Before we could start any filming, we had to organise and think about certain key points. We had to make sure our actor knew both the lyrics and the guitar tabs to the song. This is very important as the footage speed needs to be exactly matching to the song speed, or it will look out of time. The story-boarding had helped us set out our angles, which we wanted but we needed to get the correct positioning and view point perfect. The first stage of filming our music video was the the footage in-front of the green screen, with Cameron (our actor) playing his guitar. We decided to do this footage first as it would give us time to edited the background to the setting we want and then we would moved on to the cutaway shots some other time. We also had to make sure the four costumes we had provide fitted Cameron and match the idea we had to fit in with the lyrics.
We planned to film the first shot after school as this was the only time we could all meet up and have enough time to
Monday, 30 March 2009
Friday, 6 February 2009
New Planning
With this new idea that we have, this means the location, props and equipment, actors and actresses, storyboarding and times of filming have completely changed and I will try to explain, show exactly what we are thinking and and processes behind it. If any of this is incorrect or just slightly wrong, then the next stages will also be wrong. Because we didnt like our first idea, this meant we had to rethink and create a new idea, which we thought would appeal to a larger target audience. Because the song is so cheerful and happy, we aim to make our lead actor who is the main focal point, the same to try and draw in a bigger audience.
Idea
As we changed our first idea, we needed to agree to an idea that we would both enjoy filming and editing and that would appeal to our set target audience. Our new idea for our music video will be composed of footage of a singer, which will be shot in front of a green screen so that all around him can be white. He will have an acoustic guitar and then we will mix in small clips which relate to the lyrics of the song. For example on the line 'Pulp Fiction, Blazing Saddles and Fast times.' We want to have the singer in costumes of each of theses films changing with the speed of the lyrics. I believe this will add variety to the music video and also attract the audience into watching the video as it will be fun and enjoyable. We gathered inspiration from two current music videos, being Frank Turners 'Long live the queen' video, which gave us the idea of having our lead actor standing there by himself singing and the idea for the bright white background came from the music video, Beyonce ' All the single ladies'.
The visuals and cutaways will both add a sense of realism to the music video, as-well as comical value, which will appeal to our set target audience and hopefully attract new audiences. I think these cutaways will make our music video differ from most, current music videos, which are aimed at the same target audience that are we aiming our music video at. In our music video we want to mix live footage of a singer mix with comical side footage relating with the lyrics of the song. It will be extremely hard to explain each idea of our added clips and footage of the singer, so this is where story-boarding will help identify each shot need and in which order.
Location
For our location we need to shot the majority of our song in front of a green screen, which is in at school. This gives us plenty of time for shooting our video as we can access the set and equipment any time during the week. Because we want to put additional shots or pictures in, we need to shot these in different places for example we need a shot of cameron getting up off a kitchen table. Also there will be random clips as well which will be filmed in general hang out locations. We have permissions to shot theses ideas anytime, which gives us the room to shot around cameron in-front of the green screen and help us get the best possible out come for our music video.
Props and Equipment
In my AS production I used the Canon XL2 to film all of my production. The quality of this camera is higher than any other I was allowed to use and this showed in the final product of filming. This camera was very simple to use and allowed me to film everything I wanted to so we decided to use this camera again for most of our A2 production of a music video. We intend to use this camera for the filming of the singer and then for the cutaway clips maybe use a hand held camera or a smaller camera compared to the Canon XL2. we wanted to do this idea because it will give the cutaways a real-life or home video feel , which might added to the comical effect that we are going for, contrasting with the footage of the singer.
The props are very important in setting the mood of the music video and therefore need to be correct. We want these props to portray what we were thinking and trying to get across to our target audience. The props will be based around the lyrics of the song and will be shown and explained in the story boarding.
