Harriet and I played around with the software and this is what we ended up with:
Overall I think this helped me to understand the software I will use.
Kudo to Yaak for the idea =]
Showing posts with label Preparation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Preparation. Show all posts
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Editing
This A2 project is the first time I have used a mac, because of this, I thought it would be very useful for me to practice using the editing software (iMovie) before I use it for my actual main peice.
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
Taking into account my research
Previous research showed me that a director tends to write more than one idea in a treatment so I have decided to write another treatment for a different song that will contain a few ideas for the song. This pitch and treatment will be for the song 'Neopolitan Dreams' by Lisa Mitchell.
The Pitch
I am an A Level student and for my coursework I plan on creating a music video for the song 'Neopliton' by Lisa Mitchell. I have a few ideas but all of them revolve around one girl who would be playing the singer and a story that goes well with the song. I think that all the ideas I envision for this music video as will complement the song greatly. I also think that my audience will like it as I have found from my research that most people enjoy it when there is a story being told that encompasses the song.
The Treatment
A tall slim woman wakes up and get out of bed, it zooms out and pans so you see her walking to the bathroom door, extreme close up of her feet padding on the floor. She goes in the door closes and she comes out all dressed and carrying some post-it notes. She places the post it note above a mans head. The camera then cuts to her singing while she is sitting in a tree swinging her legs. When it cuts back to the man we see him wake up and follow all these post-it notes. They lead from the bed to the bath room, where there is a shot of his clothes layed out, then he is dressed and comes back out and it leads to the hallway and one on a jacket says 'wear me' then they continue out the front door and along the street. It cuts back to the girl walking and singing while going down some streets. It cuts back to the man who is lead to a building. He goes in and is lead up some stairs into a room where the woman is, she is standing by a paper stand and he sits. For the lyrics 'i like the way that you walk' and so on, she points to stick figure drawings that are on the paper stand. When it gets to 'I don't think that your ever 100% in the room' bit the camera will focus on him then pan to the window, and he will be outside the window doing something and the camera will smoothly cut to him outside.
OR
The Pitch
I am an A Level student and for my coursework I plan on creating a music video for the song 'Neopliton' by Lisa Mitchell. I have a few ideas but all of them revolve around one girl who would be playing the singer and a story that goes well with the song. I think that all the ideas I envision for this music video as will complement the song greatly. I also think that my audience will like it as I have found from my research that most people enjoy it when there is a story being told that encompasses the song.
The Treatment
A tall slim woman wakes up and get out of bed, it zooms out and pans so you see her walking to the bathroom door, extreme close up of her feet padding on the floor. She goes in the door closes and she comes out all dressed and carrying some post-it notes. She places the post it note above a mans head. The camera then cuts to her singing while she is sitting in a tree swinging her legs. When it cuts back to the man we see him wake up and follow all these post-it notes. They lead from the bed to the bath room, where there is a shot of his clothes layed out, then he is dressed and comes back out and it leads to the hallway and one on a jacket says 'wear me' then they continue out the front door and along the street. It cuts back to the girl walking and singing while going down some streets. It cuts back to the man who is lead to a building. He goes in and is lead up some stairs into a room where the woman is, she is standing by a paper stand and he sits. For the lyrics 'i like the way that you walk' and so on, she points to stick figure drawings that are on the paper stand. When it gets to 'I don't think that your ever 100% in the room' bit the camera will focus on him then pan to the window, and he will be outside the window doing something and the camera will smoothly cut to him outside.
OR
A girl is following a trail left by a boy. It will start with split screen of a girl walking up the path while the boy is putting paper sail boats in the water. It will then change so that the so that the main screen is the girl walking down the river, picking up the sail boats. She will then go under a bridge then walk up to see a balloon with a direction arrow on it tied to a tree. It will then cut to her house where she is sitting crossed legged going through a scrap book. Then it cuts to her biking down a road and to a tree. There will then be lots of cuts between her splashing in the river and climbing up the tree and biking down the road and what not. Then it will cut back to her biking and getting to the tree. The split screen comes back and we see the boy walking towards the tree as well holding a giant flower. She looks around and then appears upset and sits by the tree with her head in her hands (giving the idea that she has closed her sense off to the world around her). When he gets to the girl the split screen goes away as he is handing a flower to her. She gets up and the camera fades out as they are about to kiss/as they hug.
