Matt's Character Catwalk Photos

Just a few photos we took of ourselves when filming 'Matt's Character Catwalk'. they include the tripod, the layout of where we shot and the limited space we had to do it all in.

Matt's Character Catwalk :')

This is Matt's Character Catwalk, which displays all the characters he will play in the music video :) i love it! Enjoy :)

First Day Filming . . . Fun :D

Yesterday was the day that me and Matt began filming. We're trying to film all of the detective parts first as it involves us going out into the local community. This needs to be done soon as this time of year doesn't link with good weather forecasts. With deteriorating weather comes less chances and less time to film outside in the local areas where we have planned to film. Luckily, we're ahead of schedule and are making good progress , even adding some shots we didn't plan on that should link in well with the music video.

Yesterday we filmed on the steps of our local council building (effectively Dagenham town hall) and got stared at . . . . a lot. Being in costume around hometime on the steps of the centre of town probably didn't help. We had a good laugh with it and got some great shots, so I'm pleased and all is looking bright :D

We also filmed in central park for the golfing scene. This was good, it wasn't busy, was nice weather and we got plenty of shots from plenty of angles.

Was a great day to start filming and we had a real laugh, today we plan to go the local library and get some shots between the book-stacks. This should be a riot!

Organisation and Schedule

Next week, me and Matt plan to film all, if not most of the parts of the detective character in the video. So as we know what we're doing on each day, and so as we can gain the materials within enough time to be comfortable with filming, we've created a make-shift schedule. The schedule goes as follows:

Monday 18th

Location(s): Civic Centre (steps and pavement)

Wants Library (bookshelves)

Central Park (with golf clubs/balls and Matt in golfers costume)

Filming: Driving Range section

Rope trip section

Library section

Sound: No extra sound needed as well as no lip-sync.

Tuesday 19th

Location: Robert Clack Drama Room

Filming: Girl Changing Scene (bring to bring his prettiest skirt and the wig)

Matt's Costume Parade :D

Sound: No extra sound needed and no lip-sync required.

Wednesday 20th

Location: Any random old street - hopefully in a location not very well known to local

audiences and other people in the class (maybe Ilford or Romford somewhere?)

Filming: Dog Chase Section

Sound: Perhaps Dog Bark Noise?

Thursday 21st

Location: Classroom with over-head projector

Filming: Cinema Sequence

Audience spread (Matt . . . again :D)

Sound: Audience boo-ing perhaps?

Friday 22nd

Location: Zebra Crossing . . . somewhere.

Empty-ish street

Filming: Abbey Road Beatles Shot.

Run Over Shot (need of bike)

Its a packed schedule but its gonna be fun :D looking forward to it!

Animatic

elow is the animatic that me and Matt created. It is just the pictures from the storyboard in movie format, cutting from one picture to another. This shows quickly, in order, the shots we are going to use and gives a better idea of how the finished product will look. Enjoy!:

StoryBoard

Below are the pictures from the storyboard me and Matt have drawn up. Everything is shown here as it is our basic plan of action. Everything from shot number and shot duration to costume and character is noted here. Here are the pictures:

Preliminary Lip-Sync Exercise - Process

This process took place over the space of about two weeks, which is ALOT longer than we thought! Turns out that editing a music video is a lot more difficult than editing a thriller opening, and we haven't even added all the stereotypical effects and motions for the preliminary. The Process went as follows:

1) Find the track on the internet in video format - Luckily for us, someone else has previously used the same song from the same band before, for their own media coursework. Typing "1984 - Green Eyed Monster" into YouTube was sufficient enough to get this done :)

2) Extracting the song from the video - There are several websites that allow you to do this, and soon enough we had the song in itunes ready to be sent or used in any way we so pleased.

3) Song Portability - We put the song onto my blackberry, which has available MP3 usage. We did this by using the IMac bluetooth function and simply bluetoothed the song over. As well as this, we put the song onto my memory stick in order to make sure we had a good copy. We put it on the memory stick in QuickTime format as this is compatible with all computers within in the school, IMac or otherwise.

