by Mike Dignam which presents an indie acoustic style. Mike Dignam is an English male artist who is known for his upbeat tunes and attraction to girls that are fond of the typical songs about love.
We think by choosing this song we can create a good music video that will involve many techniques.

Our ideas include:
- A narrative throughout the video
- Some lip syncing to the camera which will draw the female listeners in
- Narrative featuring a love story which corresponds to the lyrics of the song
- Natural environment with some picturesque and urban locations
- Guitar as one of the main features of the video

Song Choice

Having earnt the permission to recreate a music video for song 'I'll Lie Here' by Mike Dignam, we would therefore like to use this song as we think that selecting a song from the acoustic Indie genre would be a good route to go down as we can relate to the young style of the music. I think this song will work well as the lyrics are quite understanding and it provides a fairly simple storyline to translate into a music video.

Including the lyrics in the video below identifies the meaning of the song and how we could interpret the lyrics into a narrative for our music video. Due to the acoustic indie song, compared to other genres such as pop, we believe we don't have to show the artists' image throughout the video and lip syncing them to the music as it's more about the meaning of the song.

Permission for Song Choice

We have contacted an artist over the use of a song called I'll Lie Here originally by Mike Dignam. We managed to find this artist through Spotify and compared to other similar artists such as Ben Howard and Daughter, Mike is less well known. His genre is represented as acoustic indie but along with an upbeat tune which relates to the genre of indie pop.



To try to contact him, I emailed his management team through Gmail in which they replied to confirm we could use 'I'll Lie Here' by Mike Dignam.