Today my group and I scouted out a location for our music video and looked for actors.
We found an excellent location for our music video whch was a music room, the music room proved to be a prime location for what we wanted to do as it had:
-Good lighting
-Instruments
-Wide spaces
The music was also a good location for filming because it is easy for all of our group to get to, as we all live far away from each other.
Monday, 29 November 2010
Thursday, 25 November 2010
Cover Art Research
I thought that this image went with the lifestyle of our song and band. The Rockerbilly image that the character portrays gives out the feel of the life style in which we are going for in our video. The retro 50's style is quite niche and specific so will appeal to specific people more than others.
After our group had decided on the 50's rockerbilly image, we researched the genre and lifestyle and looked on google images of similar bands to the one we are doing and bands who are in that lifestyle.
We feel as though this image will target our audience well as it goes with the lifestyle and looks quite cool and vintage. The style of the character in the image will reflect the style of our target audience and they will be able to relate to it.
More ideas
Below are some more ideas for music videos, these videos are what have inspired my ideas.
When researching music videos that inspired me when making our music video, this video was the most inspirational. I like the whole portrayal of youth and innocence within this video. The connotations within the video contextually represent what I wanted to portray in the video I was making. The editing techniques used in this video are very interesting, with the whole video shot in front of a blue screen with lots of artistic and 60's phsycodelia revival images, such as lots of colour and duplications of characters
While researching music videos, I found this video particularly inspiring, with the different editing techniques such as stop motion sequences (EG when the cheese is rolling across the floor) I also liked the effect of the whole race being shot in slow motion, creating tension and atmosphere in such a comical environment
This video was also very inspirational as it used 80's revival imagery such as, fashions worn by the characters (similar to the rockerbilly fashions worn by the characters in our video) and the 80's haircuts (again similar rockerbilly quifs our characters will have)
When researching music videos that inspired me when making our music video, this video was the most inspirational. I like the whole portrayal of youth and innocence within this video. The connotations within the video contextually represent what I wanted to portray in the video I was making. The editing techniques used in this video are very interesting, with the whole video shot in front of a blue screen with lots of artistic and 60's phsycodelia revival images, such as lots of colour and duplications of characters
While researching music videos, I found this video particularly inspiring, with the different editing techniques such as stop motion sequences (EG when the cheese is rolling across the floor) I also liked the effect of the whole race being shot in slow motion, creating tension and atmosphere in such a comical environment
This video was also very inspirational as it used 80's revival imagery such as, fashions worn by the characters (similar to the rockerbilly fashions worn by the characters in our video) and the 80's haircuts (again similar rockerbilly quifs our characters will have)
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
The Plan
Below is a check list for our music video which we will be shooting next week Thursday the 4th of November:
Camera
Tripod
Room
Actors
Props
Costume
Camera
Tripod
Room
Actors
Props
Costume
Distribution
For the distribution of our music video my group and I found an ideal label, "Punk Rock Blues", which is a London based record label that promotes music similar to the band we are making a music video for. Punk Rock blues boasts to sell "the hardest rockin' punked up blues mayhem", a link to the website is below.
www.punkrockblues.co.uk/
We have also decided that Western Star in the previous post is a good promoter and distributer for our music video.
www.punkrockblues.co.uk/
We have also decided that Western Star in the previous post is a good promoter and distributer for our music video.
Institution
Institution
My group and I have been doing research into Institutions that may possibly market our music video. We have found a website called, "Western Star", which is an independant record label that claims to be "The home of the finest new rockabilly, Pyschobilly and British rock & roll in the world". Western Star would be an ideal institution to market our music video as it is already famous on the British rock & roll scene and our target audience would be able to discover our video more easily. Another advantage of marketing our music video with Western Star is that it will be very interested in our ideas and will not try to change them to fit more generic needs
http://www.western-star.co.uk/about-western-star_2.aspx
On the Western Star website there is a section that has links to similar websites and websites of interest to the target audience of Western Star. On that link page we found many other websites similar to Western Star that could distribute our music video, the links are below.
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/
http://www.crazyloverecords.de/
http://www.joemeek.com/
http://www.nervous.co.uk/
http://www.raucousrecords.com/
One of the websites we found was a website called "Jumpin' from 6 to 6", which is a webzine about acts similar to, "The New Town Centres", who are the band we are making a music video for. By including an article on our video on the website it would be a very good way to market our product.
www.jumpingfrom6to6.com/
My group and I have been doing research into Institutions that may possibly market our music video. We have found a website called, "Western Star", which is an independant record label that claims to be "The home of the finest new rockabilly, Pyschobilly and British rock & roll in the world". Western Star would be an ideal institution to market our music video as it is already famous on the British rock & roll scene and our target audience would be able to discover our video more easily. Another advantage of marketing our music video with Western Star is that it will be very interested in our ideas and will not try to change them to fit more generic needs
http://www.western-star.co.uk/about-western-star_2.aspx
On the Western Star website there is a section that has links to similar websites and websites of interest to the target audience of Western Star. On that link page we found many other websites similar to Western Star that could distribute our music video, the links are below.
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/
http://www.crazyloverecords.de/
http://www.joemeek.com/
http://www.nervous.co.uk/
http://www.raucousrecords.com/
One of the websites we found was a website called "Jumpin' from 6 to 6", which is a webzine about acts similar to, "The New Town Centres", who are the band we are making a music video for. By including an article on our video on the website it would be a very good way to market our product.
www.jumpingfrom6to6.com/
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Research and Planning
Today, my group and I made a video of interview of ourselves discussing specific areas of study for our music video. We discussed the main plans for our music video based on what "The Vixens" said about their video whom we drew inspiration from. After filming our discussion, we watched other groups discussions and analysed them on how they were good and how they could be improved, comparing other groups to ours we found many ways in which we could improve our discussion.
