Planning For Our Music Video.

We had a few ideas for what music videos we wanted to do, our first ideas were to do Ben Howard's song 'Keep your Head Up', yet we realised that the beat was too lagging and slow. Ed Sheeran was also a popular choice among my group, yet we realised that most of his songs are all the same, and are the same throughout the entirety of the song, not really changing in beat or having a beginning, middle and end that is very noticably separate.
After all the debate, we finally dediced on this song. We chose it as it has a quick beat which means we can quickly edit and cut scenes, showing variety in footage and editing skills. We want to have lots of shots in the studio in our college so that it gives a professional kind of look to it.  Mikey, Troy and Sam have the main parts while I just sing a little bit in the chorus! However I am looking forward to shooting and editing as I am hoping that we will have a lot of fun and produce something that reflects our humour and hard work all together!

Diary: Coursework Introduction

Recently we have been set our coursework, which is that we have to create our own music video to a song that does not already have one. Whilst discussing our options, my group decided that we want to find a song that would include all of us, as we wanted all of us to be in the music video, we also wanted to get a song that has a good beat to it, so that we can show how strong we have got with our editing. Time to search youtube...

Urban Tribes...

Urban Tribe is basically a term that allocates members of the audience into certain categories. For example; chav, emo, goth, scene kid, gangster, and so on. Music can very easily create a persona for it's audiences, for example, if you love the band Metro Station (which I most certainly don't) you would probably have long hair, piercings and have a noble pair of skinny jeans, which most people can't really pull off.

However, if you love Devlin, you're more likely to be promoting your trusty Adidas matching tracksuit and trainers, with a Lyle and Scott polo saved for best.

However, although Urban Tribes are known to be a part of every day culture, as some people are obviously listening ton Nirvana and Enter Shikari, with a little bit of Avril Lavigne on the side, and they dress to reflect this, people such as myself cannot specifically be placed into one category, as I love music from the likes of Rihanna, Kanye West and Whiz Kalifa, to the likes of Devlin and Professor Green. I also love listening to Britney Spears still, as well as Mariah Carey, The Beatles, The Black Eyes Peas, Ed Sheeran, Dubstep, the list is never ending! And I think this variety of music and artists to influence me, can reflect on myself; with how I act and how I present myself. According to the Urban Tribe quiz I fall into the 'Blinger' category. Apparently I love to wear expensive jewellery and show everyone just how rich I am! i'd rather go out in my dad's sweatshirt if I'm completely honest...

Frame by Frame Comparison

These shots are what we managed to get from our video in comparison to the origianal. Although we were not preperared for the chande of music video, I feel we actually did quite well and our shots were close to that
of the original video.

So What Did We Do?!

Instead of going with the idea of One Direction's song, we then decided to do a rendition of 'The Man Who Can't Be Moved' by The Script. We only had an hour or so to complete this and we were lacking the correct mise en scene. The lack of footage that was captured also meant that although editing may of been strong, there was not enough footage to edit. The final result I felt was a good example of editing, considering the poor amount of footage. However, overall, I am quite disappointed with the final result as I was really looking forward to getting a professional looking end result. I just hope for our actual music video that we are more prepared and our hard work actually pays off.

Click HERE to see our music video!

Our Second Practice For Lip Sync...

Our first idea was to do 'One Direction - That's What Makes You Beautiful' as we live near a beach and a few of us can drive, so could improvise the parts where there is the volkswagen camper van, and so on. I also studied the director and feel that his work is very strong, so wanted to shoot something similar. However, on the day we turned up to film, wearing all the correct clothes and bringing along all the right props... it was raining, and there was a beach bike race. So although we had good ideas and were organised with mise en scene etc, we were not prepared for natural causes that could effect our filming.

As A Music Consuming Audience...

Everywhere you go you are influenced by music. As soon as you walk into a shop, there is music in the background, the media is filmed with X Factor goss, music channels, the radio blasting in the car, night clubs - it's hard to avoid! However, would you want to avoid it? Silence is never exciting. Music can get you in the mood to go out, help you relax and make you escape, get to sleep, can give you and stranger a topic of conversation, and can keep you company on long journeys.
Music can also reflect your moods, and even make your moods change. For example if you're feeling really low and down in the dumps listening to Damien Rice is going to reflect your mood, and you will be able to relate to his lyrics and the tone, but if you listen to likes such as Bruno Mars, who often has rather upbeat songs, with quite optimistic lyrics.
Youtube (www.youtube.com) has made it very easy for people to view music videos. However, do you watch them to listen to the music or to see what the artist looks like and how they are performing? In my opinion I think that music will always beat music videos. Music will always be listened to and appreciated more than a music video will be viewed - yet sometimes a music video sells a song and makes it more popular. For example, Katy Perry, Rihanna and Beyonce have very sexualised videos and can sometimes be very bold and OTT, and sometimes even people who don't like these artists watch the music videos to see what the attraction of the music video is. Below is a perfect example of how erotic and sexualised music videos can get.