Today in our lesson we watched various past A2 music videos and discussed what and what does not make a good music video this is the list we came up with.
What's good
We decided that the best music videos need to have a good storyline ,if they are going to be made in a narrative style as if there is not a good storyline there is little to work with as a whole. The edits used in the music video must also be timeed to that of the song so the video flows smoothly and effectively. You also need to make sure your music video shows the music channels logo and the artist , song name and album name in this order ,in order for the video to look professional. You also need to make sure the bottom titles are tiny as you do not want to draw the audience away from the main focus , this being the music video itself. You also need to hire professional performers who are confident to perform as if you do not the music video could appear passionless and unprofessional. You also need to make sure all your camera frames are right as if they are not the final Finish can look messy and you will lose marks. Finally you need to book at the end and at the start in order to follow the stereotype of music videos. Finally only allow camera shots / frames to last for five seconds maximum as otherwise the music video can become boring and slow.
Whats bad
It is bad to create large titles as this draws focus away from the music video. It is also bad to focus to much on one shot for too long as it makes people lose interest in the actual music video. It is bad to hire people who are not going to take the project seriously. For example if they do not know their lines to the song it can effect the music video greatly as it will no longer look professional. It is bad to not vary your camera angles. Camera angles are marks therefore if you stick to one angle throughout you are limiting your grade and basically creating a non interesting video for people to disengage with.
Monday, 10 September 2012
Task 9 Casting and setting
In our music video narrative their are three characters 2 main and 1 major.
Character one = Jasmine let man playing good personality . Jasmine is playing the real girl who suffers from schizophrenia she is good at heart put is constantly possessed by her alter ego which makes her do bad things to other people . Her clothes in the music video reflect her personality they are casual and light coloured in order to mirror her goodness inside and finally a knife with which she accidentally stabs herself.
Props needed = Phone , Pyjamas , light coloured clothing in order to imply her good personality and her pureness. a mirror in order to see the bad reflection of herself.
Character 2 = Chloe Ravenscroft as bad personality . Chloe is playing the bad alter ego of Jasmine . She constantly makes Jasmine do bad things to other people and ultimately leads to Jasmines death . In comparison to Jasmines good character she wears dark and grunge clothes in order to signify someone on the edge who relies heavily on alcohol.
Props needed =Grunge clothes , Pyjamas , plastic bottle to kill caramels character with. alcohol bottle in order to show her drunken state. Phone , which is going to be used to show the bad things Chloe's character gets up to.
Character 3 = Carmel Elliott as "Chav". Carmel is playing Chloe's bad friend . She is the one who leads Chloe , Jasmines alter ego ,down the wrong path and leads her into bad situations . She is killed when she gets into an argument with Jasmines alter ego Chloe .
Props needed = Carmel's clothes need to be young yet street like as they need to signify this is where she spends most her time . Therefore we have gone with the outfit tracksuit bottoms with a top and hat in order to stick to the stereotypical idea of a "Chav".
Task 8 - The final proposal
Our group has decided to make a music video fro our media A2 coursework . The name of our production is "You make me wanna die" by The pretty reckless . Due to the genre of the song ,this being rock / pop, we have decided that our music video would best suit the music channels Kerrang , as this is the most popular rock station and this is where our predominant target audience will lie and 4 music . We chose 4 music as the music channel we wish to associate our music with as it plays a variety of different genres of music and as our music video contains more than one genre we feel this is the music channel which would allow us to reach a wide variety of audiences as well as directly targeting our chosen target group.
on the topic of of target groups we have decided that our song and music video would best suit teenagers who are of the causation ethnicity who are working class/middle class . This is because the music itself is quite dark and sinister and this type of music is generally associated with the teen generation. This is because certain popularity groups are associated with such music e.g "grebs" and "goths." We also believed that the music video would best suit those from working class to middle class backgrounds as such parents are stereotypically known to allow their child to view music that is more on the sinister and heavy side. We chose Caucasian as our target audience, ethnicity type, as the two characters in the music video are of this ethnicity themselves. Therefore we believe viewers of the same ethnicity will find it easier to relate to the characters in the music video and therefore the music itself. We believe that both male and female audiences our within our target audience zone as the music is not gender specific and the topics explored in the music video (e.g schizophrenia) are not gender directed. However as the music video only contains female characters and actors the main bulk of our target audience will probably be made up of females as they can directly relate to the narrative in the music video as it is approached from a female perspective.
