ANOTHER TASK.....

Another thing we wanted to try for our music video was a split screen showing the female the artist is singing about and also showing the bad performing. We tried something out and each of the boys lipscynched and then i randomly danced around to fill in for the girl who will be playing the love interest. When we really shoot this we would like to have the band playing their instruments to make the actors look a lot more like a believable band. When we watched back the split screen that we split into four we decided to change this and so when we actually film our music video we are going to have a full screen of the band playing their instruments and then a little box at the bottom of the female singing or dancing we think that will look better than what we originaly planed.

Here is the practise video:

TASK....Planning

For our music video we would like a story bord included to set the story for the audience about what the artists are singing about however we think a storybord would set the story straight and a lot quicker and then gives us more freedom to explore new things throughout our video and would be a really good introduction to our music video. We had a look at what we could do on Imovie xpress and we couldn't do a traditional storybord but we managed to come up with something that would work and look good. Here is our video from our task :

Planing again! :)

This is what we roughly drew to help us plan the week of filming. We went by this when filming however changed some ideas such as the rubix cube scene. Other wise this plan worked .

Practise task...Planning

Today we went into a spear classroom and shot a few clips. The whole point of this task was so we could edit on the Imacs and try out effects that we would like to include in our music video. we had shoots of the 3boys in our group lypsynching and then me dancing. This is because we want to include in our music video a split scene split into four different screens. These will include two band members beside the girl who the artist is singing about in the middle and then another band member on the other side.

We also wanted to make a storyboard for the introduction of our music video. we wanted something that tells the story but is also sweet and simple. Using this idea we shot a few clips of us as agroup arguing and talking just so we can use the footage and experiment with the special editing effects on the edditing programme we use. We found out that this can be succsessful , it will look slightly different from what we planned but we could still use it and make it work.

We will post footage of these tasks on our blogs soon.

Planning.... costume & Location ideas......

As a group we discussed our ideas of costume and locations that we could use in our music video, Using the ideas we came up with I created a collarge <.

The Original bad members of 'The colours' are the picture in the left hand corner. As you can see their style is very retro and kind of 80s based and so we decided to go with this kind of theame for our costume. We also want to funk the costume up a little and add alot of colour which fits in with the bands name but also relates to the 80s and retro style.


Underneath the picture of 'The Colours' is a picture of the girl band 'The Saturdays'. The reason i added them to my collarge is because i like the costume they wear in their music video 'UP'. It matches the idea we as a group spoke about and it is very simple. The bright tights are something that we considered for any girls in out music video so we can stick to the idea of using alot of colours. We also thought of puffy dresses or skirts even to keep the 80s retro look.

Then we spoke about different locations that we can consider using. Ones that came up mainly were recording studio, a house and some where in London. We also thought of maybe showing a rehursle which is why on the collarge we added a school stage. An earlier idea was that the artists could be singing about two school teenagers which is where the libary lication came in handy.

We are still waiting to meet to discuss final options.

Planning update.....

Today we spoke about filming a scene between liam and chaise and then editing the scene onto the Imac. The whole point of this was because we want a story board effect for the introduction of our music video to set the story to the audience without going into too much detail that isn't needed. This helps us limit what we show so we can focus on what really matters. Also the main aim of this task was to help up be creative with the editing programme we use and to explore whether we can make a story board or not so when it comes down to the actual filming will know whether we will need more footage or whether we can work around what we originally planned.

Random post ....

Today i came across this music video (Double vision by 30H!3) I thought it was really stylised and carefully thought about before it was filmed. This video includes so many different effects one main one being a computer effect. The video is designed to look like a computer desk top and the idea of somebody being in control of the clips we see. They have also made great use of a green screen for things such as the singer diving in the crowd. This video works and is really different and makes us want to watch more of.

Watching 100 greatest music videos

In todays lesson we watched a little bit of 100 greatest music videos taken from channel 4. It is a good programme that explores the intreting elements of the most well known music videos. The progrmme showed documentry style music videos and videos that raise serious issues in which people can realate to as well as special effects, computer graphics and including famous actors to perform in artists music videos.

Ones that stuck out to me were :

Bronski Beat- Smalltown Boy (I like the idea on making a music video raising issues in a documentry style. It hepls an audience feel safe and ok to be who they really are. Music should be about sending out a positive message)

Cornershop Brimful of Asha includes some really good ideas and special effects such as having the band members

on the cd sleve that come to life. The setting is very colourful and appealing.

Elton Johns song 'I want Love' was cleaverly done as Elton decided he didn't want to be in his own music video himself therefore he hiered a famous actor Robert Downey Jounier to lipscych along to his voice but also as an actor her knew that Robert Downey could portray the emotion felt in the lyrics to the audience. This created a new effect and worked fantasticly as we assume that this song is coming from the actor!.

Here is the music video for 'I want love'

The Pet Shop Boys' version of Go West which was orrigionaly sung by The Village People. The duet realeased this song in 1993 and wanted to create a new image for their music video with the use of computergraphics. A critic commented on the programmed and said that videos are now the "Best and possible only form of art". The video is bery colourful includes alot if artisitic graphical features which is much more appealing than most modern day music videos.

The Pet Shop Boys Music video: