rough cut

nicks destruction

this is the destruction part of our video

Comments on our rough cut

Camerawork:

• goood variety of shots
• some of the shots are a little shakey
• the high angle shots are good

Editing:

• Really good lip sinking
• more cut shots needed
• need more effects and transitions
• Put the reverse of guitar smashing in a better place

Performance/genre:

• good realistic believable performance
• need more variety
• good lip sinking

Continuity:

• Everything links well

We are going to use these comments to help us make our video better. Some of the thing we already knew e.g. needing more shots and shot types its not that we don't have the footage its that we didn't have enough time to edit it in so this will defiantly improve for the final video

The Filming

Our filming went well but we had to change the location at the last minuet due to bad weather. The new location was a barn witch has worked well for what we needed. We managed to shoot a massive 40 minutes of footage meaning we probably wont have to shoot again. Our editing i well on its way with most of the lip sinking done. I also have some photo of our filming witch will be uploaded in a few days.

Pitch ( Clearer final one ) Pt 2

For the second half of our video we are going to contrast it to the traditional indie video. Filling it it with aspects of Dubstep videos and hard thrashing rock ones. We plan to smash up some of the equipment were using to create a high energetic video and then at the end of the video play with the broken instruments like the video below.

Red Hot Chili Peppers- Scar Tissue



There is not a real storyline to our video but the lyrics " My neighbours house is burning down" we thought we could have a fire to emphasise the lyrics a bit more .

Pitch ( Clearer final one )

Ok so after we did our peer assessement it bacame clear to us that people couldnt rele grast our initial pitch so i am going to write it up again.

The start our video off with it is going to be a traditional indie video such as closeups of the instruments and the band. below is a few shots of what i feel the start of our video will look like.

Furthur music video analysis

Kode9 & The spaceape 9 Samurai




This video was created for the artists by some Art students and is one of the reasons i picked this music video to analyse. The video is very simple yet very effective. Dark eerie sillhouettes of objects are seen all throughout the video. This goes along well with the song and the other aspects of the video as alltogether it has a very dark feel

Here is an example of the sillhouettes seen throughout the video . Most of the filming is doen from either a closeup or an extremecloseup. i feel this works well as you can see the objects well and makes it somewhat scarier and darker than if the objects were smaller.






Alot of time in the video the images are translated on to the otherside of the shot, showing two of the same thing happening next to eachother, i feel this adds to the emphasism of what the video is trying to portray. The video is very abstract at the same time and it is hard to see how they related it to the actual song. But as our group is doing we feel this would work well. Another thing i noticed about the video is that there is alot of jerky movements to me this portrays a scence of the unknown and mabe portraying a bit of fear through this.





Another thing i realy liked about the video and i was thinking of incorporationg into ours was the movement of the objects in the video being intime with the music i think this makes the video much more eyecatching and epic.










So overeall i think we can take alot from this video to help us to film ours.

Final locations

Ok so after alot of thought and some change of our final idea we decided to film in lode. we decided this as there is many empty feilds and big locations which i feel will be great for filming in. Another goood point is as will lives there we have a place to store equipment and go back to if we need to plan a shot more or have a chat about how we want the shot to go.


There is alot of forest areas in Lode which we thought would be a good place for the high energy part of our video. It is fairly secluded so there wont be any interfeirence by people and we have the freedom to make the music video as we feel .

The Lyrics in the chourus go

" My neighbours house is burning down"

We saw this as we could incorporate a small fire to emphasise the lyrics .

This video is called Windowlicker the artist is Richard D James (Aphex Twin). It is a unusual video this is the reason for its greatness and was nominated best music video at the brit awards 2000. The video is a ten-minute long parody of contemporary American gangsta hip-hop music videos. In the video, two foul-mouthed young men (a Latino and an African American) in Los Angeles are window-shopping for prostitutes. The opening is just like a typical American thriller.

suddenly, a ridiculously long white limousine crashes into the two men in a black Mazda (MX5) convertible, and a "pimped-out" Richard D. James, displaying a surreal amount of wealth and power, emerges with his signature fixed grin. The two women, among others, accompany James in his limousine while their faces morph into James's own likeness.

I really like this video in the way that it is very different to normal music videos.

Feedback from our blog

We got our feedback sheet from the rest of our group. They were mostly positive but from looking at other peoples blogs i see there is much work that can be done to improve ours. I have decided to do work at home, look at other peoples blogs and use their outline to improve ours and hopefully increase our final mark for planning.

We got an average mark of around 17 which is in the profficiant planning section, our aim is to get it into the excellent planning stage.

Main things we need to do

- write up the final idea more effectively
- pictures of locations
- improve call sheet
- music video analysis
- things that are going well or ar not going well.
- props, mise en scene etc....

look at other blogs and use them to help improve ours.