As our music video is from the rock/ pop genre we have decided to create a music video that has a narrative . This is due to the fact that rock music tends to look into deep and dark meaningfull topics and emotions . Therefore we wanted to be able to match this in our music video and get truly across the emotion embedded in the song. We believed the best way to do this is tell the story of the song through a story itself. We have however decided to also encompass a performance into the music video , this being the characters singing the song throughout the narrative. We have done this as such a convention is generally associated with music videos and by doing so the narrative of the story truly connects to the song effectively.
Finally the style of our music video is going to be very complex . As we have decided to follow a narrative of a schizophrenic we have decided to use a lot of various effective camera angle that allow us to show the transition from one persona to another . This will include various fades , dissolves ex... in order to show the switch from one personality to the next. The style of our music video is also going to match that of the style of the song . This means the edits will match that of the beat of the song . Therefore whilst the verses are playing our edits are going to be slow paced and steady . However as the song reaches it pinpoint moment we are going to change the edits to fast cuts in order to really encompass the song in the music video as a whole.
on the topic of of target groups we have decided that our song and music video would best suit teenagers who are of the causation ethnicity who are working class/middle class . This is because the music itself is quite dark and sinister and this type of music is generally associated with the teen generation. This is because certain popularity groups are associated with such music e.g "grebs" and "goths." We also believed that the music video would best suit those from working class to middle class backgrounds as such parents are stereotypically known to allow their child to view music that is more on the sinister and heavy side. We chose Caucasian as our target audience, ethnicity type, as the two characters in the music video are of this ethnicity themselves. Therefore we believe viewers of the same ethnicity will find it easier to relate to the characters in the music video and therefore the music itself. We believe that both male and female audiences our within our target audience zone as the music is not gender specific and the topics explored in the music video (e.g schizophrenia) are not gender directed. However as the music video only contains female characters and actors the main bulk of our target audience will probably be made up of females as they can directly relate to the narrative in the music video as it is approached from a female perspective.
As our music video is from the rock/ pop genre we have decided to create a music video that has a narrative . This is due to the fact that rock music tends to look into deep and dark meaningfull topics and emotions . Therefore we wanted to be able to match this in our music video and get truly across the emotion embedded in the song. We believed the best way to do this is tell the story of the song through a story itself. We have however decided to also encompass a performance into the music video , this being the characters singing the song throughout the narrative. We have done this as such a convention is generally associated with music videos and by doing so the narrative of the story truly connects to the song effectively.
Finally the style of our music video is going to be very complex . As we have decided to follow a narrative of a schizophrenic we have decided to use a lot of various effective camera angle that allow us to show the transition from one persona to another . This will include various fades , dissolves ex... in order to show the switch from one personality to the next. The style of our music video is also going to match that of the style of the song . This means the edits will match that of the beat of the song . Therefore whilst the verses are playing our edits are going to be slow paced and steady . However as the song reaches it pinpoint moment we are going to change the edits to fast cuts in order to really encompass the song in the music video as a whole.
Thursday, 6 September 2012
Task 7 role allocation
In lesson today we decided who in our group would be doing what when it comes to producing our entertainment project we decided:
Camera people : Jasmine Letman , Chloe Ravenscroft and Amy Ravenscroft
Editor: Jasmine Letman
Writer : Chloe Ravenscroft and Jasmine Letman
Producer: Jasmine Letman
Director: Chloe Ravenscroft
Music : The pretty Reckless "You make me wanna die "
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Task 6 -Story boards for music video
Today in our media lesson we created the storyboards for our music video "You make me wanna die" so we are in a position to know what shots to film when we start production on our project.
Page 1
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Page 3
Final idea
Final idea for a music video
Today my group decided upon what type of music video we were going to be filming we decided on a rock/pop song by The Pretty Reckless called "You make me wanna die". We decided the plot line was going to be based around the mental illness Schesiphrenia . The music video is going to follow a teenage girl who suffers with this illness.
Plot line
The teenage girl is going to be possessed by her evil alter ego who makes who do bad things . The music video narrative will include her breaking into a school whilst possessed by her alter ego and accidentally seriously injuring her best friend who she accidentally kills whilst drinking alcohol in the school in her drunken state. The teenage girl will run away from the scene and fighting against her alter ego call the police on herself . However the alter ego will try fiercely to persuade her not to hand herself into the police and through doing so anger the girl to the degree she stabs her alter ego which in context turns out to be herself . Therefore resulting in her killing herself hence the song "you make me wanna die" . This also results in the ghostly figure of her imagination being killed to.
Effects
Throughout the song you will see the teenage girl switch from herself into her alter ego as the lines of the song says a different meaning e.g "i had everything" would be sung by the cast member who is playing the good teenage girl.We will do this by using the affects on the mac such as merging and cropping of images in order to display the transition between the two characters.
