FINAL CHARCTERS CHOICES WITH CHARACTER PROFILE.
We would love to use Will Ward and Rachel Lowe for our music video as well as a few more friends as extras to make filming easier and more realistic for certain scenes and settings.
REASONS FOR CHOOSING THESE PEOPLE.
We have chose these two people as they we used as our characters in the practice cast and performed extremely well making filming easy. We believe that by using these two the music video will look very realistic as their relationship in real life and the way they are around each other is what we want to represent in our video. We believe that having friends as extras will benefit us hugely as in our practice, scenes didn't look real as they were doing thing like class experiments by themselves with no classmates around, which we hope to avoid this time.
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Monday, 27 November 2017
POST 27 - (PLANNING) SETTING
WHAT DO YOU UNDERSTAND BY THE TERM 'SETTING'?
We understand that setting is a certain place or the surroundings of where something is happening like the scene of our music video. Setting can also include weather, time of day and things like buildings as well.
WHAT SETTINGS DO YOU WANT TO USE IN YOUR VIDEO AND WHY?
We would like to use a few setting in our video. We would like to use a city, car, café, house and maybe a school during the day and an open field at night. In our practice video, we only used a school during the day which we believe didn't work too well as it was hard for the audience to see different time periods and it was unrealistic.
HOW DO WE WANT OUR LOCATION TO LOOK?
We would like our settings to look as natural and realistic to our time period today (2017/18). This will be best as we would like to show relationships and love nowadays rather then in the past or future. During the day we would like our setting to be light and dark during night scenes to show the time of day well.
SETTING IMAGES.
We understand that setting is a certain place or the surroundings of where something is happening like the scene of our music video. Setting can also include weather, time of day and things like buildings as well.
WHAT SETTINGS DO YOU WANT TO USE IN YOUR VIDEO AND WHY?
We would like to use a few setting in our video. We would like to use a city, car, café, house and maybe a school during the day and an open field at night. In our practice video, we only used a school during the day which we believe didn't work too well as it was hard for the audience to see different time periods and it was unrealistic.
HOW DO WE WANT OUR LOCATION TO LOOK?
We would like our settings to look as natural and realistic to our time period today (2017/18). This will be best as we would like to show relationships and love nowadays rather then in the past or future. During the day we would like our setting to be light and dark during night scenes to show the time of day well.
SETTING IMAGES.
Sunday, 26 November 2017
Saturday, 25 November 2017
POST 25 - AUDIENCE RESEARCH FINDINGS FEEDBACK
From our audience research, we gathered lots of information as to what people want from a music video. Firstly, to attract people to watch our video in the first place, we are going to use a well known, liked song. Then, to keep people engaged and enjoy the video, we will have a story line based around the lyrics of the song. We feel this is best as every single person we asked said they preferred us to have a storyline rather than a random generic performance. If we were to advertise our music video, we would create social media posts that people could share if they like the video so their friends can see it. with the amount of people online nowadays - especially our target audience, we feel this could be a great success attracting and reaching lots of people to watch our video.
Friday, 24 November 2017
POST 24 - AUDIENCE RESEARCH VIDEO
Post 24 - Audience Research Video
to view our Audience research which was conducted, click below on the following link...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TXYBAy2-wY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TXYBAy2-wY
POST 23 - AUDIENCE RESEARCH
Post 23 - Audience Research
- What are you trying to find out in your audience research?
We are trying to find the best primary research in order to find what our music video needs to meet the needs of our target audience and consumers and be the best it can be in terms of professionalism, originality and meeting the standards of our consumers competing with professional and top quality music videos from major artists.
- What questions are you going to ask to get these answers?
What would you as a consumer want from a music video?
For people your age, what makes a music video stand out?
What platforms do you watch music videos on?
Do you prefer a story line to a music video or do you prefer a random generic performance?
- What age bracket are you looking to focus on specifically?Why?
- 15-24 year old, as they are the majority audience and consumer bracket but more so, are mostly interested in music and the alternative music genre.
Sunday, 5 November 2017
POST 22 - FORMS AND CONVENTIONS
In what ways will your music video use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of other existing music video's?
My music video will develop and entail the use of creative and fasts cuts in the music video which is a convention of pop music as it correlates with the fast pace music and an exciting music video. Using this convention will be important as we know this is a successful technique used and is used by professionals for top quality music videos involving the genre of pop.
Moreover, the use of genre characteristics will also be applicable to our music video as we will develop this form and convention to make our video have the most professional effect and quality used as possible. By using a slow pace cut time and a slow story, this will correspond with a romantic style of music possibly a pop song or of the alternative music genre. We will include slow cuts and simple music video story line to help indulge the audience and help youth and elderly understand and enjoy it as it will be a fun pop song chosen with a romantic feeling relating to the audience of their past or for youth maybe their current self or their future.
We as a pair will also explore the relationships between lyrics and visuals by developing the use of lip syncing and close ups of individual characters to show importance and relevance of a character to a song to help the relation and understanding for an audience. We will use lip syncing in our final piece as we used it in a practise task it became a success and was fun as it proved our video good quality but more so, more professional and creative as it showed we overcame difficult tasks.
