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Week 1
- Mon - p1 and 2
- Weds - p1 and 2 (No Sonia)
- Thurs p3 and 4
Week 2
- Mon - p3 and 4
- Thurs p3 and 4
Project Gantt Chart Schedule (Click enlarge image)
Friday, 24 September 2010
Scheduling
Media's group's personal schedule for after school filming(Click to enlarge image)
Project Gantt Chart Schedule (Click enlarge image)
Project Gantt Chart Schedule (Click enlarge image)
Styling
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Monday, 20 September 2010
Just A Day: The Pause
NOTE TO SELF: Do not look at the original music video for "Just A Day"(for now). It is easy to be swayed by the original's ideas and unconsciously copy them!
Below is a video of the song we will use (which will DEFINATELY be Just A Day!)
At exactly 1:16 of the song, there is a pause. We thought it would be really creative to expand this pause and have a 10 second clip of something funny, (to match the lighter pop-rock genre and the up-beat melody that makes this song different from conventional rock songs). This 'something funny' thing could be...
Below is a video of the song we will use (which will DEFINATELY be Just A Day!)
At exactly 1:16 of the song, there is a pause. We thought it would be really creative to expand this pause and have a 10 second clip of something funny, (to match the lighter pop-rock genre and the up-beat melody that makes this song different from conventional rock songs). This 'something funny' thing could be...
- Part of the narrative - protagonists could have an arguement and this will be heard by the audience as the song has stopped - could script the dialogue to be funny and have intertextual references?
- Part of the performance - band members could have a random conversation? Script? Random fight?
- "Breaking the fourth wall" - both performers and actors from the narrative could talk TO the audience?
As mentioned in another post, this idea's main inspiration was from Ok Go's music video for "Get Over It". (Below)
At 1:57 there is a completely random ping pong game!!! This is humurous. Very humourous because the song is at its climax and the performers are rocking out, and then they surprise the audience and break music video conventions with this. I also feel, this kind of 'randomness' represents our style as a group and suits the quirky directional aesthetic I mentioned in earlier posts.
Just A Day: Video ideas
Due to the fact that we changed our project's song, we had to draft some narrative and performance ideas again. Each of us printed a copy of the lyrics, and annotated around it with our narrative ideas, clearly displaying where each clip could be placed in the song.
(Click to enlarge image, and click again to zoom in)
(Click to enlarge image, and click again to zoom in)
Ideas Discussion 2: Feeder
Today were were meant to have completed a storyboard and begin a Project Proposal. However, it seemed we struggled with completing a story board for Eagle Eye Cherry enthusiastically and it was clear that although we liked the ideas behind the song, we felt it did not represent us as a group sufficiently. Therefore we quickly listened to our short list of songs and made clear to each other out ideas (something we did not do very well at the last group ideas discussion).
We came to the conclusion that Feeder's Just A Day was the perfect song to do. It has a upbeat tune, with an under tone of adult themes that could be closely linked to the social issues that happen to our age group. As we are the audience for this genre of pop/punk song, it would be easier to create the music video. It was also decided that although we wanted the video to conform to mainstream video conventions*, we still wanted to stay loyal with conventions of the rock genre**. So, we made note to include steady-cam shots rather than using a tripod for all of them, and also have tight close-ups and tilts of guitar solos and the drummer.
Below is an image of the notes I made during the discussion. (Click image to enlarge)
(Referring to image: I especially liked Jam's idea of elongating the pause in the song and filling it with a clip of something random, similar to what Ok Go do with the music video of "Get Over It")
We came to the conclusion that Feeder's Just A Day was the perfect song to do. It has a upbeat tune, with an under tone of adult themes that could be closely linked to the social issues that happen to our age group. As we are the audience for this genre of pop/punk song, it would be easier to create the music video. It was also decided that although we wanted the video to conform to mainstream video conventions*, we still wanted to stay loyal with conventions of the rock genre**. So, we made note to include steady-cam shots rather than using a tripod for all of them, and also have tight close-ups and tilts of guitar solos and the drummer.
Below is an image of the notes I made during the discussion. (Click image to enlarge)
(Referring to image: I especially liked Jam's idea of elongating the pause in the song and filling it with a clip of something random, similar to what Ok Go do with the music video of "Get Over It")
*As result, our music video would conform to the Mass Audience model of audience theory types. This way, it would reach a larger demographic and gain a wider audience.
** This relates to the media theorist Steve Neal's idea that "Genre is repetition with an underlying pattern of variations". We want our music video to be recognised by viewers and an aesthetically professional music video through its conventions, but at the same time we want to our creative/individual ideas to differentiate the music video from others.
Saturday, 18 September 2010
Ideas Discussion 1: Eagle Eye Cherry
This past week our group has been behind in deciding a song. We're lacking in ideas and the only one we seem to have a narrative for is Eagle Eye Cherry's '"Are You Still Having Fun?". So, it has been chosen as our choice of song today.
Lyrics | Eagle Eye Cherry lyrics - Are You Still Having Fun? lyrics
From the lyrics, we came up with three narrative plots lines that would be integrated with the performance. This included a couple's decaying relationship, a wealthy "daddy's girl" who struggles with her drug addiction, and as mentioned before in my stop animation research, a young boy imagining himself as a monster whilst playing. These three ideas will be edited alongside their related lyrics, which are "With all the drugs you take you can hardly stand" and "This was your mistake and your master plan". This way, our music video conforms to the conventional music video that shows narrative and performance.
To avoid scheduling and reliability problems with band members, we decided that it would be efficient to have one male performer with an acoustic guitar (most likely performed by Jack). The setting could be early evening, and the performer will stroll down a street playing towards the camera. For multiple camera movements and smooth editing proposes, the frame would pan to the left or right, and zoom towards a window where one of the three narrative plot lines would be shown. By the end of the performance, it would be night time and the singer will move past the camera and enter his own house, the door closing in the camera's frame.
It would be difficult to edit the narrative scenes in without having to jump-cut after the camera zooms to the houses' windows, however we could resort to green screen for this matter. Or, (as we cannot use houses that belong to randomers) we could use our houses (three, conveniently) and use a "fast forward" effect when filming the performer walking past our houses so it uses less film time. This way, there are many opportunities to use interesting effects whilst editing and in result giving the video very stylised visuals.
Lyrics | Eagle Eye Cherry lyrics - Are You Still Having Fun? lyrics
From the lyrics, we came up with three narrative plots lines that would be integrated with the performance. This included a couple's decaying relationship, a wealthy "daddy's girl" who struggles with her drug addiction, and as mentioned before in my stop animation research, a young boy imagining himself as a monster whilst playing. These three ideas will be edited alongside their related lyrics, which are "With all the drugs you take you can hardly stand" and "This was your mistake and your master plan". This way, our music video conforms to the conventional music video that shows narrative and performance.
To avoid scheduling and reliability problems with band members, we decided that it would be efficient to have one male performer with an acoustic guitar (most likely performed by Jack). The setting could be early evening, and the performer will stroll down a street playing towards the camera. For multiple camera movements and smooth editing proposes, the frame would pan to the left or right, and zoom towards a window where one of the three narrative plot lines would be shown. By the end of the performance, it would be night time and the singer will move past the camera and enter his own house, the door closing in the camera's frame.
It would be difficult to edit the narrative scenes in without having to jump-cut after the camera zooms to the houses' windows, however we could resort to green screen for this matter. Or, (as we cannot use houses that belong to randomers) we could use our houses (three, conveniently) and use a "fast forward" effect when filming the performer walking past our houses so it uses less film time. This way, there are many opportunities to use interesting effects whilst editing and in result giving the video very stylised visuals.
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