We have decided to make a music video for brimful of asha.
After the feed back from all the people we asked about which to do we talked about which one to do, and thought that the ideas we had were best suited for this song. Also we thought it would be more fun to make, and we have got a good idea on what to do at each part.
Monday, 28 September 2009
Questionaire
BASICS IDEAS FOR MUSIC VIDEO
* walking backwards through crouded areas, edited to be reversed so that the crouds are walking backwards and the main person is walking forwards.
* Local/urban areas
* Possibly miming
* Narrative aspects mainly, possibly a small performance element
* Text song lyrics in shot
* Natural lighting
* Minimal effects
QUESTIONAIRE
To help us decide on which music video we created a questionaire, we gave the options of...
Day N Night 1
Bonkers 3
Brimful Of Asha 8
When The Sun Goes Down 10
We Also Asked people which they though would be better for the set of the music video, the options were...
Narrative 4
Performance 6
Both 12
* walking backwards through crouded areas, edited to be reversed so that the crouds are walking backwards and the main person is walking forwards.
* Local/urban areas
* Possibly miming
* Narrative aspects mainly, possibly a small performance element
* Text song lyrics in shot
* Natural lighting
* Minimal effects
QUESTIONAIRE
To help us decide on which music video we created a questionaire, we gave the options of...
Day N Night 1
Bonkers 3
Brimful Of Asha 8
When The Sun Goes Down 10
We Also Asked people which they though would be better for the set of the music video, the options were...
Narrative 4
Performance 6
Both 12
Thursday, 24 September 2009
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We chose to look at 4 different music videos...
Day N Night
this video is both performance and narrative, for example there is a lot of the song where he is behind the counter of the shop and people are coming in, but there is alot of him singing with girls in the background, which also shows the genre of the video
Bonkers
This song is alot both, but there is more performance that narrative, i think this shows more affect towards the listener. he is on a floating blue box in the scene and you can tell its moving showing so there isnt much narative at all.
When the sun Goes Down
This is all narative, the music video is like a short film without and sound just a song in the background, it is about a man and a woman which relates to the lyrics.
Brimful Of Asha
we couldn't find the music video for this song, which we though could be an advantage as we wouldn't be copying the origional video.
A short Film Lovefilm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4meeZifCVro
Charmer Kings of Leon Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIH7co6UGjQ
Answer In The Future Documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzyzFijVvFc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4meeZifCVro
Charmer Kings of Leon Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIH7co6UGjQ
Answer In The Future Documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzyzFijVvFc
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Charmer (kings Of Leon) Music Video.
Charmer (kings Of Leon) Music Video.
I am going to analyse the music video Charmer, make by the Kings of Leon.
At the beginning of the music video, it is very dark and there is a bit of light coming from underneath a curtain, as the first beat kicks in, the curtains go back and light comes out as if it is with the music. There are lots of reflections of the guitars, I think this is to help show the meaning of the song, as it is about a charmer, which the band seem to be scared of. Also in the music video you can see where the light is coming from which normally wouldn’t happen in films or documentaries, the lights change when the tempo of the song changes, this creates different moods for the viewers. For example when the coarse starts it goes very light as the music gets allot heavier.
During the video there isn’t much editing, at the beginning of the video, a notice comes up telling the viewer, who it is, what song it is and what album its off. This helps the viewer so they know more information about whom they are watching. It also comes back on at the end showing who has been watched. During the course when the lead singer screams, the screen looks as if it is been suck, showing the audience his scream is strong or loud. The camera angles are mainly close-ups, at the beginning there is a good establishing shot, showing that the band are in a theatre. During the music video there are only cuts between each shot, the shots are very short lasting around 3 seconds, but when the course starts they jump from shot to shot a lot quicker making a more intense scene. Most of the shot are took still because they switch so often, but there is a few which pan across the front of all the band, I think this is also to make the scene look more intense. There are lots of close-ups of the guitars, which are in most rock/indie band videos, whereas in other genres you might not even see the instruments.
