Anamation Idea

Our anamation is going to conceptual based video, we have decided to do this because our song is a dance song and it does not have a narrative and this seemed like the best idea. We are going to create small dance movements to go with the soundtrack. This will keep the audience entertained and keep them watching.

For our anamtion we are going use playdough to create our people, it is going to consist of 3 people with either faces we create out of play dough or use celebrity faces we stick on.

Our background is going to have the american flag in it because the song is called PARTY IN THE USA! and it is set in america.
It will also be set on a stage because they are dancing. It will also have a blue sky background.

Ideas for animation

This is our mind map of ideas for our animation music video. We thought of a range of ideas we could use for our music video. We listed positives and negatives about each idea we discussed.
Our first idea we thought of  was drawing pictures of people for video. There were negatives and positives about this. We thought this would be a good idea as it would look very effective and skillful but would also be difficult to draw accurately and to ensure they look the same in each scene.

We also thought wooden models or lego could be a good idea for our music video as they are easy to move, and would be very easy to position and to ensure they are in accurate positions, they could also stand up on their own, so we wouldn't have to hold them up. The only problem for wooden models would be that it wouldn't make our video very creative as they do not have any faces and would be a bit boring. Where as lego does have faces and clothes on them already which will add to the mis en scene of our video, this is also a negative as we cannot choose their outfits, and the lego will not bend very easily.

We also thought of using puppets, by wiring their arms and moving them to music, perhaps dancing or going along to a narrative. This would look very effective but would take up a lot of time and would be quite a long process, it would also be quite difficult to make the puppet move in time and to make it actually look like it is dancing.

Our last idea we thought of was playdough this was our best idea we thought as playdough is easy to create things out of, its easy to position and stick together, there is all different colours of playdough and its fun to create things with. We thought of lots of different ideas we could create out of playdough such as creating people out of it, sticking human faces on their faces or sticking things in the playdough for the different body parts, also playdough is easy to stand up by itself and move around. This is the idea we will be using for our  animation music video.

9 Shot Analysis

We choose to analyse 'Turn Me On' by David Guetta and Nicki Minaj as it is in the same genre as our own chosen music video, 'Party in The USA' by Miley Cyrus.
This music video is very different to the one we have chosen, this one starts off with animation. There are lots of close ups of the animated character in this video, showing the audience that it is slowly being created to be more and more human like. There is also examples of a dutch angle when the animated body is created, to show us it is human like and the gender of the figure. The location of the video seems to be in an old fashioned dark place, inside a large building where things are created and designed, this is a different kind of location for a music video and we can see the other character in the video is writing and has electrical equipment strapped to his head. This tells us he is designing or creating something made up of electrical products. Almost all of the scenes shown through out the video are short shot duration as we only get a quick showing of each part of the video, this conveys urgency in quick detail but is enough time to show the audience what is going on.

As this song is the same genre as the one we chose for our video we will use close ups and different angles in our animated video. We will also use a different kind of location for our video as the video we analysed was in an unusual location. For our animated video we will also use short shot duration more than long shot duration as this is a type of editing that was used a lot throughout this video.

Song Animation Choice

The song that we have chosen is Miley Cyrus - Party in the U.S.A. This song is a pop song, that is very popular and attracts all different audiences. We chose this song because its upbeat and catchy and gives us lots of ideas of mise en scene, angles and the pace we could use in our music video. Theres a 10 second intro at the beginning of the song, so we will cut the first ten seconds, so it starts at this time until 1.10, this way we can fit in the chorus of the song for our minute video.