http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d8erItXvN8
The link above is the actual finished project, sorry it took so long... I just forgot!
Monday, 29 November 2010
Monday, 6 April 2009
Catch Up Day - 06/04/09
On our "Catch Up Day" provided during our Easter Holidays, we wanted to the final section of editing and hopefully finish the Music Video once and for all. We looked at moving the entire video to one of the Mac computers because we had realized that what we have on the laptop is far to big for the memory to cope on it. This was done succesfully and from what we have now on the Mac we are editing the final stages of music video and we have realized that there a few more scenes that need shooting still as well as re-shooting various other shots.
Instantly I got under way with the drawing up of the story boards that would need to fill in the gaps because as we were pushed for time we needed to get much of the theoretical side of things out of the way before we could complete our shooting for the rest of the music video.
With the story boards completed, I have set a date later on in the Holdays in order to shoot the final scenes for our MV and as a memorandom I need to look back on the music video we've done so far, more closely at what the people were wearing (mainly the main characters) to keep the continuity.
Instantly I got under way with the drawing up of the story boards that would need to fill in the gaps because as we were pushed for time we needed to get much of the theoretical side of things out of the way before we could complete our shooting for the rest of the music video.
With the story boards completed, I have set a date later on in the Holdays in order to shoot the final scenes for our MV and as a memorandom I need to look back on the music video we've done so far, more closely at what the people were wearing (mainly the main characters) to keep the continuity.
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Music Vid (Update)
For a while now Harry and I have been considerably weighed down with work and haven't actually found time to film the last lengths of our video. We agreed at first that the video shouldnt have a narrative as most MV do, unfortunately, try as we may our own storyboard kept on staying towards a narrative of some form yet we still wanted to keep the video as random as possible. So we decided that we'd have a bit of both, a fusion almost between spontaneity and narrative. So in the end we had a shot of where the main character in our MV gets sent out of his girlfriends house for being too "playful" and goes out in a mood and spots another attractive girl who he entices into his red van and Harry and I drive off with the pair in the back.(Very Provocative.)
We decided that due to the spontaneity of the band's overall and the genre of the music they make that the location of the "band scene" should be set in a entirely random place, like someones back garden on the decking, thus keeping up with the mise en scene of the music video.
We got quite a lot of filming done today and I can honestly say we are near completion of the video. In terms of shooting the band, we wanted to get as many different camera angles and zooms of the band to allow us to edit the overall amount of shots in to a quick changing transitional part of the band playing the song.
Because we wanted a variation in the "Lets Make Out" Montages we went on a totally spur of the moment idea and decided to film both Harry and I shouting LMO at the camera, but in each transition we were wearing a different item of clothing.
Just recently we had time to shoot the band scene, which from what I can recall we didnt want to use, but on review we drew up a storyboard and checked whether it fitted in nicely, to which it did. After doing a few test shots we got busy into shooting a proper band scene. this took us the better part of three hours mainly because we brought all the intruments to Harry's house and set the instruments up on his decking, which placed the band at a higher level which made shooting low close ups much easier, with the spring sky complementing the mise en scene (the general 'feel good' feeling of the band and the music video) showing continuity.
The day seemed almost perfect except when we wanted to start filming and we'd realised that the battery had run dead, unfortunatly we hadnt any time to recharge it the last time so we had to charge it now which took and hours worth of out time. Once the battery was charged we had been shooting the band scene for no longer than half an hour when the heavens opend and rain started bomabrading us, what seemed like the perfect day was just getting worse. However we agreed that we'd come so far that we wouldnt give up, just then the skys cleared and blazing sunshine poured through (just a passing cloud apparently), both Harry and i took turns in shooting at different angles and lengths to hopefully help create a fast paced band scene when edited of course.
We are now on the final legs of shooting and are near completion of our music video...
We decided that due to the spontaneity of the band's overall and the genre of the music they make that the location of the "band scene" should be set in a entirely random place, like someones back garden on the decking, thus keeping up with the mise en scene of the music video.
We got quite a lot of filming done today and I can honestly say we are near completion of the video. In terms of shooting the band, we wanted to get as many different camera angles and zooms of the band to allow us to edit the overall amount of shots in to a quick changing transitional part of the band playing the song.
Because we wanted a variation in the "Lets Make Out" Montages we went on a totally spur of the moment idea and decided to film both Harry and I shouting LMO at the camera, but in each transition we were wearing a different item of clothing.
Just recently we had time to shoot the band scene, which from what I can recall we didnt want to use, but on review we drew up a storyboard and checked whether it fitted in nicely, to which it did. After doing a few test shots we got busy into shooting a proper band scene. this took us the better part of three hours mainly because we brought all the intruments to Harry's house and set the instruments up on his decking, which placed the band at a higher level which made shooting low close ups much easier, with the spring sky complementing the mise en scene (the general 'feel good' feeling of the band and the music video) showing continuity.
The day seemed almost perfect except when we wanted to start filming and we'd realised that the battery had run dead, unfortunatly we hadnt any time to recharge it the last time so we had to charge it now which took and hours worth of out time. Once the battery was charged we had been shooting the band scene for no longer than half an hour when the heavens opend and rain started bomabrading us, what seemed like the perfect day was just getting worse. However we agreed that we'd come so far that we wouldnt give up, just then the skys cleared and blazing sunshine poured through (just a passing cloud apparently), both Harry and i took turns in shooting at different angles and lengths to hopefully help create a fast paced band scene when edited of course.
We are now on the final legs of shooting and are near completion of our music video...
