Final Video

Here is our finished video :)

Feedback of final video

After finishing our music video we have put it on youtube and gave and received feedback for each group.

*Visuals worked with the transitions.
*visuals suited the lyrics.
*The ripple effect transition was'nt particularly liked but unfortunately necessary.
*Liked the beginning and ending shot mirroring.
*Entrances and Exits of characters were liked.
*Liked the Playstation/ Xbox concept.
*Narrative and As Live were thought to be particularly original.
*Intertextuality of Rockband was liked.
*The angle of the shot where Amy, singer, comes, singing, down and close to the camera is liked.
*Th pitch matching the video exactly was noticed.
*Amy's performance - Great!
*The illustrative of the pieces of paper reading '19' and '20' was noticed not to work very well when we zoomed the shot in on FinalCut, as it was pixellated and grainy.
*lip syncing was said to be good.
*The concept was 'simplistic and playful'.
*Well portrayed narrative.

Props & Costume list

Props

We used many more different props for the 'as live' footage than we did for the food-fight sequence.

• Playstation - Finally, we ended up using a playstation rather than the Xbox as the generation of the Xbox was wrong and therefore the usb's were uncompatable so we used the playstation instead.
  
• food - We used a variety of foods for the food-fight, of which consisted of various flavours and colours of angel delight, rice pudding, jelly, squarty cream on flan bases (with cherries to go on top).
  
• paper reading '19' and '20' - we used these in the 'as live' footage, as it includes the illustrative in the video. (therefore involving the music video conventions).
  
• rockband - Instead of using real instruments we used the light, plastic controller, instruments of rockband for a comical effect.
  

Costumes

We decided on bright, in you face, colours

rockband: colourful t-shirts and miss match trousers or shorts, colourful tights.

food-fight: singer - miss match t-shirt to trousers, foodfighters - white lab coats

Risk Assessment

Before starting our filming we had to make sure it would be safe so thought a risk assessment a good idea. the 'as live' part of the filming was carried out in Lloyds living room using the rock band instruments. the 'narrative' part of the filming was carried out in the Granchester Meadows, having a food fight.

As Live:
What could cause harm?
During the filming Amy, Lloyd and Ella will all use fake plastic instruments. there is also going to be a lot of jumping around and energetic movements. it is possible that someone could hit or knock into someone else. the room is quite a small space to film in. there is still furniture in the room so this may get in the way and hurt someone if fallen into.

What is the likelihood of this happening?
I think that because we are filming for quite an energetic song, it requires the actors being convincing and moving around a lot. there is much moving and jumping around and the instruments will be thrown around a lot. because of this i think it was very likely that someone was going to be hit by someone or something else very often.

Who or what could be harmed?
i think the main concern is that any of the three actors could get hurt, or that the camera may get damaged by being dropped by the person filming or knocked by the actors. we will also have to be careful not to damage any of the furniture or borrowed rock band equipment.

How much harm?
I don't think it is really likely that much harm will be done. The actors were not rough people and the props and furniture are quite robust.

How will the risk be managed?
The risk will be managed by keeping control. the camera will only be put in safe places and will always be held and looked after. the actors are very careful with the borrowed equipment and we will move the furniture to suit the set to eliminate the risk.

Narrative:
What could cause harm?
The main thing that could cause harm is maybe the food that will be thrown could hurt or get someone in the face, or make the grassy ground slippery. there is also the concern that the camera may get hit by food. maybe if all the actors that we use get excited and run around a lot, there is always the possibility that they could run into each other or fall over or get tired.

What is the likelihood of this happening?
There is probably quite a high likelihood of people running into each other or slipping over on food. maybe if our filming takes too long and it begins to get dark it may get hard to see what we are doing and again this could increase the risk of people running into each other. i doubt that the camera will get hit with food as it is a large space and the camera will not be too near the action.

Who or what could be harmed?
The only real concern is the actors bumping into each other or falling over. i don't think there will be much of a problem though.

How much harm?
I don't think much harm will be done as the actors probably wont hurt themselves too much if they fall over as they are running on grass. the camera will be looked after and wont be damaged.

