Sunday, 12 May 2013
END RESULT
Overall, I am happy, with how the finished video looks, given this is the first music video any of us have ever filmed, we did a good job. There are of course, like any film anyone will work on, things I'd want to change or add, for example, there is a scene at the end of the video where she grabs a new audition form from a notice board, when filming, it looked okay, as though the viewer would understand, but when editing, I feel we should have got a close up shot on the form to express the point even further.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlDOIHHCrjE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
FILMING OUR VIDEO
The first thing we started with was a sunrise, and we didn't just want any old view of it, we went to Crow Castle to record it, and I personally think it looked brilliant. After that the ideas started flowing, we went all over north Wales recording anything and everything we could, including the sun setting over the sea with the view of a light house, and people walking through town centers.
When we recorded the time lapses, we realized a secondary story that could play alongside our protagonist's story; How life is moving fast and how other people go about their day, and there is no time to sit and feel sorry for yourself.
Filming with our actress was easy! She was a pleasure to work with and most of the footage we shot with her only took one take. If I were to change one thing though, it would be able to have her for more time than we did to be able to add more things to the video (i.e interactions with more people, more of a build up to the audition).
When we recorded the time lapses, we realized a secondary story that could play alongside our protagonist's story; How life is moving fast and how other people go about their day, and there is no time to sit and feel sorry for yourself.
Filming with our actress was easy! She was a pleasure to work with and most of the footage we shot with her only took one take. If I were to change one thing though, it would be able to have her for more time than we did to be able to add more things to the video (i.e interactions with more people, more of a build up to the audition).
PLANNING OUR VIDEO
Before any planning began, we were first put into groups, and my group consisted of myself, David Terhorst and Hannah Eames Owens. Once settled, we thought the best idea would be to choose a song to get a feel for what kind of music video we'd be shooting. Due to copyright laws; If we were to choose a song by known and signed artists, we'd need to acquire the rights to that song (Which would cost a lot of money) or not be able to post it online for the public to view, which even though it is only a university exercise; it would be nice to show people what we are capable of. To make this possible, David contacted one of his close friends (Dominic Kedge) who makes his own drum and bass music to help us. The advantage of using Dominic's music is it doesn't contain lyrics, giving us non-narrative freedom.
We then tried to decide what we would film to be in the video, and one of our first ideas was stop motion. Hannah used to study animation back in Holyhead, so she knew how to do it, but she informed us that it was very time consuming and would be a lot of work to do with just 15 weeks to do, so we dropped it. A few days after that, we found out the title of the song we'd be using was called "Start Over" which game both me and Dave the idea of a character wanting to start anew, but we were unsure of how to portray it. After a few sessions, we agreed on the use of time lapses (a video of something in motion sped up). Me and Dave both came from Yale college studying the same course, where we both learnt how to film time lapses. The best way to do this was to use a GoPro camera; a small, durable, HD camera that can record video and take a certain amount of images per second. As soon as we agreed on this, me and him planned out possible shots.
Once we planned time lapses, we then needed to pick a story for our protagonist. Hannah's friend back where she lives is an actress/dancer, and she was coming to stay with her for a couple of days, which started us thinking about a possible story of a dancer going for an audition, messing it up and becoming upset about it, then at the end she can have an epiphany realizing that every day is a new day and she can "Start Over". Once agreed on this, we began to film.
We then tried to decide what we would film to be in the video, and one of our first ideas was stop motion. Hannah used to study animation back in Holyhead, so she knew how to do it, but she informed us that it was very time consuming and would be a lot of work to do with just 15 weeks to do, so we dropped it. A few days after that, we found out the title of the song we'd be using was called "Start Over" which game both me and Dave the idea of a character wanting to start anew, but we were unsure of how to portray it. After a few sessions, we agreed on the use of time lapses (a video of something in motion sped up). Me and Dave both came from Yale college studying the same course, where we both learnt how to film time lapses. The best way to do this was to use a GoPro camera; a small, durable, HD camera that can record video and take a certain amount of images per second. As soon as we agreed on this, me and him planned out possible shots.
Once we planned time lapses, we then needed to pick a story for our protagonist. Hannah's friend back where she lives is an actress/dancer, and she was coming to stay with her for a couple of days, which started us thinking about a possible story of a dancer going for an audition, messing it up and becoming upset about it, then at the end she can have an epiphany realizing that every day is a new day and she can "Start Over". Once agreed on this, we began to film.
PINK FLOYD'S "THE WALL" - Analysis
To begin researching for the music video, my tutor gave me and my
fellow students a starting example. He started telling us about feature length
music videos containing every song from an artist's album known as
"Concept Albums". The example he showed us was "Pink Floyd's:
The Wall".
"The Wall" contains no dialogue and no straight forward
meaning or purpose, it can be perceived in many different ways. It tells the
story of Pink, a young boy who's father dies at war, and how it affects him
throughout his life, as he isolates himself from the rest of the world with a
metaphorical "wall" built of each bad thing that happens to him,
resulting in being "Just bricks in the wall".
From my point of view, I could clearly see it was very conceptual
and art-like. I can understand why viewers would appreciate the film and how
they could relate to it emotionally, however; I personally didn't like it, purely due to my choice in film. If I were to watch something that is over an hour long, I'd like it to be scripted and have a straight forward plot with some twists and turns a long the way, not to be told through song.
I think it is a very unique film, and only a couple of
other bands/artists have attempted to make a similar style film (e.g. Daft
Punk's: "Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem" and "Electroma").
Sunday, 7 April 2013
TASK
I currently study BSc Television Production & Technology at Glyndwr University. One of my modules is to make a music video within a small group. This blog will contain my research, evidence and even previews of my group's music video.
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