Monday, 8 November 2010
Story-boarding Process
For our music video, as a group we decided on a 1950's rockerbilly theme. Twinned with inspiration from, "The Vixens", music video we found in previous research, we decided that we wouldn't focus so much on any particular structured narrative but focus heavilly on editing and cinematography.
Saturday, 23 October 2010
Audience Research For Music Video (Late)
Below are some pie charts I made from a questionnaire I carried out as audience research before the film.
Unfortunately I have only just found the data from the questionnaire.
To collect the data I asked 20 people who were within the target audience of our music video. Below are the results that came up.
The above data shows how our target audience would prefer the video to be more performance based rather than narrative based. I feel this may be because the target audience prefer going to gigs than watching music videos and would want a music video that imitates the gigs that they go to. However, we used narrative based sequences within our video as well as performance based.
The above pie chart shows that our target audience would want the video to be in black & white.
The above pie chart shows that the target audience would want our characters/band members to be dressed smartly, this may be because of the image of the band members that will appeal to the target audience. Some of the target audience would want the band members to dress formally so we decided to go for a smart/casual look in our video.
Most of the target audience wanted the video to be shot on stage, this may be because of the target audience's preference for the video to have performance shots to mimic a gig. The second highest title was on the streets, to balance this out we shot some of the video on stage and some on a street.
Unfortunately I have only just found the data from the questionnaire.
To collect the data I asked 20 people who were within the target audience of our music video. Below are the results that came up.
The above data shows how our target audience would prefer the video to be more performance based rather than narrative based. I feel this may be because the target audience prefer going to gigs than watching music videos and would want a music video that imitates the gigs that they go to. However, we used narrative based sequences within our video as well as performance based.
The above pie chart shows that our target audience would want the video to be in black & white.
The above pie chart shows that the target audience would want our characters/band members to be dressed smartly, this may be because of the image of the band members that will appeal to the target audience. Some of the target audience would want the band members to dress formally so we decided to go for a smart/casual look in our video.
Most of the target audience wanted the video to be shot on stage, this may be because of the target audience's preference for the video to have performance shots to mimic a gig. The second highest title was on the streets, to balance this out we shot some of the video on stage and some on a street.
The above pie chart shows how the audience would want the characters/band members to be teenagers. This may be due to the age demographic of the target audience.
Thursday, 21 October 2010
October 21st - Editing the sequence
Today my group and I edited the sequnce we filmed yesterday using, "Final Cut Pro" on the Mac. Using previous knowledge of editing software, we found this process to be relatively easy. Using our inspiration from The Vixens video, we edited our sequence so that all four characters faced each other in quick succession.
October 20th
Today my group and I made some practise sequences with the camera. We filmed four people looking in different directions. Using our inspiration from, "The Vixens" we made the film using four friends. We found some problems when doing this as the people we chose to be in the sequence were not the best actors. However, this did not matter as we would be editiing it later.
Monday, 11 October 2010
The Email
The band replied back to our email, below is a copy of the email conversation:
Dear Jan,
My name is Ewan Smith, and I am a sixth form student in Essex. I am studying media and film, and would like to use The New Town Centres song Bacalao in some of my group’s Media Studies A2 coursework.
In this coursework, we have to create a music video which has strong ideological ties to the chosen piece of music. We’ve chosen your song because we liked the idea of doing a song without strong pre-conceived connotations, and an interesting theme that we can expand on in the video. It is not for financial gain, and if you would like we can keep you updated with our progress; if you agree to let us use the song, that is!
Yours sincerely,
Ewan Smith.
From: jan.bednarz@gmail.com [mailto:jan.bednarz@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jan Bednarz
Sent: 06 October 2010 11:41
To: Ewan SMITH
Subject: Re: The New Town Centres
Hi Ewan,
Go for it!
We'd love to see the final results.
Good luck,
Jan
Dear Jan,
My name is Ewan Smith, and I am a sixth form student in Essex. I am studying media and film, and would like to use The New Town Centres song Bacalao in some of my group’s Media Studies A2 coursework.
In this coursework, we have to create a music video which has strong ideological ties to the chosen piece of music. We’ve chosen your song because we liked the idea of doing a song without strong pre-conceived connotations, and an interesting theme that we can expand on in the video. It is not for financial gain, and if you would like we can keep you updated with our progress; if you agree to let us use the song, that is!
Yours sincerely,
Ewan Smith.
From: jan.bednarz@gmail.com [mailto:jan.bednarz@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jan Bednarz
Sent: 06 October 2010 11:41
To: Ewan SMITH
Subject: Re: The New Town Centres
Hi Ewan,
Go for it!
We'd love to see the final results.
Good luck,
Jan
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
Music Video Key Ideas
- Quiffs
- 50'sesque
- Rockabilly
- Smoking
- Culture Clash
- Suits
- Humourous
- Fight Scenes
Video Update!
We have just sent an email to the band, New Town Centres, Asking to use their music viedeo. We are now waiting for a response....
A2 Music Video
For my A2 Media Studies course we have been given the task of creating a music video. We started off our task by researching music that we would like to make our video for. The first stage we found to be quite tricky, as finding a good song to set a creative video to that we all agreed on was difficult at first but after much discussion we found a really good song and all had ideas to go with it.
The song we chose was, "Bacalao" By stevenage band, "New Town Centres". We all began brainstorming and found some rough ideas for our video.
The song we chose was, "Bacalao" By stevenage band, "New Town Centres". We all began brainstorming and found some rough ideas for our video.
Monday, 27 September 2010
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