The Mise-en-scene in the video is very good, its been made to look like a real performance as they are on the stage, but at the beginning you can see that there in no-one in the audience, making a ironic view on the video. I think this is good because it makes the song stand out more, also in the song the course says “she’s always looking at me oh no” which is ironic as there in nobody n the audience that could be looking at him. The cloths and props are very good as you can tell straight away that they are on a stage and they are wearing what a stereotypical rock/indie band would wear. The main colour used in the video are red and black, this helps set the mood for the song. The body language of the people in the band are very serious, there isn’t any smiling or laughing, this would show the seriousness of the song not the band as the mood would change from song to song. During the video the lead singer looks into the camera, this make the viewer feel more involved as it looks like they are been watched. This is called breaking the barrier, where the video becomes less real as they are looking at a camera which wouldn’t be there.
The sound in the music video in just the song, there isn’t any added parts for example an introduction or anyone talking in it, which I think, is normal in this bands genre. At the beginning of the video it start silent and the bet slowly builds up which is a well worked introduction, rather that starting straight into the song.
Answer In The Future? A Short Documentary
Answer in the future? A Short Documentary.
This documentary is about a small vehicle, which is been introduced in America to reduce fuel consumption.
During the documentary, there is a narrator talking for most of the time, (non diegetic narration), which is telling the main details and asking the questions for the designer to answer. At the beginning of the documentary when the new vehicle is introduced, there is a very quick tempo tune, setting a happy mood. Throughout there is the designer answering question from the narrator, which creates a documentary style as it isn’t an actual conversation, but it still makes sense. The main designer is talking in a louder voice than the narrator; I think this is so he stands out more, so people watching would take more notice of the information he is saying. His voice is very demanding and he is making very positive comments towards the new vehicle. He also uses lots of statistic, which will stick in the viewers head, which is more likely to interests the viewer.
During the documentary the is a lot of editing, for example there is lots of text added to show more information, at the beginning in the bottom right corner of the screen there is the title of the documentary, (answer in the future) in a bright red colour to make you aware of what your watching. Also at the end they have put together credits to show who made it, the names and titles are shown by scrolling up from the bottom of the screen to the top. Also when people are introduced in a interview there names come up showing who they are and what they have to do with the business, helping people watching understand more, and know more about the vehicle.
There is lots of different camera angles, they are mainly medium close ups for the interviews which take place which is very common in documentary’s. The shots switch a lot throughout it, going for the vehicle to the man talking about the vehicle. The shots are normally just cuts to each different shot but there is also a few dissolves, which make it a lot smoother, for example at the beginning when the producer is trying to show the vehicle they were dissolves, I think because the smoother changes between each shot makes the car look better, rather than cutting to each shot. There is a lot of zooming, within this documentary, in the first part, the camera zooms into the prices of the petrol, I think to try to exaggerate the prices making the car look better. The camera rarely has any movement; I think this is to get a more professional look so people concentrate more on what is said rather than the images. There is also a camera held on the vehicle as it is driving, which shows you a closer and better view of the vehicle.
The mise-en-scene with in the documentary is good because it is real life, there isn’t anything fake or anything needed to make it real, the designer is wearing stylish cloths but nothing flashy, he also looks and talks like a working class man which would connect to the audience more. The vehicle is represented is a good way and cars and vans are shown in a very negative light, as they are the reason for the new transport not been safe and also as they are un-environmentally friendly.
During the documentary there isn’t any lighting needed as they aren’t trying to set a certain mood for the audience to feel, the are always outside in the natural light which is common for documentary, however the weather is very bright which would show a happier mood than if it was raining.
Friday, 18 September 2009
Lovefield a Short Film
Lovefield A Short Film.
This film is set in a modern day, American farmers field (the diegesis). The scene is set out at the beginning to look like a farmer is killing a person in the cornfields, there is a crow on a fence squawking making the scene look intense, the farmer goes back to his car and get a blanket. As he goes to put it over this person he picks up a baby and there is a pregnant woman laid in the field.