How will the risk be managed?
The actors will be very careful about running into each other and the situation will be controlled. the food may make the ground slippery but everyone will be careful and rest if they need it. the camera will be kept far away from any possible danger too.

Planning Of As live Footage

The planning of the as live footage was much easier to accomplish than the food fight footage because we were only relying on the people in our group. We had our location planned out (above) and transport was easy. It took a couple of hours to get all the footage we wanted and it all went to plan :)

We had to do some careful planning in order to get the rockband for our filming. We had to arrange it with our friend to borrow his rockband equipment and we had to borrow a console off someone else. Our original location changed because of transport so we moved it to a closer location. All in all our planning was pretty organised and we were able to film on time and in a good location. :)

Shooting Day (Images)

The shooting day for creating the footage for the food fight was a long day as it meant that we had to make up all the food for everyone to throw at one another. Throughout the day we documented our progress in the form of images, taken on our personal hand held digital cameras and the cameras on our mobile phones. Here are just a few pictures from the day:


Here is the finish product of the food prep process. As you can see there are tubs full of custard, jelly, angel delight and cans of rice pudding, whipped cream and flan bases for 'cream cakes' that will later in the filming be thrown by us 'band members' at the 'singer', Amy. We have also got cherries to put on top for the finishing touch detail.


Here are some macro shots of the food that will be thrown in peoples faces. Here is custard that we made for everyone to throw at one another.


And this is angel delight. We made three different flavours so that we would have a variety of colours in the food-fight, we want the colours to show up clearly on the lab coats that people will be wearing to protect their clothes and show up the food clearly.

Whisking angel delight fun!

Testing that the whipped cream works.....

.... Because we wouldnt want to be unprepared now would we!

Yet another macro shot of the food we are going to be using. This one is a mixture of jellies, although once we had got the food to the site it melted a bit therefore was a little bit runny, but still usable.

After filming: rice pudding in the face, but they loved it!

After filming close up shots: Chocolate angel delight in the face, thank goodness for lab coats to protect everyone's clothes.

Fun times! We tried to keep the camera running as much as possible in case anyone did anything particularly hooligan-ish, for example walking around with tubs on there heads.

Lloyd got a bit hungry after having angel delight and jelly thrown all over him.

Unimpressed?

After we attacked Amy with the cream cakes, for the final shot of this section. Amy decided to get her revenge.

Overall the shooting of the footage went extremely well and we created lots of footage to use and therefore was very productive.

FOODFIGHT!!!

WELL THAT WAS A PIE IN THE FACE; BUT MORE ON THAT LATER...

First about the organizing of the fight...
Well Lloyd did the main bit of the organization, trying to get our friends to turn up to the shoot at the right time, they are very unreliable and most of the people who i asked could not make it but Ella phoned some of our friends at hills and they turned up only Rob, Jason and Emma showed up.

...well back to the FOODFIGHT!!! It was amazing fun to do and we shot a lot of footage using the camera in different ways and at different angles to get a varied amount of shots.

One issue we had on the day of shooting was the issue of timing. We had to try and shoot all of our food fight footage before it got dark. As we only started shooting at about 5pm we had to work fast to get everything done before the light faded.

We managed it :)

The second problem we faced was the issue of food. Because we had made up all the food before the shoot and we had a limited supply of it we had a limited number of takes. We did unfortunately run out of food before the shoot was over and so we improvised.

Angles

We are going to be shooting from a multiple amount of angles to get a large range of shots. This will put the audience closer to the action of the band and food fighting. Using shots like low angle tilted shots give the impression that the band are superior. Also close up shots, of the artists, and preferably many more. These images will give an example of the other kind of shots we are intending on filming:



We need to shoot the artists, each, playing their instrument from a head on mid-long shot.

We need lots of close up shots of the singer, as they are lead the song, preferably more of this artist than the others as the focus would be best to be on her.



We like the idea of shooting the instruments being played from behind the artist's back, to make the audience feel closer to the action, close ups.

This shot gives an idea of the close up shots, of the instruments, we are going to be doing. It also works as an example of the low angle shots we are going for, when shooting the singing artist to make her appear superior.

