DRAFT

Video First Draft

I have just finished putting together some of the footage from my first video shoot on adobe premiere, so I have decided to render this first draft of my music video. It is no where near the finished product, as i still need to film the footage with a boy playing guitar and incorporate that in cuts with the footage of Charlotte getting ready for a photo shoot, , It is for this reason that  the transitions in this first draft are not very good and quite jumpy. Also I have not yet used after effects to do any of my editing, but intend to do so when I have the rest of my footage.

Music videos that I admire

Diary #10

Today I got permission to use the locations that I need for my music video, I wrote up a location release contract giving me permission to use the media rooms and film my video there and use footage of the room in my finished coursework.

Location Release contract

 

Here is the Location Release contract giving me permission to use and feature one of the school media rooms as a location for my music video.

Digipak sketches

Here are the preliminary sketches and ideas of what I would like my artists digipak to look like, and what i would like to feature on it.

Analysis of digipaks

Diary #9

Yesterday I did some research in to the music genre of the song that I am using for my music video. The genre is 'folk music' I used the internet and websites such as wikipedia to get a brief history of the genre and youtube to watch some examples of folk music videos. I then used the online presentation software prezi.com to post the information on to my coursework blog.

Genre Research

Video shoot 1

Yesterday I had the first shoot for my music video. Here are some images of the set equipment and props and production process.

Actress Auditions

Actress Audition

Video Inspiration

Annie Lennox

Location Images

Here is an image of the media classroom where I will be filming part of my music video. the parts that I will be filming here is where the girl is getting ready for the photo shoot during the actual shoot, I will have a white backdrop set up to film against.

Music video actress

Here is an image of Charlotte Brown the actress in my music video.

Looking for a bucket & spade

I decided to go on amazon.co.uk to look for a bucket and spade to use for my digipak/magazine ad photoshoot

Magazine Advert Draft

Just posting a quick draft of my magazine advert. I am using the adobe Photoshop CS3 software to create and edit it. SO far, my design is quite simple as it is only a draft, but this is the sort of lay out that i would like my advert to have, I will also be creating a portrait version as well as this landscape version. At the moment, the image that I have used for the magazine advert is the same that I have used on my draft digipak, this is because I haven't taken my own original images yet, when I do i would like to have a different image on my digipak cover to my magazine advert, because i want to have a variety of images included so as to attract more interest in the artists new album.

Actor release form

The female actress that will be starring in my video is Charlotte Brown. Here is her Actor release form granting me permission to use footage and photographs of her in my coursework.

Diary #8

In the last few media lessons, I have been working on the print based elements that accompany my music video: The CD Digipak and the magazine advert advertising the release of Ben Howard's new album. At the moment I have some simple preliminary ideas which i will show below of the front and back cover of the digipak. I still need to make the rest of the pages that will be included in my Digipak. As well as this the images that i have currently included on my digipak are from getty images, so I still need to have a photo shoot on location to get the images.

Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment

Editing Software

I will be using various editing softwares throughout the post production phase of my project. These include Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Premiere CS3 and possibly Adobe After Effects CS3. I will need to use Photohop for creating my digipak and magazine advert as well as using it for editing the photos that I intend to use on them. I will need to use a variety of the 'tools' available on Photoshop to ensure that my images are of a professional quality and to make sure that my digipak and magazine adverts look well presented and are the best that I can create.


Premiere will be the main software that I will use to edit my music video, in order to produce a final cut.
I will need to place all of the shots that I have taken on a timeline on premiere, alongside the song I have chosen, I will then proceed to cut from each shot at the appropriate times in order to make my video flow in a similar way to that of my animatic. I may also use After Effects to create a lightening strike effect in order to add to the gloomy scenes that take place in the video.

Contact with band/artist

I have decided to contact my artists record label to ask for permission to be able to use his song in my music video for my A2 coursework task. I went to Ben Howard's website, and found the contact details of his record label and sent the email shown below.

Props List

Here is the list of props that are needed for my video shoot, theses wont be the exact props I'll use, these are just images from the internet, but whilst I am filming, I will post images of the actual props that I use.

Music Theory

Andrew Goodwin Theory

Analysis of current magazizne ads

Analysis of other A2 work

A2 Analysis

Diary #7

Since my last diary post, I have been working to catch up on all of my research tasks, such as 'history of music videos' and 'researching in to existing record labels. My history of music videos task i set up as a timeline, showing the advancements of music videos. With my planning work, I used the online presentation software Prezi.com to make a presentation of my initial ideas including my narrative, props, characters and setting. I also created an initial moodboard for the mood of my magazine using microsoft powerpoint and images from the internet, I decided to split my moodboard in half, one half representing the male character in my viedo and his feelings of loss, lonliness and depression, it is for that reason that his half features lots of dark and dreary colours. he other half of my moodboard represents the female character in my video and is quite bright to represent how shye is happy with her life and moving on to bigger brighter things.

