"Love the superimposition of your singer and the music instruments, as well as the exteriors. I think it was a great idea to do that, very imaginative!"
"I love the shot at the end of the sunset of the beach! Well done James"
"It's really good James"
"Well, overall enjoyed the vid. Loved the overlay of some of the scenic images on the band members but felt the river footage had too much sun reflection (sun spot) that could perhaps have been edited out. The beach footage was a little juddery in places and at the end of the panorama when panning back it was a very sudden move, perhaps a fade out and back would seem less sudden. As for the music, really enjoyed it."
- I tired to edit my video to adjust my story to these claims but it was not possible to edit them and since this opinion was in the minority I considered it to be almost irrelevant due to it being out numbered.
Monday, 25 March 2013
Feminism
My music contains no women becuase there are no women in the band that the song is for. It was always my plan for my video to contain exclusively band members becuase in the context of my song there was never going to be a role for a female. A feminism who see this as being sexist towards them but I would argue that it would not fit the genre of the song or the style of video to include a female charcter.
Storyboard
Above you can see my pages of storyboards. I constructed these to give me a rough idea of what my video construct will look like. From what I have learnt; the story board does not always look like the final product. The drawings and the idea's are my very first thoughts so if they were to change, I would say that it was an evolution of the product.Some include arrows to show very important camera movements and some of the screens have been left blank but the reasons for doing so can be read underneath the box. Creating a story board helped me with my action plan; it help me plan which locations I needed and what time of the day that it would be best to go to them.
Action Plan
Prior to the construction of any plan I created an action plan for myself. This included activities and when they were gonna be completed by. I completed this activity in a word documents and the contents of this document can be seen below.
Basic research into target audience and chose brief - by october half term
Planning for the filming (both in the context of contents and when it is going to happen) and what my product will look like - before Christmas break
Ancillary tasks such as Poster and digipack. Filming also be completed by this time - to be completed prior to February half term.
Editing and blog to be finished - by easter holidays.
Evaluation - Prior to summer term
Basic research into target audience and chose brief - by october half term
Planning for the filming (both in the context of contents and when it is going to happen) and what my product will look like - before Christmas break
Ancillary tasks such as Poster and digipack. Filming also be completed by this time - to be completed prior to February half term.
Editing and blog to be finished - by easter holidays.
Evaluation - Prior to summer term
Previous Student Work
Eliza Blue - Read All About it Part 3
The shots in these video's are of a high quality; they are almost HD. This is really good as it shows care has been taken in the quality of the product.
The bleak colour palette works really well in this; it matches what could be described as a sad song.
I feel that the repetition could distract some viewers but Overall I thought that it was a great video and would watch it again.
Oasis - The Meaning of Soul
The video is shot on a low quality camera, the production value is low with what I call cheesy transitions and the acting is very poor. The shaky camera makes it very very difficult to watch. The beat match is often very out of time. I will try to avoid create a video that looks like this because of all of these flaws.
Tammy - "Unknown Song title"
This is a low fi indie music video to suit the song. Some of the shots are blurry and some of the singing does not match; I will aim to avoid this as much as I can because it looks very unprofessional. In the whole I like this video the things that make it wrong, make it right in the context of this style of video.
The XX - Intro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpTVOVJUMyM&&safe=active
This is another Lo fi video and the music suits this style. In a way this is a very confusing video as there is no distinct narrative to the piece and if there is meant to be one it is not apparent. The camera quality is low but this is all part of the video. I would like to create a video in a similar vain to this one as indie music will be my genre.
The shots in these video's are of a high quality; they are almost HD. This is really good as it shows care has been taken in the quality of the product.
The bleak colour palette works really well in this; it matches what could be described as a sad song.
I feel that the repetition could distract some viewers but Overall I thought that it was a great video and would watch it again.
Oasis - The Meaning of Soul
The video is shot on a low quality camera, the production value is low with what I call cheesy transitions and the acting is very poor. The shaky camera makes it very very difficult to watch. The beat match is often very out of time. I will try to avoid create a video that looks like this because of all of these flaws.
Tammy - "Unknown Song title"
This is a low fi indie music video to suit the song. Some of the shots are blurry and some of the singing does not match; I will aim to avoid this as much as I can because it looks very unprofessional. In the whole I like this video the things that make it wrong, make it right in the context of this style of video.
