Final Video

FIlming Order

The shots we need to get are -

1. Long shot of the dancer running with hood up.
2. Mid shot of dancer, dancing in the road.
3. Shot of foot whist running.
4. Close up from the side whist running.
5. Long shot of dancer walking towards the camera which is stationary.
6. Round the corner shot showing both sides of the wall.

This filming is being shot at Cambridge city centre on the 22nd of Oct.

Filming Problems

Due to the use of a actor/ dancer in our music video it has become increasingly hard to find time that we both have free. This has then meant that we have been unable to carry on any progress with our music video. We are planing to film the narrative section of our music video during the week, this consists of shots of our actor running through town as if he is being chased. We are hoping to get as much footage as possible during the evening so we are able to get desant shots that we can edit into our music video and use for our final video.

Rought Cut Feedback

We presented our Rough Cut to the class yesterday the feedback was mainly possitive. People thought that although the video looked quite unprofessional it suited the style of the music, likening it to the video for "Praise You" by Fatboy Slim---->


Also they commented on the lack of mise en scene also, saying that they would advise taking the action outside the dance studio to give the audience something more interesting to view.

Rough Cut

RIsk Assesment

She's An Eyeful In The Alley- Video Review

With this video, created by some students for there music video follows many of the traditional conventions of a music video. There is a strong sense of performance and as well as inter cutting the performance with narrative, it is also happening around the performance. The shots are very well cut with the beat and the change in tempo is reflected well with the pace of the action. The shots used also maximize the amount of people that are available to create the audience, the use of close-up and low angle shots creates the illusion of more people. I think the main thing that makes this video a success is the lighting used, the empty car park with the bright street lamps contrasts brilliantly with the pitch black of the sky. Also the lighting used when the crowd is dance, achieved probably with just a torch is really effective in creating a sense of movement when they are dancing. The performances were on the whole good, the crowd worked well and the band also performed well, engaging the audience well. However the lip syncing was not too clear and hard to decipher due to not enough movement. However on the whole a very professional looking video that really capitalizes on available equipment.

The Wombats music video annalysis

The Wombats - Moving to New york

Moving to new york video by the Wombats uses many different conventions including narrative and performance. The Wombats being very much Indie pop group, like to focus and draw the attention of the audience to their talent, therefore many shots in the video are of them playing there instruments, which makes it a very sucsesful performance video. The lyrics in the song go very well with the video for example they sing " I put one foot forward, and ended up thirty yards back" which they show in the video by amplifing it and not making it compleatly literal. Voyeurism and wating is used alot in many parts during the video. They show people watching the perfromance its self with in the video, which draws the adience in. The use of close ups in the video help to sell the artist and premot his style which is Indie. Using things like central framing and change of costume changes between help more to sell the artists albums. The editing in the video is very good it constantly changes between the narrative and perfromance, which always keeps the viewer watching. As the song speeds up and changes to the courus the editing inturn gets quicker from shot to shot. The use of the hamster growing to become a huge hamster makes it very unusal and serreal which i think helks the video.

Target Audience

The target audience for are new song is different to that of the milk maid.The new song your my flame by sia,i say would have more of a niche target audience due to its genre.
Due to the genre of music the video doesn't follow traditional music conventions this also makes it harder to focus to a Pacific target audience.

Test Footage

Test Footage

This is a screen grab of the program that we used to edit the test footage to show the lighting that we are trying to acheive in the dance scene. We only used a OHP to create the lighting and the effect was OK. We have managed to secure some proffessional lights that should give us more of a stylised look.

CALL SHEET

group members:
Antonio Dama 078965*****
Richard Bragg 073875*****
Bryn Thomas 078976*****
Conor Simpson 075624******
(Ashley Borland) actor 07989******


locations
Cambridge city centre
Time: 20:00
1. king street flats
2. market square
3. petty cury
4.long road dance studio

hopefully we will be filming on the week of the 6thOctober 2008 as we couldn't film on our first date of the 2nd as our actor/dancer was unable to film.

shot ideas

this is an idea of one of our shots, we are going to have our character putting up his hood. we have done some test shots and we felt a low angle shot captured the image very well. by the character having his hood up it builds up the suspense for "the chase"







this is a similar shot that we are also going to use, we will have the camera on the floor with a foot running right past the camera so it is almost a close up. we have also done test footage for this and thought it looked very good.