Test Footage

We went out with our camera and shot some test footage. We tried to fit it in time to the music and make it similar to our animatic.

Selection Proccess

We had a list of 13 songs to listen to and choose from for our music video.

Name Artist

Buss It Up Kano - 4:48
Whatever It Is (I Can't Shake It) The Shivers - 2:55
Pieces Field Music - 3:05
She Said Holly Golightly - 2:04
19-20-20 The Grates - 2:05
Cologne Cerrone Houdini Goldfrapp - 4:26
Succumb Bassboosa - 3:41
Precious Depeche Mode - 4:09
Tomorrow Will Be Like Today Money Mark - 3:37
Seen The Light Cosy Cosy - 3:36
Lotus Cage The Elephant - 3:17
Snakes Autons - 2:28
Plastic Hearts Dirty Pretty Things - 3:10

Mise - En - Scene

Rock Band - in front room

Lighting - Warm, artificial lights from lamps, natural light- curtains open

Costume(colour coded)- Main singer- all white clothing, Other band members- mix and match of all three primary colours (red, blue and yellow jeans and tops)

Props- RockBand, Xbox, - Friends own the xbox and rockband and we have permission from them to use them.

Camerawork- Panning on wheeled chairs, Panning using tripod, others shot will be still and on the tripod.

Editing- To the music and cut to the beat. Fast/ short shots when music is fast, Slow/ long shots when music is slow.

Food fight - in Grantchester meadows

Lighting- Natural lighting of the day, hopefully it will be a sunny day to bring out the colours in the foodfight.

Costume- Band members wear the same as in the rockband section (maybe mix the clothes around a bit, eg different coloured top to trousers).

Props- A stool for the singer to stand on, sling shots - for food to be catapulted out of, food dyed mashed patatoe - to match the colours of the band members clothing and other foods to catch on camera, (eg pretty and nicely decorated cup cakes).

Camerawork- Hand held panning from the middle - to show the caos, still shots on tripod and panning on tripod.

Editing- Fast and quick to make it look even more caotic than it actually is.

Pictures & Inspiration

This is the sort of chaotic atmosphere we want for our video's food-fight.
We want the action around the singer to be in a 'world of its own' and during the song the singer is the only person who doesn't get hit by any food.
She says clean until the end of the video, when she is pelted with food.
This is our final shot.

The Rock Band idea is our 'as-live' footage.
We chose to use Rock Band instruments rather than real instruments because it gives a furter comical element to our video.

Test Footage & Location Shots

We have taken location shots of our proposed location for our food fight:

Granchester Medows






The reason for choosing a wide open meadow is because it is an open space, which will therefore portray the confusion of the character's (singers') mood. The mood of which, is that she is confused and stressed about her boyfriend, with all these different feelings about him, as the lyrics interpret. And an advantage to having the food fight in the meadows is that it will be easy to clean up and accessible for the large number of people we need to participate in the food fight.

We have taken location shots for our proposed rock band footage:

Front Room

ANIMATIC FEEDBACK

• what worked?
• what didn't
• style/genre
• music video convention
• concept clear?

Drum solos shown well by shot of drums.

The other emphasized sounds e.g. guitar, were shown well with close up shots.

The as live footage was conventional to the style and genre showing instruments and close ups of band members.

Lots of different views and angles meaning the as live footage won't get repetitive like it sometimes can.

Some people were concerned about product placement (showing the Xbox) but we have come to the conclusion that it will not be a problem.

No one commented on the concept or narrative so we are hoping it is quite clear. (E.g. Shots with the food fight and the singer at the front.)

Animatic

Animatic

• Close up food thrown (from behind camera) at singer.

• Mid shot - pans out.

• Close up (longshot for background)

• Long shot (ground level).

• Close up of action.

• Mid/ long shot.

• High (arial) - long shot.

• Long shot.

• Mid shot.

• High - long shot.

• Mid - extreme low shot.

• Extreme Close up.

• Extreme close up.

• Close up.

• Close  up.

• Extreme - Close up.

The Grates

The song we have chosen to do for our music video is '19-20-20' by The Grates.

The Grates are a three-piece band from Brisbane, Australia. They have been active as a band since 2002 until present and their genre has been defined as 'indie rock/alternative rock'.

