Cassius Bynoe.

Planning for our group music video
In media over the last two weeks we decided to go around Manchester looking for locations to use for our music video.

We decided to do this because it is very important as we will want to look for great places throughout the city which will make our music video look authentic & urban.
We are going to film at Casltlefield because, the location features a Canal which in my opinion will make our video look authentic compare to other music videos, the reason why because we as a group we are keeping to particular theme which is “Love”; so by having this prop in the video represents a location where couples go, to share each other company and its normally a place where a guy and a girl will meet up.

We are filming around Castlefield Park which is a very quiet location. the reason we are filming there is for the reason such as its, a place where your most likely are going to go to clear your head, or may go to sit back and to sum up current events, which happened through out the past, for example Mimi is thinking about here relationship with Cass in the video.

Second Location we used is on top of Manchester Arndale car park, why we decided to film their is because, theirs allot of great Background scenery in that particular location. As theirs the Big wheel which is an iconic attraction of Manchester .Another reason why we have decided to include the big wheel is because we plan to film it in the morning then, in the afternoon as it shows how long for example Mimi been sitting their which could suggest a meaning in how here relation ship keep on going round and round IN circles which is a good technique of irony.

Third location Mimi chose to film Market street as its busy also It gives the music video the idea of an Manchester environmental populated place where it’s a place in everyone’s goes to shop, look around in my opinion market street represent how people can go about their business an do their own thing which fits into our music video as were also trying to focus on Manchester as being a city like urban place to live life.

The music we are going to use is RNB/Reggae style which is very similar to the style of the classic Lovers Rock style as it features heavy dub lines with smooth sweet vocals form the corresponding artist known as Jasmine Sullivan. In contrasts the style of music is more modern as RnB & Reggae are mixed together, where as Lovers Rock features Soul with a Reggae rhythm for example our music chorus starts off with a heavy bass rhythm alongside Strong Patois vocals which the chorus gives a sense of Jamaican Reggae Roots ;then throughout the tune features a cross over between the two genres E.G. Reggae-RnB then back, you can tell this is happening as when the RnB kicks in the vocals of jasmine Sullivan become more stronger & the reggae fades away where as when the reggae hits its straight to the slow pace bass line.