Another convention used for majority of music genres such as pop or alternative or even rap is the close up of the main character to show their importance within the music video and the song to help understand and enjoy the song more. Normally, these characters are attractive or relatable to help the audience feel more positive on the music video and gain it more support. We will use a relatable character or couple with the song as we will use romance and a couple to help the audience relate to the music video and reminisce or feel optimistic on the happy ending story line.
We will develop relationships with lyrics and songs by using lip-sync and actions to match lyrics. This means when lyrics contain actions or instructions the characters will implement this and almost play the lyrics like a script showing importance and relevance towards the song which also portrays creativity and quality as well as professionalism. we will also develop lip syncing to show creativity and show we have quality within our project.
However, we will challenge the fast cuts as we believe slower cuts will be more fundamental for our project and work better and be of better quality for a slower pop song with a romantic theme. by challenging this we show originality and creativity to go beyond and improve conventions to our advantage despite the risk. We hope slower cuts will help build a greater understanding of the story line and the relationship between the song and the music video.
Since childhood, i grew up listening to music and watching music videos whilst procrastinating in my spare time. By being heavily influenced by major artists and impressive music directors such as Warren Fu, I watched many videos and gained a greater experience within music videos and a greater understanding of the importance of them and the target audience.
I will demonstrate my inspiration by using the same conventions used by Warren Fu such as futurism and relationship between lyrics and visuals to integrate a top quality music video on the developed forms and conventions. This will show creativity but personal drive to achieve a successful video whilst being influenced by many individuals.
My music video will develop and entail the use of creative and fasts cuts in the music video which is a convention of pop music as it correlates with the fast pace music and an exciting music video. Using this convention will be important as we know this is a successful technique used and is used by professionals for top quality music videos involving the genre of pop.
Moreover, the use of genre characteristics will also be applicable to our music video as we will develop this form and convention to make our video have the most professional effect and quality used as possible. By using a slow pace cut time and a slow story, this will correspond with a romantic style of music possibly a pop song or of the alternative music genre. We will include slow cuts and simple music video story line to help indulge the audience and help youth and elderly understand and enjoy it as it will be a fun pop song chosen with a romantic feeling relating to the audience of their past or for youth maybe their current self or their future.
We as a pair will also explore the relationships between lyrics and visuals by developing the use of lip syncing and close ups of individual characters to show importance and relevance of a character to a song to help the relation and understanding for an audience. We will use lip syncing in our final piece as we used it in a practise task it became a success and was fun as it proved our video good quality but more so, more professional and creative as it showed we overcame difficult tasks.
Another convention used for majority of music genres such as pop or alternative or even rap is the close up of the main character to show their importance within the music video and the song to help understand and enjoy the song more. Normally, these characters are attractive or relatable to help the audience feel more positive on the music video and gain it more support. We will use a relatable character or couple with the song as we will use romance and a couple to help the audience relate to the music video and reminisce or feel optimistic on the happy ending story line.
We will develop relationships with lyrics and songs by using lip-sync and actions to match lyrics. This means when lyrics contain actions or instructions the characters will implement this and almost play the lyrics like a script showing importance and relevance towards the song which also portrays creativity and quality as well as professionalism. we will also develop lip syncing to show creativity and show we have quality within our project.
However, we will challenge the fast cuts as we believe slower cuts will be more fundamental for our project and work better and be of better quality for a slower pop song with a romantic theme. by challenging this we show originality and creativity to go beyond and improve conventions to our advantage despite the risk. We hope slower cuts will help build a greater understanding of the story line and the relationship between the song and the music video.
Since childhood, i grew up listening to music and watching music videos whilst procrastinating in my spare time. By being heavily influenced by major artists and impressive music directors such as Warren Fu, I watched many videos and gained a greater experience within music videos and a greater understanding of the importance of them and the target audience.
I will demonstrate my inspiration by using the same conventions used by Warren Fu such as futurism and relationship between lyrics and visuals to integrate a top quality music video on the developed forms and conventions. This will show creativity but personal drive to achieve a successful video whilst being influenced by many individuals.
Saturday, 4 November 2017
POST 21 - STUDY INTO AN EXISTING MUSIC VIDEO DIRECTOR
STUDY INTO THE MUSIC VIDEO DIRECTOR : HANNAH LUX DAVIS
Hannah Lux Davis was born on May 17, 1986 in Washington. When she was 17 she was diagnosed with an eye condition called exophoria. After having treatment Hannah left for Los Angeles when she was 18 where she enrolled in the New York Film Academy, and the Los Angeles Film School a year later. To try and make her way into the music industry for her final project, she decided to make music videos, which were a success meaning Davis graduated from the Los Angeles Film School in 2006, and went into music video production. She worked for a time as a makeup artist after attending Cinema Makeup School in order to get on the sets of music videos, commercials, and feature films. She started making music videos for people she found on myspace and purevolume. This move put Hannah on the music video market. Over time, heads were turning and she caught the eyes of many big names. This was the start of Hannah's successful career as the go-girl for many including Nicki Manaj, Ariana Grande, Jessie J, Jason Durulo, Snoop Dogg, and many more.
