Marina And The Diamonds - I Am Not A Robot Remake

this music video remake is exceptionally good, and although i would like my video to be this good, the problem is the limit of technology i can us, this person has used approx £3000 of equiptment! but it shows, for my video i will use alternatives but hopefully try capture the same sort of experience within my video, and would like to try get effects to make it stand out from the crowd, much like this video uses 'Magic Bullet Looks' to enhance the visual within the video, i am hoping i can use effects to enhance my shots such as desaturation, and also adjusting the brightness and contrast can have similar effects.

Pitch

inspirational video idea

in my video, i would like to use written signs to enhance strong parts of the song such as when feelings need to be conveyed or just for added effect, in the tubechop below, alongside the use of signs to convey feelings, the video has a sort of scribble of notes all over it but i dont think with the technology available to me at present, i am able to recreate this more professional effect.

Romance on a Rocketship - Skin & Bones music video analysis

this song and video's storyline is about the lead singer falling in love with a girl, and he is trying to get her to be his.



in this tubechop, there is a lot of illustrated footage as the song says 'With your long, long hair and your big, blue eyes' at big blue eyes, the girl opens her eyes revealing they are blue as illustrated in the song.



in this clip, the use of a lion shows disjunction from the song, however when the words 'but back it up' are played it shows the teacher running away from the lion or 'backing up' showing some illustration between the video and the song.



this tubechop shows complete illustration between the song and music video as when the words' i sure think you're beautiful' are played, in the video the girl opens a letter that says exactly the same on it.

The Ready Set - Love Like Woe Music Video Analysis

This songs storyline is about how a couple falls in and out of love again. one moment he feels like theyre so in love with each other, but then she ignores him and moves on, and the cycle keeps repeating, however the video storyline has complete disjuncture with this as its about a house party in the woods with zombies trying to take the lead singer away.



in this section of the music video, you can see the disjunctive nature as the video shows zombies whilst the song is singing about 'how could i say no' referring to the girl and how even though their relationship is broken at best, he always goes back to her.



in this tubechop, the girl he is in love with has come back to him but is quickly snatched away again by the zombies, which shows some illustration as the words 'the timing and the moment seemed so right' but just like their relationship, another person takes her away from him.



this tubechop shows the end of the music video which has a total disjuncture to the song, as the lead singer is taken by the zombies and turned into one at the end of the video.

Never Shout Never - Big City Dreams Music Video Analysis

this video's storyline and song is about a boy, singing to his girlfriend about how he knows she wants to leave and he kind of accepts it, but he'd rather she stayed, because he knows he's going to be left behind and he's going to miss her. he wants her to be happy here, because he wants to stay with her, but in the end he lets her go as he is literally weighing her down with the piece of string.



this initial tubechop shows a very illustrated piece of footage where as the words "pack up all my things and get my ass outta town." play, the video literally shows a girl packing her things into a bag and walking out of the door.



This tubechop amplifies the tying her down aspect of the video as it shows she is tied to a string that is with him, in this scene also, there are many closeups of Christopher (never shout never's artist) as we are familiarised to the singer, so we can empathise with his feelings of the girl walking away from him.



This final tubechop also amplifies the tying her down feeling as she is like a kite flying in the air and he finally has to let go, which signifies the end and also the end of the song.

Music Video Moodboard

My moodboard incorporates all aspects of what my target audience shall be and aspects of what my music video will require. the 'indie' style of topman mixed with the 'scene' syle of babycakes & dropdead clothing shows the style of clothing i will have to wear in the video to keep in sync with the bands style, also i have used images suck as sweets, doughnuts & pokemon to add a childish element which the band conveys, whilst still holding its seriousness within the lyrics of songs.

My Music Video Genre/ Song

my music genre is Indie Acoustic Pop, and the song i am going to use is CheaterCheaterBestFriendEater by Never Shout Never.

Post-production

during Post-production some problems we had were that we found it difficult to match up lip syncing shots to the song we put over the top, and as a result a lot of shots had to be cut short, slowed down or sped up to fit this together properly, showing that we really should have refilmed some of the video, but due to the time constraints, we couldn't do this. a lot of work had been put into editing this video, with 2 lessons and countless hours outside lessons spent on editing (all taking turns) to come up with a final piece, another problem with editing is that we had to use the very basic video editing software on the macs, and therefore for my final piece i think i will have to find an alternative software to this.

in conclusion, i have found out that there are many difficulties in making music videos, and that it shall be very hard work to make my own final piece, however, i am very confident i can complete my final piece in time and to a standard that i am happy with, doing this task mhas also enlightened me on filming/ editing techniques which will benefit my final piece as a result.

Busted Remake

Our task was to remake the first 1 minute and 14 seconds of Busted's 'What i go to school for' music video, within 8 lessons, here is the finished product, and you will find the pre production, production & post production posted also on my blog.

Production

During the production of the video, as a class we decided to use the e-learning centre to film the classroom scenes, as it had the same sort of bland classroom as in the video, with enough lighting from windows to give us clear shots. We had to make sure that everyone was in the right place at the right time doing the right thing, with the camera rolling in the right place, which, although being a rigorous task I believe as a team we overcame all obstacles however, Some problems we faced were that scenes where the classroom was meant to be dark were hard to shoot, therefore reducing the quality of film that we could get, and also as mentioned above, it took a few takes to get the shots just right due to acting and lip syncing.

Pre Production

During the Pre Production part of making the remake of ‘busted – what I go to school for’ we had to plan a detailed storyboard of the video that we were re making. Every shot within the clip needed to be analysed specifically for the timing, shot angle & setting of the shot, so we could get all of the props and find a suitable place to shoot the video. We did this by repeatedly watching the video over and over, and by stopping it at every different shot to analyse what we were seeing. Also in pre production, we practised lip syncing for the film, as this is quite a hard process and takes very accentuated lip movements to get the right effect, this posed another problem in the video, as it took a few takes in production to get it just right.

Mine & Sophies Busted Storyboard

Lipsyncing me & sophie

Risk assessment Table

as a class, we made a risk assessment for all aspects of making the video as you can see below.