Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Teacher feedback
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Teacher feedback
After reading the feedback we decided to add titles at the beginning and end of our music video. Although, this is mostly common when videos are shown on music video channels rather than online, we still wanted to inform audiences of the name of the artist and the track.
Friday, 6 November 2009
The Killers Magazine Advert
The band name is written in light bulbs at the top of the advert. This is considered the trademark font of the band, it highlights their theatrical nature as it suggests glamour. Purple, often associated with royalty helps to reinforce this idea of glamour as it is the main colour used within the advert. The other colour used is gold, as this colour also has connotations of glamour, wealth and prestige it highlights the band's position within the rock industry. It suggests that they chose not to conform to ideas associated with the genre such as unglamorous, unkept appearances. The central image is the Royal Albert Hall, which further enforces this idea of glamour. It adds a setting to the advert as it is a live album from a performance at the Royal Albert Hall. But this contrasts with the cacti and palm trees, which give the advert an American setting. This is used to signify to audiences the band's Las Vegas roots.
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Analysis of REM Magazine Advert
This advert is selling the album rather than the artist as they don't appear on it. This is typical of music under the mellow- rock genre. The background is black so as to highlight the names of the songs which are in various colours. "Out Now" stands out compared to the song names. It is in large letters at the bottom of the advert to highlight that they are selling the album rather than the artist which shows their serious attitude towards music. Although, the use of colour shows the bands more 'fun' and vibrant attitude to their music. The vital information is written in white, contrasting greatly with the black background. This clearly separates the more technical information from the song titles and so highlights its importance on the advert.
Analysis of Jamie Cullum Magazine Advert
The name of the artist and album is considerably bold. It is written in large black letters at the top of the advert, making the vital information stand out. Being a jazz musician, this formal- looking font shows his serious attitude towards his music. But, there are pieces cut out from the artist and album name, caused by the destruction of the piano. As jazz music tends to typically be mellow, this shows his alternative and creative and lively take on this genre.
The artist is in the central image of the advert, drawing attention to him, so the advert in effect is promoting the artist rather than just the music. The background is pale, fading down from pale blue/green to white. The poster is white where the artist is standing, drawing more attention to him, again rather than the vital information at the top.
The artist's costume is formal, serious. He is wearing a suit. Again, like before this shows his serious attitude therefore his dedication to his music. The top button of his shirt is undone, maybe to not make the artist appear as 'business-like' (as the rest of the poster suggests) to make it more relaxed like typical jazz music.
Other information is written below the artist's name and album name, in a smaller font. One item of information being a critic's view of the album. This is done to sell the album, to give it more credibility.
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Plan For One Hand Holding Video
Filmed from both boy and girl’s perspective- boy’s recollections shown later in fast cutting rhythm
Scene 1
• Begins in her room, with diegetic sound of laptop playing one line of chorus of the song.
• Doll leaning against computer.
• Girl shuts the laptop and non-diegetic soundtrack kicks in of main track,
• As girl gets ready to go out- grabs purse or coat etc,
• Walks out of there room
• Walking down the road, fast match cuts
Scene 2
• Lyrics kick in
• Girl sitting on park bench, reading a [dolls] book inside a magazine
• Sees a boy walking in her direction wearing the same 6
• Colour tee-shirt as the doll
• She looks at it then looks at him (hides doll)
• They catch each other’s eyes and smile… he trips over; she sees if he is ok
• They talk, exchange numbers etc
• He calls her whilst she is holding the doll to arrange meeting up
When music changes Boy sees short shots of them out on dates:
• Sharing a meal,
• Sitting on swings,
• Having a picnic,
• Hugging
• Giving him a tee-shirt
• Saying I love you for the first
• Watching TV
Scene 3:
• Tells her he’s going to the toilet
• Walks up the stairs
• See’s her room – goes in to have a look
• See’s her room
• Camera shots of – doll books, doll on the bed,
• Shows a close up of boys face (shocked)
• Tracking shot of photographs of her and the doll
FLASHBACKS:
• Her putting the doll into the bag
• Close up of doll in the bag
• Close up of doll
• Spiking up his hair
• Giving him the t-shirt
• Feeding the ducks at the parks
• He remembers – shot of him looking worried
Scene 4:
• Cupboard shaking
• Boy opens the cupboard
• Looks in we see reaction in his face
• See 4 boys standing in the cupboard wearing red t-shirts like the doll
• Over the shoulder shot of a hand on the boys shoulder
• Medium shot of girls hand closing cupboard door
Scene 5:
• See the girl walking down the street as in before with doll in bag
• Returns to the park and starts to read a book in the same place as before
• Sees a young boy coming towards her
• Final shot close up of girls face smiling
Scene 1
• Begins in her room, with diegetic sound of laptop playing one line of chorus of the song.
