FIlming - Day 3

We found a little section of road that had no entry signs, which was useful to my music video. So me, Mr Meade and Halimo set down there to film. We didd a few shots with them filming from different angles and then me filming wit the head camera (as i have practised, came a lot easier). We then moved a bit closer to school to film through the windscreen of Mr Meade's car, this was successful after a few attempts as we couldntget the bottom of my feet in due to me not wearing the same shoes.

Filming - Day 2

As it wasn't raining we decided to film. we filmed on the road just outside school and the green next to the school.
As there was me and two others we decided to get the same shot from different angles so when editing we could intertwine them and it could look effective. Once we started and did a trial run we realised you could see the other camera at the end of the shot, to resolve this problem we got camera 1 to go on the corner just outside of camera 2's shot.
It was also our first time filming wit the head camera, it took a couple of trials to get it reasonable. The first shot was to high all you could see was the sky, the second trial was to low and you only see the floor, but the third trial was lucky we got it at the right height and the footage looked good.

Filming - Day 1

Rehana, Felicity, Mr Gibbs and myself filmed at my house. We started off inside filming basic over the shoulder shots, whilst i sat at a table. One of the legs were broken so we were unable to raise the tripod to its full height, which caused problems but we worked around this at went at it from a different angle. Once we finished filming inside we moved outside and started filming the opening of the music video. Mr Gibbs said it would be a good idea if we got the same shot from loads of different angles, so that i had options when editing. I will take this idea and use it every time i film.

Camera Device

Firstly i would like to apologise for the lack of new posts in the past few weeks. My Drama A-level performance has been very busy as my performance was at the beginning of the week, as the performance is over my attention will now be going into this project. In my spare time i have been building a device for the camera to go on so it can be placed on my head so i can film from my perspective. 

Whats been happening so far...

So far i have been drawing my storyboards, they are almost completed in full detail and once they are finished i am going to create a sample of my music video using the stills from my storyboard. This will give me a simple outline of how my music video will look and also to see if what i have chosen goes with the beat of the song.

Instiutional research

Reprise

Reprise was founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra himself, and it is owned by Warner music group. Frank Sinatra formed this label in order to allow more artistic freedom for his own recordings, fellow rat pack members Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. also moved to this label Frank Sinatra recruited a host of his own cronies for the label. After Sinatra’s death in 1998 it had great success with his greatest hits.

One of Sinatra’s principles is that each artist has full creative freedom and at some point complete ownership of their work, including publishing rights, this is the reason for most early Reprise artists (Dean Martin, Jimi Hendrix) are currently distributed through other labels.

Today, in addition to Young, it is home to such artists as, Oasis, Michael Buble, My chemical Romance, Eric Clapton. Reprise is also the North American label for British band Depeche Mode.

Product Research

Michael Buble - 'Home'
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fDQnkYwfNfk

This was the only music video that had a narrative, the story was about the main character (Michael Buble) and the feelings he goes through after loosing someone important to him, he walks around an empty theatre and keeps imagining her there with him.

The camera shots varied most in this music video. It started with a long shot slowing zooming in on the character, which allowed the audience to understand the setting and get to know who the main character is. Once we as the audience have established the main character the camera shots become a lot closer mainly close-ups on the characters face showing his emotional journey through the song. At the most dramatic place in the song there become a lot more mid-shots, these shots show the whole of the main character as well as some of the mise-en-scene. It is helpful at this point in the song as the main character is showing a lot of hand gestures, as it is the most dramatic part of the song. These camera shots are commonly used in a love song as identifies the most important parts of the song and its narrative.The shots were of long duration that matched the pace of the song making it a lot easier for the audience to understand what was happening.


Ray Quinn - 'Smile'
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lMuMkMrAdHc

This music video was all in black and white I felt it was affective because even though it was made in present time the black and white theme made it seem present to the time the song was originally released. This is a key factor I need to take into account when making my music video.
During the music video it became a split screen one side was a c/u of the singer whereas the other side was a m/s of the singer. I liked this as the video became more interesting to watch. The camera shots were either close ups of the singers face showing his emotions or mid-shots showing the artist as well as some of the mise-en-scene which keeps the audience orientated.