Thursday 23rd September 2010

Research into similar Artists....



Taylor Swift:
Her image and representation of her songs are near enough the same as the sound of the song I want to do. Her songs have become well noticed with the young/teenage girls who believe that her songs 'speak' to them. Most of her songs have been in the top 20 due to her acoustic and young sound, and her videos are mostly of the narrative genre, because she wants her videos to create the meaning. I will be looking more closely at her videos as her videos portray love and relationships, which ultimately are aimed at young girls. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=taylor+swift+you+belong+with+me&aq=1

Adele:

She has a more soulful sound to Taylor Swift, but that is one of the main reasons I have also chosen her as a style guide. As her music is more mature, it is suitable for an older audience. Her video genre is more perfomance as your just focused on her. However you could say she has a hybrid of narrative, as in some videos she does tell a story throughout the video, an aspect most singers do today as they want to show meaning through the video. I would probably take away her performance as inspiration, as you can really show the emotions she is trying to portray throughout her video 'Make You Feel My Love'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0put0_a--Ng

Katie Melua:

Again her music is inspirational, and is suitable for all people. Her music is very soft and emotional, as seen through her videos. The genre of her videos are mostly performance, but they tend to go through the hybrid of narrative and soectacle, as she uses effects in her videos 'If The Lights Go Out' and 'I Cried For You'. Her songs are a tad quicker in rhythm than my chosen song, but her sound is soft as is 'Come Around' (my chosen song) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27RVIgW7L8c

Planning process for Music Video!

Well we have begun this process again...trying to find out what will and won't work for the video, what will make the video AMAZING, and what will make it look awful. This is when we try and work out what effects and transitions will be suitable for the video..this is when I begin to panic! I'm by myself so I don't have another opinion, so I really need to think about my audience and what I want to show through my video. Heres my mood board which maps out ideas on what I think would be good in my video..please wish me luck, as I really need it :)

The mood board 

The mood board helped me visualise ideas of how I could show a typical teenage romance. You can see pictures of Taylor Swift's video 'Be Mine' and general pictures of how I would dress my actors. It also has pictures and associated words of seasons that are mentioned throughout the song. The colours on this mood board connote love as these are colours associated with this emotion.

My little learning curve: the main problem I have encountered so far is uploading my animatic onto the blog. Even though I have evidence of having an animatic and a storyboard, the format for the animatic was wrong, something to do with not having the rate on 25.00. So when I tried to upload it onto youtube, they said 'error: the video has violated youtube servers' or something along those lines. This has been a real learning curve, i know now what to do and where to go from here.

So I'm sorry for the lack of evidence for the animatic, but I have done it, its just technology hates me sometimes!

The Shot Listings: 

These shot lists show the order in which I plan to film and what props, costume and location would be needed for the making of... to take place. This will really help me track my progress and to keep ahead of the deadline.

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Tuesday 21st September 2010

Artist Response!!

I tweeted Whitney Wiatt about using her song for my media project and she said yes!!!! So this means that i can use her song, I am definately a happy bunny :)

Heres the proof: I basically said to her 'Hi i was just wondering if i could use your song come around for my media project, i would be really grateful' and she very nicely replied ':) go for girllllll!' - So you can see why I am happy!! The fact it was also done by Twitter made it easier for her to reply, so for her to reply back faster made the wait less agonizing! So thank you very much Whitney Wiatt! My presentation on Whitney Wiatt

Powerpoint on chosen song

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Wednesday 15th September 2010

BANDS WHO HAVE CHANGED THEIR IMAGE OVER TIME!!!

Recently, we have been looking at bands/singers who have changed their image over time. As a star style, we looked at Britney Spears and how she went from 'pop princess' to 'breakdown barbie' because of all the media attention, it is sad to see but in the end she rose above it, and her circus tour in 2009 proved this - out with the old and in with the new! So I was looking around for a few good bands (see the presentation) The band and singer I chose were McFly and Christina Aguilera, and this will be fully described on the powerpoint presentation.

