Screening

Our screening went really well today and got many compliments. The teachers and peers views on our video were exactly how we wanted it to be portrayed. 
Here are some of the comments we got...


Miss Beere (Head of Sixth Form)
"Absolutely brilliant. Could be on MTV! Characters were fantastic and you all gelled together. The clothes and attitude portrayed the image intended"


Mrs Moore (Deputy Head and media teacher)
"Beautiful, slick and professional video, with fantastic performances and tight editing. Lovely lighting and overall and pleasure to watch"


It is such a good feeling to know that our original ideas that we first came up with successfully worked and what I imagined would be our video, actually was.

Editing

Since being back we've just been editing the video and making sure everything is up to scratch. We had a few problems editing leading us to re-add clips and cut them again but wasn't anything that mattered too much. 


Today, Ellis dedicated herself the whole day to finish the video to allow us to screen in class to teachers and peers tomorrow.  It turned out really well and very thankful. 

12th January

Last day of filming

Finally last day of filming!

We successfully filmed the last clips we had planned to with some extra improvised clips too! I was so pleased with our filming today and we are so relieved to know all we have to do now is edit. 

The last clip came out so much better than we thought and added that extra YES to the end of our video. 

7th January

More filming


Today we managed to film the crowd scene!!


It didn't happen where we wanted it to exactly so at first we thought we could not do it, however after some discussion we used a different location which then worked in our favor in the end.  


Gratefully, two younger classes volunteered to be our 'fans' for this scene and definitely played them very well. If not performed as well as the did it would not have looked as professional. 


We also filmed some extra bits just incase we needed to add some more filming in. This came in handy as we wanted to make the pace faster in the video so we cut some more shots in that we filmed. 

15th December

Slight problem

Our final shoots we supposed to happen today but Ellis is ill so couldnt make it into school. Not only was disappointing for our final shooting but wanted to get it done before christmas holidays...

We then couldnt edit either as the MACs were down due to updating...

However, we started our digipacks and updated blogs.

13th December

More editing

We carried on editing our video today but found it really hard doing it without the parts that were missing. The reason for this, was that everytime we lip synced the music to the video it would move again when we added more clips.

We just couldnt wait for the filming to be finished so we could finally start bringing it together.

We also discovered we cannot split screen on iMovie so we have to rough edit and when we get 'final cut' we can finish it.

8th December

SNOW!!

Because of the whole week of snow we missed out on filming as we needed the school as our set.

However, we didnt let this get the better of us and filmed the remaining that we could. We still have two more parts to film but as we need a crowd of people we wanted to wait til the 15th December as we know people will be free that day. 

Once we filmed the parts we did, we started to edit what we had on iMovie and it was going really well.

29th November

Third shoot

Today we filmed the bits we had left out with Peter on the 22nd.

We shot him falling over down the corridor with the bags and the ring. We also managed to film the shots of the phone ringing and emails on the computer.

We only had an hour today so it was a productive lesson.

22nd November

Second shoot

So, for the second shoot straight away we had a slight problem as Ellis forgot the storyboard, BUT nothing could stop us today! We watched the animatic and decided on what shots we wanted to film.

Then, Peter realised he forgot his red tie so we couldn't film anything with Peter in, so at this point we were stuck for what to film but didnt want to waste a day. We came to the decision to film single shots of the band for the parts we needed.

17th November

First shoot

This time we did finally get some shooting done.

We got in our outfits and dressed up ready for the shoot and then we used the green screen to take some photos as we couldnt use the designated room in the morning. This was quite productive as we got a few shots done that we could use. These pictures could be used on our digipacks and posters if desired.

When the afternoon finally came we managed to shoot the band singing the whole song all the way through so when came to putting the perfomance into the video it would be easy for us to cut.

We did have a bit of a problem as I really couldn't get into the mood of performing as I felt a bit embarrassed, however seeing as we will only be using quick clips in the video it won't be visable.

Some of the process...

   Here you can see the banners we have made for our video. We wanted these colours to be bright but edgy, however then realised the video will be black and white anyway. 
  We are going to use these props because a music video of our genre doesn't necessarily have a live performance in their video, however this is what happens in real life and we wanted to put real life scenarios into our video. 
  Consequently, our video will have conventions of a rock video seeing as it has live performance/fans.

  This is the process when doing our animatic. Firstly, we had a problem with making each shot longer for the beats on the song but then figured it out by copying and pasting the shot. 
  Along the way, we discovered that some of our shots were too long and added repeated shots so it cuts more, so therefore we now have more shots in our video. 
  Our next problem was the song we uploaded was a remix and we could not cut parts of the song out so we had to reinstall another version. 
  Once this was done, we finally finished the anamatic. 

10th November

First attempt of shooting

Today we was going to try and shoot, however we couldnt get into the rooms we wanted to, so we did some test shots instead.