• Doll leaning against computer.
• Girl shuts the laptop and non-diegetic soundtrack kicks in of main track,
• As girl gets ready to go out- grabs purse or coat etc,
• Walks out of there room
• Walking down the road, fast match cuts
Scene 2
• Lyrics kick in
• Girl sitting on park bench, reading a [dolls] book inside a magazine
• Sees a boy walking in her direction wearing the same 6
• Colour tee-shirt as the doll
• She looks at it then looks at him (hides doll)
• They catch each other’s eyes and smile… he trips over; she sees if he is ok
• They talk, exchange numbers etc
• He calls her whilst she is holding the doll to arrange meeting up
When music changes Boy sees short shots of them out on dates:
• Sharing a meal,
• Sitting on swings,
• Having a picnic,
• Hugging
• Giving him a tee-shirt
• Saying I love you for the first
• Watching TV
Scene 3:
• Tells her he’s going to the toilet
• Walks up the stairs
• See’s her room – goes in to have a look
• See’s her room
• Camera shots of – doll books, doll on the bed,
• Shows a close up of boys face (shocked)
• Tracking shot of photographs of her and the doll
FLASHBACKS:
• Her putting the doll into the bag
• Close up of doll in the bag
• Close up of doll
• Spiking up his hair
• Giving him the t-shirt
• Feeding the ducks at the parks
• He remembers – shot of him looking worried
Scene 4:
• Cupboard shaking
• Boy opens the cupboard
• Looks in we see reaction in his face
• See 4 boys standing in the cupboard wearing red t-shirts like the doll
• Over the shoulder shot of a hand on the boys shoulder
• Medium shot of girls hand closing cupboard door
Scene 5:
• See the girl walking down the street as in before with doll in bag
• Returns to the park and starts to read a book in the same place as before
• Sees a young boy coming towards her
• Final shot close up of girls face smiling
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Lyrics For One Hand Holding
Oh love I was torn, I was torn
But I put those thoughts away love
Just a thought
Will the gods look kindly
Those thoughts are behind me
Oh why would you be led to suppose
Oh why would you be led by your nose
Why would you kill it, kill it, kill it before it dies
Why would you kill it, kill it, kill it before it dies
Those puffy eyes are no surprise
When there's a devil in the doorway
Heaven in the hallway
Say you'll still adore me
And I'm far out on an ocean
Trapped in a disaster
I'd say I still adore you
Oh why would you carry on a name
Oh why would you carry on the same
Why would you kill it, kill it, kill it before it dies
Why would you kill it, kill it, kill it before it dies
Those killer eyes don't look the same, the same, the same as they used to do
Not like the eyes, the eyes, the eyes that I make at you
I make at you, I make at you
It was torn up
But now it's alright, alright
It was torn up alright
But I put those thoughts away love
Just a thought
Will the gods look kindly
Those thoughts are behind me
Oh why would you be led to suppose
Oh why would you be led by your nose
Why would you kill it, kill it, kill it before it dies
Why would you kill it, kill it, kill it before it dies
Those puffy eyes are no surprise
When there's a devil in the doorway
Heaven in the hallway
Say you'll still adore me
And I'm far out on an ocean
Trapped in a disaster
I'd say I still adore you
Oh why would you carry on a name
Oh why would you carry on the same
Why would you kill it, kill it, kill it before it dies
Why would you kill it, kill it, kill it before it dies
Those killer eyes don't look the same, the same, the same as they used to do
Not like the eyes, the eyes, the eyes that I make at you
I make at you, I make at you
It was torn up
But now it's alright, alright
It was torn up alright
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Costumes
