Lyrics of new song. Let Me Explain by Bryson Tiller

"Let Me Explain"

It's been a long time
I guess I just miss the old days
You remember...all them times

You used to come keep me company
Tell me you love me and just me
Oh and it took a while to trust me
Girl I had to work for it
Still you don't judge me
I love the way you touch me
I'm feeling like I'm 'bout to lose you
With all the shady shit I do to you
Some things are better left unsaid
I can't get it out my head
Better left unsaid
Everything that I regret
No lie girl when I tell you, you a blessing
Girl just let me make corrections, yeah
Damn, I've been stressing yeah
I've been really tripping babe
I learned my lesson, yeah
I still need you to listen, oh babe

Listen to me yeah
Oh if you'd just let me explain
If you'd just let me explain
Baby, oh (yeah)
Listen to me yeah
Oh if you'd just let me explain
If you'd just let me explain
Baby, oh
Yeah for sure
Don't be afraid
Don't be afraid

Don't be afraid to tell me that it's over
Tell me that it's over
No, I don't deserve you, that shit I never told you
There's too many things, I can't look you in the face
I just grab you by the waist and act like everything's okay
Bare with me girl, I'm trying to be honest
Tell you what you need to hear, just not yet
I'm barely getting started, I'm being cautious
Girl that's the hardest
All we been through, look what we've been through
Look at Jay and Bey, they going through some shit too
We made it through the struggle let's make it through this too
I got a confession, baby will you listen to it?

Listen to me yeah (oh yeah)
Oh if you'd just let me explain (just let me explain)
If you'd just let me explain (oh yeah)
Baby oh (baby oh)
Listen to me yeah (oh baby oh)
Oh if you'd just let me explain (baby oh)
Baby oh
Yeah (baby, oh)

Young Tiller!

Evaluation of research and planning

Call Sheets (PRE PRODUCTION)

Group Meeting

Today we sorted out what days and the time we will be filming and trying to figure out when the actors and dancers are able to film on those days we finished up the call sheets as well as telling dancers what they have wear for the shoot in the studio at college.

Recce (PRE PRODUCTION)

Group Meeting - Talent release forms AND Location Release Form (PRE PRODUCTION)

Today as group we discussed the talent release form and organising who has signed and who hasn't we then noticed that we had all the talent release forms and location forms that is needed, the gathering scene will be shot at Rochelle's house (group member) not to many people will attend we will film it in a tight screen to make it packed. Today's meeting was important because we needed to group together to get the information we got separately.

Group meeting StoryBoard Update (PRE PRODUCTION)

Today we finished the storyboard and these are all the shots that will happen in different locations we have explained that every shot will cut back to different scenes that will be filmed in the studio at college and the dancers will be filmed as well in there. We have showed Akon bit and the shots that he will be taking as well and we have discussed as group what shots we will be taken on and maybe adding in any additional shots as well, as a group we all know what we want to do in the music video also adding shots in from the storyboard.   

Group Meeting: Risk assessment (PRE PRODUCTION)

Today we completed the risk assessment and filled out the various boxes of the problems we are going to face when we start filming in the certain location and what we need to do to avoid these risk, some of the risk has affects on editing and filming also the safety of the actor and crew we will be filming on stairs, bumpy roads so things like this will be a risk to equipment as well. Especially dancers, could trip up and hurt themselves so we had to take notice of this and plan it out so familiar risks can be avoided as a group. We are planning to tell the actors where they the risk will be and tell them be careful in certain areas and not to mess around when filming so that they take notice of the dangerous things around them.

Today's Group Meeting

In today's group meeting we worked separately on different things Rochelle worked on the release forms setting it up and filling them out also working out on how much we needed for each actor and dancers so that we can give them out as soon as possible. Elisa was sending out emails for certain locations and also the music company that is signed to Chris brown even though we know we will not get a response we are aware that for any other situation we would have to ask for permission. Lastly I was working on the storyboard starting and finishing up the first scene drawing the gathering and indicating when the music will start.

Lyric Plan

In today's lesson we discussed lyrics plans, so that we know what location we want for each shot and when and who will be in that shot. Also who is going to be in that scene including the dancers and actors. We annotated the lyrics saying that the Chris brown actor should be in the studio for the first verse and the chorus because the verse is so short and the chorus is repetitive we should have him in the studio by himself thinking about the girl and while this is happening there would be cut back to the girl walking down the street and him talking to her this would be in slow motion and would cut back to him in the studio thinking about that time he saw her. Akon's bit there would be a scene where he is by himself in the studio and also with the Chris brown actor to show the relationship between the two singers.     

Group Roles for Pre Production

These are a list of the roles for our pre-production and who in the group is doing what:

Treatment - Whole group

Storyboards - Whole group

Recces - Elisa

Risk assessments for each location - Ann-Marie

Permission from actors & for locations - Rochelle

Permission to use music / copyright - Elisa 

Callsheets - Rochelle 

Treatment Powerpoint

 

 

Group Pitch of our ideas

Here we did a group pitch which was the treatment we were pitching our ideas to the class and getting feedback from them telling us about our idea and how we can improve it in anyway. we were told to improve the narrative and make it more planned out in terms of who will do what and when, some of our ideas didn't come across very well to the class so we would have to improve on what we are going to do lyric from lyric. As the chorus is repetitive we would have to do a lot of scenes to make it more exciting so more dancing and more cuts at a fast rate because the song is fast pace so this allows the audience to engage with the music and also the video. We would have to plan this out very well because the song does not have a set choreography so the dancers would have to create something with the song so we would have to ask them in advance and plan extras really well. The party scene is just gonna be a small gathering with the Chris brown actor and the girl he is talking to at the front talking and him singing to her basically this is where they meet and then a new scene would be where they are just having fun maybe him dancing for her as Chris brown does dance in majority of his videos, we were thinking maybe just a scene with the Chris brown actor and some of his boys dancing with him if the Chris brown actor is a dancer and we can get backup dancer maybe a dance routine from them.  

"The infinite mix" Trip

Yesterday we visited the infinite mix at the Hayward gallery it was a collection of videos that was made by different artist and it was a time to think about your own video we were making and to get ideas about editing and how to make the flow through in the video. I enjoyed the trip because it made me think about my own music video and the plans that we were doing as a group.