Practise music videos!

So, to get a crackin' music video as a group we have spent our doule lessons creating some music videos. Using a variety of different genre's we experiemented different ways to film. Each week, a different person was in charge of the camera, directing and editing. We were pretty impressed considering they were all done in only one hour and a half!!!
Doing these videos showed the complications that could occur in lip synching. I also learnt how to use the green screen and that the more shots you have the more variety in your music video.

Slow the Flow - Braxton (Hip Hop)

Easy- Lionel Ritchie (Ballad)

Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae- Jepson (Pop)

Christmas Medley! - Year 13 media, (seasonal)

Few music video ideas.

• Closing my eyes and listening to the song, I imagine lots of colours and playfulness
• I want my music video to feature children and I think the beat sounds upbeat and fun.
•  I would rather a narrative music video with maybe a bit of performance.
•  I want to include lip syncing as I think it would be odd without some!
•  I'm thinking maybe different couples or a couple throughout there life.
  
  
  
  

I'VE DECIDED!

Finally, I have decided my song for my music video. It is Boys and Girls in Love by The Rumble Strips.
The genre is indie, because I would like to experiment with artistic shots and it has a brilliant beat.

The lyrics are limited which is helpful when learning the lines. Where they are repetitive this means I could possibly repeat scenes in the video!

Just cos you think it, don't make it so
Drive you to drink, it wont let you go

Plenty of girls and boys in love, plenty of girls and boys in love

Move to the city, lose all ur heart, she wernt that pretty, you aint too smart
Plenty of girls and boys in love, plenty of girls and boys in love

And aint it a shame, oh wo oh oh wo oh
Aint it a shame, oh wo oh oh wo oh
Aint it a shame, I let you go

Plenty of girls and boys alone,
Plenty of girls and boys in love,
Plenty of girls and boys in love,
Plenty of girls and boys in love. 

PHOTO FUN (magnetic lasso tool/superimposing)

Our first photoshop lesson also included using the lasso tool, to get the basics done we cut out mario and sonic and popped them on another background..

We then went to more adnanced matters making Harry Potter fly over London! Here my attempt, the blur was supposed to make it look like he was moving in motion however, i think its too much.

We had some time left at the end of the lesson so I decided to experiment a bit more with photoshop making my friend look like she was in a different room.

PHOTO SHOP FUN! (rota scoping)

We also did some rota scoping like how the old school animations were done, I found this activity fun, and it might help with the childish theme I might involve on my digipak...
The orginal

After

I also did a second one, experimenting with the real photo and then the rota scoped one mixed together, you can see the eyes become quite creepy..

PHOTOSHOP FUN! (clipping masks)

So in preparation for our digipaks we have been practising our photoshop skills.
Personally, being a lover of 'Paint' on the computer I have not used photoshop (properly) before. The past few lessons have taught me the basics that I could use for my own design..

Here we are making font with a picture as the background..

My first attempt

I then experimented further by going on a font website and found a cool graffti font I wanted.
But in order to use it i had to cut it out with the magnetic lassoo tool..

I then carried on as you would normally placing it on a graffti background..

Then carried on as usual placing the text onto another background

However, because the font was quite thin it is hard to see the actual word, also both backgrounds are very busy..

Music video research

So before I decide my style and song I want for my music video we have watched a few music videos in class to help inspire our own visions.

Postcardfrom 1952
This music video took pictures taken from the '50s and reenacted them adding movement. The slow motion images compliment the music perfectly. I really like the old vintage feel with the '50s mise-en-scene and dress codes, however, setting my music video in a different decade would be very challenging as I wouldnt be able to have anything from todays world in the shots. The way I could over come this is if I was to set my video in a forest or somewhere outside where you wouldnt get any cars.

 Another thing I like about this video is the warm lighting, this is something I may look into when filming my own video.

Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity 
The surrealism in this music video makes it something of a spectacle, the plain set also works well, as you can see that Jamiroquai is the attention.


M.I.A. Bad Girls
I love the costumes in this and the constant movement of the camera. This is a more hip-hop genre where there are many possibilities such as dances.

Metronomy
This is one of my favourites, the lighting is beautiful. I especially want to take inspiration from the editing matching the beat of the moving.

Music Video Analysis

Artist and Title	Visual	Pace
Bob Dylan Subterranean Homesick Blues (First music video 1965)	Bob Dylan in the side of the shot holding card board cue cards that relate to the song. Tramp in the background and in an ally way all gray.	Country, jolly music but the action is smooth.
Pharcyde Drop Directed: Spike Jonze	4 rappers walking, moving, jumping etc. in reverse so the movement is robotic. They had direct address rapping to camera and there were only 3/4 shots all together. When they jump on and off shot it looks like they are on a harness. The water is poured down in reality but in the video it looks like it is gravitating upwards giving a really cool effect.	Again smooth pace as it was tracking from in front shot. Although the lip synching didn’t really work at times, it didn’t matter as you were distracted by all the movement in the mise-en- scene.
OK Go (2006) Here it goes again Director: Trish Sie	8 Treadmills, the band are dancing on them jumping on and off. The mise-en-scene seems a little tacky and not perfect but it doesn’t matter too much because it is mainly focused on the action. The colours are simple.	Movement within the speed of the treadmill. They jump with the beat of the music
Metronomy (2011) The Bay Director: David Wilson	80s filmed, white stilettos and bathing suits. Was actually filmed in Torquay looks like the French Riviera. Framed by other scenes in the video. James Bond film.	The frame moves along to the beat of the song also with the split screen when it comes on and off. One point legs open up the screen as they are being closed.

Music Video Shot by Shot Analysis

Katy Perry -Thinking of you

So to get our music video minds working we did a shot by shot analysis of a music video of our choice. I did Katy Perry's 'Thinking Of You'
The amount of shots were crazy as you could imagine, with a music video directed by Melina Matsoukas.
Jess Work Katy Perry

Music video practise Jojo

JoJo- Get Out (Leave) Practise lipsync.
So in preparation for next year we have started mimicking Jojo's music video to Get Out (Leave)
We chose this video because it is set in a school, making it the perfect location to film as we will be doing it in our media lessons.

To get us started we practised lipsyncing, this helps us get a feel of what it will be like when doing our music video and the difficulties we could potentially face when editing.

Here's the finished product!