The Psychologist - This character will be the brains behind the documentary, what she says will give weight to what we are saying. Essentially, like nearly every documentary, we need someone to explain the 'science' behind our main character and his condition. We thought for this character we would get a psychology teacher as they will have the knowledge already to talk about any condition our...
Monday, 12 December 2016
Location Ideas
For our short film/documentary there are two main locations; the house which is meant to be David's house where the interviewer will meet David and speak to him. The other main location is the place that David dreamt he met this person and where he goes to wait for the person every day. For David's...
Prop List
For our coursework, as our two main locations of filming are
a house and a busy street in a city centre, we do not require many props. We
plan to use the natural environment of the busy city centre and the small
slightly overgrown cottage house. We do not want to add anything into the
environments....
Final idea
Since we decided to change our idea from a music video to a
short film we have a had a few rough ideas. However, now we have a final idea.
Our final idea is a documentary-style short film focusing on a man named David
who has spent his life searching and waiting for someone he met in a dream. Our
documentary will feature an interviewer following David around for a day,
seeing his daily routine...
Science Behind Psychosis A2 Coursework Teaser
This is just a short part of one of our interviews we filmed that i uploaded to youtube to explain the science behind our idea in our short film/documentary.
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A2 Media Coursework Trying Out Different Text Styles
These are just some different sizes, styles and positions of fonts that we tested out for use in the interview section of our short film/documenta...
Friday, 9 December 2016
Target Audience
Who is the target audience of your product?
The short film industry seems to have it’s own target audience being somewhat a genre of it’s own. Although many people may come across short films every now and again there is a niche audience made up of mostly film makers and fans...
Tuesday, 6 December 2016
Target Audience Continued
1. How will your ancillary tasks help attract your target audience?
The ancillary task such as the CD digi- pack as well as posters will significantly help attract our target audience. The design of the case should be original and showcase bright and vibrant colours which will catch the audiences attention. Within the Cd case a small insert will be made which will list song names, related imagery...
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Initial ideas
1. Continue with the Preliminary The first idea we had was to simply build on our preliminary idea and improve it. Originally we thought that perhaps we could re-use some of our footage from our original piece, but upon discussion and review, felt that it would not be worth it and we needed to create more substance and narrative. From this, we created a slightly new idea, sticking with the same...
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Consumption of music video
A few years ago, perhaps prior to 2005, consumption of music videos would have primarily been through TV on music channels. A popular one would have been MTV, occasionally shows were created out of showing music videos. For example, the popular cartoon characters Beavis and Butthead used to have a show narrating music videos. This would have most likely been the most popular, if not the only way of...
Friday, 11 November 2016
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
Setting
Setting generally refers to the environment in which a media product is taking place e.g. a house, in the woods etc. It is quite an important aspect of film making and can make or break the product, depending on how fitting/well-made/well-chosen it is. In terms of music videos, often the genre of the song is what decides on the setting. Sometimes even the lyrics of song can decide the setting,...
Song Choice
How important is song choice?
Song choice is very important as the genre of the song and also potentially lyrics are usually what shapes the actual music video itself. If the song doesn't fit the music video then the product as w hole i.e. the song and the video has a much lessened effect. Sometimes however artists decide to go for a music video to accompany a song that has absolutely nothing...
Friday, 4 November 2016
The key history of music video
To generalise and summarise breifly, in the current music video era that we live in today the adoption of the 'Sex Appeal' of females has monopolised the music industry, opposed to choosing the more traditional and quality methods because today they are less profitable. Of course there are still many different, interesting, imaginative and heart felt videos being produced however...
Monday, 31 October 2016
Thursday, 13 October 2016
Existing characters
For music videos with a strong narrative, characters can be a quite an important aspect. However, some music videos choose to simply use visuals to illustrate the song that is playing. Characters in a music video can help the audience connect and relate to a song; and for some bands the same characters are used in several videos to create a concept album.
False Alarm - The Weeknd
This...
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Targets for A2
My main targets for A2 are; to improve and develop my practical skills such as filming, creating successful mise en scene, and creating album covers using skills I have learnt last year in Graphic communication. I also want to improve aspects of my research and blogging skills to communicate ideas in interesting and different media. Pretty much all our aims and targets for our A2 coursework...
Monday, 10 October 2016
Existing Narratives
What is a narrative?
'The way a story is told so that the elements are structured and ordered in such a way that it makes sense to the audience. It has also been described as how events are unified in space and time.' (Leanne Gelder).
How does narrative work in relation to music video?
Often the narrative will relate to the lyrics of the song, I think this is really important, the narrative...
Friday, 7 October 2016
Decisions
What coursework brief are you going to complete?
