Research and Planning- Pitch.

In class we have presented our pitch. For this we had to sell our concept for our chosen music video. Here is our presentation:-

http://prezi.com/illppc_g02wg/pitch/

Portfolio Work- The types of Music Video.

In class today we looked at the different styles of music video:- narrative, performance and concept. To start of with we looked at a recent music video that is a big hit today.

This video is a very good example of many styles of music video, as well as it being a parody. After this we looked at theorists concepts, such as Firth or Schwichtenburg.
These are the two main ideas and we discussed whether we agreed or disagreed with them. We then where put into groups to find music videos that fit into one of the three categories. Our group was given narrative and the music videos we came up with were:

• My Chemical Romance- Sing

• Big Day- Toryny

• Slipknot- Vermillion.

• Frank Ocean- Thinking About You

• Arctic Monkeys- When the Sun Goes Down.

  

For next lesson we will have to textually analysis one of the music videos and say why we thought it was a narrative video. 

Research and Planning. Location.

Our group have been having some difficulties in finding a location for our preformance based part of our video. From research we found a very useful photographer on flicker who had some really interesting and inspiring images of abandeoned areas. here are some examples.

 

These images were all taken in the area in or around Maidenhead. However most of these locations are not there anymore or are unexesable. We have now found a location that we would like to use however and it is easy for us to get to. It is a carpark in Maidenhead. We will film there at night to have that dark effect so we can use strobe lights and there are areas where we can create some really interesting shots, such as door shoots and running up/down stairs. Here is our chosen location:-

Portfolio work- Prductive Thinking.

In yesterdays lesson our task was to think of products that would makes people's day to day lives easier. These products could not exist already and had to be achievable. We were put into groups and in these groups we had to think of 25 ideas. Our group came up with a wide range of ideas such as umbrella's with no handles and float above your head and cooking utensils that count your calories. We also had ideas that were inspired from films such as 'Back to the Future' where they have shoe laces that do themselves up and hover boards. Towards the end of the lesson each group then chose their 5 best ideas and put them on the board. We then discussed these ideas and narrowed the options down to the best 2.

This task was designed for us to understand how to blog. The outcome was that whatever idea you have that is related to media and our final task we would blog about it.
Our teacher came up with a useful quote that helps inspire us into creating attractive, relevant blogs.

Research and Planning. Music video theroy. Voyeurism.

After looking at some examples of some voyeuristic music videos in a previous lesson, today in groups we went out to experiment shooting shots that are mostly used in a voyeuristic way, such as tilts and tracking shots. To start with we made a small story board showing our understanding of the shots we could try and which ones work best.

After that we then went out and filmed our shots. 

This was very helpful because it gave us the chance to think whether we want to use voyeuristic shots in our music video. However because we are doing a metal genre video we thought that we didn't need to do this so we thought about how we can avoid using similar shots. On the other hand this was helpful as we do want to use P.O.V shots from the 'threats' point of view so we could use similar camera movements and techniques. 

Research and Planning- Magazine Adverts.

For research into our ancillary task I have looked at music adverts in music magazines. The magazines I have looked at are Kerrang and Rocksound. I look at these because these are some of the likely magazines that would advertise our chosen band; Ravenface.

From looking at the magazines I have made a list of the different adverts i have seen in each magazine.

Kerrang:-

• Kerrang! video podcast.
• Young Minds metal health and well being.
• Up coming gigs.
• Peta Animal cruelty.
• Musicians' Union.
• Kerrang! Radio.
• Loudclothing.com.
• Monster Screen Prints.
• Gig Promo UK.
• Fourleaf clothing.
• rockabilia.com.
• Grindstore.com.
• Orange.
• Upcoming CD releases of current bands.
• O2.
• Emmure Slave To The Game.
• Up coming films including review.
• Subscribtion to the magazine.
• And much more.

Rocksound:-

• Sinstarclothing.com.
• New albums of current bands.
• Loudclothing.com.
• Upcoming festivals like Heavy Music Festival.
• New music equipment like Amps.
• Vouchers for new albums.
• Subscribtion to the magazine.
• social platforms for rocksound.
• HMV.
• abandonshipapparel.com.
• Impericon.
• Music Union.
• And much more.

After looking at these it has given me a few ideas and designs that I will apply to my ancillary task for advertising my chosen band and the music video we will create.

Research and Planning- Filming Log.

Day of filming: 29/09/12
Location: Holiday Woods, Windsor.

I went out filming establishing shots that we could possibly use for the beginning to our music video 'This is Annihilation' by Ravenface. I went just before sunset as we are basing our video around and after that time of day. However I miss interpreted how long it would take to get to the location, so by the time I got there it was too dark for the camera to pick up much.
However I did get some interesting shots od woodland paths and the sun setting that we could use to help us get an idea of what we want. I also managed to get shots of a full moon, which we could use as it tells the audience the time of the day and full moons are associated with horror genres so it could create an ery mood for our video.

I have edited the footage in to much cleaner clips, without any sudden camera movements. We have also experimented with editing styles and effects that we could possibly use for our final video.