Saturday, 3 January 2009
Explanation
ive hust returned from my holiday in South africa which is why my blog has not been updated in quite a while.
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
January Planning...
First and foremost we need to get the shooting out of the way and the next priority would be the written coursework. Luckily we have been following the coursework deadlines and have been updating my blog regularily.
More specifically we need to film more of the band, finish the "Lets Make Out" Montage and focus a bit more on the main character, thus putting in a small narrative in the music video.
More specifically we need to film more of the band, finish the "Lets Make Out" Montage and focus a bit more on the main character, thus putting in a small narrative in the music video.
Monday, 15 December 2008
Updatage
Music Video Update
In terms of footage that has been shot, we have over an hour, but however most of this footage cannot be used because it simply doesn’t fit with the song, its genre and its mise en scene. There is not an effective consistency of the mise en scene, this is difficult because our actors aren’t being paid and therefore will only be ready at when we ask them and even then we have to base them working with us mainly on luck. The change in location is good for the style of the music, but however it is tedious and difficult to film enough footage at close intervals, whereas filming on one location would be considerably easier.
We do however have a minutes worth of footage that is usable and is of reasonable quality in terms mise en scene and location change. We also wanted to get another students perspective on their video and perhaps that would help us to get ideas that we could use for our own. For example, we helped Amber Hall film “the band” shot in her own room. She basically had about 8 people jumping up and down to their favourite band who all had instruments and mimed playing to the song in the background. In terms of mise on scene, this was really effective because Amber used a neon green light that shone up below the band and illuminated the crowds face. In terms of shooting the actual footage, Amber used unconventional methods of filming for example, at one point got a point of view shot of the band from a fans’ view position. She did this by holding the camera by hand which add realism to the overall feel of the video, and included the mise en scene makes the shot quite effective and believable.
This is quite a good idea, especially, getting a POV shot of the band from a fan’s perspective and because the camera is handheld, the shot wont be as steady and therefore it will complement the genre of the song.
In terms of footage that has been shot, we have over an hour, but however most of this footage cannot be used because it simply doesn’t fit with the song, its genre and its mise en scene. There is not an effective consistency of the mise en scene, this is difficult because our actors aren’t being paid and therefore will only be ready at when we ask them and even then we have to base them working with us mainly on luck. The change in location is good for the style of the music, but however it is tedious and difficult to film enough footage at close intervals, whereas filming on one location would be considerably easier.
We do however have a minutes worth of footage that is usable and is of reasonable quality in terms mise en scene and location change. We also wanted to get another students perspective on their video and perhaps that would help us to get ideas that we could use for our own. For example, we helped Amber Hall film “the band” shot in her own room. She basically had about 8 people jumping up and down to their favourite band who all had instruments and mimed playing to the song in the background. In terms of mise on scene, this was really effective because Amber used a neon green light that shone up below the band and illuminated the crowds face. In terms of shooting the actual footage, Amber used unconventional methods of filming for example, at one point got a point of view shot of the band from a fans’ view position. She did this by holding the camera by hand which add realism to the overall feel of the video, and included the mise en scene makes the shot quite effective and believable.
This is quite a good idea, especially, getting a POV shot of the band from a fan’s perspective and because the camera is handheld, the shot wont be as steady and therefore it will complement the genre of the song.
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Creating An Anamatic Of The Music Video
Rough
Here is a rough anamatic of our overall music video. Creating an anamatic helped me to get a better understanding of and estimate the length of the time needed for each shot. The only disadvantage of this is that it's very time consuming, whereas we could be out shooting instead of drawing up an anamatic. It also helped us to do a re-take on footage we've yet to film, for example, at first we agreed not to use the band and in the anamtic we saw that there were shots where we actually did need to involve a band. This was helpful in terms of allowing us to make the decision at such an early stage then instead of doing it whilst shooting. The final anamatic shows this:
Final
The final anamatic is now FINALLY complete. And in comparison to the last anamatic, its come a really long way. We agreed to use the band within the video because including them would tie in with the codes and conventions of the particular genre of the style of the song.
There is also the hint of a storyline within the video, but it is only merely a suggestion, we still dont want the audience to follow any particular plot within the video because that would be going against the codes and conventions thus rendering the video as an unprofessional piece of media.
We wanted to have as little restrictions in terms of what content we have in our video and due to the codes and conventions and our target audience's will more than likely expect explicit and extreme content because of how explicit and extreme the band is and their style of music is too.
Here is a rough anamatic of our overall music video. Creating an anamatic helped me to get a better understanding of and estimate the length of the time needed for each shot. The only disadvantage of this is that it's very time consuming, whereas we could be out shooting instead of drawing up an anamatic. It also helped us to do a re-take on footage we've yet to film, for example, at first we agreed not to use the band and in the anamtic we saw that there were shots where we actually did need to involve a band. This was helpful in terms of allowing us to make the decision at such an early stage then instead of doing it whilst shooting. The final anamatic shows this:
Final
The final anamatic is now FINALLY complete. And in comparison to the last anamatic, its come a really long way. We agreed to use the band within the video because including them would tie in with the codes and conventions of the particular genre of the style of the song.
There is also the hint of a storyline within the video, but it is only merely a suggestion, we still dont want the audience to follow any particular plot within the video because that would be going against the codes and conventions thus rendering the video as an unprofessional piece of media.
We wanted to have as little restrictions in terms of what content we have in our video and due to the codes and conventions and our target audience's will more than likely expect explicit and extreme content because of how explicit and extreme the band is and their style of music is too.
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