Detailed Research into Artist

The image above is a screen grab from her website which she set up after her YouTube video's became more and more popular. This would intern raise her profile if people want to research more about her, or to inform and keep her fans unto date with her gig dates and album releases. But also it has a couple of options which offers the opportunity for people who are unaware of her music to instantly to listen to one of her songs, for example there is a direct link to one of her YouTube videos. 

This here is her youtube channel which instantly give the feel of her genre of music. You can also get a rough idea of how many people follow and like her music and covers.

Here is a news article on her successfull cover of "The Power of Love" reaching the christmas number one one a well know news company "The Independent". This offers the oppotunity for a wide variety of people to discover who she is and get them interested into her music. Above is also a clip of the video.

Receiving Permission to use our Song

Here is the email we received from Gabrielle Aplin which gives us permission to use her song 'Home'.

Preliminary Exercise - What We've Learned

What we did:

• First we found a suitable place to begin filming.
• We then filmed both of the actors at once singing the duet.
• Then we filmed the actors individually singing the song.
• After attaining all of the footage we needed we began editing.
• While editing we used the toggle clip overlay tool to arrange the clips we had in the right order.

What we have learned:

• While being briefed on what to do we got an insight on all the things we are required to film such as, all the shots we need and how long they need to be.

• The most important thing I have learned was how to edit the music video and make the video and song become in sync.

• Also we took our surroundings into account, for example me made sure no one appeared in the background, checked the weather to make sure its suitable for shooting and also the lighting .

• Another point we learned we had to consider was how serious people need to be to make the video look good.

Choose Artist Profile

The music artist we have chosen is called Gabrelle Aplin who started off making videos of her covering other artists songs such as You Me At Six, Katy Perry and Cee Lo Green .

Now she's currently under three labels which are Parlophone, Never Fade Records and BA1 Records.

Her first release was her 5 track acoustic EP which was available on iTunes on the 13th of September 2010 and it reached the top 25 in the UK iTunes album chart.

Preliminary Exercise

Here is our Preliminary exercise where we practised editing the video and music to make the lip movment and song syncronised.

Song Lyrics

I’m a phoenix in the water
A fish that’s learnt to fly 
And i’ve always been a daughter
But feathers are meant for the sky 
So I’m wishing, wishing further 
For the excitement to arrive 
It’s just I’d rather be causing the chaos 
Than laying at the sharp end of this knife 

With every small disaster 
I’ll let the waters still 
Take me away to some place real 
'Cause they say home is where your heart is set in stone 
where you go when you’re alone 
Is where you go to rest your bones 
It’s not just where you lay your head 
It's not just where you make your bed
As long as we’re together, does it matter where we go? 
Home
Home

So when I’m ready to be bolder,
And my cuts have healed with time
Comfort will rest on my shoulder 
And I’ll bury my future behind
I’ll always keep you with me
You’ll be always on my mind 
But there’s a shining in the shadows 
I’ll never know unless I try 

With every small disaster 
I’ll let the waters still
Take me away to some place real 
'Cause they say home is where your heart is set in stone 
Is where you go when you’re alone 
Is where you go to rest your bones 
It’s not just where you lay your head 
It's not just where you make your bed
As long as we’re together, does it matter where we go? 
Home
(repeated)

'Cause they say home is where your heart is set in stone 
where you go when you’re alone 
Is where you go to rest your bones 
It’s not just where you lay your head 
It's not just where you make your bed
As long as we’re together, does it matter where we go? 
Home
(repeated) 

Chosen Song for Music Video

We found this song on YouTube and we felt it would be the perfect song to make a music video for.