Enjoy

Bands changed over time

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Tuesday 14th September 2010!

WOAHH it's the second year stuff! Exciting. MUSIC VIDS!!!

Well, last year was fun making the opening of a film, and the finished product was what I had hoped for. Now I don't have Jess and Oliver to help me now, I'm by myself, but hopefully I will produce a video that will make them and I proud. I chose to be by myself with this module as I knew what genre of music I wanted to do, and what sort of video I can do with it. So over the summer, I watched a lot of music channels to get a feel of the genre, and whether I wanted to do a video with the genre of performance with a hybrid of narration, and I did exactly that.

My first choice of song was 'Real With Me' by Cady Groves, however when I looked into her she was actually signed by a record label, so sadly I couldn't use her sound. But all was not lost when I found a new sound by Whitney Wiatt, and I fell in love with her song 'Come Around' it was exactly what I was looking for. So as soon as I found this song, I watched videos from Taylor Swift as her sound is quite similar to Wiatt's, so I took some print screens of her videos for some inspiration....hopefully they will do me justice :)

Wish me luck for this year

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Monday 7th December 2009!

The Big Evaluation Part 4
Part 4 is about making meaning..oooo :)

(The picture above is of The Unborn...scary)

Our intended audience for this opening sequence would be teenagers-adults, as we felt that our film would connect with that age range, and our research proved that people do prefer thrillers/horrors overall as they like the suspense and the feeling of being scared.
We used the element of a camping trip to address the teenagers as that is something they would do, i have gone to some myself and we thought that the idea was a good one so we decided on that....a camping trip gone wrong.
We did a questionnaire to determine what our overall subject was for our chosen piece however we already knew what one we wanted to do, but we wanted to get into the mindset of our chosen audience and see what genre they preferred, and they thought the same as us...how lucky :) We found out what characters from films-such as Sweeney Todd and The Bourne Ultimatum-they liked for a thriller and what conventions they liked for the characters also. Which helped paint a picture into our heads on what the audience should be expecting.
In the filming, we made sure that we had Will (the shady character) in different spaces watching over the group, and because of this the editing was really affective as we made it really dark and grim whenever he (or an extra) was on screen, and the sound would get intense to show the audience he isn't wanted!
When we were doing the reviews of the films in our Media lesson, we had positive feedback which i was really proud of, of course there were note for improvement, such as the speech needs to be louder in one scene, and we actually had to record over the 'lost phone' scene as you couldn't hear what we were saying, but we welcomed the feedback and were proud of the results. And the opening sequence was successful as everyone enjoyed it.
As a group we had our own interpretation to the film, but wanted the audience to have their own interpretation on teenage life, that would be the cultural aspect of the film, teenagers think of themselves most of the time, and we tried showing this through the 'lost phone' scene as it really does show everyone has just had enough and can't be bothered to wait around anymore. So we left the cultural aspect for the audience to determine what they thought, and how they saw it!

Part 5 next.....!

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Friday 4th December 2009!

The Big Evaluation Part 3
Part 3 is about creative tools oooo :) !

Well the technology we used was so high tech it took a while to get used to it. However because we did all the mini projects before, i say we learnt from it and ended up editing 'The Silent Pool' really well.
What we used were digital cameras-to film the sequence and IMovieHD-which was to edit the movie. We didn't use any lighting equipment as we filmed in broad daylight, so we wanted to use that lighting even if we were going to edit it into black and white. We made sure that we did to it in broad daylight to ensure we didn't have to get caught up in the hassle of using special lighting.



I thought because of the facilities we were given such as IMovieHD, it enabled us to edit the sequence to perfection. I also think the best thing was if you made a mistake, we could dig out the original from the trash-which we needed to use a lot ;). However there was the first scene where there was Will standing and people walking around him. We wanted to make this like a really fast moving sequence with Will just standing there looking forward, we had the image in our heads but the power of IMovieHD couldn't make that vision happen! However i liked how the end result turned out and it looked like it was our own little production message like you have at a start of any film...i loved that effect.

Part 4 next :)

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