We liked this shot as you could see the spotlight behind which broke up the light and had a nice effect.

 This shot we liked even better as it was darker and had a nicer effect than the first one. This is what we went with in the end and decided to use a completely black background instead of the white one.

Rich Mix notes

Part One

1930's experimentation:
A colour box by Len Lye- Putting film to music, was an advert for the post office.

Go team- Similar to Colour Box, made up of found images, scratched and played around
                  with.

1940's: Soundies
Nat King Cole- Concept of perfoming and watching himself on screen, and shot of going up 
                           up the girls legs.

France called a jukebox and Scopitone.

1960's:
Beatles- Characteristics of lads, helicopter shots, handheld shots and overhead shots.

1970's: Queen

1981:
MTV- launched by accident.
Big breakthrough was Maddona. It brought a rise in female artists.

Michael Jackson-
First black artist on MTV- Billie Jean
His breakthrough was thriller.

50 Cent- Candy shop-
Humorous element underlies the sexual element.
A display of wealth and sex.
Mainly womens bodies on show, however his shirt is ripped off shows his tattoos and muscles.
Typical of its genre and was expensive.

Jay Z-99 problems-
Over 300 cuts
Contraversial with its violence
Camera moves all the time

Part two

Method of analysis:

• Genre characteristics
• Visuals relationships
• Sell artist as a star
• Intertexuality
• Voyeuism/looking

User generated content:
Mash up of Jay Z and The Beatles called the Grey Album. Remix of the videos.

Lego re-makes- Prisoners doing 'Thriller'.

Machinima- Lady Gaga.

Tips:

• Excercises with 'found footage'
• Learn to lip sync
• Karaoke multi angle version of a track for film
• Re-make an existing video frame
• Alot of cuts
• Needs to be visually memorable and worth repeat viewing
• Pitch the material
• Clear concept
• Be realistic
• Stroyboard
• Plan locations, props etc
• Shoot early
• Know the lyrics
• Blog video influence
• Research
• Blog photos
• Blog location shots
• Animatic
• Shots not too long
• Make sure you have all the equipment
• 10-15 times shooting
• Extra angles
• Lots of close ups
• Shoot more than you think you need
• Label everything you capture
• Be organised
• Sync up first
• Cut and cut again
• Aim for dynamic piece of work
• Blog rough cuts
• Screen grabs as evidence
• Lots of feedback
• Maybe artist feedback
• Evaluate

3rd November

Today we finally finished our storyboard and our animatic.

Our animatic took a while to do as we couldn't edit how we thought we could as seeing as there were many cuts in ours, it took a while to get the hang of working iMovie. As we got towards the end of the animatic we realised we uploaded the remix version of the song so then had to change that.

Apart from these minor problems we managed to finish.

Mood board

   Our mood board started on a pink background which connotes our femininity. The 'B' had barbie dolls in the middle which reflects the 'barbie' part of our group name. The skulls however gave it the edgy feeling which our band has. We are all about girl power and independence and the mix between the girly pink and skull pictures gave it that.

  
  Our original idea came from Madonna's video 'Vogue'. We liked the black and white theme throughout which inspired us to do ours black and white too. 
  We have also decided to have the emphasis on light as it accentuates us on screen. 

As well as the black and white them, we wanted Peter's red tie and our red lips highlighted throughout the video as it shows the connection between them. 

                                                     

Our inspirations were celebs like Rihanna as they are not dressed up really girly, however still has sex appeal in jeans and heels.

13th October

Ideas

Our automatic inspiration for our video was 'Vogue' by Madonna. We liked the black and white idea and the fact the video is emphasised by the lighting, as well as using split screens.

We also came up with the idea of having Peter's red tie and our red lips in colour while everything else black and white. The red connotates love, but also danger and anger, which could be the fact the girls are being bugged by the boy.

Outfits would be skinny jeans, blazers, rather casual but also attracts the male audience.

After deciding these ideas we had a thought to change the name of our band to something that suited our band a bit better and more modern. After many attempts to find the right one we came up with 'Bullets and Barbies'. We thought it had an edginess to it as we are girly but also fiesty.

6th October

Choosing our briefs

In my group is also Nancy, Ellis and Peter.

Today we chose the band and single we were going to use for our music video. This was really hard as each brief had something to offer and positives, however, we came to a decision to go with 'Good Girlz Bad'.

This band had four members so we had to change to three seeing as Peter was a guy but he would be in the video.

The song choices were:

• My Lovin'-En Vogue
• No Scrubs-TLC
• I know where it's at-All Saints

We didn't think that any of these songs were appropriate for our band and in the end came to the decision of using, 'Bugaboo' by Destiny's Child. We thought this song was a good song choice as they are a sexy group that has alot of male attention but also the song shows girl power and independance.