OR
The camera is extremely close up to a carnival cotton candy stand, it slowly zooms out and a girl skips/runs infront of the screen laughing in a dress. The camera follows her as she heads towards a ferris wheel, she gets on the the camera watchs as it goes up. Then it cuts to the ferris wheel seat and the girl is singing to the words. The camera then cuts so it is a point of view shot looking at the ground where a couple is. She watches them hold hands and kiss and then the boy wins the girl a giant teddy bear. It cuts back to her alone on the ferris wheel seat and she looks sad. Then he is magically besides her and the ferris wheel ride ends and they skip off together.
OR
OR
There are a lot of girls in really pretty vintage dresses and boys in suits and they are all playing a game of hide and seek in the city.
Back in the real world
As well analysing music video's that are made for the mass media, i think it would be even more useful for me to look at a video that was made by someone who will have had the same sort of budget and time scale that I do.
The link is from YouTube, so if your computer has any locks or protections against this site you will not be able to view it.
My response and grading of this video can be found here on the media departments blog.
The link is from YouTube, so if your computer has any locks or protections against this site you will not be able to view it.
My response and grading of this video can be found here on the media departments blog.
Thursday, 1 October 2009
This is what I had in mind
The Pitch
I am an A Level student and for my coursework I plan on creating a music video for the song 'Apologies' by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. The video would have 3 interlinking narratives that will be cut together. One of these three would be the singer, another is a woman (the singer) coming home and watching a tape and the final is the narrative of what is on a tape. I think that what I envision this music video as will complement the song greatly. I also think that my audience will like it as I have found from my research that most people enjoy it when there is a story being told that encompasses the song.
The Treatment
During the first 19 seconds of the song a woman (WA) unlocks a door and walks into her house. She picks up the mail off the floor and sorts through it. She then drops a few small envelopes on the side table and her bag on the floor while she carries on walking through to the living room looking at a big A4 envelope. She sits on the sofa and starts opening it.
At .20 seconds in it will cut to a woman singing the first lines. This woman could be in the room with WA or in a completely different scene such as a forest or by a river on a dock. At .31 seconds the camera will cut back to WA as she puts the tape in and at approximately .42 seconds she and a man come up onto the screen (these two will be referred to as TV couple). The camera is still on WA at this point, and she is looking in the envelope and taking out a script. While she is doing this TV couple will be visible in the background (they will just be watching a TV, the scene will be dark with the TV light flickering on there faces) on the TV, the camera will slowly pan away from WA to the TV and and at 1.17 it will zoom in until the TV couple are the scene, not just on the TV. As you are looking at the screen the woman will be on the left and the man on the right. As the couple are watching TV the woman will go to hold the mans hand and he will pull away, stand up and walk out of the room, crossing in front of the woman while she watches him walk away. She will then turn of the TV and sit in the dark until 1.29 when the camera fades out and cuts back to the singer until 1.37 when it cuts back to the TV couple, who are now in bed. The lighting would be minimal. The woman would appear to be sleeping and the man would get up and sneak out by 1.44. At 1.44 - 1.54 we would see the man walking out the front door and the woman standing at their bedroom window watching him walk away. When the song gets to 1.55 the camera would zoom out so you could see this happening on WA's TV and the she would pause the scene.
When the songs reaches 2 minutes WA will start looking through the script and fast forwarding the tape. At 2.15 she would resume playing it and we would see the TV couple laughing and kissing (possibly at the same place where the singer is singing). WA would then continue fast forwarding until 2.30 when the TV scene would show the woman cooking dinner. The TV couple man would walk in and she as she went to kiss him she would see lipstick on his collar and at 2.35 she would step back and start asking him about it (the viewer would not hear what she is saying but the body language would make it apparent). They would continue arguing, at 2.42 she would throw down a plate then at 2.48/.49 he would try to hug/grab her arms and she would push him away at 2.50. Then at 2.57 he would throw up his arms and yell 'FINE' and leave.(The scene from 2.30 - 3.00 ish would be in 'slow motion'. It would then zoom out while she is crying to the script laying on the table opened on the last page with the words 'HE EXITS' at roughly 3.09
At 3.11 it would cut back to the singer until 3.31/.32 when it would cut back to the woman in the flat. She would turn off the TV and get up and walk to the bedroom where she would wake up a new man. He would smile and kiss her then get up to go to the bathroom. The camera would then cut to the kitchen and her making two cups of tea, as the new man walks out in work clothes he looks at his watch and says 'sorry I've got to go' so she puts down the milk and walks him to the door.
