Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Thursday, 18 September 2014
Friday, 12 September 2014
Weekly Update 1
Weekly update.
Week 1:
This is the first week of year 13 and first week at the new Beyton campus.
I have completed an analysis of a music video for 1985 by the American rock band Bowling for Soup. I chose the video as it parodies iconic videos from the time (1985).
Also this week I have completed a Prezi analysing in depth International Love by Pitbull and featuring Chris Brown. The Prezi is in the style of the world map in LED's which goes well with the video. This analysis is more in depth as the analysis links heavily to Goodwins 7, which shows the rules and characteristics of music videos from genre to advertising.
Thats it for tho week
Stay classy :)
Week 1:
This is the first week of year 13 and first week at the new Beyton campus.
I have completed an analysis of a music video for 1985 by the American rock band Bowling for Soup. I chose the video as it parodies iconic videos from the time (1985).
Also this week I have completed a Prezi analysing in depth International Love by Pitbull and featuring Chris Brown. The Prezi is in the style of the world map in LED's which goes well with the video. This analysis is more in depth as the analysis links heavily to Goodwins 7, which shows the rules and characteristics of music videos from genre to advertising.
Thats it for tho week
Stay classy :)
Tuesday, 9 September 2014
Analysis: Bowling for soup 1985
The video begins with the band relaxing and doing no productive work when they see the lady across the street saying goodbye to her larger husband as he goes to work. While the band dress in the different music video parodies, we see the lady carrying out motherly chores including walking the dog and cleaning up children's toys in the garden.
Camera:
Opening shot- tracking of r/c car to show the band relaxing on the drive
Two shot- lady and her husband walking to car and saying goodbye as he goes to work
Close ups- The lead singer in each video parody and on the instruments (performance video and rock genre convention)
Mid shots- The whole band in the garage.
Mise en scene:
Costume:
Start- board shorts and t-shirt or topless (summer clothing of younger adults)
Robert Palmer- Black trousers, white shirt and tie, tights and black skirt and leotard (original video)
MC Hammer- hammer pants, leopard waistcoat and gold chains. Tracksuits for rest of band
Van Halen- Leather jumpsuit, blonde wig and heavy eye makeup (original video costume)
Props:
Instruments- Guitars, Drums Microphones
General- Jukebox, speakers, cars
Lighting- Stadium lighting rig for Van Halen to replicate original video and studio lighting for other videos.
Location- Boulevard in higher class American state such as California or city such as Los Angeles.
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Prelim task
Today we completed our prelim task that we have been working on for the past 5 lessons.
The task was to be in a group where each member had mastered a different final cut technique, and create a music video for a New Zealand song by The Exponents called "Why does love do this to me".
My group consisted of myself, James and George.
In the first lesson we were introduced to the song and the video and began brainstorming ideas for our video around the lyrics.
In the second lesson, we recapped on the lyrics and as a group looked at other videos that reminded us of the song to inspire us for our video. I thought it reminded me of Breakfast at Tiffany's by Deep Blue Something. This is where we got the idea of staging most of it on the field in an open park environment. We then went out onto the field and filmed some of our sixth form friends playing Frisbee and having a kickabout to enhance the park atmosphere.
In the third lesson we started choosing the effects to use. James had an idea of incorporating colour manipulation similar to the shots in the video Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden. We then decided that the colour manipulation would look best in the chorus when all three of us were in the shots together.
We therefore went out and filmed the chorus on the field. This allowed us to have the footage of the chorus that we could use on the second chorus, if we were unable to film any more chorus shots.
In the fourth lesson we looked at the other techniques we could use. I decided on having a 4 screen split for the first chorus with each screen appearing on the guitar strum between sentences in the first verse. When we went outside to film the first verse, Amy's group were outside and said they would be happy to help with acting. This is why Charlie is acting in the first verse split screen. Amy was shooting her video and had her boyfriend acting alongside her in their video. We took advantage of this and decided quickly to have the couple in the second verse "Jackie came...". In our video her boyfriend is looking to join her, but she walks past and pushes him over. However "deep in the valley..." shows the couple together and kissing to make up. We filmed this as an extra that we could include but decided this was too good to leave out.