The band includes:
- Patience Hodgson (lead vocals)
- John Patterson (Guitar)
- Alana Skyring (Drums)

Their music has often been described as "fun" and has been compared to the likes of the 'Yeah Yeah Yeahs' & 'Be Your Own PET'. The band design their own merchandise, which includes their album artwork, posters, T-shirts and socks and they have supported such bands as The Zutons, The Young Knives, The Go! Team, Artic Monkeys.

Their debut EP (extended play) was releasd in Australia on February 14th 2005. It was called 'The Ouch. The Touch.' (released in UK in April 2005)
Their debut album was called 'Gravity Wont Get You High'. Released on April 8th 2006 and reached #9 in the charts. This 1st single released by them was our song '19-20-20', which reached #10 in the 'Hottest 100' of 2006.

Their most recent album was released on August 2nd 2008 and is called 'Teeth Lost. Hearts Won'.

ALBUMS
- Gravity Wont Get You High (2006)
- Teeth Lost. Hearts Won (2008)

The Grates have been nominated for six awards:
2006 Australian Music Prize - Best contemporary music album (Gravity Won't Get You High)
2006 Jack Awards - Best Live Newcomer
2006 Triple J J Award
2006 ARIA Award - Breakthrough Artist - Album
2006 ARIA Award - Best Cover Art
2007 ARIA Award - Best Music DVD ('Til Death Do Us Party')

The Grates have released videos for some of their songs.
Including:

Burning Bridges



Message

Shot List

Opening - (plugging in of RockBand)
consists mainly of closeup shots.

This section of the music video will be based in our friends front living room, with t.v sofas etc in the background.

(Extreme close up)- A finger pressing the 'on' button being turned on.
(Close up)- Plugging in of leeds and controllers for rock band into the Xbox.
(Close up)- Plugs into main/tv.
(Extreme close up)- Guitars being held by band members.
(Close up)- Cut to drums (various parts of the drum kit, such as the peddle, drumsticks and drums skins etc)
(Mid shots)- Band members faces, hands controlling instruments.
various angles

As Live - (rock band being plugged in)

This section of the video will also be based in our friends front living room.

(Close up)- Artists faces.
(Extreme/ Close up)- Artists playing instruments (hands on holding drum sticks/ feet on peddles/ hands holding guitars and micros phones).
(Establishing shot)- Shot of every band member head on showing the room also.
(Mid shots/ full length)- Each performer separately.
again using various angles

Narrative/ Abstract - (food fight in meadow)

This section of the music video will be shot at Grantchester Meadows, on the fields.

(Close up)- Hands throwing food.
(Close up)- The food hitting people/ objects.
(Close up)- Faces - expressions
(Establishing shot)- Areal shots (birds eye view).
(Establishing shot)- Long shots - ground level (of feet).
(P.O.V shots)- Having food being thrown from behind the camera and towards camera.
(Panning)- hand held (slow motion)- from in the middle of the food fight/ singers point of view showing extent of action.

Deadline For This Week

- Construct and complete shot list and blog it; for next lesson

- Storyboard a one minute sequence from your video; for the middle of next lesson

- Capture the frames from your storyboard and create a one minute animatic in final cut; for end of the week

- Upload to Blog

Videos For Inspiration

Feist - 1234




The video is very colourful. Each person is dressed in only one colour, which makes them all stand out & gives the video a bold feel. This is contrasted nicely with the big, blank, open space in which it is set. This makes it easy for people to focus on the dance routine. This provides good inspiration for our own video especially the abstract narrative of the food fight. It will be held in a blank open space and have the focus in the middle, with bold colours. This will help emphasize and create focus on the action.



Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet



The main point that we liked about this video was the slow motion. We thought it would be something good to have in our own video. We found out that to do it the person miming has to mime twice as fast so it can be slowed down. We also liked the bold colours, especially as they were brightest in the fast scenes and duller in the slow ones. If we used this idea we would probably use it in reverse, with our food fight slow but bright.