It opens they both walk out a bit, the new man turns to kiss WA while she stands in the doorway. She has her eyes open when they kiss and she sees the original man across the street walking with some shopping (Tesco bags). At 4.13 the new man leaves and WA has a sad longing face while looking across at the original man. At 4.18 she turns to go back into her house and it cuts between her and the singer then at 4.37 WA gives a final small smile to the original man and closes the door. She then leans her body against it. The camera cuts to the man looking at the door until 4.55 when he turns and continues walking.
WA then goes and ejects the tape and the viewer sees her drop it into the bin with the script. The camera will then zoom in or out on this until the songs ends about 2 seconds later.
I am an A Level student and for my coursework I plan on creating a music video for the song 'Apologies' by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. The video would have 3 interlinking narratives that will be cut together. One of these three would be the singer, another is a woman (the singer) coming home and watching a tape and the final is the narrative of what is on a tape. I think that what I envision this music video as will complement the song greatly. I also think that my audience will like it as I have found from my research that most people enjoy it when there is a story being told that encompasses the song.
The Treatment
During the first 19 seconds of the song a woman (WA) unlocks a door and walks into her house. She picks up the mail off the floor and sorts through it. She then drops a few small envelopes on the side table and her bag on the floor while she carries on walking through to the living room looking at a big A4 envelope. She sits on the sofa and starts opening it.
At .20 seconds in it will cut to a woman singing the first lines. This woman could be in the room with WA or in a completely different scene such as a forest or by a river on a dock. At .31 seconds the camera will cut back to WA as she puts the tape in and at approximately .42 seconds she and a man come up onto the screen (these two will be referred to as TV couple). The camera is still on WA at this point, and she is looking in the envelope and taking out a script. While she is doing this TV couple will be visible in the background (they will just be watching a TV, the scene will be dark with the TV light flickering on there faces) on the TV, the camera will slowly pan away from WA to the TV and and at 1.17 it will zoom in until the TV couple are the scene, not just on the TV. As you are looking at the screen the woman will be on the left and the man on the right. As the couple are watching TV the woman will go to hold the mans hand and he will pull away, stand up and walk out of the room, crossing in front of the woman while she watches him walk away. She will then turn of the TV and sit in the dark until 1.29 when the camera fades out and cuts back to the singer until 1.37 when it cuts back to the TV couple, who are now in bed. The lighting would be minimal. The woman would appear to be sleeping and the man would get up and sneak out by 1.44. At 1.44 - 1.54 we would see the man walking out the front door and the woman standing at their bedroom window watching him walk away. When the song gets to 1.55 the camera would zoom out so you could see this happening on WA's TV and the she would pause the scene.
When the songs reaches 2 minutes WA will start looking through the script and fast forwarding the tape. At 2.15 she would resume playing it and we would see the TV couple laughing and kissing (possibly at the same place where the singer is singing). WA would then continue fast forwarding until 2.30 when the TV scene would show the woman cooking dinner. The TV couple man would walk in and she as she went to kiss him she would see lipstick on his collar and at 2.35 she would step back and start asking him about it (the viewer would not hear what she is saying but the body language would make it apparent). They would continue arguing, at 2.42 she would throw down a plate then at 2.48/.49 he would try to hug/grab her arms and she would push him away at 2.50. Then at 2.57 he would throw up his arms and yell 'FINE' and leave.(The scene from 2.30 - 3.00 ish would be in 'slow motion'. It would then zoom out while she is crying to the script laying on the table opened on the last page with the words 'HE EXITS' at roughly 3.09
At 3.11 it would cut back to the singer until 3.31/.32 when it would cut back to the woman in the flat. She would turn off the TV and get up and walk to the bedroom where she would wake up a new man. He would smile and kiss her then get up to go to the bathroom. The camera would then cut to the kitchen and her making two cups of tea, as the new man walks out in work clothes he looks at his watch and says 'sorry I've got to go' so she puts down the milk and walks him to the door.
It opens they both walk out a bit, the new man turns to kiss WA while she stands in the doorway. She has her eyes open when they kiss and she sees the original man across the street walking with some shopping (Tesco bags). At 4.13 the new man leaves and WA has a sad longing face while looking across at the original man. At 4.18 she turns to go back into her house and it cuts between her and the singer then at 4.37 WA gives a final small smile to the original man and closes the door. She then leans her body against it. The camera cuts to the man looking at the door until 4.55 when he turns and continues walking.
WA then goes and ejects the tape and the viewer sees her drop it into the bin with the script. The camera will then zoom in or out on this until the songs ends about 2 seconds later.
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