The Style we are going forr....

We are trying to acheive this effect with the lighting for the dancing scene.



For the running scene this is the sort of lighting that we will want to

Animatic Feedback

The feedback we got for our animatic was generally positive and useful. They said it was clear from the pictures what each shot was going to be. One problem how ever was that we had to explain that even though each shot was the same length on our animatic they would not be so in the actual filming so that was one critisisem of our animatic. The writing we had was also uselful in helping the viewer see what each shot was going to be.

Animatic

Videos in the style of our idea...

Jake Penate- Second Minute or Hour



Cajan Dance Party- Amalayse

Music video analysis

Neyo - Miss Independent Video Annalysis


Ne-yo - Miss Independent

The video for miss Independent is a mix between narrative and performance. The use of both conventions is very common in most music videos, its rare to have just performance or just narrative. The use of both conventions is very effective because it breaks up one another and this keeps it from being or becoming boring for the viewer. The performance is very good in this video and i think its key to show more then just the artist singing talents, as in this case the artist can show of his dancing ability. There are different camera angles and shots with are essential to keeping the video looking

Pitch- S.I.A Your my flame

As we did not get our first choice for the track we wanted to do, we decided that out of the other tracks that we are doing S.I.A- "Your My Flame" was the track that was best suited for us. The ideas that we had for the milkmaid video we will not be using. We thought that they would not go with the new genre of music.

The video will consist of two distictive parts. A chasing scene and a scene of dancing. It will start with a character being chased through Cambridge at night. The shots will be cut and shot so it looks like the character is being chased, when in actual fact he is just late for a dance lesson. The character will eventually come to the end of the chase, enter the dance studio and dance to the track.

We decided not to have a hybrid video this time and try to run two stories as the song is simple and doesn't warrant over comlicating with two stories, and keeping the video uncomplicated with a slight twist at the end just to make it stand out from most videos.

We have already chosen a ballet dancer that is prepared to do all the running and also the dancing. We think that by choosing ballet for the song then it adds a good contrast.

Prodution Meeting: 23/9/08

Filming: Cambridge city Centre, king street flats(stairways) to get high angle shots.
Props - clock, hooded jaket/jumper, rucksack or gym bag, ballet/dance shoes.
Times - Thursday 2nd October evening.
the dance scene doesn't have to be filmed at night we can edit it so it looks like its on the same day as it is indoors in a dance studio.
Filming needs to be done in the evening or night so that the idea of suspense and tension is hightend. The evening will give us opportunities to play with shadows etc so that we can get across to the audience the initial idea of someone being followed and chased.
There will be varied shots from high angle long shots to low angled close ups. It is essential to the video that there are varied shots so it doesn't get boring for the viewer.

Richard Bragg student music video annalysis
group:p1-03 getting away


the genre of the video is acoustic pop, its is clear straight away as the opening shot is of the artist playing the guitar. the shot is a close up of his fingers strumming the strings. when the singing starts to break in the camera zooms out from the artists strings and focuses on his mouth, the lypsinc is very accurate and in time. from then on wards it becomes a narrative but also has a little performance however the main idea of it is to be a narrative with as the narraive actors can't see the peformer

New Song Sia - You're my flame

As we did not get our first choice of song we recieved a second CD which included 15 new tracks.We prefered other songs to what we chose but to make a sucsesfull music video we decided that Sia- you're my flame would be the easiet as it has a slow tempo and ope lyrics tha can be interpreted in many ways. we annalysed the origonal video which we rated very highly As you can see the video has little relevance to the lyrics. this inspired us to do a slightly irrelative video aswell.



