Rehearsals

Our first meeting and rehearsals took place today. In our meeting we managed to get a hold of all our actors (who are going to perform in the video) and we discussed the dates and the roles that are going to be taking place in the video. The meeting was very beneficial towards the group because it improved our organisation and communication. Whereas before we wasn’t organised, this led to us failing to complete tasks on time. Furthermore our communication was very poor therefore it brought a lot of confusion in our work as certain members were missing work when blogging. The meeting also allowed the girls to rehearse their dance as they need as much time possible to perfect the dance. The dance is going to be the key part of the video.

Here are some pictures that was taken during the meeting and rehearsals;


This picture shows us sitting around in a circle discussing our plans and dates for the filming of the music video. in the picture we have almost all the team members that will be involved in the casting of the video i.e. acting, directing and filming.

This picture shows the girls going through their dance rehearsals as a group, and in the picture it shows all the girls that are going to be acting out in the video.

The last picture demonstrates the girls doing the actually performance, which is the dance. The girls who are dancing are the girls who will be performing and in the front line we have our main girl.

Khandi Floss Portfolio

I found a portfolio on Myspace that gave a quick description on Khandi Floss life.
It's a short paragraph that basically gives a short description to how Khandi Floss was made and where they are at now. Here's their small portfolio;

They’ve been described as the miniature British Destiny’s Child but Khandi Floss are a girly, burst of energy, edginess, girl band. The girls Harmony, Honey, Shara and Pharai make up the Khandi Floss crew; ranging from the ages 14 -16. Their music is a cross between Pop meets “Grime N B” and Experimental. The name Khandi Floss originated from the bands Manager Hazel (Artist) and began with Honey and Pharai, when they decided to take music seriously in their music lessons (at the time in year 9) from dancing to singing and rapping. Over time the group grew in size with the addition of Shara and Harmony; and vocally matured. In the future KhandiFloss hope to be as successful as the greatest female bands Destiny’s Child, TLC and Missteeq; whilst inspiring their generation and other generations to come. Our proudest moments and honours are;

- Performing at Tottenham, Dagenham and Newham Town Show
- Performance in Black Urban Fusion
- Tour in Malawi
- Performance in Hackney Empire

Here is a picture of the actually mixtape/album cover of "Crush on you";

Similar Band

On top of finding a similar video we also managed to find a similar band. There was so many candidates, however we concluded that Destiny's Child is our like artist. We believe that Destiny's Child is similar to our band because they are in the same genre with the same amount of memebers. Also the style/swagger that Destiny's Child use is the same style that Khandi Floss are trying to remix and better. Furthermore Destiny's Child have 1 main leader so it relates to Khandi Floss because they also have 1 main leader who does most of the sing in their songs.

Destiny's Child background info (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny%27s_Child);

Destiny's Child (also known as DC or DC3) was an American R&B girl group comprising lead singer Beyoncé Knowles alongside Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. Formed in 1997 in Houston, Texas, Destiny's Child members began their musical endeavors in their pre-teens under the name Girls' Tyme, comprising Knowles, Rowland, LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett. After years of performing underground, they signed to Columbia Records and changed their name. Destiny's Child was launched into mainstream recognition following the release of their best-selling second album, The Writing's on the Wall, which contained the number-one singles "Bills, Bills, Bills" and "Say My Name".

Despite critical and commercial success, the group was plagued by internal conflict and legal turmoil, as Roberson and Luckett attempted to split off the group's manager Mathew Knowles. They were soon replaced with Williams and Farrah Franklin; however, in 2000, Franklin also parted with the group, leaving them as a trio. Their third album, Survivor, which contains themes the public interpreted as a channel to the group's experience, contains the worldwide hits "Independent Women", "Survivor" and "Bootylicious". In 2002, Destiny's Child announced a hiatus, allowing its members to attain individual success. They re-united with 2004's Destiny Fulfilled, and a year later during their world tour, announced that the group would disband and its members would pursue solo careers.

Throughout their career, the group released four studio albums and achieved four US number-one singles. They had sold over 40 million records worldwide as a group, 50 million including their solo album sales before their disbandment, becoming one of the best-selling recording artists in the U.S Billboard magazine ranks the group as one of the greatest musical trios of all time, and inducted the group in 2008 into the All time Hot 100 Artist at 68th place. In 2005, the World Music Awards recognized them as the World's Best-selling female group of all time. They were ranked the 9th Artist of the 2000–10 decade by Billboard.

Similar Video

After finally finding our music we managed to also find a music video that we believe is similar to our ideas. However the music video is no ordinary choice as we decided to use ex pupils coursework. Houda, Ardit and Eustacia are the ex pupils that we are analysing and comparing to our ideas.

