Q3-50 MUSIC VIDEO 2009 from SATMEDIA on Vimeo.
Friday 29 October 2010
Analysis
While researching, I came across this video made by other media students last year. I enjoyed this video and thought it was one to learn from. Overall I liked the 'old movie' effect it had throughout; also I enjoyed how the quick snapshots were used to show a continued action, "pulling up of tights". The transitions are very interesting and we cannot wait to get to the editing process to create some of our own interesting effects.
Monday 25 October 2010
Replied
Below is the email of Maxine's reply, although she did not answer our question she still seemed eager to see our finished video and liked the ideas we have come up with so far. We thanked her again for letting us use her song and are sure we will have a great result.
Friday 22 October 2010
Wednesday 20 October 2010
Emailing
During planning for our storyboard we had a problem in trying to find a main concept for our video. We then decided to email Maxine to see if she had any ideas she would like to imput, by having the artists own ideas it would help us for inspiration. Here is the email below:
Monday 18 October 2010
Experimenting 2
This is another shot we tried, this consisted of Megan walking really slowly and me and Casey walking in normal time. When it came to editing we sped up the footage so it looked like Megan is walking in normal time and me and Casey are walking super fast. This is an interesting shot that could imply that Megan's world is moving very fast around her. We achieved this effect by pressing "cmd and J" on the mac computers and changing the speed level to 300. One mistake that we made when editing was; we did not remove the sound so the sound does not fit with the video.
Tuesday 12 October 2010
Experimenting
We wanted to try out some of our ideas so when it came to doing it for our music video, we knew how it would look on camera. We chose to shoot the extreme close up of Casey’s eyelid with the title of the song written on with liquid eyeliner.
This is me filming the shot of Casey's eye blinking in normal time:
Once we had uploaded this footage on the Mac computers, we wanted to experiment and make an interesting shot. We chose to make the eye blink in slow motion in order to let the audience read what is written on her eye and also to make it look more interesting. We achieved a slow motion effect by pressing "cmd and J".
We then decided to add a black and white effect on the video. As we are still learning how to use Final cut express, we searched how to do this effect on Google. This lead us onto the following website; 'http://www.brighthub.com/multimedia/video/articles/2961.aspx' which gave us a step-by-step description that helped us create this effect:
Below is our finished shot:
This is me filming the shot of Casey's eye blinking in normal time:
Once we had uploaded this footage on the Mac computers, we wanted to experiment and make an interesting shot. We chose to make the eye blink in slow motion in order to let the audience read what is written on her eye and also to make it look more interesting. We achieved a slow motion effect by pressing "cmd and J".
We then decided to add a black and white effect on the video. As we are still learning how to use Final cut express, we searched how to do this effect on Google. This lead us onto the following website; 'http://www.brighthub.com/multimedia/video/articles/2961.aspx' which gave us a step-by-step description that helped us create this effect:
Below is our finished shot:
Monday 11 October 2010
Research into similar artists
Once we did research on Maxine we thought about artists in the industry that are similar to her. We came up with Norah Jones, her songs are very slow placed much like Maxine's 'come on over' track. When looking at Norah we researched what she has in common with Maxine also what we can take from Norah's videos and style.
Norah Jones- Don't Know Why
The video has been stripped away from any dramatic graphics and locations; it is simply Norah singing to the camera in a seaside location. We then see her playing the piano, this is similar to Maxine as she is also playing an instrument. In our video we will have simple settings and Casey playing the guitar while singing to the camera.
Norah Jones- Don't Know Why
The video has been stripped away from any dramatic graphics and locations; it is simply Norah singing to the camera in a seaside location. We then see her playing the piano, this is similar to Maxine as she is also playing an instrument. In our video we will have simple settings and Casey playing the guitar while singing to the camera.
Sunday 10 October 2010
Target audience- more research
To help establish who the target audience is and to focus some of our ideas, I played the music to a range of people in my class and my teachers and I asked them to write down who would like this type of music. Out of the 14 people I asked,
- 14 people said girls
- 13 said girls of any age
- 1 would say it would be more appropriate when your are having your first romance ages between 16-20
Doing this research has helped us to see what this age group would like to see in our video, so we have come up with some new ideas.
- 14 people said girls
- 13 said girls of any age
- 1 would say it would be more appropriate when your are having your first romance ages between 16-20
Doing this research has helped us to see what this age group would like to see in our video, so we have come up with some new ideas.
Friday 8 October 2010
Research: Channel 4- The 100 Greatest Music Videos
I did some research into music videos to see what makes a successful video but also learn from their accomplishment. I watched the Channel 4 show “100 Greatest Music Videos” which gave a countdown of the best music videos of our time.
No. 96- So Solid Crew “21 seconds”
This song allows the band member “21 seconds” to perform their rap. Each member raps about their escapism. They tell their story about their life and how they got there in different ways. This group were seen as a danger to the public for the wild and without concern actions.
No. 90- The Pet Shop Boys “Go west”
This song was released in 1993 and was a huge success; the song highlights the “camp” nature and shows the audience that times are changing. It was seen as “commercial art” and a way of glorifying a search for freedom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNFwQmZvnuw
No. 88- Elton John “I want love”
Elton john avoided starring in his own videos when possible; in this video he has hired Robert Downy Junior. During this time RDJ was in rehab for drug addiction and was taken out to shoot this video. Although we cannot afford to hire artists for our music video it shows that the artist does not have to star in their own video. Elton has recently used artists like Justin Timberlake and Scarlet Johansson in his videos.
No. 76- Godley and Crème “Cry”
This video includes faces of ordinary people mining to the song. They use a great fade effect to change the face of the person singing. This allowed them to even create faces as the fade effect would slowly change which lead them to having half of the pervious person singing combined with the next person singing.
