Friday, 21 October 2011
Our Focus Group
We interviewed a couple of people to see what their view were on our groups choice of song to see what they would expect to see and what the video would look like.
We asked the following questions and we managed to get the same osrt of replies.
What are your first impressions of the song?
It is a very upbeat song and will be a fun type of video.
What genre do you think the song best fits into?
Pop.
How does this song make you feel?
It makes me feel quite happy and in the mood for partying.
These results influenced our video very much, we can see what we want our video to look like and the lighting is going to be colourful and the acting will be very upbeat, the whole video will be fun and have a great party feel to it. The whole video when watched should have a cheerful effect on people, they should feel happy when they hear the music and watch the video. This is our aim.
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Mood Board
This my mood board;
There are references to three films that I have put pictures of and the theme is fun and three friends being at a sleepover and three girls keep on ringing them trying to talk to them.
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Videos 76 - 38
76 - Beatles/Strawberry Fields/1967
75 - Duran Duran/Rio/1982
Powerful video that shows wealth in a poor era of time. Alough people said it could have been a more interesting video.
73 - Basement Jaxx/Where's your head at?/2001
72 - Robert Palmer/Addicted to Love/1988
Very exploitive of women, all the women looked the same black dresses hair up and red lipstick, some people felt it was the first sexy video.
69 - Frankie Goes To Hollywood/Two Tribes/1984
Was only shown late at night as there were rude gestures in the video, it was in the era of the cold war. There were loads of different 12" made of the song.
68 - Madonna/Ray of Light/1998
67 - The Beastie Boys/Sabotage/1994
Post modernism video, based around 1970 cop shows.
65 - The Aphex Twin/Windowlicker/1999
Making a joke out of R'n'B videos, pretty girls with the face of The Aphex Twin - basically a teenage boys worst nightmare!
64 - Bjork/Human Behaviour/ 1993
63 - George Micheal/Outside/1998
Very controverisal song as it was about his wrong doing's in a public toilet which celebrated his sexuality. First song where he 'came out'. Everyone was having sex a very turbulent video.
62 - Blur/ Park Life/1994
61 - Prodigy/Smack My Bitch Up/1997
Lots of MP's tried to get this video banned!
60 - Eurythmics/Sweet Dreams/1983
About the power of women and how they are taking charge, showing beauty but masculinity.
57 - Meat Loaf/Anything for Love (but i wont do that)/1993
A beauty and the beast type video, a massive scale video with the most dry ice ever used in a music video. MOst of the shoot was spent in make-up transforming meat loaf.
55 - Fatboy Slim/Praise You /!999
54 - Daft Punk/Around the World/1997
53 - Wham/Club Tropicana/1983
Absolutely openly gay in this video but at the time no one could see it. Very budget cideo but was effective!
52 - Massive Attack/Teardrop/1998
51 - Run DMC & Aerosmith/Walk This Way/1986
49 - Jamiroquai/Virtual Insanity/1996
48 - Johnny Cash/ Hurt/ 2003
Near the end of his life, was very ill when video was made. A very emotional song and video, the song was about the drugs and how he had hurt the people in his life and the pain he had caused others. A reflection on his life.
46 - Adam and the Ants/ Prince Charming/1981
44 - Kylie Minogue/Can't Get You Out Of My Head/2001
Gave her a provocative and sexy image. First song she really showed that side of her.
43 - Dire Straits/Money for Nothing/1983
42 - Bjork/Its Oh So Quiet/
40 - Missy Elliot/Get you Freak On/2001
39 - Pulp/ Common People/ 1995
About a real encounter with a lady, all about slumming it with a northener.
38 - Fatboy Slim/Weopon Of Choice/2001
Christopher Walken is dancing about, very funny video in fact halarious. Everyone is used to seeing him shooting heads off and being a villain and now he is tap dancing.
75 - Duran Duran/Rio/1982
Powerful video that shows wealth in a poor era of time. Alough people said it could have been a more interesting video.
73 - Basement Jaxx/Where's your head at?/2001
72 - Robert Palmer/Addicted to Love/1988
Very exploitive of women, all the women looked the same black dresses hair up and red lipstick, some people felt it was the first sexy video.
69 - Frankie Goes To Hollywood/Two Tribes/1984
Was only shown late at night as there were rude gestures in the video, it was in the era of the cold war. There were loads of different 12" made of the song.
68 - Madonna/Ray of Light/1998
67 - The Beastie Boys/Sabotage/1994
Post modernism video, based around 1970 cop shows.
65 - The Aphex Twin/Windowlicker/1999
Making a joke out of R'n'B videos, pretty girls with the face of The Aphex Twin - basically a teenage boys worst nightmare!
64 - Bjork/Human Behaviour/ 1993
63 - George Micheal/Outside/1998
Very controverisal song as it was about his wrong doing's in a public toilet which celebrated his sexuality. First song where he 'came out'. Everyone was having sex a very turbulent video.
62 - Blur/ Park Life/1994
61 - Prodigy/Smack My Bitch Up/1997
Lots of MP's tried to get this video banned!
60 - Eurythmics/Sweet Dreams/1983
About the power of women and how they are taking charge, showing beauty but masculinity.
57 - Meat Loaf/Anything for Love (but i wont do that)/1993
A beauty and the beast type video, a massive scale video with the most dry ice ever used in a music video. MOst of the shoot was spent in make-up transforming meat loaf.
