Possible Location Shots 1

These are images of two different locations we may use in our music video, they both help portray the urban genre that our song is fitting to. The park scene will involve Lady Sovereign whilst the car park/urban landscape scene will involve a band performance

Initial Storyboard

Here is the initial idea that we came up together with as a group at an early stage in terms of what we wanted to created for our music video, although we understand that we need to and have already started to develop our ideas further for what we wanted to include and feature within our final product and this is something that we will demonstrate through our final storyboard and planning up towards this.

Meeting two

The change of the initial idea meant that we had to change the concept around and stick to the literal meaning of the majorety of the lyrics. These lyircs are about disliking jobs, hence the title of the song 'Nine2Five'. As we stuck to the lyrics we have decided upon having the main singer as working in three tiring jobs which are a rubbish picker in a park, a window cleaner and a worker at a plain and boring office (may be subject to changes). The part of Lady Sovereign would just be of her rapping to the camera on swings in a park, an allyway and infront of a graffiti wall. This would be only a side perfromance as the main focus is on the band The Ordinary Boys as they sing most of the song.

Initial Thoughts on Lyrics

Our first thoughts on the lyrics were that they were telling a story, about a normal person who goes through the motions of everyday life and working a meaningless job as the title suggests 'nine to five' referring to the average work hours.

The song was written by Louise Harman, Gabriel Olegavich, Sam Preston, William J. Brown and performed originally by Lady Sovereign, the remix came later with The Ordinary Boys being added to the track and signing two verses and the chorus, it was then featured on the 'St Trinians' soundtrack.

Below is a poster we made on glogster, that briefly analyses the lyrics.

Casting - Lady Sovereign

The person who is going to play our lady sovereign (the female lead) is Josie, we picked her because she is a drama student and she is familiar with working and acting behind a camera. We also feel that she has the right look - slightly urban.
Her costume will consist of plain black jeans, trainers, denim shirt, chain, glasses, snapback hat and a plain (no logos) purple hoodie.
Below is a collage of the costume that lady sovereign will wear

Costume and Prop Ideas

Park scene

Band performance

Window cleaner scene

Office scene

Lady Sovereign

Meeting one

Over the past weeks we've had meetings in discussing ideas and merging them together for our final pitch for our music video to 'Nine2Five'. We have also discussed how our music video will be laid out on our storyboard, by deciding what camera shots and movements to use for what scene and where. This has involved having to make some changes in order for it to run smoothly and the story to make sense. Our original ideas was that the lead worked as a presenter, hated his job and Lady Soverign was somehow linked to him, like his manager for example. We decided to change this idea after realising that this made the music video too structured, restricting us on what we can do with the music video. We decided to change this idea completly but keep it along the lines of having low profiled jobs and having band performances. We have also made a decision upon making the music video have a twist in somehow. Instead of the characters interaciting face to face, as planned before, we decided to connect the two characters together by and object like a clock. Again, the clock indicates the whole purpose of the song 'Nine2Five'. The reason why we have decided to choose this song is because it consists of a male and female lead, this way we can show a contrast in female and male performances in our music video. We can also identify the different genres used, how their image contrast with each-other and how they fit together to make a pop/street song.