Digipak Cover

This is a Cover Of a Digipak i found. I put this on my blog because i thin it fits our theme for the music video project, Being it a set-up in the wood with a light picking out some trees.

this would be the sort of thing my group is looking to do but replacing the tent with a band set-up and with lights in the trees themselves.

Steve's Lesson

Today we were given a task to go out and take photos of things that would relate to our video for a storyboard.

First we took photo's of tree's using close ups for texture etc

However I it was really cold and we didn't want to be outside for long.

we had a chat to Steve and he gave us the idea of a placed shot of how the band would be so we asked a class member to help us out and took a photo.

This is one of the photo's we took

(from left to right) Me represents the bassist, Emma the lead singer, and Ali the keyboardist.

The idea is to have Emma (lead) in front with Me (bass) on the left side of Emma and Ali (keyboard) on the right side slightly off a straight view.

Here are the trees we got.

Nick's Lesson #2

Also in Nick's lesson today we were given a task, We had to find three videos.

• A professional music video
• A Long Road Student music video
• A Hurtwood House music video

We had to count the number of cuts in each video for a time frame of thirty seconds - a minuet

1. In one minuet the professional music video had seventeen Cuts
2. In one minuet the Long Road Student music video had 11 Cuts
3. In one minuet the Hurtwood House music video had 33 Cuts

Nick's Lesson

Wordle Word map

This is the Wordle map of the words most used on my blog.

i find it interesting that the words used most are: Video and music.

Hurtwood House

This is the Video Sweet Disposition created by Hurtwood House Media.

This video links to the video we are planning to make for Shadows.

If we were to make this video we would go about it in the way were planning to for our video.

Therefore we plan to use the back of long road as its away from any traffic, roads etc.

We are also planning to use lights like them, and we could easily just use old

christmas lights etc, and get power from the art block nearby.

We can use our own clothes, and just use natural light.

Feed Back

Shadows

• Insane mood-board
• Lights
• Good Research
• Idea is really original
• Realistic
• Tea-party = <3
• Easy to film
• props easy to find.
• Band idea is good
• Good use of contrast
• The Fairy story is exciting
• Good location idea
• Nice detailed idea
• Like the fair-tale idea
• Like lighting idea

Everywhere

• Band scene and everyday teenage life is good
• Good Concept
• Locations
• Very Detailed ideas
• Good idea very interesting
• Planed well
• Story line fits in well with the lyrics of the song 'i like the shadows idea better!'

Sadows Keynote

Christina, Emma & Rob's Shadows Pitch

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Stages Of Production

Pre-Production
- Pre-visualisation (Mood board, shot list, animatic, treatment etc)
- Production design (pros, costumes, locations, hair and makeup etc)
- Production manager (Logistics)

Production
- Director
- Cinematography
- Production assistant
- Performance
- On set photographer

Post-Production
- Editing
- Graphic design (digipak and magazine advert)
- Marketing

Mood Board

This is the mood board we created using images we found on flickr. We edited the opacity on most of the images allowing us to layer up all our ideas, we then added a photo of light exposure on top of the whole mood board which helps create texture that I’d like to re-create in the video (if we get the song).

Post Card

This is the postcard we made for Shadows
This is the postcard we made

It includes the song title, artist name and release date.

My Generation

This is the video i edited for my generation. i had a good reaction from people in the class (especially Max) I'm really pleased with how the video turned out. I tried to use a variety of shots throughout and think that it didn't end up too repetitive and tedious.

Here is an image of my time line.

I don't feel I've learnt much from this task but I really enjoyed it. I love doing this sorts of thing and it gives me a chance to be very creative. I feel like this task is making my better at this sort of editing i know it will help me a grate deal in the making of the real deal video.

Jasmine Report

At coleridge, a university student gave us a presentation showing us how to create a good music video. She was given the music video project in college just like we have now.

When I saw her college video i saw that her planning and preparation rely payed off to make a good video.

She entered her music video for the BBC Blast award and was awarded with first prize. which meant that she had the chance to work with a professional team with a budget of three thousand pounds. She worked with the 'Black Dog' company, as director for the video. During the of making the video she had to do a paper version of the video. One thing Jasmine said was, 'Taking references from other songs is not stealing, it's borrowing'.

This is her college video:



And Professional video:

Songs we're interested in

• Au Revoir Simone - Shadows
• The Black Keys - Strange Times
• Everywhere - Michelle Branch
• Two Door Cinema Club - Cigarettes in the theatre

Ideas

Au Revoir Simone:

• Fairy-tale - Alice in wonderland
• Lights - Coloured
• Female performer
• band/instruments
• Two locations, To start inside then outside (woodland)
• Keyboard theme. costume/props

The Black Keys:

• Band Performance
• Parts in black and white
• Tainted love - Marlin manson style (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQuKo3SevVA)

Michelle Branch:

• American High-school style
• Lots of different locations
• Band intercut with other locations
• In a car?
• stereotypical Boy Girl story

Two Door Cinema Club:

• Band Performance
• Shots of band out and about messing around/misbehaving
• fast paced editing (lots happening)
• Skinny jeans/topman sort of costume.