Hannah claims to have a song-by-song approach which means she rarely recycles approaches. As a result Hannah Lux Davis doesn't have an evident style. Therefore no one can copy it and it leaves Hannah open for the use of all types of artists as she is flexible with her approach. This is evident as people like Nicki Minaj and Jessie J like fast paced videos but Snoop Dogg and others like slow paced videos.
Many people seem to think that she is very good at what she does, this can clearly be shown by not only the amount of artists she has made music videos for but the awards she has been nominated for and even won because of these music videos. Here is a list of some of these awards:
Hannah Lux Davis was born on May 17, 1986 in Washington. When she was 17 she was diagnosed with an eye condition called exophoria. After having treatment Hannah left for Los Angeles when she was 18 where she enrolled in the New York Film Academy, and the Los Angeles Film School a year later. To try and make her way into the music industry for her final project, she decided to make music videos, which were a success meaning Davis graduated from the Los Angeles Film School in 2006, and went into music video production. She worked for a time as a makeup artist after attending Cinema Makeup School in order to get on the sets of music videos, commercials, and feature films. She started making music videos for people she found on myspace and purevolume. This move put Hannah on the music video market. Over time, heads were turning and she caught the eyes of many big names. This was the start of Hannah's successful career as the go-girl for many including Nicki Manaj, Ariana Grande, Jessie J, Jason Durulo, Snoop Dogg, and many more.
Hannah claims to have a song-by-song approach which means she rarely recycles approaches. As a result Hannah Lux Davis doesn't have an evident style. Therefore no one can copy it and it leaves Hannah open for the use of all types of artists as she is flexible with her approach. This is evident as people like Nicki Minaj and Jessie J like fast paced videos but Snoop Dogg and others like slow paced videos.
Many people seem to think that she is very good at what she does, this can clearly be shown by not only the amount of artists she has made music videos for but the awards she has been nominated for and even won because of these music videos. Here is a list of some of these awards:
In my opinion, I think Hannah Lux Davis has a great approach for music videos nowadays which will attract many more artists and many more consumers in the future. I believe that she has come a long way in her life and will continue to improve and become one of the most well known music video producers.
This is a selection of the music videos she has already produced:Friday, 3 November 2017
POST 20 - FINAL PRACTICE VIDEO TASK
We were given the task to create a one minute music video of original footage. We were put into groups and given a choice of a number of songs to choose from. We had to either do a music video in one take or one in the style of director Wes Anderson.
We chose to do a one take music video to She's So Lovely- Scouting For Girls
We did some research into one take music videos. OK Go are a band who are known famously for their one take music videos. We watched a number if their music videos looking for inspiration for ideas and the motivation they have to get everything absolutely perfect in one take. Some of the OK go videos we looked at are:
OK Go- This Too Shall Pass
OK Go- Here it Goes Again
OK Go- Needing/Getting
For our own video we actually used our first idea of a girl sitting on a bench and a guy is admired by her so goes over.
Here is the video: (VIDEO TO BE UPLOADED)
We chose to do a one take music video to She's So Lovely- Scouting For Girls
We did some research into one take music videos. OK Go are a band who are known famously for their one take music videos. We watched a number if their music videos looking for inspiration for ideas and the motivation they have to get everything absolutely perfect in one take. Some of the OK go videos we looked at are:
OK Go- This Too Shall Pass
OK Go- Here it Goes Again
OK Go- Needing/Getting
For our own video we actually used our first idea of a girl sitting on a bench and a guy is admired by her so goes over.
Here is the video: (VIDEO TO BE UPLOADED)
Thursday, 2 November 2017
Wednesday, 1 November 2017
POST 17 - ANCILLARY TASK 2
Re-creating an album cover
In groups of two, we were given a task to re-create an exiting album cover. We, got given the album cover by Andrew W.K. who is an american music artist. 'Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier (born May 9, 1979), better known by his stagename Andrew W.K., is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, entertainer, motivational speaker, and music producer. As a musician, he is known for his singles "Party Hard" and "We Want Fun".' taken from Andrew W.K. - Wikipedia
The original album cover is displayed to the right.
Our Plan -
Our plan is to recreate the album cover using another of our classmates, Tazmin. We plan to use the dark room in our art department within the school, to create the darkness surrounding Tazmin, just like it surrounds Andrew W.K.. We also plan to use fake blood to create the nosebleed effect, as it looks like the artist has been hurt. The costume we plan to use will be plain and dark, as you cannot really see the top Andrew W.k. is wearing, therefore the costume wasn't that important. However, the makeup was very important, as we needed to find/buy fake blood - as i said earlier. we then applied the fake blood using my fingers, as it was easier to smudge and blend onto Tazmins face.
- The photo to the right shows a photo of me editing the picture me and Luke took of Tazmin, in response to Andrew W.K. And the picture on the left, shows the final outcome.
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