Girl protagonist- we decided the girl's clothing should be reasonably fashionable but young looking. We did not want to highlight her obsessive/perculiar nature through her clothes, our aim was to make her appear to be an ordinary teenage girl, to be representative of young 'indie types'. But also, we did not want her clothes to stand out greatly so we used items like a plain white t-shirt and jeggings (so still appearing fashionable but not to take the focus away from the narrative). Also the use of the white top was to have an ironic element to the narrative. Symbolic of her 'purity' and 'innocence', audiences may find this somewhat humorous as she is far from innocent, it is a facade she creates.
Boy protagonist- we wanted our audiences to relate to our main boy protagonist so, we dressed him in typical indie attire. He wore skinny jeans (the current fashion of indie types). But, we also wanted him to appear different from the rest, to stand out amongst other boys, so we decided to dress him in shirts as well. This was also important to make clear to audiences how drastically the girl had changed his appearance. By the end of the music video the boy character will be dressed in a plain red t-shirt with spiked up hair, becoming a duplicate of the doll. The red t-shirt is worn as he discovers her secret obsession, and the danger he is about to face.
Boy protagonist- we wanted our audiences to relate to our main boy protagonist so, we dressed him in typical indie attire. He wore skinny jeans (the current fashion of indie types). But, we also wanted him to appear different from the rest, to stand out amongst other boys, so we decided to dress him in shirts as well. This was also important to make clear to audiences how drastically the girl had changed his appearance. By the end of the music video the boy character will be dressed in a plain red t-shirt with spiked up hair, becoming a duplicate of the doll. The red t-shirt is worn as he discovers her secret obsession, and the danger he is about to face.
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
Animatic
Animatic
We received generally quite positive feedback from our animatic when showing it to the class showed our animatic to the rest of our media class.
They identified our motif to be the doll and said it was consistently shown throughout the narrative.
But our other motif was not identified as it was in black and white (it was the colour red) We have decided to improve this in the actual video by choosing locations which clearly incorporate the colour red. We will also use red lighting in the final scenes
Our video was identified as a narrative video rather than a performance based one. They recognised that in doing this we were developing the “indie” genre, as performance based videos are stereotypically more common
Location and Filming schedule
The locations we are planning to use are:
Brockwell Park
Jo's house (Brixton)
Nimrod Road (leading to Furzedown)
We plan to film scenes on the following days:
30/09/09 (lesson time)- Filming both walking to park sequences on Nimrod Road.
02/10/09 (1pm onwards): Filming Jo and Bill's meeting scene and their 'days out' in Brockwell Park
07/10/09 (after school 5pm onwards): Filming progression of relationship and Bill discovering Jo's secret at Jo's house
09/10/09 (1pm onwards): Filming opening sequence (laptop scene and preparing to leave house) at Jo's house
(Media lessons in between these days will be used to edit the footage we have)
Monday, 21 September 2009
Friday, 18 September 2009
Script and Props
Filmed from both boy and girl’s perspective- boy’s recollections shown later in fast cutting rhythm
Scene 1
• Begins in her room, with diegetic sound of laptop playing one line of chorus of the song.
• Doll leaning against computer.