Today my group decided upon what type of music video we were going to be filming we decided on a rock/pop song by The Pretty Reckless called "You make me wanna die". We decided the plot line was going to be based around the mental illness Schesiphrenia . The music video is going to follow a teenage girl who suffers with this illness.
Plot line
The teenage girl is going to be possessed by her evil alter ego who makes who do bad things . The music video narrative will include her breaking into a school whilst possessed by her alter ego and accidentally seriously injuring her best friend who she accidentally kills whilst drinking alcohol in the school in her drunken state. The teenage girl will run away from the scene and fighting against her alter ego call the police on herself . However the alter ego will try fiercely to persuade her not to hand herself into the police and through doing so anger the girl to the degree she stabs her alter ego which in context turns out to be herself . Therefore resulting in her killing herself hence the song "you make me wanna die" . This also results in the ghostly figure of her imagination being killed to.
Effects
Throughout the song you will see the teenage girl switch from herself into her alter ego as the lines of the song says a different meaning e.g "i had everything" would be sung by the cast member who is playing the good teenage girl.We will do this by using the affects on the mac such as merging and cropping of images in order to display the transition between the two characters.
A picture of the band who play our chosen song " You make me wanna die".
Sunday, 2 September 2012
Bar chart results
After looking at the results for the music video questionnaires it has become clearer to see as a group what type of music video and song we will be choosing to work with.
The majority of the participants were between the age of 17 and 21 therefore due to this we have decided to direct are music video towards this particular target group as we are most familiar (from the questionnaire results) with what type of music and music videos they enjoy to listen to and watch the most . Plus being a similar age it allows us to understand what type of music videos such an age group wants to see and most of all what they like to watch and listen to.
The most popular song choice turned out to be pop music closely followed by indie and rock. Therefore when choosing our song we have decided to go for an artist or band which encompasses all three types of music styles to a degree e.g light rock bands. When it came to favourite bands and solo performers there was a mix of music artists from lady gaga to blink 182. This clearly showed us that people of the similar age like all different types of music and artists from those who sing pop to those who sing R and B. Therefore this has allowed us to play round with a few ideas for our music video that vary greatly in style and content as there are alot of different target group to target inside only one age range .
when looking at the collective results for why people enjoy listening and watching their favourite artists and bands music videos the overall answer was because their music videos were strong and attention grabbing . Therefore we intend to do the same with our music video and create a video which contains various entertainment elements e.g a performance and a narrative ex in order to capture the audiences attention with both the video as well as the song choice.
After looking at the results for favourite type of music video the results showed us that people like a music video which has a strong narrative as well as a performance . Therefore when creating our music video we intend to encompass both of elements e.g the song being sung in the music video whilst a storyline is taking place at the same time.
The results for favourite music channel also opened our eyes to how people enjoy a mix of music types as the most popular music channel was four music which plays various types of music from pop to R and B. Therefore we will not feel so restricted when choosing a song to use in our music video as it seems the public are open to various tracks and styles of music .
The majority of the participants were between the age of 17 and 21 therefore due to this we have decided to direct are music video towards this particular target group as we are most familiar (from the questionnaire results) with what type of music and music videos they enjoy to listen to and watch the most . Plus being a similar age it allows us to understand what type of music videos such an age group wants to see and most of all what they like to watch and listen to.
The most popular song choice turned out to be pop music closely followed by indie and rock. Therefore when choosing our song we have decided to go for an artist or band which encompasses all three types of music styles to a degree e.g light rock bands. When it came to favourite bands and solo performers there was a mix of music artists from lady gaga to blink 182. This clearly showed us that people of the similar age like all different types of music and artists from those who sing pop to those who sing R and B. Therefore this has allowed us to play round with a few ideas for our music video that vary greatly in style and content as there are alot of different target group to target inside only one age range .
when looking at the collective results for why people enjoy listening and watching their favourite artists and bands music videos the overall answer was because their music videos were strong and attention grabbing . Therefore we intend to do the same with our music video and create a video which contains various entertainment elements e.g a performance and a narrative ex in order to capture the audiences attention with both the video as well as the song choice.
After looking at the results for favourite type of music video the results showed us that people like a music video which has a strong narrative as well as a performance . Therefore when creating our music video we intend to encompass both of elements e.g the song being sung in the music video whilst a storyline is taking place at the same time.
The results for favourite music channel also opened our eyes to how people enjoy a mix of music types as the most popular music channel was four music which plays various types of music from pop to R and B. Therefore we will not feel so restricted when choosing a song to use in our music video as it seems the public are open to various tracks and styles of music .
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