Music Video - Pre Production

Music Video: Harlem Shake - Beeur 

Jobs Roles:

Emily: Producer 
Charlie: Director 
Alice: Camera 
The three of us are editors.

Songs: 

• We each came up with a song choice and discussed with each other and the class those ideas. 
• Emily's song choice was Red by Daniel Merriweather and my idea for it was going to be about a man getting cheated on by his girlfriend.
• My idea was We Speak no Americano and it was going to be two gangs that street dancing against each other.
• Finally Alice's choice and the one we have chosen to do our music video on is the Harlem Shake. This is off a group of mates just hanging out and having fun. 

Initial ideas:

We had several different ideas for our music video. Each of us choose a different song that we wanted to do, the three songs that we choose were Bastille - Rhythm Of the night, Daniel Merriweather - Red and Yoloanda - We speak no Americano.  We all came up with our own ideas for our own songs which we then discussed each of the videos ideas with each other and the class. The class then picked which song they thought would be the best to record. The end result ended up being Rhythm of the night.

Production Schedule

Shooting Schedule 

Location: 

We are going to shoot our music video at around about 5:00pm at Sweet Frog.  We have sent an email to the manger of Sweet Frog to ask permission to shoot here and they have agreed to let us do this.

Setting up: 

We will start setting our music video up at 5:00. It should roughly take us an hour to get everything set properly. Each scene should take us 40 minutes.  

First Day:

We will we will start filming at 5:30pm. We will only need one camera this day. Also we are hoping to finished at 8:30pm 

Proposal: Brief Description

In our Music video we will be filming lots of people dancing when the Harlem Shake kicks in. This is a video summing up what its like to be out with your mates at a teen. 

Treatment

Out of the 3 songs that we choose, we decided to do Herlem Shake by Beeur. The story that we are going to create is a group of mates just having fun and hanging out together. 

We will have loads of different dancers. On the first day that we begin to film which will be 6th of December at 5:30pm. This will consist of the group of mates hanging out before the music kicks in which mean we are filming the beginning and ending of our music video. The group of mates will be laughing and joking around then someone turns on the radio and the herlem shake.

On The 9th of December we will film the rest of the video. This will consist of loads of different dancers and them just having fun with each other hanging out at Sweet frog. 

After we filmed everything we need, we will then begin to edit or footage and if any parts are missing will have enough time to re-film it and still edit it before its due in.

Contingency

We plan to finish our music video by 9^th December.  We will make sure we check all the footage after filming to make sure that it is all there. We will film more than we need, so if things go wrong we will have more footage to use incase. We will have a back up idea incase our original idea fails. We must make sure we have spare batteries.

Budget:

·      2 tapes (this will cost 4 pounds)

·      Glow sticks (this will cost 2 pounds)

·      Cast and Crew will cost nothing

·      Location will cost nothing

Scenes:

Scene 1: The group of mates walking into Sweet frog and sitting down to talk.

Scene 2:  The group talking and one of the group go up to put the radio on

Scene 3: The groups reaction to the song

Fades In:

Scene 4: A lot of people dancing 

Scene 5:  The group of mates leaving Sweet Frog and still laughing. 

Live Studio

Today in the Live Studio we recorded two of the four quiz shows we have planned in groups.
For both of these groups i did the lighting.
It was the first thing i have had to colour the lights to make red and blue lights.

Idea for new music video

The Rhythm of the Night 
by Bastille 







For our new music video we are doing 'The Rhythm of the Night' by Bastille

Our idea for the video is of two people who are in love and want to meet at club. However everyone keeps getting in the way of them being together because of the amount of people dancing to the song and just having fun the couple cant be together due to the music and people around them. 

The video starts of with the boy calling the girl to see if she wants to meet up at this new club that has just open. She agrees to meet and the video follows their journey to the club. When they get to the club they walk in and the song has just started playing then all the lights go out. 

The people dancing have glow in the dark paint on them so we can see outlines of people dancing around. Most of the video is shots of people dancing and having fun listening to this song. 

At the end of the music video we have another screen where the couple finally meet again outside the club and kiss. 