We are doing a music video. This is because we had done a music video for our preliminary and felt we could effectively build on this. Furthermore, we were all big fans of music and watched music videos regularly, therefore we had better knowledge of the style and conventions of a music video, where as we were more unfamiliar with short films...
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Conventions in music videos for various genres
Pop
. The main conventions of pop music videos is that they are very upbeat, rather eccentric and tend to revolve around the singer themselves, usually with a sexualised objectification of the women, fitting the 'ideal' body image of women we often see within the media. Although after saying that I would say the same is often done with men in the videos - a lot seems to be just about being...
Research Into Existing Music Videos - Student-Made
This video appears to follow several characters, yet still maintains clarity. These characters of course cross paths. The fight scenes seem carefully choreographed and filmed with detail paid attention to in each shot. The camera quality itself adds to how dynamic each shot is; placing focus on just one aspect of a composition can be quite intense - this matches the theme of the music video. This...
Friday, 30 September 2016
Research into existing music videos - Professionally made
After a search on google we found out that the safety dance was of the new wave synth pop genre, we therefore found 3 existing professional music videos of the same genre as our research.
New Order - Blue Monday
Blue Monday by New order has a very abstract music video. None of the video is lip synced and there is no narrative or live performance in the video. It is made...
Friday, 23 September 2016
Thursday, 22 September 2016
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
A2 coursework breif
We have been given the choice between two briefs; first to make a short film lasting approximately 5 minutes, with a film poster and a film magazine review. The second choice was to make a promotion pack for an album; including a music video, a digipak, and a magazine advertisement for the digipak.
I decided to go with the music video as I think the task suits my skills better. I have...
Tuesday, 19 July 2016
Evaluation Questions
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?
Construction and research:
this stage required a surprisingly large amount of technology to be used because we needed to go o the internet and find possible locations that...
Sunday, 17 July 2016
Saturday, 16 July 2016
Final Cast And Roles
The final cast that we have chosen is Zoë and Tom. We didn't audition tom on video as we where planning to use Charlie but at the last minute he decided that he didn't want to do it so we had to audition tom quickly and he was actually the best male audition that we had which turned out to be very fortunate. We have chosen these two because tom had a very good audition and...
Shooting Schedule
29th june 2016: This is the first day of our filming mainly because it is a Wednesday. We have the day off for an inset day at the school and we thought this would be a brilliant opportunity to do some filing because we want to do some shots in the city and as I said earlier we won't be able to film at the weekends at it is to busy so we are going to get up early and go up the city to do some...
Final Location Plan
These are the final locations that we decided to use. In the end we decided to use nearly all the locations that we scouted apart from the local park as we felt there would be too many shots of them in a forest setting and not enough urban ones. We have also had an idea to get more shots from around...
Friday, 15 July 2016
Casting Auditions
These are the casting auditions for our music video. From this we are going to pick who we would like to have in our video. straight away there were a few people that we know we didn't want to use and a few we would really like to use so it shouldn't be to hard to create a short list. We are also going to split them up although we auditioned them in pairs we are going to mix them up to get the...
Thursday, 14 July 2016
Final Plot Ideas
Our final plot idea is nearly the same as the last idea we came up with. The idea is that a girl is in a classroom falling asleep which then cuts to her with a boy basically just spending tie together walking about sitting together. We re going to cut in shots of a band playing the song as well. one of the main shots in the video is of the couple jumping into a river through powder paint. We wanted...
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
Lyrics of the song
"Another Girl, Another Planet"
[Blink-182]
I Always flirt with death
I could kill but I don't care about it
I can face your threats
Stand up tall and scream and shout about it
I think I'm on another world with you
I'm on another planet with you
You always get under my skin
I don't find it irritating
You always play to win
I don't need rehabilitating
Another girl, another planet
Another...
Monday, 11 July 2016
Plot Ideas
original idea: The main basis of the plot will follow both a boy and girl with intermittent shots of the band playing throughout. In the initial scenes we will follow the boy in a school classroom. By using crab shots and also a tracking shot we will focus on the boy as a central focus amongst the other students. We could consider using a shallow focus here to blur out the background and highlight...
Casting Ideas
Before filming any of the film we decided to cast our actors as to decide who would be best suited for clip. When interviewing them we decided to ask them a range of questions based on our film including script and questions.
The casting of our music video was very important for us to get right because we felt the song requires a certain kind of person to make it look the best, so when we where...
Sunday, 10 July 2016
Location Details
Drew and ollie decided to scout some locations to do the filming in.
The first place we went to was the forest behind the local park to see if there was any places that we could either put in the band shots or have our couple be doing some sort of activity. It was very wet when we went and so...