In the final lesson, this morning. We edited the footage putting in the split screen for the first verse and also editing the colour manipulation on the chorus. George then decided to add a keyframe into the second verse. Once this was finished we saw that we had no green screen, therefore we went to the auditorium to try and film some green screen shots. We were unable to pin up the green screen, so then decided to use the stage lighting as a suitable replacement, borrowed a guitar from the music department and filmed the rest of the video in the auditorium as if rehearsing a performance for a sell out crowd similar to the video for Living on a prayer by Bon Jovi. We incorporated performance conventions into these shots including close ups on the band members and instruments. We then went back to the classroom edited the auditorium footage and added it to our video to finish the song and more importantly the task.
The video is the first youtube video on this page http://tcca2media.blogspot.co.uk. Below is the official music video by The Exponents for Why Does Love Do This To Me.
Enjoy!
The task was to be in a group where each member had mastered a different final cut technique, and create a music video for a New Zealand song by The Exponents called "Why does love do this to me".
My group consisted of myself, James and George.
In the first lesson we were introduced to the song and the video and began brainstorming ideas for our video around the lyrics.
In the second lesson, we recapped on the lyrics and as a group looked at other videos that reminded us of the song to inspire us for our video. I thought it reminded me of Breakfast at Tiffany's by Deep Blue Something. This is where we got the idea of staging most of it on the field in an open park environment. We then went out onto the field and filmed some of our sixth form friends playing Frisbee and having a kickabout to enhance the park atmosphere.
In the third lesson we started choosing the effects to use. James had an idea of incorporating colour manipulation similar to the shots in the video Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden. We then decided that the colour manipulation would look best in the chorus when all three of us were in the shots together.
We therefore went out and filmed the chorus on the field. This allowed us to have the footage of the chorus that we could use on the second chorus, if we were unable to film any more chorus shots.
In the fourth lesson we looked at the other techniques we could use. I decided on having a 4 screen split for the first chorus with each screen appearing on the guitar strum between sentences in the first verse. When we went outside to film the first verse, Amy's group were outside and said they would be happy to help with acting. This is why Charlie is acting in the first verse split screen. Amy was shooting her video and had her boyfriend acting alongside her in their video. We took advantage of this and decided quickly to have the couple in the second verse "Jackie came...". In our video her boyfriend is looking to join her, but she walks past and pushes him over. However "deep in the valley..." shows the couple together and kissing to make up. We filmed this as an extra that we could include but decided this was too good to leave out.
In the final lesson, this morning. We edited the footage putting in the split screen for the first verse and also editing the colour manipulation on the chorus. George then decided to add a keyframe into the second verse. Once this was finished we saw that we had no green screen, therefore we went to the auditorium to try and film some green screen shots. We were unable to pin up the green screen, so then decided to use the stage lighting as a suitable replacement, borrowed a guitar from the music department and filmed the rest of the video in the auditorium as if rehearsing a performance for a sell out crowd similar to the video for Living on a prayer by Bon Jovi. We incorporated performance conventions into these shots including close ups on the band members and instruments. We then went back to the classroom edited the auditorium footage and added it to our video to finish the song and more importantly the task.
The video is the first youtube video on this page http://tcca2media.blogspot.co.uk. Below is the official music video by The Exponents for Why Does Love Do This To Me.
Enjoy!
Friday, 11 July 2014
Final cut techniques
Over the last 2 lessons we have been looking at new techniques that are used in music videos and in groups have been testing out these techniques. The 4 techniques we have been looking at are split screen, green screen, colour manipulation and key framing.
Our group consisting of myself, Molly and Jess had to look at and master split screen. To test this we took inspiration from Examples Kickstarts music video which contains many aspects of split screening and therefore many examples of the technique.
We filmed our own footage using other sixth formers as actors and using the split screen technique created our own version of Kickstarts to show that we had mastered the technique.
We completed the task, but however have been unable to upload the video as yet.
The video may be uploaded within the next week or most likely after the summer break.
This is the original video:
Our group consisting of myself, Molly and Jess had to look at and master split screen. To test this we took inspiration from Examples Kickstarts music video which contains many aspects of split screening and therefore many examples of the technique.
We filmed our own footage using other sixth formers as actors and using the split screen technique created our own version of Kickstarts to show that we had mastered the technique.
We completed the task, but however have been unable to upload the video as yet.
The video may be uploaded within the next week or most likely after the summer break.
This is the original video:
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