We are filming at night to give all effect of a club screen. 

Shooting schedule for new music video

Shooting schedule

location:
at Sweet Frog at 7:00pm

Time setting up: 7:00pm

Start filming: 7:30pm

Pack up time: 10:00pm

Each scene should take 40 mins.


First Day 


Start at: 5:00

Only film the start of the music video and the end. No dancing will be filmed that day.
First day will only be filmed using one camera


Second Day

Start at the same time: 7:00.
Start filming at 10:00 for the same lighting effect                                                                                        
Only thing being filmed that day will be the dancing
This day we are aiming at getting different angles of the dances and the reactions to the rest of the group watching on this will also give the effect of more people are there dancing than there actually is.

History of Film

Sergei Eisenstein 

Sergei Eisenstein was born in Russia in 1894 and died in Russia, Moscow in 1948. He use to be a set designer and director but then later when on to be a film maker, writer, producer and editor. 

His very important to film because of his creations of his montages. 

He done the montage of attraction which is lots of different clips shot in a order and when it came to editing them he put them into a different order to create a different emotion when viewing them clips again. This was something that had never been done before. By doing this the audience viewing his films were left in a different state of mind and every single person was left with a different emotion on the same thing they viewed. he loved to heavily edit his films to create emotions for different audiences. 

D . W . Griffith

  

Daivd Llewelyn Wark was born in the United states in 1875 and died in the United states in 1948.

His is viewed differently because of his racist views. 

His most famous film was called 'The Birth of a Nation' shows his views about race and it was over 3 hours long. He is known for creating film techniques such as iris and flashbacks. He was called Hollywoods first proper director. 

Georges Melies 

He was born in France in 1861 and died in France in 1938. 

He wanted to make things possible on screen which couldn't be possible to the naked eye. By the late 20's he had done over 500 films. He also created the stop trick which was when he stopped the camera from rolling, changed or moved something and then roll the camera again. For example a man in the shot then a woman takes his place. 

Lumiere Brothers 

The Lumiere brothers were French inverters and they used that to create the first public screening which was on December 28th 1895. They created the 'Cine Camera' and made over 1425 short films and their most famous film was the 'Arrival of train'. 

Sea world Promo made my me

Final cut pro

Over the past couple of weeks we have been learning how to use Final cut pro. The things i have learned are how to cut a clip and make it shorter or keep it as the original clip. Also learned how to insert clips or overwrite them also i have learned the shortcuts by the keyboard that are in over posts. 

After learning how to use Final Cut Pro and understanding it we made a promo video for Sea World using all the effects and tools that we have learned within these weeks. 

Here is my video i made for SeaWorld. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbAY_2Ncg1c

music video director essay

                          

Stephane Sednaoui

 Stephane was born in Paris, France 1963. He is an French photographer, director and producer, he works are photojournalism, Fashion photographer, photographic essays and portrait photography. He has been working since 1981 and still currently working. He first and break out music video he directed was for a French rap band in the 1990 then went on to the US to work with the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. This video was called 'Give It Away' in 1991. His work has been celebrated in a DVD called ' The work of director Stephane Sednaoui' which was in 2005. However Stephanes music video work was short lived as he stopped directing them in 2000 to carry on with other art and photo projects. I am looking at some of the music videos he has directed. the following videos I am looking at will be

Bjork - Big time sensuality

U2 - Mysterious ways

Tricky - For Real


By looking at theses three videos its easy to see similar factors they have because of the way Stephane directs. Only thing that comes across all three of these video's is Stephane likes to keep the artist or band be the main focus of the video and have other elements going on around them that aren't that important to the video. for example in the Bjork video its all black and white and she is the main focus with the camera being on a tripod just pointing at her and have extreme close up's of her face. This is also shown in the Tricky video, there is a narrative behind the whole video however the main person in that story is the artist and the camera keeps moving back on him when he is singing. In all three of these videos they are mostly performance based, the artists are all singing in the video rather or not if there is a story going on in the video or if it is just like the Bjork video.

