Research for our music video.

Notes for the planning of our music video!


Artist- Carly Jones
Age- 15
Occupation- Student at Reepham high school

First I looked at “Empire state of mind” by Alicia Keys this influenced us as the music and lyrics are similar to thee ones in which Carly writes. When we first came across Carly we found her on www.woho.net.com , we listened to the songs she sung however they we all traditional songs from well known stars around the country E.G. Florence and the machine – Howl. We could not use this song as we were asked to find an artist who has written there own music and lyrics. Me and my group then went and spoke to her and asked her if she writes her own music and with luck on our side she said she did. When I first heard her music it reminded me of Alicia Keys Empire state of mind, just because of the tune and some of the lyrics. We were extremely happy when Carly agreed to sing for us as we can do a photo shoot with her and make our music video performance based.



Initial Ideas

• From hearing her style of music I really have a image in my head of her playing on a dark stage with nothing else around her bar a piano and her.
• Dress code – Black dress, very formal. The aim is to get her looking very professional.
• We have spoken to a make-up artist about doing her make up and we have also spoken to a hair stylist to do her hair for us. They have both agreed and are willing to help us through our music video.
• The location we have looked at is in the high school with the piano however the piano is NOT on the stage so we are using the recording music room with a long board placed around the room with a black sheet with small lights coming through which makes the scene looks more sophisticated and will make the scene more calm and will make Carly stand out .
• However this may change depending on how Carly feels as we want her to feel as comfortable as possible. E.G. She may not want to sing live she may want to lip sync.
• Another problem is we don’t want our video to be boring so we after hearing her song and analyzing the lyrics we will then decide whether we need more of a narrative based than performance.