This is evidence of us asking Kate Nash permission to use her song for our video.
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Asking the artist for permission
(14.01.2010)
This is evidence of us asking Kate Nash permission to use her song for our video.
This is evidence of us asking Kate Nash permission to use her song for our video.
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Kate Nash - Nicest Thing
(11.01.10)
Our main reason for choosing this song is that it is easy to tell a story to, as it is a love story and we can get a couple to act it out, with the main feature being the girl, miming certain lines etc. We thought it would be a perfect video to shoot as we could incorporate it with the spring season on the way, and show it as a summer romance, but one that really does mean something.
Also, there is no video to this song, therefore we have nothing to go by and it will completely be our own work, without any influence from anything else.
As you can see in the spider diagram, we have a few ideas already about what we want to do with the video, since taking this picture we have come up with more ideas but in the next lesson we need to take another picture of it to post on here.
Research
I thought it would be good, as there is no video to this song, to research a song that I felt was in the same genre, so we could see how that video told a story.
Katy Perry - Thinking of you, is a song that is similar in telling the story. Assessing the video, we noticed that the main feature was the artist herself, but also, there was a story to the video, which was what we wanted to do too. Looking at this we were confident that our video could be a success.
(us researching Katy Perry's video)
Our main reason for choosing this song is that it is easy to tell a story to, as it is a love story and we can get a couple to act it out, with the main feature being the girl, miming certain lines etc. We thought it would be a perfect video to shoot as we could incorporate it with the spring season on the way, and show it as a summer romance, but one that really does mean something.
Also, there is no video to this song, therefore we have nothing to go by and it will completely be our own work, without any influence from anything else.
As you can see in the spider diagram, we have a few ideas already about what we want to do with the video, since taking this picture we have come up with more ideas but in the next lesson we need to take another picture of it to post on here.
Research
I thought it would be good, as there is no video to this song, to research a song that I felt was in the same genre, so we could see how that video told a story.
Katy Perry - Thinking of you, is a song that is similar in telling the story. Assessing the video, we noticed that the main feature was the artist herself, but also, there was a story to the video, which was what we wanted to do too. Looking at this we were confident that our video could be a success.
(us researching Katy Perry's video)
Planning process - Next step!
(5/01/10)
In today's lesson, at the beginning we were able to eliminate some songs after thoughts and some research into the lyrics, as you can see there are songs we have crossed out in the spider diagram, unfortunately though, adding more songs as we went along, because after researching some songs last night, it lead us to listening to more songs and coming up with more ideas:
We started to look through my Ipod and then Chris asked to listen to Kate Nash - Nicest thing.
As soon as we started listening to it we both realised it would be an excellent song to shoot a videoo to, mixing the lyrics with story telling and also featuring the artist. We were happy to come up with one song from about twenty, and after looking at the other songs, we decided it was the best idea.
In today's lesson, at the beginning we were able to eliminate some songs after thoughts and some research into the lyrics, as you can see there are songs we have crossed out in the spider diagram, unfortunately though, adding more songs as we went along, because after researching some songs last night, it lead us to listening to more songs and coming up with more ideas:
We started to look through my Ipod and then Chris asked to listen to Kate Nash - Nicest thing.
As soon as we started listening to it we both realised it would be an excellent song to shoot a videoo to, mixing the lyrics with story telling and also featuring the artist. We were happy to come up with one song from about twenty, and after looking at the other songs, we decided it was the best idea.
Summary of planning process so far
(4/01/10)
In today's lesson we sorted out the groups we wanted to go in, myself & Chris made a group of our own.
Today we made a spider diagram of what songs we potentially think would be good ideas for our media videos. Here it is:
A few of the song ideas we came up with were:
Nickelback - Photograph - we thought this could be a good song because the lyrics tell a story and we could develop that story in our video.
Busted - What I go to school for - we also thought this would be a good video to shoot and a fun story to tell, however we both know the original video pretty well, and thought it would be too risky because it would be easier to copy it as the ideas are already in our heads, so therefore may not be able to come up with anything original.
In today's lesson we decided it would be too hard to discuss what songs we could definitely do without actually researching the lyrics and the videos, and as we didn't have any laptops or computers with us, so we're going to research the other songs and in the next lesson we are going to try and eliminate more song choices.
In today's lesson we sorted out the groups we wanted to go in, myself & Chris made a group of our own.
Today we made a spider diagram of what songs we potentially think would be good ideas for our media videos. Here it is:
A few of the song ideas we came up with were:
Nickelback - Photograph - we thought this could be a good song because the lyrics tell a story and we could develop that story in our video.
Busted - What I go to school for - we also thought this would be a good video to shoot and a fun story to tell, however we both know the original video pretty well, and thought it would be too risky because it would be easier to copy it as the ideas are already in our heads, so therefore may not be able to come up with anything original.
In today's lesson we decided it would be too hard to discuss what songs we could definitely do without actually researching the lyrics and the videos, and as we didn't have any laptops or computers with us, so we're going to research the other songs and in the next lesson we are going to try and eliminate more song choices.
Monday, 11 January 2010
A2 Brief
A promotion package for the release of an album, to include music promotion video, together with two of the three options:
- a website homepage for the band
- a cover
- a magazine advert
- a website homepage for the band
- a cover
- a magazine advert
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Music Video: This Is How We Do It
(10.12.09)
A couple of weeks ago we were given the task to create a music video, we were told that this would be our preliminary task. Again we were put into groups and were each given a CD. My group consisted of Lizzie and Danny, again I was happy with this as I get on with them both well and knew we would successfully work well together.
After listening to the song we found that it was Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It, we realised that the pace of this song was extremely fast. We began by looking at each line of the song, and knew that by then this was going to be very difficult to lip sync the artist singing the song because the pace of the song was so fast.