At the beginning of the film the ambient sound track is really quiet music, it’s a violin and the tempo is extremely slow, it’s a very high pitched but quite sound making a scary or intense scene. There is a crow on a sign making some noise, which makes the scene look more terrifying. The sign is also blowing in a calm wind making a loud squeaking sound, which also makes a suspicious noise. The camera is panning over a cornfield and getting closer to a gap where you can tell someone is laid, and there is a phone bleeping this is denotation (the phone bleeping) and the connotation is that someone has tried to phone for help and has been stopped by someone or something, this is Roland Barthes theory. The sound of the phone is getting louder and louder which shows you are getting closer to main scene. As the scene goes on a woman starts crying and screaming, the camera slowly pans onto the woman’s lower leg, by looking at her foot and movement you can tell she is struggling, and there is a loud violin sound, and she stops moving and the scene goes quiet. A man stands up in the field and a quick tempo piece of music comes on, as he runs to his car, I think it is attempting to illustrate that he’s done something wrong. Suddenly there is a change of mood. As he reaches down with a blanket and picks up a baby, a very light and cheerful music track comes on and they are both smiling and the man says, “it’s a boy” which eases the intensity of the mood, making it more cheerful. A car arrives in the distance with sirens on which helps you know that it is an ambulance. Also when the man says it a boy he is signifying that there is a child, and then the baby is brought onto the shot, which is the signified, this is Ferdinand de Saussures theory.
At the beginning the camera is slowly tracking and arcing through the cornfield, the angles make it look like you the person watching is trying to look for something. It slowly swings down through the corn and shows a mobile phone, the focus on the phone is really clear showing what you are supposed to be looking at, the focus is changed to some money, then changed again to a bloody cloth and once more to a woman’s foot. I think they have make the camera move slowly to make a more ironic scene, after the woman stops moving (trying to show she has died) a knife is stabbed into the floor, and with the mood changing the shots become a lot shorter and there is lots more movement and quicker movement, which I think makes the scene look more intense. The camera tilts up from the mans knees to his shoulders which shows a very suspicious character, the focus is on the back of his head and jumps to a crow in the back ground, I think this is the show what he is looking at.
There are lots of good shots, for example there is a medium close up, of him when he is looking at the crow, a good reaction shot as it shows him looking down and then suddenly looking up past the camera and then showing the crow. Finally, there is an establishing shot of the field, a ambulance, a tractor and the road, and many close ups throughout the film. There is one of the knife that he stabs into the floor and one of the mobile phone ringing.
The lighting in the film is constant throughout, as there is only one scene and it is all outdoors, making it easier to light. I think they would have used all 3 (key, fill and back) lighting processes during all the film, because they are in the middle of a field so there wouldn’t be any shadows or dark areas in the scene, if there was this would ruin the verisimilitude.
The mise-en-scene within the film was very good. All the characters’ costumes helped portray real life, you could see on the mans shoulder that there was a small tattoo of a love heart, which at first I thought showed irony, as I was lead to believe he was the killer, whereas in the end he was helping a woman have a baby which shows he isn’t “bad or evil”. The whole film looked very real and there wasn’t any signs of it being fake, making the verisimilitude of the film brilliant. This was done by following the rules of continuity, temporal and spatial coherence.
This film is set in a modern day, American farmers field (the diegesis). The scene is set out at the beginning to look like a farmer is killing a person in the cornfields, there is a crow on a fence squawking making the scene look intense, the farmer goes back to his car and get a blanket. As he goes to put it over this person he picks up a baby and there is a pregnant woman laid in the field.
At the beginning of the film the ambient sound track is really quiet music, it’s a violin and the tempo is extremely slow, it’s a very high pitched but quite sound making a scary or intense scene. There is a crow on a sign making some noise, which makes the scene look more terrifying. The sign is also blowing in a calm wind making a loud squeaking sound, which also makes a suspicious noise. The camera is panning over a cornfield and getting closer to a gap where you can tell someone is laid, and there is a phone bleeping this is denotation (the phone bleeping) and the connotation is that someone has tried to phone for help and has been stopped by someone or something, this is Roland Barthes theory. The sound of the phone is getting louder and louder which shows you are getting closer to main scene. As the scene goes on a woman starts crying and screaming, the camera slowly pans onto the woman’s lower leg, by looking at her foot and movement you can tell she is struggling, and there is a loud violin sound, and she stops moving and the scene goes quiet. A man stands up in the field and a quick tempo piece of music comes on, as he runs to his car, I think it is attempting to illustrate that he’s done something wrong. Suddenly there is a change of mood. As he reaches down with a blanket and picks up a baby, a very light and cheerful music track comes on and they are both smiling and the man says, “it’s a boy” which eases the intensity of the mood, making it more cheerful. A car arrives in the distance with sirens on which helps you know that it is an ambulance. Also when the man says it a boy he is signifying that there is a child, and then the baby is brought onto the shot, which is the signified, this is Ferdinand de Saussures theory.