55 - Fatboy Slim/Praise You /!999
54 - Daft Punk/Around the World/1997
53 - Wham/Club Tropicana/1983
Absolutely openly gay in this video but at the time no one could see it. Very budget cideo but was effective!
52 - Massive Attack/Teardrop/1998
51 - Run DMC & Aerosmith/Walk This Way/1986
49 - Jamiroquai/Virtual Insanity/1996
48 - Johnny Cash/ Hurt/ 2003
Near the end of his life, was very ill when video was made. A very emotional song and video, the song was about the drugs and how he had hurt the people in his life and the pain he had caused others. A reflection on his life.
46 - Adam and the Ants/ Prince Charming/1981
44 - Kylie Minogue/Can't Get You Out Of My Head/2001
Gave her a provocative and sexy image. First song she really showed that side of her.
43 - Dire Straits/Money for Nothing/1983
42 - Bjork/Its Oh So Quiet/
40 - Missy Elliot/Get you Freak On/2001
39 - Pulp/ Common People/ 1995
About a real encounter with a lady, all about slumming it with a northener.
38 - Fatboy Slim/Weopon Of Choice/2001
Christopher Walken is dancing about, very funny video in fact halarious. Everyone is used to seeing him shooting heads off and being a villain and now he is tap dancing.
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Other Controversial Song Videos
There are some videos that we have not looked at that have been said to be controversial. I have looked for some that we haven't yet looked at and will list them and explain why they were seen as controversial.
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Madonna wanted to make a song that would cater for her adult audiences. The main theme of this song was of a young girl who is in love with God, and he is the only male figure in her life. The song was most memeorable for its music video which stirred up things within the Vatican, family and religious groups. This was due to the fact that the video portrays Catholic symbols such as stigmata and burning crosses, and a dream about making love to a saint. The video was condemmed by the Vatican, family and religious groups were protesting the broadcast of the video.
Lady Gaga - Judas
Lady Gaga has always been in the public eye due to the fact she is so out of the ordinary and controversial. In a way she took a leaf out of Madonna's book but has taken it to an all new level. The president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights took big offence to this video and has made it clear he never wants to see the pop singers face again. Videos that include views of religion are always going to be seen as controversial. He has said that she is talentless, boring and her "head has turned around".
Rihanna - Man Down
This video has been seen as controversial but this may be not one of the biggest that she has done. The whole song is about how an event happened and why it happened. In particular it was that Rihanna had been sexually assaulted by a man and she ends up shooting him in the head as a consequence of that. Many felt that the scene where Rihanna shoots the man in the head out of retaliation for sexual assault ended up as glamorised violence. This is why it was seen as controversial.
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Madonna wanted to make a song that would cater for her adult audiences. The main theme of this song was of a young girl who is in love with God, and he is the only male figure in her life. The song was most memeorable for its music video which stirred up things within the Vatican, family and religious groups. This was due to the fact that the video portrays Catholic symbols such as stigmata and burning crosses, and a dream about making love to a saint. The video was condemmed by the Vatican, family and religious groups were protesting the broadcast of the video.
Lady Gaga - Judas
Lady Gaga has always been in the public eye due to the fact she is so out of the ordinary and controversial. In a way she took a leaf out of Madonna's book but has taken it to an all new level. The president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights took big offence to this video and has made it clear he never wants to see the pop singers face again. Videos that include views of religion are always going to be seen as controversial. He has said that she is talentless, boring and her "head has turned around".
Rihanna - Man Down
This video has been seen as controversial but this may be not one of the biggest that she has done. The whole song is about how an event happened and why it happened. In particular it was that Rihanna had been sexually assaulted by a man and she ends up shooting him in the head as a consequence of that. Many felt that the scene where Rihanna shoots the man in the head out of retaliation for sexual assault ended up as glamorised violence. This is why it was seen as controversial.
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Preliminary Preparation
We were given a preliminary task to do, this was to create a quick music video for the song "Don't go breaking my heart" by Elton John and Kiki Dee. It had to be about 1 minute long and we had to sing the actual song with the track to make the lip syncing seem more realistic.
To start we had to bluetooth the song from one of the computers to a phone, we then used the phone to play the music as the boys sang along to the music. We also printed off the song lyrics so that they boys knew the lyrics they were going to sing.
We then found a room which was not as difficult as last year, we also found that the sound of people talking didn't matter like last year because the sound is taken out and replaced by the track.We then set up the camera where we needed it and played the song and got on with the filming of the shots we needed which were, one shot of them both, and two shots of them separately. We then uploaded what we had captured onto the computer ready to edit.
We used final cut express on the imac to do our editing. It was quite easy to get the syncing in time from the lips and the song. Once we got the timing of the first shot all the rest followed as it followed the song which made it simple. We went with the beat of the song and managed to think of some split screens that made the video really interesting. We then played around with the sound and fades to bring the different shots we had captured together.
To start we had to bluetooth the song from one of the computers to a phone, we then used the phone to play the music as the boys sang along to the music. We also printed off the song lyrics so that they boys knew the lyrics they were going to sing.
We then found a room which was not as difficult as last year, we also found that the sound of people talking didn't matter like last year because the sound is taken out and replaced by the track.We then set up the camera where we needed it and played the song and got on with the filming of the shots we needed which were, one shot of them both, and two shots of them separately. We then uploaded what we had captured onto the computer ready to edit.
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