Music

This is a list of the music we were given.

Check list

What makes a good music video?

• A convincing performance
• Convincing props for example real instruments
• Decent lighting
• Convincing costumes
• Good use of location
  
• Time management and being organised
  
• Editing software
• A camera operator that knows what they're doing

What is needed to get optimum marks?

• Enough variety of shots
• Listening and doing what is stated in the brief e.g lip sync
• Evidence of research, planning and reflection (on blog)
• Include pictures, screen garbs, videos etc. on blog
• At least one dance move for Nick

Personal Statement

Technical skills:

Technical Skills I possess include: Leading a tech team for shows and school music shows.for example i would rig lights ans program the shows.

I also play a few instruments and compose my own music so can remember things easily.

Creativity:

I play three instruments.

i have a good eye for a shot that will work rely well. for example in the film opening task i set up the camera for the shot panning down on Elliott .

Organization skills:

Working in a shop I have to make sure all the shelfs are well organized as not to look rubbish or obstruct anyone in the shop.

Special powers:

I have a few 'special powers' I could bring to this music video for example i play a few instruments so can bring in a guitar/acoustic and a bass, and two amps/microphones

All so I do acting in a local panto and have a GCSE in Drama.

The Digipak/The Magazine Advert

In this task we were told to creative a CD cover and magazine poster for a band we were given from a list. I got the band called Robots in Disguise, The band has an Electronica / Punk / Pop sound. Born in London/Berlin Both are now living in the United Kingdom.

This is the Outside cover i created for the single. Including a barcode record label and parental advisory to add authenticity.

This is my inside cover of the single, i added a little robot on the CD its self because the bank is called Robots in Disguise.

After doing this task it showed me that the marketing of a CD is very important. I enjoyed making the CD and poster and cant wait to make the proper one.

This is the video of the track i have to make the Cover and Poster for.

SHAPES MUSIC VIDEO TASK SESSION

This is the shapes music video i have made. we were given a track and told we had to create a video of shapes moving/changing to the beat of the track to get to grips with beat by beat editing.

I was very pleased with how mu video turned out and gave me a real feel for beat editing, and i found its allot easier than i first thought. I think this task is going to help me allot in the music but i have learned that beat by beat editing can be very repetitive and boring so it shouldn't be used to much in one video.

Music Videos

Today, we looked at student music videos from Long Road, and saw what students did well and not so well.

We were told to nominate videos for 'awards', and put them into different categories.

For 'Best Band Performance' we chose 'Kicks or Consumption', we felt that it most accurately portrayed a bands performance in a music video, and was very convincing.

For 'Best Male Vocal' we also chose 'Kicks or Consumption', the performance was strong, and we liked that the group obviously chose actual band members, instead of just choosing to do it themselves

For 'Best Female Vocal' we chose 'The hot one in the Red shirt' from 'Science is Golden'. Being hot, she did a good job of being a vocalist, regardless of what her actual talents are. Whatever they are, it's obviously not being a performer.

For 'Best use of Location' we chose 'Fake ID'. Though they didn't go all out with the camerawork or planning, we liked that they shot it in London, using some cliches that are seen in music videos, even if they didn't quite pull them off.

For 'Best Editing' we chose 'Kicks or Consumption', we felt it most resembled a professional music video with the pacing and shot choices, and they were clearly reflected in the editing.

For 'Most innovative concept', we chose 'Science is Golden', even though the techniques were not original we felt the way it was put together had a certain charm about it, and a rather 80's feel. We like this.

The 'Wooden Spoon' award goes to those with a whiter soul than Jesus himself. 'Side to Side' features three Tim Westwood wannabes in various 'gangster' locations, such as the side of a travelodge, a quiet suburban street, the quad at long road, and a sports hall. Congratulations, you wiggas.

Music Videos

Homework one.

Task One


In this task we were given snippets of a music video and a choice of different musics to edit to. first we had to pick the music then be creative with the tracks.
i enjoyed this task because we got to see what editing a music video is rely like.




In this task we had to lip sync a track to different bits of track. i thought lip syncing would be hard but its actually very easy. I also enjoyed this task because it gave us an incite into another part of out music video.

Task Two


i picked this video because of the mix of stock footage and green screening. I enjoy the concept of it to. I also like the editing of parts of the video to make it look like its from a stock real.

Lip-sync video.

Robbie by Robbie and louie from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

in todays lesson we were given a piece of music and had to record a video for it.

editing the video consisted of syncing the lyrics to the mouth of the person acting. (max and louis)

We used the usual Final cut to edit.

i rely enjoyed this task. because we got a chance to rely see what it would be like recording our actual music vedio.

welcome