We began planning the song and how we would shoot our video, and we planned to shoot it the next Tuesday in our double lesson.
We didn't plan a fantastic story board as we were all so sure and had the perfect image in our head of how it would be so we just wrote notes down.
When we came to filming however, we found out that this certainly was not the case.
We grabbed Lewis who we wanted to be our artist and began filming, he did not know the lyrics and none of us considered to have the song with us on an ipod or anything so that he could lip sync in time, we did not realise this would be important until it came to editing as this was our first task for a music video.
When we began editing and playing it back we realised we did not have enough footage, although after filming we thought we did, so Danny said he would film some stuff when he got in to try and make up the time. When it came to editing again although we found that the stuff he done was good we realised that it was not fitting with the song but we had no other choice but to use it.
As a group we were really disappointed with our video, but in a sense we were also happy it had turned out the way it did so we had learnt a lesson for our final piece of coursework to ensure we film as much as possible and even if we deem it as unecessary footage we know that we may need to use it incase some of the footage didn't work out.
Here is our final video:
A couple of weeks ago we were given the task to create a music video, we were told that this would be our preliminary task. Again we were put into groups and were each given a CD. My group consisted of Lizzie and Danny, again I was happy with this as I get on with them both well and knew we would successfully work well together.
After listening to the song we found that it was Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It, we realised that the pace of this song was extremely fast. We began by looking at each line of the song, and knew that by then this was going to be very difficult to lip sync the artist singing the song because the pace of the song was so fast.
We began planning the song and how we would shoot our video, and we planned to shoot it the next Tuesday in our double lesson.
We didn't plan a fantastic story board as we were all so sure and had the perfect image in our head of how it would be so we just wrote notes down.
When we came to filming however, we found out that this certainly was not the case.
We grabbed Lewis who we wanted to be our artist and began filming, he did not know the lyrics and none of us considered to have the song with us on an ipod or anything so that he could lip sync in time, we did not realise this would be important until it came to editing as this was our first task for a music video.
When we began editing and playing it back we realised we did not have enough footage, although after filming we thought we did, so Danny said he would film some stuff when he got in to try and make up the time. When it came to editing again although we found that the stuff he done was good we realised that it was not fitting with the song but we had no other choice but to use it.
As a group we were really disappointed with our video, but in a sense we were also happy it had turned out the way it did so we had learnt a lesson for our final piece of coursework to ensure we film as much as possible and even if we deem it as unecessary footage we know that we may need to use it incase some of the footage didn't work out.
Here is our final video:
Monday, 9 November 2009
Saw Sweded
(09.11.09)
We were given the task at the beginning of November to swede a trailer of our choice.
Sweding a trailer is where you take a trailer and re-do it, but using no money to do it and trying to make it look as good as possible.
Our teacher put us into groups this time, which I thought was a good idea because it helped me learn to work with other people and also the groups were a lot smaller so we could interact and share our ideas more easily. Also our group consisted of Lizzie, Leone and myself, these are two girls that I get along with very well so I was pleased to work with them in a group.
During one of our lessons we looked at sweding Shaun of the dead, we thought this would be good, we planned to get a group of friends to act as the zombies and thought we could work this out really well.
However, nearing the end of the lesson one of us came up with the idea of doing Saw. We thought it would be quite easy and fun to do, taking the first ever Saw film and making paper chains, making a saw or borrowing one from the graphics department, and there is a disabled toilet in our school that looked quite like a bathroom so we thought it would be a good idea.
The next two lessons after this we were planning how to do it, what to wear, what to bring in, and we decided that the second lesson we would make our paper chains and gather everything together in time for when we decided to film. We gave ourself the two hour lesson we have on a Friday to film it and also get make-up and clothing done.
We filmed it in perfect time and it went a success with the filming, the next two lessons we decided we would spend them on editing.
We found that our video was a huge success, ranking 3rd over the whole year group who study media. However from our feedback we found we would have got a higher mark if we would have made the video a little bit longer, but we felt on a personal note that there was no way to make it longer as we had covered all the material that was in the trailer, so we were happy as a group with our finished product, and here it is:
We were given the task at the beginning of November to swede a trailer of our choice.
Sweding a trailer is where you take a trailer and re-do it, but using no money to do it and trying to make it look as good as possible.
Our teacher put us into groups this time, which I thought was a good idea because it helped me learn to work with other people and also the groups were a lot smaller so we could interact and share our ideas more easily. Also our group consisted of Lizzie, Leone and myself, these are two girls that I get along with very well so I was pleased to work with them in a group.
During one of our lessons we looked at sweding Shaun of the dead, we thought this would be good, we planned to get a group of friends to act as the zombies and thought we could work this out really well.
However, nearing the end of the lesson one of us came up with the idea of doing Saw. We thought it would be quite easy and fun to do, taking the first ever Saw film and making paper chains, making a saw or borrowing one from the graphics department, and there is a disabled toilet in our school that looked quite like a bathroom so we thought it would be a good idea.
The next two lessons after this we were planning how to do it, what to wear, what to bring in, and we decided that the second lesson we would make our paper chains and gather everything together in time for when we decided to film. We gave ourself the two hour lesson we have on a Friday to film it and also get make-up and clothing done.
We filmed it in perfect time and it went a success with the filming, the next two lessons we decided we would spend them on editing.
We found that our video was a huge success, ranking 3rd over the whole year group who study media. However from our feedback we found we would have got a higher mark if we would have made the video a little bit longer, but we felt on a personal note that there was no way to make it longer as we had covered all the material that was in the trailer, so we were happy as a group with our finished product, and here it is:
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