At the beginning the camera is slowly tracking and arcing through the cornfield, the angles make it look like you the person watching is trying to look for something. It slowly swings down through the corn and shows a mobile phone, the focus on the phone is really clear showing what you are supposed to be looking at, the focus is changed to some money, then changed again to a bloody cloth and once more to a woman’s foot. I think they have make the camera move slowly to make a more ironic scene, after the woman stops moving (trying to show she has died) a knife is stabbed into the floor, and with the mood changing the shots become a lot shorter and there is lots more movement and quicker movement, which I think makes the scene look more intense. The camera tilts up from the mans knees to his shoulders which shows a very suspicious character, the focus is on the back of his head and jumps to a crow in the back ground, I think this is the show what he is looking at.
There are lots of good shots, for example there is a medium close up, of him when he is looking at the crow, a good reaction shot as it shows him looking down and then suddenly looking up past the camera and then showing the crow. Finally, there is an establishing shot of the field, a ambulance, a tractor and the road, and many close ups throughout the film. There is one of the knife that he stabs into the floor and one of the mobile phone ringing.
The lighting in the film is constant throughout, as there is only one scene and it is all outdoors, making it easier to light. I think they would have used all 3 (key, fill and back) lighting processes during all the film, because they are in the middle of a field so there wouldn’t be any shadows or dark areas in the scene, if there was this would ruin the verisimilitude.
The mise-en-scene within the film was very good. All the characters’ costumes helped portray real life, you could see on the mans shoulder that there was a small tattoo of a love heart, which at first I thought showed irony, as I was lead to believe he was the killer, whereas in the end he was helping a woman have a baby which shows he isn’t “bad or evil”. The whole film looked very real and there wasn’t any signs of it being fake, making the verisimilitude of the film brilliant. This was done by following the rules of continuity, temporal and spatial coherence.
Monday, 7 September 2009
Short Film
Short Film
What It Would Be About?
This If I made a short film it would be about, someone that went to college and how there life revolved about there friends and not there work, which shows in the exams results, I would start them off as a confident person wearing track suits and acting as if they were bigger than everyone else in the college, as they got the result they would completely switch and become a kind of loner, which helps him become a better person and succeed in his future exams.
Advantages?
I wouldn't have to get any special equipment to make the scenes look realistic as it would all be at the college.
The actors would have the cloths needed for the scenes so they wouldn't need to get any specific cloths.
Disadvantages?
People would be walking around college all the time which could cause problems in some of the shots we take.
some scenes would be hard when we need lots of people in a scene, for example when hes walking through the dinning hall.
Music Video Idea
Music Video
What It Would Be About?
If i did a music video i would have to get permeation of a band to cover one of there songs which would be very hard, but i would cover a song which was in the genre indie, i have specific idea on what they would be wearing and how they would act in the video, for example they would be wearing checkered shirt and tight jeans and would be acting in a very calm nature.
Advantages?
I would enjoy making the music video.
I think it would be easier that planning a short film as you already have all the script ready.
Disadvantages?
It would be very hard to get permeation of a band to cover there song.
it would be hard for the actors to make it look like they are playing the guitar or the drums, in tune with the song or beat.
Documentary Idea
Documentary
What It Would Be About?
If I did a documentary I would go to a football match and analysis the game, I would mainly look at one player, I would record all the information about the match and video record the match so I would show highlights on the video, I would also try to get an interview from one of the players and ask him questions about the season and what the team has to offer. During the interview I would show clips of the player during the match making a tackle of scoring a goal.
Advantages?
This would be a very interesting project from my point of view making me try harder as I would enjoy the tasks.
This would be very different to what everyone else would be doing making it more interesting.
Disadvantages?
If the match I recorded wasn't good then my project wouldn't look good so I would have to go to another match.
It would be very hard to get an interview with a player.
It would be hard to get all the people in my group to want to do this project.
It would be very hard to get good footage of the match.
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