Communication and Planning
This was the communication between Myself and Ria and her manager, Keira. This is how we communicated our ideas and organised the date to film. All ideas or links to videos were sent between these emails. Ria was easy to communicate with especially when we shared the same vision on what we believed should be in the music video. This made it ten times easier to communicate ideas as we were on the same page as one another and made the whole communication process a lot easier. Ria was also very determined and intrigued in the process, checking up every few days to make sure that the process was going well and how she could help throughout. This helped myself and Anna be more determined to create this music video as we knew that Ria was dedicated to this shoot and that we couldn't let her down.
Ria is an easy client to work with, implying her own ideas and trying to help out as much as she could to help with the process. She gave a lot of leverage in the ideas, myself and Anna turning some down and her accepting the reasons easily and coming up with another. She had the same idea of the projections as myself before I even messaged her about the ideas, both of us being on the same page since day 1. This made the process much easier as we both had the same vision and this allowed us to work very closely. When Ria came down to work with us, she worked well and performed well. She also followed my directions correctly and gave her own ideas for what she could do. We gave her some free will on the actions and sometimes she would ask for directions or our opinions on what she would like to add into the video. She even brought the idea of the "ball of light" with her that we implemented into the video and worked very well.
For this music video, myself and Anna analysed the lyrics as we wanted to make the visuals have a relationship to the lyrics. We did this to make sure we could see the different paragraphs and choose which projection we wanted to use when and where we could also fit in the fairy lights. Studying the music videos lyrics helped us understand the meaning behind the song and allowed us to research into different types of projections that we could use throughout the video and which would fit to the lyrics. We also spoke to Ria about the lyrics and she helped us interpret the lyrics correctly and confirm what ideas should go where throughout the video. This will help during the editing process as this will help us decide how to section the video and how much of each projection should be shown throughout the video. It also will help to storyboard and come up with more ideas throughout.