• Girl shuts the laptop and non-diegetic soundtrack kicks in of main track,
• As girl gets ready to go out- grabs purse or coat etc,
• Walks out of there room
• Walking down the road, fast match cuts
Scene 2
• Lyrics kick in
• Girl sitting on park bench, reading a [dolls] book inside a magazine
• Sees a boy walking in her direction wearing the same 6
• Colour tee-shirt as the doll
• She looks at it then looks at him (hides doll)
• They catch each other’s eyes and smile… he trips over; she sees if he is ok
• They talk, exchange numbers etc
• He calls her whilst she is holding the doll to arrange meeting up
When music changes Boy sees short shots of them out on dates:
• Sharing a meal,
• Sitting on swings,
• Having a picnic,
• Hugging
• Giving him a tee-shirt
• Saying I love you for the first
• Watching TV
Scene 3:
• Tells her he’s going to the toilet
• Walks up the stairs
• See’s her room – goes in to have a look
• See’s her room
• Camera shots of – doll books, doll on the bed,
• Shows a close up of boys face (shocked)
• Tracking shot of photographs of her and the doll
FLASHBACKS:
• Her putting the doll into the bag
• Close up of doll in the bag
• Close up of doll
• Spiking up his hair
• Giving him the t-shirt
• Feeding the ducks at the parks
• He remembers – shot of him looking worried
Scene 4:
• Cupboard shaking
• Boy opens the cupboard
• Looks in we see reaction in his face
• See 4 boys standing in the cupboard wearing red t-shirts like the doll
• Over the shoulder shot of a hand on the boys shoulder
• Medium shot of girls hand closing cupboard door
Scene 5:
• See the girl walking down the street as in before with doll in bag
• Returns to the park and starts to read a book in the same place as before
• Sees a young boy coming towards her
• Final shot close up of girls face smiling
PropsScene 1
• Begins in her room, with diegetic sound of laptop playing one line of chorus of the song.
• Doll leaning against computer.
• Girl shuts the laptop and non-diegetic soundtrack kicks in of main track,
• As girl gets ready to go out- grabs purse or coat etc,
• Walks out of there room
• Walking down the road, fast match cuts
Scene 2
• Lyrics kick in
• Girl sitting on park bench, reading a [dolls] book inside a magazine
• Sees a boy walking in her direction wearing the same 6
• Colour tee-shirt as the doll
• She looks at it then looks at him (hides doll)
• They catch each other’s eyes and smile… he trips over; she sees if he is ok
• They talk, exchange numbers etc
• He calls her whilst she is holding the doll to arrange meeting up
When music changes Boy sees short shots of them out on dates:
• Sharing a meal,
• Sitting on swings,
• Having a picnic,
• Hugging
• Giving him a tee-shirt
• Saying I love you for the first
• Watching TV
Scene 3:
• Tells her he’s going to the toilet
• Walks up the stairs
• See’s her room – goes in to have a look
• See’s her room
• Camera shots of – doll books, doll on the bed,
• Shows a close up of boys face (shocked)
• Tracking shot of photographs of her and the doll
FLASHBACKS:
• Her putting the doll into the bag
• Close up of doll in the bag
• Close up of doll
• Spiking up his hair
• Giving him the t-shirt
• Feeding the ducks at the parks
• He remembers – shot of him looking worried
Scene 4:
• Cupboard shaking
• Boy opens the cupboard
• Looks in we see reaction in his face
• See 4 boys standing in the cupboard wearing red t-shirts like the doll
• Over the shoulder shot of a hand on the boys shoulder
• Medium shot of girls hand closing cupboard door
Scene 5:
• See the girl walking down the street as in before with doll in bag
• Returns to the park and starts to read a book in the same place as before
• Sees a young boy coming towards her
• Final shot close up of girls face smiling
Props/costumes needed:
Doll (motif)
Dolls books
4 red t-shirts (red motif)
laptop
picnic blanket
food, plates, cutlery (for dinner scene)
candle
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
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