In two of these videos it shows a technique Stephane likes to use, he places mirrors around the set or location and gets most of his shoots from the mirrors to show the artist and their surroundings. This technique is shown in the U2 video, Mysterious ways where we see the artist Bono moving around however we don't see him only his reflection in the mirrors. This also happens when the artist Tricky is checking his tie and suit jacket in the mirror, while he is doing this the audience get to see where he is and what is going on in the background which adds to the narrative of the video.

An other technique Stephane uses in his work is to dissolve and over lap some images. For example this happens a lot in the 'For Real' video where we see the group of men sitting around the table and when the camera is focused on someone the image starts to change of a different movement they were doing but still keeping the outline of there first action there to see the quick movement made. Also it does tell the audience the past they are moving at within that sequence. In the ' Big Time Sensuality' video we do get to see the same dissolve ad over lap of images happen when Bjork is at the back of the truck then having a quick extreme close up of her face but this having her outline from the back of the truck in the shoot.

Its hard to tell if Stephane uses the same colour theme because the first video, Bjork - Big Tim Sensuality, was in black and white. The second video, U2 Mysterious ways, used a lot of sandy colours with yellows, reds and oranges which made it a warmer looking video. The third video, Tricky - For Real, was more drained colours unlike the U2 video which went well with the tone of the song. Stephane links the colour theme to the mood of the song and artists.


These three music videos are all aimed at young adults/middle aged adults. These videos don't show anything that could be taken as offensive so younger  people can watch these videos but I think it is aimed at elders just because of the type of music and artists he works with. The subject matter in these videos link to the lyrics and are basic performance base videos. The Bjork video is playful because of the expressions she is doing with her face. These videos are fast past editing not because of how fast the songs are but just so the audience get to see a lot of repetition of the same thing at different angles which takes the video less boring.


My over all view of Stephane Sednaoui's work that its entertaining but people who really want to see their favourite artist will like his work more because it gives you a sense that you are closer to them with the camera only focusing on them and them because the main focus of the videos. One thing Stephance is very successful at is promoting the artists and song because he tries to make sure they are first person/people the audience see. Stephane's work fits in with the tracks he is given and he doesn't totally go away with what the track is saying and come out with this over the top, dramatic director video that no gets. He tries to stay within the lines of the lyrics and replays on the artist to become the video and make it about selling their image within the four or five minutes of the video.

Microphone's

The microphones that are available are

Clip mic 

Hand mic 

Boom mic 

A clip microphone is a small microphone that can clip on to you and you can move around with it.

A hand clip is easy to use when you are doing a interview outside of a studio. 

A boom microphone is for direct sound. It can be used in a studio and films. 

We speak no Americano storyboard

I took some shots from the music video 'we speak no Americano' and turned it into a storyboard which helps to understand how the storyboard helps to create these shoots we see in the video. 

The three shots i have taken from the video:

Shot 1

Shot 2 

Shot 3

The Storyboard i made of these shots:

tenacious D music task 2

 

Analysing of music video

 

 

 

band: Tenacious D

 

Song: Tribute

 

Genre:  Comedy Rock

 

This song is from a soundtrack for the film Pick of Density

 

 

Tribute is the first single from Tenacious D self titled debut album on July 6th 2002. The music video was directed and edited by Liam Lynch. The band is made of Jack Black and Kyle Gass. The bands genre that they mostly perform in is hard rock or comedy rock. The recorded at The boat in silver lake in Los Angeles. 

The music video starts of when Jack Black and Kyle Gass at an American mall talking about recording their own music. Jack Black talks Kyle Gass into recording at a 'studio' in this mall which we find out is just a normal kakaroke studio. Due to the start of this video and the end I would say it's narravite works in with the performance that is mostly in this video cause what they are singing about is being played out by them in flash back scenes and cut always. The comedy comes through when you listen to the lyrics also the conversation between the artists at the start. I think if this video wasn't performance and narrative based then it wouldn't work as well with the band because when though it's taken as a normal music video there is also a sense of comdey within how they have pushed in these two grown men in a small studio room and have the cut backs to them in this room to see their reactions to what they are singing about and the power behind the lyrics. Also after the recording when they leave the studio, because of how open it is it does give them freedom after singing the song it self.