Sia - You're my flame Lyrics

You take a stroll into the morning sun
You make a Happy Meal a portion for one

You steal the wallet of a man with a gun
You make this seem like a whole lot of fun
Yeah you do

You'll make new shapes with your hands on a wall
You're driving a nail while you're taking a call
You wouldn't care if you had nothing at all
Instead of chasing the dream
You're just chasing a ball
Yeah you are

You're just dodging all the friendly fire
You're never dressed in the right attire
You miss the start of every game
You're my flame

You make hay when the sun don't shine
You don't need a dollar, you don't need a dime
You burn at both ends yet still you're fine
You're my flame

Teach me to haggle
I'll teach you to swim
Get right back on the saddle
Push me on a swing

Take me to Rio
I'll take you to Berlin
I'll give you some yarn
And you'll give it some spin
Yes you will

Now you're sitting sure, yes, in an old tree
You've tied our legs, and so now we have three
You dip your toes into the ice cold sea
I see your reflection, your reflection is me
Yes I am

You're just dodging all the friendly fire
You're never dressed in the right attire
You miss the start of every game
You're my flame

You make hay when the sun don't shine
You don't need a dollar, you don't need a dime
You burn at both ends yet still you're fine
You're my flame

You're my flame
You're my flame
You're my flame

You're my flame
You're my flame
You're my flame

Milk Maid- Kid Harpoon

This is the official video for Kid Harpoons song "Milk Maid"



We thought that the video was very poor for the style of music. It was very much a performance based video but shot in the woods which i think didnt work very well.

Milk Maid- Kid Harpoon

Pitch- We have chosen to create a music video for "Milk Maid" by Kid Harpoon. We have decided that our video will be hybrid, involving performance and a narrative, the performance will take place on the back of a milk float in order to add a slight artistic twist to the video. This will be filmed from behind in a following car as the milk float will be moving. We will also have a fixed camera on the milk float in order to get some close-ups to cut into. The narrative will be the daily routine taken by a young girl as she gets out of bed. Both scenes will lead up to a meeting at the door of the female and the band where one of the band members hand over a bottle of milk to bring to end the video.

As a group we have decided that none of us will star in the video and that we will employ the band and an actor in order to make the performance more believable as the band can learn the song and what they apperear to be playing would match up to the song, unlike if us as a group were doing it. And also gives us a chance to get the performance just how we want in through direction.

Pitch Feedback

The feed back from our pitch to the class was as follows....

"A good pitch which evidenced strong ideas, particularly about mise-en-scene ( the use of the milk float as a stage). A lot of further thought needs putting into the style of the video in terms of editing, camera shots etc. Although you did not get the track you wanted I think this strong idea could be used as an abstract representation of another song. Well Done!"

We thought the pitch went really well. A bit more time could of helped us in order to get the track that we wanted. As a group we thought that the milk float was a good idea but have decided that we wont be using it for the new video.

DEADLINES:

Pitch : 10th September

Animatic: 19th September

Rough Cut: 10th October

Final Video: 7th November

Picture house screening: 12th November

Writing Draft: 1st December

Group Members: Antonio Dama, Richard Bragg, Conor Simpson, Bryn Thomas.

Milkmaid - Kidharpoon

Lyrics:

Here comes the milkmaid with her firm shoulders and the attitude of Caesar for one so disposable she's never been that way inclined.
Her hands are strong like the night we all sung her song.

Through the day, the night confides in her, her pales are filled with stars, fallen from the sky.
She day dreams, the day that she leaves, to become an actress, the milmaid superstar.
And her hands are strong like the night, we all sung her song.

Her father long since gone, left her with nothing, to live upon.
But a brother too young to learn.
A mother too old to work.
The milkmaid goes on.

Here comes the milkmaid with her, firm shoulders and the attitude of Caesar for one so disposable she's never been that way inclined.

Then one night a show came through town, the milkmaid in the crowd, was standing out.
A director took her hand, I undertand you'd like to act, her made her try, for a part,
she tried with all her heart and she left with the show and a leading part.

The days and nights became weightless and she became a great actress.
Like the stars in the sky, and her hands stayed strong like the night she sung her song

This is the story of the Milkmaid with her firm shoulders an the attitude of Caesar for one so disposable she's never been that way inclined.
Her hands are strong and tonight we sing this song


Brief:

We have been asked to produce a music video. We will get into groups of four and been given a list of songs and then asked to choose one and create a pitch to show to the class about what we propose to do. We will then


Division of Roles:

As a group we decided that we will not star in the video and we will get a local band to perform for us.

Welcome to GROUP 12

Group members: Antonio Dama,Richard Bragg,Bryn Thomas,Conor Simpson
Dead lines: Animatic Deadline - 19th september
Roughcut Deadline - 10th october
Deadline Week - 3-7 november