Background Info
They were last year’s group and their music was from the RnB genre. The song was called “Only You” from Keshia Angeline who was an unsigned artist on unsigned.com. Their music video was at last at an A grade standard because of the editing, acting, ideas used and the setting of the video.

Here’s their music video that was used for their



We believe that the video is similar to our idea because
• It has 3 different locations
• 1 location is the same as ours
• 2 main people in the video is the female and male

So firstly with the 3 different locations is great idea that we are looking to use because we believe that we are being more adventurous with our coursework. Therefore that allows us to create a good piece of coursework because it shows that we have taken our plans very serious and that we are creative with the music video.

Second idea we are looking to use is as going up London to film parts of our music video. This then shows that we are also using the same location as their video. We believe by using that particular location gives us certain advantage this is because the mise en scene is attractive and we will be able to find many different shots with the place. Therefore that gives us the chance to get awarded with more marks as we have learned our lesson from our previous coursework, since we kept our filming in one place.

Lastly we are looking to use the same idea of 2 main people with a male and female because the song is about love therefore it’s only between two people. However we have kept it the same because it’s the female sing to the male.

Lyrics

Boy i'ave got a crush on you, wonder if you only, only knew
Boy i'ave got a crush on you, wonder if you only, only knew

chorse

Boy, you know i got a crush on you
Don't know what am going through
Baby if you only knew, if you only knew
Coz boy, you know i got a crush on you
Don't know what am going through
Baby if you only knew, if only knew.

Verse One

i see you on my way to school
it's a shame da you not notice me
baby you should be my boy
we could be together, we should be together
it's time i let you know exactly how i feel, how i feel about you 2x
it's time i let you know exactly how i feel, how i feel about you, are you feeling me too

Rap 1

easy boy n am feeling you
smells so good like sweet perfume
but it's ok, cuz am needing you
times like this when am wanting you
but hold on, am dream about you
constantly always thing about you
wondering if am wanting you, now you know that am onto you

chorse x2
(INTERLUDE)

Rap 2
now you know that am going through
times still hard, still feeling you
but seckle am missing you
do you know that am liking you scratch that am loving you
can you be my baby boo
now you know that am unto you
now you know that am wanting

chorse x2

when i see you over here
when i see yo over there
i be like oh my oh my oh my oh my
who is he? who is he?
oh my oh my oh my oh my

chorse x2

Plan B

Therefore because our first plan didn’t work we went on to find another alternative. So our “Plan B” is to use a well established school band as part of our coursework. Khandi Floss is the group that we are using and they have been together for at least 4 years creating a few tracks that has been recognized by the public. However they are a band that is still isn’t signed therefore we took our opportunity to create the bands first video. We believe that using raw talent can improve our coursework because we are creating a music video that can potential help the band with their career.

The song from Khandi Floss that we are going to use is “Crush on you”. The song basically concentrates on the main band leader having a crush on a school boy. However the rest of the band members/friends try to convince her to fight her fears and tell the boy her crush. Therefore we must create a music video that tells the story of the actually song.

So because the band is a school band the video will be mainly shot at school. Also because there are 4 band members we are looking to use 4 boys as well as we want everyone to be paired up. To find out more about the band they are on myspace on- http://www.myspace.com/lbxkhandifloss

Song Choice

We have started the coursework for quite some time. However it has been very difficult for our group to find a piece of music to use, this is because we went for a specific genre. Therefore we didn’t have much to choose from as we were only concentrating on that particular genre.

The website that we used to search our music was unsigned.com as it was the most popular and used website in our school. Therefore the recommendation was high for us as the majority of RnB songs came from there. So we actually used the website and found 2 potential songs that we wanted to use for our coursework. Both of the songs belonged to the RnB genre and they were both different as one had a fast pace, whereas the other one was much slower. The first song that we were happy to use was called “Photo Shoot” from Cincere, and the song was basically focusing on a woman of his life that he would like to take and use as a photo shoot. Consequently the song tended to have a lot of sing focusing on the woman with a verse of another artist rapping. Our second and back up song was called “Apologise” from Solo Soul. The song was slower and it focused on forgiveness from a woman therefore the majority of the song was based on sing.

Here is a photo of our song choices from unsigned.com;

1. Cincere- Photo Shoot













2. Solo Soul- Apologise













So in order for us to receive permission to use the songs we had to contact the artists even though the songs were non copyrighted. As a result we researched the artists and we managed to find an email address for both artists. From there we wrote an email for both artist stating where we are from, who we are and why we wanted to use their music.

Here is a photo of the emails we sent to both artists;

1. Cincere













2. Solo Soul













However it has now been three weeks and unfortunately we haven’t received any replies from our emails. Therefore we concluded that we weren’t successful in getting our music as a result we have to find another alternative so that we can begin filming our coursework.