music video

At the moment, the band scene in this video looks too much like it's pretending to be in  gig, whereas i either need to make it look like it's a band playing at a house party, or a gig. 

Also because there is only one narrative character it may look too boring, and it might not establish the plot enough, so i have got to incorporate another character e.g. the girlfriend, to show that the relationship has ended. This could be shown with her inside the house looking through the telecom at him. I could also put an interval in the song where she tells him that it is over, which could make it easier for the audience to understand the plot.

Filming

After editing all of my first shoot I realised i needed a lot more clips and a wider variety of angles and depths, I hope to do this tomorow. On monday i filmed the band part of my video which i am currently editing, I got loads of footage of this just incase, however i think i need more shots of the crowd. I plan to shoot the 3rd scene tomorow.

Textual analysis of music video's

The Darkness - I Believe in a Thing Called Love

The frames in this video were very long, which is unusual of a rock music video. The characteristics of the genre aren't shown through the setting, but the lead character is very stereotypical of a rock band. The word love is being constantly reinforced by both the sexual nature of the character and the mise-en-scene which is red to symbolize love. This video is mainly concept and perfromance based.

Airbourne - Too much, Too young, Too fast

This video has lots of pans and tilts, which gives a faster pace to the video, this is also helped by the amount of movement from the band and the short frames. The plain background gives the audience nothing else to focus on but the band, therefore making the video more performance based. There are a variety of shots used and a lot of close ups of the vocalist, however not so many of the rest of the band.

Audience research

The qualitative data collected from my the questionaires confirmed my idea of what the characters in the band should look like. "Leather Jackets", "Emo fringe" and "Skinny jeans" are all characteristics which my band members need to have.

Audience research

Today i completed my audience research questionnaires. I found lots of useful things, the main one is that people would like to see the band and not just use a narrative the whole way through. Next going to do a write up of the result and research into codes and conventions. 

Filming

I Had a rough idea to film a short 30 second music video to Greenday - Boulevard of broken dreams. The general idea was to get somebody to walk along a deserted road and get the to mouth the words using a lot of tracking shots. Unfortunately I did this on Wednesday and found it really hard, even though they were walking slowly I tried using a shopping trolley to track them, very wobbly! Then I tried using a skateboard, just as wobbly! So I scrapped that idea and came up with a new one to accompany the song Seize the day by Avenged Sevenfold. I started filming and editing this today. The filming went well and the lip syncing is good so far, however when editing i realized that i need more shots so i will do this A.S.A.P.

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