We noticed some similarities between this video & Feist's video. The blocks of colours used as well as some techniques. The aerial shot of Bjork spinning round and the umbrellas opening matches that in Feist's video of the aerial shot where she spins round & people fall down. At the end of both videos the main character is seen being brought forward into centre shot away from the dance routine in the background.

choosing the song

At the start of the lesson we were given a track list and had to decide in our groups which to choose.

• i liked track 2 'whatever it is (i cant shake this)' by The Shivers. i liked it because it was an upbeat song with probably an acoustic/rock genre. me and amy thought that because of the quick pase it would be easy to create a video for.
• Another good one would have been track 9 'tomorrow will be like today' by Money Mark which amy suggested was indie/pop genre. i enjoyed the song but also there was an interesting bit in it; there was a good music/lyric relationship where the lyrics are "everything stops" and at this point the music also stops. i thought this would be really good to create visuals for and you could be really creative deciding how to fit a storyline around it.
• one track which we all agreed was not very good to use was track 1 'bass it up' by Kano. it was an 'RnB' rap like song. the song was very quick in places and the lyrics were hard to understand. we agreed straight away that it would be a very hard song to work with and create visuals for which would fit with it. not just that, we also had to take into consideration the fact that it would be really hard to lipsync with!

lloyd said we should vote for our favourite song. we all wrote down our top three and the one that we all had was '19-20-20' by The Grates. it is quite an indie song. fast and up beat which is better than a slow one, as amy pointed out, because it means we dont have to create visuals for absolutely all of the song. a slower pased song may require a more narrative driven video which we wanted to keep away from as it could become boring. even though it is fast the lyrics are still nice and distinguishable. the genre suggests alot of colours and we have some ideas already that were inspired by the sound of it, such as the food fight. we think it will be a good one to work with.

in depth ideas

the song we are creating a video to is quite upbeat, after looking at the lyrics we think it is about a girl who is complaining about her boyfriend. we have had some initial ideas which were the live rockband section, and the food fight section.
we really wanted some live band action as we thought it would go nicely with the up beat song and we didnt want the whole thing to be narrative. we wanted it to be different and querky and thats when ella came up with the idea to use rock band and lloyd suggested it could then transform into a video game.
we didnt want it to get too boring or repetative so decided to intersperse the performance with a bit of a more abstract narrative. amy had a good idea of a food fight, thinking the bright colours and lots of people would suit the genre of song nicely. i said that the food fight should take place in a field because that way the large emptiness of the field with the confusion and business in the middle would reflect the character's (who is singing) mood. we think she should be in the middle of the cofusion again reflecting how she feels and just watching all the action. she will remain clean untill the end when it all hits her. all the characters will be wearing white clothes so that the bright food (colourd mash) will show up!

The Pitch

Summary Of Content

- Our initial and potential idea for out music video is to have two set pieces of footage.
One is a 'live' based footage of the band playing instruments, in beat to the music, the only thing that will make this different from other music videos is that the drums, base guitar, electric guitar and microphone will be the controllers of the video game 'rock band'. This takes place in a living room of an average persons home.
The second is the 'narrative', of which we have not decided on a specific idea. Yet the ideas we have come up with include the band members, or others, having fun, possibly having a food fight and or acting out of a story either related to the lyrics or not, we still need to have a closer look at the lyrics and if they tell a story.
We had the idea of including an 'action' sequence at the beginning of the video, this will be the band/ players of the game plugging in their individual controllers leading into the performance based footage. Another way to gradually move into the song could be an idea we had, to gather a large group of people to 'march' down a street with brass instruments, as the intro to the song, the bit with no lyrics is quite jazzy. We could then include this in the cut over footage from the 'live' footage to make it relevent, aswell as it being very fun to watch.

Related Videos




- Rockband



- Madcon - Beggin'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ahe_hTXgBY

The way in which this video relates to our initial idea is that the artists are playing the video game and it cuts between them playing the game in reality to them physically in the game, in their sleep.
This could video could be watched as if separated into 3 different pieces of footage. 1st is the artists sitting in the two chairs with controllers in their hands and the 2nd is them physically in the game, giving a sort of serial effect. The 3rd also has this serial effect, with a colourful background and the artists and dancers all in unison dancing along to the music.
Another element that is similar to our initial idea is the opening, as it shows the game being played on the television from a players point of view.

