Sunday, 10 April 2011
Blog 19 - Finished Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-n6bjNpgts
This is a link to our finished video
This is a link to our finished video
Blog 18 - Creative Camera Use
These are screen shots of footage that we felt were creative.
1) This shot is creative because it is a profile view of the character and I think this shot is more interesting for the viewer and it is a surprising element and different to any of the other shots we have in the video.
2) These two shots are of the camera tilt from the feet to the head. This shot we chose as the beginning of the music video as it is a good and interesting shot to introduce our music video. It is our take on the male gaze (female gaze) which is used alot of films and tv.
3) This shot is that was shot on a hand-held camera and is at a lower angle than the rest of the shots in the video. This was so that the actor was rapping down to the camera slightly. We used this because it would make the auidence feel more connected and interested to our video. It also made the actors look more powerful which is common in hip hop videos and relative to how theme of that women can be seen as powerful as male rappers.
4) This shot is before the zoom . The zoom happens when all the actors are singing 'BOBBY', this introduces the other actors standing at the back behind the first actor. This zoom makes the shot different and interesting.
Blog 17 - Rejected Footage
These are screen shot of footage that my group and I didnt chose to be in our music video bceause of various reasons.
1) This shot is our 2 of the actors standing still while the camera is static. We didnt use this because you can see the edge of the green screen in the shot. This looks unprofessional
and doesnt look good in shot because it makes it look amateur.
2) This shot was a 'to the camera' shot where the actors were dancing and acting to the camera which was hand-held. This shot is out of focus and looks shakey making the shot look unprofessional and awkward. The actors are all so not making attractive faces and the actor at the band looks
like she has could out of chara
cter.
3) This is a shot of 2 of the actors standing still while the camera tilts up from their feet. As you can see the tilt of the camera has stopped to early and cut off the tops of the actors heads. This is a technical mistake that we made.
4) We chose not to use this shot as a of the actors has their back turned away from the camera which isnt a flattering image. The shot is also a bit out of focus and you can see the edge of the bottom of the green scene which makes the shot look amateur. Also the shadow are to noticeable which is keeping the audiences attention going away from the actors.
5) This shot is of one of the actors feet while she is dancing. We wanted to use this shot but we found on the play back that the lighting wasnt very good and looked amateur. Plus the floor didnt look like a hip hop video.
6) This shot is of two of the actors standing still while the camera pans from left to right. We didnt use this as we couldnt find a place to put it in in our video. We found it could be a fade out of the end but we chose a didnt shot for that. We also thought this shot didnt look as processional as some of the other shots we had.
Friday, 8 April 2011
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Blog 15 - Digipack
A promo pack for a band is a different group of media that promotes the band. It includes a CD/ DVD with a collection of the band/ artists songs , it also includes a advert as well. The CD/ DVD digi pack and Advert should link in some way by a common theme that runs through the two things. For
example similar imagery, fonts and catchphrases. This digipack is in a form of a jewel case which can hold one or more CD's or DVD's. The outer cover also is made out of card rather than plastic, this holds the CD/DVD part of the promo pack. As researched in Blog 5 - Target Audience of Artist/Band, there is no 'type' of person that listens to Wu Tang Clan. In Blog 5 - Target Audience of Artist/Band, the researched showned that the demographics of our target audinece is wideley varied from a wide range of ethnicity's, age and gender. However this is in the present day, so when Wu Tang Clan released their first single in 1992 the audience may of been more restriked. At the time of the first single release Wu Tang Clan dominate fan base was black males. Wu Tang Clan have only released one Digipack called 'Wu : The Story of Wu - Tang Clan' which I am going to analyse as well Dr. Dre's Digi Pack who is of the same genre of East Coast Hip - Hop / Rap. This is Wu Tang Clan's DigiPack: This Digipack main focus is the Band's logo. Inside this logo there are pictures of all the band members. These pictures are in Balck and white which contracts which the background which is a a vibrant red which stand out. The red background gives the impression of anger which links in with the images of the band members in the logo which are angery. These is a black edges on the sides of the digipack making it look rough around the edges which goes with the theme of Wu Tang's music and image they give. There is also a faded black and red picture of the New York skyline at the bottom of the Digi Pack which links in with there genre - east coast rap/ hip hop and where they come from. This gives a sense of pride from where their from and where / what their music is about.
