Beginning of narrative ideas

Gabrielle Aplin, an introduction

Gabrielle Aplin is an artist who Bea and I were both aware of before we began our work on this project but we thought it would be smart to find out a little more about her and how she got into the career that she is in now!

Gabrielle Aplin...

Age: 21

Home town: Sutton Benger, Wiltshire

Albums released: English Rain

EP's (extended plays): Acoustic EP, Never Fade EP, Home EP.

Twitter followers: 134,000+

Discovery: Gabrielle was first discovered on the video broadcasting site YouTube. The videos that she posted were acoustic covers of songs originally written and sung by bands such as Paramore and You Me at Six.

Chosen song

We have chosen to use the song 'Out on my own' by Gabrielle Aplin to accompany our music video, based on the classic novel, Alice in Wonderland.

Music videos to analyse

Research

I am working with Bea Morris

We have decided to create a music video, relating to the genre of indie pop! We chose to target an indie audience as recently there has been an inflation in the number of people who enjoy this style of music (we also think it will be fun to create!) Together we decided that we thought it would be a better idea to create a narrative piece so that we could tell a story rather than just provide the viewers with a video of a band singing. This way we feel that we can get a lot more differentiation.
The extras that we are doing with the video are:

• A digipak for the album's release

• A magazine advertisement for the digipak

A task we were set last year was to create a music magazine front cover, contents page and double page spread. That helped us a lot with learning different skills, for example on the Macs but neither Bea or I have ever made a digipak so that shall be exciting to begin learning how to do so!