This video uses Goodwin's six points well, as we can clearly indicate how each is used.

1.The Genre for this video is pop and the characteristics used to show this are colourful based backdrops and costumes, obvious characters and an upbeat/ catchy tune.

2.Visual/ Lyrics are presented amplified and illustrated using the video game footage to help portray extreme curcumstances that wouldn't happen in reality.

3.The relationship between the music and the visuals are made through dance performance cut into the video and the music has not been edited to the beat of the music as clearly as the dance fits the music, but it still is cut to the music at some times noticeable.

4.The need to sell the artists is used strongly in this video as the artists appear in all three types of footage. The artists sing to the camera and have close up shots of their faces for the audience to recognise their faces.

5.The intertextual references in this video is to video games, they made up a game based completely around their song. The lyrics in the chorus are a mixture of two languages.

6.Voyeurism is used subtly as the woman are wearing modest clothing. The two police women are dressed less appropriate then a police woman in reality, as they are wearing tight flattering shirts, sun glasses, inside, why?, and glamourized makeup.

Location ideas

This is Sussex Street in Cambridge and this is the kind of place where we were intending on shooting the 'marching'/ possible cut over footage. (the food fight would need to take place outside, not sure where yet though).

This image is an example of the type of place we are planning to shoot the rock band footage.

This image portrays an idea of where we want to have the food fight footage to take place.

Presentataion feedback

After presenting our ideas to the class we got a great response back from the class. Primarily the debate of copy right, in showing the game 'rock band' and the 'xbox 360', occurred but as long as we do not show footage from the game it will only be considered product placement.

After this the issue of the food fight came up, this was because it was unclear to the class how we are planning on shooting this footage. We would basically have a stump for the singer to be standing on singing her heart out, whilst everyone around her in a circle will be dancing around and throwing food around.

An alternative idea of having the food fight in a room with white paper on the walls was mentioned as the issue of weather would be a problem. The way that this would be an advantage is that we could show the splat of the colourful food more effectively, although we cannot find a place where there is a room available or big enough for us to cover in paper and throw food around.

1st Deadlines

For Wednesday's Lesson, Complete the pitch in written on the blog and paper.

For Friday's Lesson, Present pitch to the class.

For End of Next Week (Friday 19th), Complete animatic storyboard and uploaded.

Song Choice.

for our music video we got given a list of tracks to chose from. we had to decide on the track we all agreed was the best to create a video for. we chose track 5: '19-20-20' by The Grates. we then had to find the lyrics for it from lyricsmode.com and copy and paste them here.


My baby is off yeah shooting tigers,
My baby is such a fucken liar,
My baby booh yeah im looking for a

19, 20, 20
19, 20, 20

My baby oh yeah he could sleep in town,
My baby doesn't want me around,
My baby Huh Huh,

19, 20, 20 (8 times)

My baby is up yeah he's stealling stars,
My baby put all his faith in mars,
My baby Huh Huh,

19, 20, 20
19, 20, 20

My baby's rounch check is round the clock,
My baby don't know what he got,
My baby Grr, Grr

19, 20, 20 (7 times)
19, Oh yeah,

Bom, Bom, Bom, Bom,

Prrrrrrrrrrr

I think I found you In a unknown location,
I think I left you In a starge position,

19, 20, 20 (8Times)
19 (6 Times)
19, 20, 20
19, 20, 20

Picking The Song

When choosing the song we want to use for our music video we looked at 4 different aspects to help us chose, such as:

-Genre
-Narrative
-Lyrics
-and Pace

Genre - the genre would help us to imagine what kind of video to make, for example R&B tends to be story based.

Narrative - by listening to the lyrics we could hear a clear story/ narrative.

Lyrics - It is important to be able to hear the lyrics clearly, as this would make lip-sinking a lot easier. Also the lyrics tell a story of what the composer is trying to get through to his/hers audience.

Pace - by listening to the pace we are able to ditermine what kind of video to make for example, rave or story telling.

(name the other songs we got to chose from)
Then we listened to all 13 songs and noted them on all the above points.