The XX - Intro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpTVOVJUMyM&&safe=active
This is another Lo fi video and the music suits this style. In a way this is a very confusing video as there is no distinct narrative to the piece and if there is meant to be one it is not apparent. The camera quality is low but this is all part of the video. I would like to create a video in a similar vain to this one as indie music will be my genre.
Sunday, 24 March 2013
Marxism
My video is not intended to be a marxist video. It features no materialistic items although the musical instruments could be considered this. The perceptions are that the video is seen as an average indie guitar band. I have done this so that they relate to the target audience. The independent aspect of my music video shows what an independent budget can afford. The society that views this will be well accustomed to this life style of living for what they can afford; ideal and materialistic items will be out of the price range. The style that the video is shot in is not meant to out shine other video's; the video is a lo-fi spectacle and was created with exclusively the target audience in mind. It does not exaggerate the special or the high value.
My Creative Project
For my creative project, I am going to create a music video for my band Back to Basics for the song that I wrote called "Good". It is a video that will feature the two musicians in the band as well as shots from what looks like a holiday. I will aslo create a CD digiapck for the single release of that song as well as this I will create a poster to promote the release of this single. All ogf which will have the same style to keep the promotion scheme the same. I will also create a record comapny logo to show who the video is produced for.
Characterisation
James Reay - Drummer
James Reay is a hard working graphics student who comes from an middle class background. He is a lover of most music and is a drummer in an indie rock and roll band. In his ideal world he wants to perform muic for a living but he realises this is very difficult so choses the option of a graphic designer. Got into music through his father's record collection and wanted to learn to play songs from that collection becuase he loved them so very much. James is usually a very insecure person and music is the way that he expresses himself best; it is outlet to the world, the way his opinions are carried to outsiders.
Phillip Reay - Singer and Guitarist
Phillip is a very intelligent secondary school student who one day wants to be a pharmacist. He is a strong lover of music and has spent mant years playing guitar. He plays guitar in two different bands and at one stage he wanted to be a full time musician/ music teacher. He is also of a middle class unbringing due to him being the younger brother of James. Phillip Learned to play guitar before he knew much about the music he was playing but learning the guitar has taught him so much about music and how to be in a band. Phillip is a strong character who very rarely says a lot until he is onstage and that's when you get to hear what he has to say.
James Reay is a hard working graphics student who comes from an middle class background. He is a lover of most music and is a drummer in an indie rock and roll band. In his ideal world he wants to perform muic for a living but he realises this is very difficult so choses the option of a graphic designer. Got into music through his father's record collection and wanted to learn to play songs from that collection becuase he loved them so very much. James is usually a very insecure person and music is the way that he expresses himself best; it is outlet to the world, the way his opinions are carried to outsiders.
Phillip Reay - Singer and Guitarist
Phillip is a very intelligent secondary school student who one day wants to be a pharmacist. He is a strong lover of music and has spent mant years playing guitar. He plays guitar in two different bands and at one stage he wanted to be a full time musician/ music teacher. He is also of a middle class unbringing due to him being the younger brother of James. Phillip Learned to play guitar before he knew much about the music he was playing but learning the guitar has taught him so much about music and how to be in a band. Phillip is a strong character who very rarely says a lot until he is onstage and that's when you get to hear what he has to say.
Good images
|I created all 6 of these images so that I could chose just one to put on the inside of my digipack. All of the pieces are inspired by the work of Robert Indiana and his Love pieces but they are also inspired by the work that I have done previously. Only one could be chosen so I trialed all of the pieces in the context of my digipack. It is the piece to the left, that worked the best and the final image of this can be seen on the post for my digipack. I chose this image as it was the least complex of all of the images and looked the least out of place in the context of the pack; the extra repetitions of the word "Good" made it difficult to look at the images and they were also unreadable when printed out.
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Mood Board
Pior to the creation of any product I created a mood board. The mood bard that you can see was created on a big sheet of paper and the inspiration that features on it is from copies of the New Musical Express (NME). It was a board that was completed in one lesson and then photographed by my phone camera so that it may be placed on my blog. Written next to everything is the reasoning behind why I like the pieces. These have been written in white board marker as I thought that this was a suitable way given the fact that if it was written in Biro pen it would not be very visible.
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