Institution
The institution we would aim our video towards is mainstream MTV. Because the song we have chosen is on an acoustic guitar with the important lyrics that have a sing-a-long feel, we want it to be set out and viewed by a very general audience, trying to get a bigger audience, spreading the hype of the music video. The music video could be broadcasted on a rang of channels from MTV and Smash Hits, to even Kerrang and MTV Two as Bowling For Soup have established themselves as a rock band. Our target audience is aimed at young people, in the same way that the song 'Rockstar' by Nickelback is a sing-a-long song aimed at young people and has such a large audience,
Storyboarding
The standard of the storyboarding from AS to A2 has to be improved and to do this instead of drawing them out by hand, we could have the option of drawing out the images then scanning them onto the computer and colouring and editing them through Photoshop. This process of editing the images through the computer is time consuming and I think the standard will be to a lower level compared to hand drawn storyboards. The storyboards need to help us get an idea of the shots needed with a variety of different camera angles and will help anyone viewing them to understand what we are trying to achieve. These storyboards have to depict exactly what we want to be in our music video, which will help us when trying to film. The storyboards need to show our thoughts and how they change and adapt depending on different situations.
Idea
As we changed our first idea, we needed to agree to an idea that we would both enjoy filming and editing and that would appeal to our set target audience. Our new idea for our music video will be composed of footage of a singer, which will be shot in front of a green screen so that all around him can be white. He will have an acoustic guitar and then we will mix in small clips which relate to the lyrics of the song. For example on the line 'Pulp Fiction, Blazing Saddles and Fast times.' We want to have the singer in costumes of each of theses films changing with the speed of the lyrics. I believe this will add variety to the music video and also attract the audience into watching the video as it will be fun and enjoyable. We gathered inspiration from two current music videos, being Frank Turners 'Long live the queen' video, which gave us the idea of having our lead actor standing there by himself singing and the idea for the bright white background came from the music video, Beyonce ' All the single ladies'.
The visuals and cutaways will both add a sense of realism to the music video, as-well as comical value, which will appeal to our set target audience and hopefully attract new audiences. I think these cutaways will make our music video differ from most, current music videos, which are aimed at the same target audience that are we aiming our music video at. In our music video we want to mix live footage of a singer mix with comical side footage relating with the lyrics of the song. It will be extremely hard to explain each idea of our added clips and footage of the singer, so this is where story-boarding will help identify each shot need and in which order.
Location
For our location we need to shot the majority of our song in front of a green screen, which is in at school. This gives us plenty of time for shooting our video as we can access the set and equipment any time during the week. Because we want to put additional shots or pictures in, we need to shot these in different places for example we need a shot of cameron getting up off a kitchen table. Also there will be random clips as well which will be filmed in general hang out locations. We have permissions to shot theses ideas anytime, which gives us the room to shot around cameron in-front of the green screen and help us get the best possible out come for our music video.
Props and Equipment
In my AS production I used the Canon XL2 to film all of my production. The quality of this camera is higher than any other I was allowed to use and this showed in the final product of filming. This camera was very simple to use and allowed me to film everything I wanted to so we decided to use this camera again for most of our A2 production of a music video. We intend to use this camera for the filming of the singer and then for the cutaway clips maybe use a hand held camera or a smaller camera compared to the Canon XL2. we wanted to do this idea because it will give the cutaways a real-life or home video feel , which might added to the comical effect that we are going for, contrasting with the footage of the singer.
The props are very important in setting the mood of the music video and therefore need to be correct. We want these props to portray what we were thinking and trying to get across to our target audience. The props will be based around the lyrics of the song and will be shown and explained in the story boarding.
Institution
The institution we would aim our video towards is mainstream MTV. Because the song we have chosen is on an acoustic guitar with the important lyrics that have a sing-a-long feel, we want it to be set out and viewed by a very general audience, trying to get a bigger audience, spreading the hype of the music video. The music video could be broadcasted on a rang of channels from MTV and Smash Hits, to even Kerrang and MTV Two as Bowling For Soup have established themselves as a rock band. Our target audience is aimed at young people, in the same way that the song 'Rockstar' by Nickelback is a sing-a-long song aimed at young people and has such a large audience,
Storyboarding
The standard of the storyboarding from AS to A2 has to be improved and to do this instead of drawing them out by hand, we could have the option of drawing out the images then scanning them onto the computer and colouring and editing them through Photoshop. This process of editing the images through the computer is time consuming and I think the standard will be to a lower level compared to hand drawn storyboards. The storyboards need to help us get an idea of the shots needed with a variety of different camera angles and will help anyone viewing them to understand what we are trying to achieve. These storyboards have to depict exactly what we want to be in our music video, which will help us when trying to film. The storyboards need to show our thoughts and how they change and adapt depending on different situations.