4) Rock-Paper-Scissors - This helped us to decide the singer. Me and Matt did rock-paper-scissors in order to decide who was the person to lip sync as we were equally familiar with the lyrics and song. I won, so Matt had to lip-sync, neither of us minded doing it, but this was just a bit of fun. Matt did very well with the lip-sync, so I'm sure he was the better choice. Maybe it was fate, if you believe in that?

5) Finding a Room - Finding a place to film within the school was hard as we did initially find a place, only for the bell to ring and a class spill in through the doors, meaning we had to quickly change room. We found another room and set-up the tripod and used the white board as a clean background, focusing mainly on Matt 'singing'. Luckily, the second room had a computer in, so we could plug in the memory stick, up the volume and Matt could lip-sync more easily. This also made it easier later on as we could match the song on the computer with the song in our footage when editing. Simples!

6) Edit Edit Edit - This turned out to be the longest part of the process, taking about a week to maintain the song and add external images and effects. Getting to grips with the new final-cut express tech was also challenging, but its turned out good and I'm not too shabby with it now. Its looking promising for the actual video. Luckily, Matt annunciates well, so the song was easy to fit with him mouthing the words. GOOD BOY!

7) Finished Product - Don't you love it when a plan comes together? Both me and Matt were happy with the final piece, especially after the effort it took to perform the above tasks. Despite this, we're both looking forward to shooting the actual video, should be a laugh and we plan on A grades!

Lip-Sync Video - Analysis

I am very happy with how the preliminary lip-sync task went. The task allowed us to:

• Re-familiarise ourselves with the equipment
• Get used to the new software (Final Cut Express)
• Experience how to synchronise the audio and visuals
• To practice lip-syncing.
• To have a bit of a laugh :D

Whilst filming we encountered a couple of problems. Firstly, finding a place to film, especially on such short notice. We had trouble finding a room or even a site in which to find enough space to set up the camera for the length of time we wanted, which wasn't very long! We did 3 takes, purely because the first two were interrupted by people coming into the room and we wanted a flawless lip-sync. When we film whatever we do next (who knows we might do something before filming our actual video!) we need to plan much further ahead when thinking about location and setting.

We also didn't know if the new HD Camera's microphones were on. Now that we know it doesn't matter if they are on or off, we can continue with the work at a much faster pace.

Knowing the lyrics was also a problem, as some of the words were ambiguous. You can see in the video that what Matt is singing doesn't always match the lyrics. For example, the lyrics say "with all the boys and that", but at the time we though the lyrics were "with all the boys in maths", which is what Matt sings in the lip-sync video.

From the lip-sync preliminary, we know that for our main task we need to:

1. Know the lyrics!
2. Plan ahead with regards to setting and location.
3. Know the technology!

Luckily, that is all that we had trouble with. Apart from these minor hiccups we were fine. Looking forward to beginning shooting the video!

Preliminary Lip-Sync Video

This is our A2 Music Video preliminary task. Its purpose was simply to get used to lip-synching, sing the words in time with the song and put them together in editing. Luckily, i've had a lot of free time, which means i've been able to play around, have fun and get used to the new final cut express software.

Enjoy!

Copyright Rules

Throughout all of media, whether it be music, film or magazines, there are certain rules that need to be obeyed regarding ownership and copyright. Relative companies have been set up so as these rules are followed to prevent infringement.

These rules regard to us as media students as much as they apply to large companies and record labels. We cannot use music that is copyrighted or has media-ownership. This is why we have to find our own bands and search for music that has no copyright. Sights like unsigned.com, mobygratis.com and freeplaymusic.com allow us to do this.

Luckily for us, this didn't prove too challenging as there are plenty of amazing artists out there waiting for people like us to find and enjoy their music. This whole process protects us from copyright infringement and allows us to get on peacefully with what we do best, making music videos!