example similar imagery, fonts and catchphrases. This digipack is in a form of a jewel case which can hold one or more CD's or DVD's. The outer cover also is made out of card rather than plastic, this holds the CD/DVD part of the promo pack. As researched in Blog 5 - Target Audience of Artist/Band, there is no 'type' of person that listens to Wu Tang Clan. In Blog 5 - Target Audience of Artist/Band, the researched showned that the demographics of our target audinece is wideley varied from a wide range of ethnicity's, age and gender. However this is in the present day, so when Wu Tang Clan released their first single in 1992 the audience may of been more restriked. At the time of the first single release Wu Tang Clan dominate fan base was black males. Wu Tang Clan have only released one Digipack called 'Wu : The Story of Wu - Tang Clan' which I am going to analyse as well Dr. Dre's Digi Pack who is of the same genre of East Coast Hip - Hop / Rap. This is Wu Tang Clan's DigiPack: This Digipack main focus is the Band's logo. Inside this logo there are pictures of all the band members. These pictures are in Balck and white which contracts which the background which is a a vibrant red which stand out. The red background gives the impression of anger which links in with the images of the band members in the logo which are angery. These is a black edges on the sides of the digipack making it look rough around the edges which goes with the theme of Wu Tang's music and image they give. There is also a faded black and red picture of the New York skyline at the bottom of the Digi Pack which links in with there genre - east coast rap/ hip hop and where they come from. This gives a sense of pride from where their from and where / what their music is about.In my Digi Pack I want to use similar imagdiy like black and white photos with a block colour and also use red, as it is a block colour and shows a strong emotions that links in with Wu Tang's kind of music which can be anger and violence. I think these things will brings the right message to my target audience. This is a back of the digi pack which features the same colour scheme as the front cover with the New York skyline running around the back. This shows the continuity of the digi pack which help illistate the theme and brand of the band/digi pack. The main feature of the back is the pictures running from side to side of extraxt of Wu Tang Clan music videos that feature in the Digi Pack. These pictures give off the same emotion of anger which links in with the theme as well as the picture in front of the digi pack and the red background. As the pictures are more action shots that static shots like the front, it gives a different take on the theme and shows the audinece what to exspect as well as giving the back more movement.
The back of the digi pack contracts with the front because of this action shots and the lay out which is good because it gives as good variety and makes the digi pack, in general look more eye catching. The back of the digi pack also looks the special features on the disk and the small blub about the band and their career and logos. These aspects of the digi pack makes the digi pack more realistic and special. This is what I want to have in my digi pack because it makes it more professional.
This is a Dr. Dre digipack called ' The Chronic'
![Dr. Dre - The Chronic [PA] [Digipak]](http://www.futureshop.ca/multimedia/products/250x250/M21/M2104/M2104220.jpg)
This digipack takes a different approach from the Wu Tang Clan's. The Dr Dre digipack is not so eye catching and simpler. Some of these examples are that the Wu Tang Clan's photos are in black and white where the Dr Dre is in colour with a blueish tint. Because the image is colour it makes the image stand out then the logo or other things.
Monday, 21 March 2011
Blog 14 - Shooting Diaries
Like most groups we had the usual set backs when it came to filming. The first thing was that we needed 6 actors in our video, as there is 6 verses in the song. We found that finding 6 people who were willing to do it and were free at the same time hard. We thought we had 6 because three of Morgan's friends said that they could do it and then there was me and two of my friends. It ended up that we had to change from six actors to 3 as some didnt want to perform infont of the camera and the crew. This changed to each of the actors doing 2 verses each instead of 1.
After the setback with the actors it made us behind schelde so when it came to booking the TV studio (which we thought would be better for our video to do it in the TV studio as the actors would be more comfontable and it would be easier t film in there) it was already booked up for the next few weeks. However the cameras and lighting equipment were still avialable. Together we decided to use one of the college classrooms to film our video in, we felt this would be challenaging as we would have to create a studio feel to the video. We put the green screen in front of the white board and rised to the challege.