Thursday, 5 February 2009
Bowling for Soup 'Friends Of Mine' Lyrics
Well it was ugly but we made it this far
Some have gone but I forget who they are
Now the hangovers are worse but we get through them fine
Sleeping late but we're not lazy
Getting older but we're still crazy
I'm so glad that I have these Friends O' Mine
It started out at a coffee shop in a most unlikely town
And there were casulties but we made it out, anyhow
We stuck together through the good and bad times
Pulp Fiction, Blazing Saddles and Fast Times
I'm so glad that I have these Friends O' Mine
And jobs, girls, and obstacles did all but break us down
Night clubs and broken vans in every major town
Well I've got your back, and you've got mine
Like Johnny Cash said, "I walk the line"
And you can always count on me for one last beer
We saw the world and the world seemed smaller
We're getting wider but not getting no taller
I know we've grown up just a little at a time
We're sleeping late but we're not lazy
We're getting older but we're still crazy
I'm so glad that I have these Friends O' Mine
So glad that I have these Friends O' Mine
So glad that I have these Friends O' Mine
Some have gone but I forget who they are
Now the hangovers are worse but we get through them fine
Sleeping late but we're not lazy
Getting older but we're still crazy
I'm so glad that I have these Friends O' Mine
It started out at a coffee shop in a most unlikely town
And there were casulties but we made it out, anyhow
We stuck together through the good and bad times
Pulp Fiction, Blazing Saddles and Fast Times
I'm so glad that I have these Friends O' Mine
And jobs, girls, and obstacles did all but break us down
Night clubs and broken vans in every major town
Well I've got your back, and you've got mine
Like Johnny Cash said, "I walk the line"
And you can always count on me for one last beer
We saw the world and the world seemed smaller
We're getting wider but not getting no taller
I know we've grown up just a little at a time
We're sleeping late but we're not lazy
We're getting older but we're still crazy
I'm so glad that I have these Friends O' Mine
So glad that I have these Friends O' Mine
So glad that I have these Friends O' Mine
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
Change Of Plan/Idea
As we are changes the idea and song, this means only the research still applies, as it talks about the history of music videos, and certain music videos which we have gathered information on and put towards our idea. I will have re-edited and research other ideas and redo my planning section as it doesn't apply anymore.
We want to change our main idea and song for our music video from Ryan Adams 'Slyvia Plath' to Bowling For Soup 'Friends O Mine'. We have decided to change our whole plan due to the fact that we felt our last idea was so much harder to film and arrange props, actors and actresses compared to our new idea. I think this change in plan will benefit and improve our production for this music video and appeal to a different target audience.
The new idea focuses on one main character, singing and playing guitar in front a green screen, which will be edited to add a bright white colour to the background. These clips of him singing and playing guitar will be interlinked with other ideas, such as him changing costume or random clips or pictures. We will try and relate the other random clips and images to the lyrics for example 'We saw the world and the world seemed smaller." For this we want to use a clip from Indiana Jones, where the maps show where he has travelled to and from.
I believe this idea will appeal to a larger target audience than our last idea even though we are still aiming it towards the same music institution of MTV.
The research section that I have completed still applies to our new song, as it is a general overview of what we need to include and do for our music video but i will have to redo the whole of the planning section as it is more in-depth and talks about what our plans, ideas and what we need to film and produce our music video.
We want to change our main idea and song for our music video from Ryan Adams 'Slyvia Plath' to Bowling For Soup 'Friends O Mine'. We have decided to change our whole plan due to the fact that we felt our last idea was so much harder to film and arrange props, actors and actresses compared to our new idea. I think this change in plan will benefit and improve our production for this music video and appeal to a different target audience.
The new idea focuses on one main character, singing and playing guitar in front a green screen, which will be edited to add a bright white colour to the background. These clips of him singing and playing guitar will be interlinked with other ideas, such as him changing costume or random clips or pictures. We will try and relate the other random clips and images to the lyrics for example 'We saw the world and the world seemed smaller." For this we want to use a clip from Indiana Jones, where the maps show where he has travelled to and from.
I believe this idea will appeal to a larger target audience than our last idea even though we are still aiming it towards the same music institution of MTV.
The research section that I have completed still applies to our new song, as it is a general overview of what we need to include and do for our music video but i will have to redo the whole of the planning section as it is more in-depth and talks about what our plans, ideas and what we need to film and produce our music video.
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