Research in to Existing Record Labels

History of music videos

Moodboard

Initial Planning Ideas

Ben Howard Early life

Ben Howard  I have been researching in to my artist Ben Howard so far I have found out about his early life, and early musical influences, I made a powerpoint presentation, then posted it here on my blog using the online document hosting website Scribd.com.

Diary #6

Yesterday evening, I decided to do some similar product research, and watch a series of different music videos and make notes about the different elements included in them such as the camera angles and camera movement, and all of the different shots that were featured. Whilst looking for videos to watch, I came across a program on the music video channel 'Bliss' about the artist whose song I am using for my music video Ben Howard.

Lyrics Analysis

Diary #5

Today  I have finallky decided on an initial idea, I have decided to use the song Promise by english singer songwriter Ben Howard. im going to do it as a love story between a boy and girl, the boy is singing the love song about the girl on his own, meanwhile we see her getting ready for a photoshoot and moving on with her life without him.

Ben Howard- Promise

And meet me there, bundles of flowers, we wait through the hours of cold

Winter shall howl at the walls, tearing down doors of time

Shelter as we go

And promise me this; you'll wait for me only, scared of the lonely arms

Surface, far below these words

Maybe, just maybe I'll come home

Who am I, darling to you?

Who am I?

Going to tell you stories of mine

Who am I?

Who am I, darling for you?

Who am I?

Could be a burden in time, lonely

Who am I, to you?

Who am I, darling for you?

Who am I?

Going to be a burden

Who am I, darling to you?

Who am I?

I come alone here

I come alone here

Above are the lyrics to the song that I have chosen, I am currently analysing the lyrics and making notes about what they mean as well as thinking of different shots that I could use in my music video to compliment the lyricsof the song.

Audience Questionnaire

Here are some images of my initial questionnaire below are the  questions as I originally wrote them as well as some of the written responses that I have so far received from my target audience, next as i further my audience research, I intend to get videos of people answering the questionnaire, as well as them discussing their preferences in music videos and what they would like to see from my music video.

Original Questions

RESPONSES:

 

 

As I continue further with my audience research, I would like to do some internet research as well, for example, I have had the idea to post a questionnaire on to blogger itself so that people can answer online and I can have computer generated percentages of peoples preferences towards music video. Another idea I had was to post a questionnaire on to facebook or other similar social networking sites and get my friends and other target audience members to answer them.

Diary #4

Today I decided to start some audience research, I have decided to conduct a simple questionnaire about peoples preferences and music video choices. The questions were:

1. Do you watch music videos?

2. If so, How often?

3.What is your favourite music channel?

4. What is it?

5. Do you use youtube to find new music videos?

6. What do you look for in a good music video?

7. Is there anything you don't like to see in music videos?

8. Do you have a favourite music video?

9. If yes, why?

So far I have questionnaires completed by three people, and intend to scan their questionnaires and post them shortly. eventually, I would like to have ten members of my target audience complete the questionnaire so then i can analyse the data from the results, and so that it will eventually help me make so decisions about what to include or use in my music video in order to attract the target audience.

Analysis of Telephone

Music Video Analysis

I decided to analyse a music video by lady gaga with another student. We analysed bad romance and discussed the ways in which it adheres to Andrew Goodwin's music video theory.

What is a Digipak?

Research in to Music TV Channels

I did some research in to some existing music television channels using the internet and such websites as wikipedia.org. I looked in to the history of three music channels, MTV which is the biggest and most well known music television channel in the world, Kerrang! tv, and  VIVA.

Research in to an existing music video director

I did some research in to an existing music video director named Jonas Akerlund, who has worked with stars such as Madonna and Lady Gaga.

Diary #3

Today is the last day before the summer holidays, I have a lot of research left to do before I can start the planning and production for my music video coursework, and ordinarily would do it during the summer holiday, however, this summer I will be on a World Challenge expedition to Mozambique and Swaziland for a month obviously making it slightly difficult to log on and do some blog posts. Although, I am hoping that the new interesting and different surroundings that I will be experiencing in Africa may help to inspire me or give me some ideas about what to use in my music video.

Diary #2

As this is the beginning of my A2 coursework project, I decided to start with the research side of the project, which involves me researching in to the history of music videos and all kinds of things relating to music videos such a music channels, music video directors etc. so far I have researched in to the history of music videos and how they began, as well as the music video key concepts and key ideas that are included in music videos. Whilst researching in to the key concepts of music videos, I came across music video theorist Andrew Goodwin whose theory applies widely to lots of modern music videos. I presented my research on the on line presentation software from prezi.com because it is a fun and interactive way to present information.

Music video-Key Concepts

Resource Audit

Places
London
Hyde Park
Ruislip Woods
Buckingham Palace
Picadilly Circus

Props
A4 Playingcards
fancy dress costumes

People
local bands
dance groups

Diary #1

Today I created my coursework blog for my A2 Media Studies coursework. This year my task is to create a music video, a digipak album, and a magazine advert for an emerging artist. My blog will include all the posts showing my progress during my research in to previous music videos , as well as my planning for my own, and the production and final product.