09/02/2011
A few weeks into our filming time we had our first filming day, this was worrying as we had lost lots of time.
We set the green screen across the white board in the classroom, cleared away the tables and chairs and set up the lighting rig, cameras and tripods. We had to use black tape across the blinds on the windows to block out any sunlight that was seeping though to create the desired lighting effect.
I was put of the actors so I had to jump from going through my lines for the last time to doing test shots and getting the lighting and the staging right. This was differcult as I had to be in two places at once.
Finially we started filming a few verses, sometimes up to the dozen times to get the shot, figure expression and miming. All the actors and I found that remembering the line was really hard, even though we are all performing arts student, the quick timing of the rapping and acting throw us off. Zara had the idea to write out the lyrics on paper and hold them by the camera like a tele promter. This really helped.
It was harder then I thought it would be to be in front of the camera. I did really get camera shy but it got better as my two friends were doing it with me and after we got used to rapping. It was really fun in the end because we all got really into it.
We manged to get 4 of the verses filmed leaving 2 to do on another filming day. We filmed for most of the afternoon and at the end of the I think we all were pretty happy with the out come. I think the best thing about the day was that all the actors were getting really into it and the behind the camera crew were really professional and it was a lot of fun.
After the setback with the actors it made us behind schelde so when it came to booking the TV studio (which we thought would be better for our video to do it in the TV studio as the actors would be more comfontable and it would be easier t film in there) it was already booked up for the next few weeks. However the cameras and lighting equipment were still avialable. Together we decided to use one of the college classrooms to film our video in, we felt this would be challenaging as we would have to create a studio feel to the video. We put the green screen in front of the white board and rised to the challege.
09/02/2011
A few weeks into our filming time we had our first filming day, this was worrying as we had lost lots of time.
We set the green screen across the white board in the classroom, cleared away the tables and chairs and set up the lighting rig, cameras and tripods. We had to use black tape across the blinds on the windows to block out any sunlight that was seeping though to create the desired lighting effect.
I was put of the actors so I had to jump from going through my lines for the last time to doing test shots and getting the lighting and the staging right. This was differcult as I had to be in two places at once.
Finially we started filming a few verses, sometimes up to the dozen times to get the shot, figure expression and miming. All the actors and I found that remembering the line was really hard, even though we are all performing arts student, the quick timing of the rapping and acting throw us off. Zara had the idea to write out the lyrics on paper and hold them by the camera like a tele promter. This really helped.
It was harder then I thought it would be to be in front of the camera. I did really get camera shy but it got better as my two friends were doing it with me and after we got used to rapping. It was really fun in the end because we all got really into it.
We manged to get 4 of the verses filmed leaving 2 to do on another filming day. We filmed for most of the afternoon and at the end of the I think we all were pretty happy with the out come. I think the best thing about the day was that all the actors were getting really into it and the behind the camera crew were really professional and it was a lot of fun.
11/02/2011, 18/02/11
We are meant to be editing these days but doe to absences in group it didn't happen.
Due to the fact that our actors have busy lives we have had a delay to the filming for the two weeks after the first shoot, this is worrying as we have lost a lot of editing and filming time and we are behind our schedule plan. Luckily there is this time to film.
03/03/2011
Due to the lack of available equipment and the actors and crew being unable to attend this filming day we had to reschedule again.
We managed to book the TV studio for the 09/03/11. On this day there will be a technisian to help us with any problems we might come across. This will also be a more light tight area which makes it easier to get the lighting perfect.
Because of some of us coming back from New York the filming was changed at the last mintues because everyone who went was jet lagged, actors and crew.
11/03/11
Because of the filming changed on the 09/03/11 we only had half of the footage to capture back.
16/03/11
As we are really behind in filming in stead of filming any last shots we filmed the rest of the video. One of the actors' were really busy on this day and was in and out of filming but for some of it she wasn't there so we had to make do but we did finish it.
18/03/11
Captured back all of the footage left.
22/03/11
Due to everyone's busy timetable we weren't able to edited today and we hope to do a lot of the editing on the 23/03/2011
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