my choice

after doing my research into my brief into music videos i think that it is able for me to achieve something on the level of music videos i have looked at i believe that its able however i think i would be more suited to doing a film trailer as i have more interest in that and would be better for me giveen the resources i have and think i think its completely in my capabilities. now the only thing i have to decide on is what type on movie trailer and genre i want to achieve whether it be a horror, comedy, animation or romance as some of the examples that harry presented in his research.

my research into music videos

as part of my work i have researched music videos and what they mean and the different techniques that are used when creating and producing the final product we did this to find out what brief overall we would focus on and if we could do it as a group or individually.



below is a link to my slide share presentation:

http://www.slideshare.net/jadielouu/music-videos-53363430

below is also the links to Harry and Allan's slides share that show the research that they carried out which they also presented to the us as part of one of our meetings.


Allan

http://www.slideshare.net/AmazingAllan/short-films-research-53142970


Harry

here are the three briefs that we decided on researching on are own.

below are three briefs we decided research individually in depth as we believe these to be doable and achievable given the resources me have as well as they are briefs we found most interesting and that we most liked out of the given choices.



Me  ( Brief 1 )

OCR media brief

below is the OCR brief specification which we harry and allan looked through i narrow down are choices to 3 briefs that we knew would be achievable and doable with the resources that we have as we are only a small media class.

preliminary task (completed)

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this is our finished preliminary music which me , allan, and harry worked as a team and all had out separate roles to complete

Preliminary Roles

Jade (Me)

i am the most artistic out of the three of us, so i was in-charge of creating and designing the storyboard. after shareing with the rest of the group to get the basic idea of the video, i then drew the storyboard and labelled some of the frames with harry who also helped with writing the detail and specifics of each shot we did and how it would be filmed . While doing this i still played a part as an actor in the music video, Jade used the camera to film me. Again, she also doubled us as an actor for the video.

Allan

Out of the three of us in the group, Allan was the most skilled at using different computer programs and editing softwares. This is why we decided that he was perfect for the role of the editing of the video and making the final cut. Whilst the whole group worked together to get the ideas, he created the final products to make it flow and look good. Allan was also an actor due to the small group size.

Harry 

Harry was mainly the camera man for filming our preliminary task as-well as framing shots , so the shots would line up later in editing done by Allan. the shots that would be used in the video by organising the lighting and the composition of the shots. Due to us being a small group, we had to double up with roles. For this reason, harry was also an actor in our music video.he also had the job of the labelling of the storyboard

preliminary problems

When editing we found that the video At the time of filming, we had a problem as we didn't have access to a tripod so the footage was a little shaky. When the footage was stabilised, it zoomed to close to the people in the screen.the footage kept moveing, so when allan was editing he couldn't keep the bodies and heads matched up. so then We then decided to change our plan. Rather than having the bodies switch with the heads, we used still close ups of use lip syncing the song with dramatic close ups of our faces for the instumentals. We also decided to switch between colour and black and white footage depending on whether the people were looking up and across or down. these gave it a great switch of feelings between the contrasting colours.

preliminary task (storyboard)

here is my story board for my preliminary task and the stage directions for each shot of my preliminary music video.