No. 96- So Solid Crew “21 seconds”
This song allows the band member “21 seconds” to perform their rap. Each member raps about their escapism. They tell their story about their life and how they got there in different ways. This group were seen as a danger to the public for the wild and without concern actions.
No. 90- The Pet Shop Boys “Go west”
This song was released in 1993 and was a huge success; the song highlights the “camp” nature and shows the audience that times are changing. It was seen as “commercial art” and a way of glorifying a search for freedom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNFwQmZvnuw
No. 88- Elton John “I want love”
Elton john avoided starring in his own videos when possible; in this video he has hired Robert Downy Junior. During this time RDJ was in rehab for drug addiction and was taken out to shoot this video. Although we cannot afford to hire artists for our music video it shows that the artist does not have to star in their own video. Elton has recently used artists like Justin Timberlake and Scarlet Johansson in his videos.
No. 76- Godley and Crème “Cry”
This video includes faces of ordinary people mining to the song. They use a great fade effect to change the face of the person singing. This allowed them to even create faces as the fade effect would slowly change which lead them to having half of the pervious person singing combined with the next person singing.
Thursday 7 October 2010
Basic Ideas
Target Audience
Teenage Girls- They can relate to Maxine's song lyrics
We are currently working on our storyboard, in the mean time these are some of the ideas we would like to include in our music video as we feel they will be interesting to watch.
Outline ideas:
-During the introduction of the song, we will show Casey walking and after every step, her shoes will change.
-Once the words of the song begin, Casey will be leaning on wall, while singing and playing the guitar.
-Ripped up pictures will fall in slow motion while Casey is looking up at the camera.
-We took inspiration from the eye makeup photo in our collage photo, we would like to use this but write 'come on over' on Casey’s eyelid.
-We were inspired by her original style and want to give the whole video a vintage style so vintage clothing and items are needed.
-Spelling words out with objects, we took this idea from Bruno Mar's video "Just the way you are", he spells out words with tape from a casset.
-Casey will draw a line on the wall with chalk as she walks by. We are thinking to use a graphic match of the line she has draw and turn it into a telephone cord.
Teenage Girls- They can relate to Maxine's song lyrics
We are currently working on our storyboard, in the mean time these are some of the ideas we would like to include in our music video as we feel they will be interesting to watch.
Outline ideas:
-During the introduction of the song, we will show Casey walking and after every step, her shoes will change.
-Once the words of the song begin, Casey will be leaning on wall, while singing and playing the guitar.
-Ripped up pictures will fall in slow motion while Casey is looking up at the camera.
-We took inspiration from the eye makeup photo in our collage photo, we would like to use this but write 'come on over' on Casey’s eyelid.
-We were inspired by her original style and want to give the whole video a vintage style so vintage clothing and items are needed.
-Spelling words out with objects, we took this idea from Bruno Mar's video "Just the way you are", he spells out words with tape from a casset.
-Casey will draw a line on the wall with chalk as she walks by. We are thinking to use a graphic match of the line she has draw and turn it into a telephone cord.
Tuesday 5 October 2010
Maxine Vauzell
Initial Research:
To get familiar with our chosen song and artist we decided to find out some information about her. We discovered she is from Melbourne, Australia and sings in a band called ‘We are fans’. The style of music her band plays are blues, soul, and acoustic and her music is targeted to a teenage audience as they are more likely to relate to the lyrics.
Inspiration:
We found some of her MySpace pictures which we really liked and decided to use her style in our music videos. I developed this research by creating a collage of pictures which includes some of the ideas and costumes we would like to use: Here it is!
To get familiar with our chosen song and artist we decided to find out some information about her. We discovered she is from Melbourne, Australia and sings in a band called ‘We are fans’. The style of music her band plays are blues, soul, and acoustic and her music is targeted to a teenage audience as they are more likely to relate to the lyrics.
Inspiration:
We found some of her MySpace pictures which we really liked and decided to use her style in our music videos. I developed this research by creating a collage of pictures which includes some of the ideas and costumes we would like to use: Here it is!
Monday 4 October 2010
Target Audience
In order for our music video to be successful we must consider our target audience (teenagers) preferred genre of music. I showed my fellow friends a range of music videos and genres of music and asked them to fill out a questionnaire which I made on "surveymonkey.com" which included a tick-box survey of music genres. I gathered their answers and saw which style of music was most popular. The most popular category was "soul/acoustic". As I new what my target audience preferred I made sure I found a "soul/acoustic" style song on "unsigned.com".
Sunday 3 October 2010
A2 Media Studies
Name of track: Come on Over
Artis(s): Maxine Vauzelle
Name(s) of student(s) in group:
Rosela Doda
Casey Barnard
Artis(s): Maxine Vauzelle
Name(s) of student(s) in group:
Rosela Doda
Casey Barnard
Friday 1 October 2010
Critical analysis of our video
Mistakes:
We chose to only use a medium shot in our preliminary as we wanted to concentrate on the lip syncing. We realise how having one frame shot throughout the video is tedious and boring so this has taught us to include exciting shots in our music video to keep the audience wanting to watch more.
Another mistake we had was halfway though our video we did not have enough footage to use so we resulted in using a black screen to fix the problem. We learnt that for every different location we used or for every different person singing we must get them to perform the entire song to make sure we have enough footage so we do not make the same mistake again!
We chose to only use a medium shot in our preliminary as we wanted to concentrate on the lip syncing. We realise how having one frame shot throughout the video is tedious and boring so this has taught us to include exciting shots in our music video to keep the audience wanting to watch more.
Another mistake we had was halfway though our video we did not have enough footage to use so we resulted in using a black screen to fix the problem. We learnt that for every different location we used or for every different person singing we must get them to perform the entire song to make sure we have enough footage so we do not make the same mistake again!
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