Lyrics Wordle

I inputted the "1984 - Green Eyed Monster" song lyrics into wordle, this gives a bright presentation of words from the song, with the most common words being larger and exaggerated. It looks nice, and shows important areas of the song.

From this, we can see that the words "you", "chat", "looking" and "why" are all focused upon heavily in the song. Maybe me and Matt should concentrate more upon these words, making sure they are lip-synched to perfection and perhaps feature a little more in the video than originally planned.

Lyrics (1984 - Green Eyed Monster)

ooh

aah

..

What is his name? Where is he from?

Why is he talking to you for so long?

is he a friend on just an acquaintance?

..

Why is he looking so deep in your eyes?

I'm sure the stories he's telling are lies,

and why do have, to laugh so much with him?

..CHORUS..

It's another attack of the green-eyed monster,

While i'm looking for you, wondering where you are.

Does anybody know..

That i'm with you?

While you chat, chat, chat.

To all the boys and that.

Take a deep breath, calm down.

..

So why's he text and got your number?

Why's he say, and does her another?

Is he a friend, or something suspicious?

Haven't you got any friends who are Ladies?

All the men of all ages.

Why do you have, to be so close to them?

..CHORUS..

It's another attack of the green-eyed monster,

While i'm looking for you, wondering where you are.

Does anybody know..

That I'm with you?

While you chat, chat, chat.

To all the boys and that.

Take a deep breath, calm down.

Costume Shopppiinnnnngg :D

Yesterday me and Matt went shopping for media costumes. We searched in all sorts of shops, including charity shops, which I'm hoping will be a once in a lifetime experience. We were successful! We found a great hat in Cancer Research and the PERFECT coat for our detective in Oxfam. Below are some pictures from our shopping experience: :)

Channel 4's 50 Greatest Music Videos

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This presentation shows the top 50 music videos on channel 4 earlier this year. This means it is very modern right up until this year. Looking at these videos has helped me decide what aspects of music videos are good and has helped me come up with some of my own ideas.

Channel 4's Top 50 Music Videos

This is a television program that was featured on channel 4 earlier this year (2011). We are watching this in class and it is a GREAT resource to reflect on when thinking of shots and influential extracts when making a music video. I'll display the top 50 throughout my blog.

Our Target Audience

From the results we gained from surveymonkey.com we can say these things about our target audience.

• There are more females than males
• They are mostly aged between 17 and 21 years of age
• They like watching music videos
• They watch music videos pretty much everyday
• They watch music videos mainly on the internet, more specifically on Youtube.com
• They like Indie Music

Stereotypically, a member of our target audience will look like this:

I'm just kidding (sorry couldn't help myself). A member of our target audience is most likely to look like this:

Audience Research Questionnaire Results

Question 1: What Is Your Gender:

Knowing the gender of our audience means that we can tailor parts of the video to that specific gender and its common interests. From our results, we can see that 15 out of 26 (57.7%) of our most likely audience are female, and 11 out of 26 (43.3%) are male. This means that females are more likely to watch and enjoy our video, and that the rest of the results from this questionnaire can be linked more specifically to females than males.

Question 2: What Age Category Do You Fit In?

If we know the rough age of the people watching our video, we can change and edit it to suit them and their interests. This affects production, distribution and everything in the whole process. 42.3% of the people who took this questionnaire we're aged between 17 and 21, so all the results gained can be specified to that age bracket more than any other.

Question 3: Do You Enjoy Watching Music Videos?

If people enjoy watching music videos, then our video will be seen by a much greater audience. From these results, we can see that 92.3% of people enjoy watching music video. Goodgood :)

Question 4: How Often Do You Watch Music Videos?

If we know how often people watch music videos, we can estimate how many people will see the video over a certain period of time. From these results, we can see that 69.2% of people watch music videos everyday. This is very promising for our video.

Question 5: Where Do You Watch Music Videos?

This question, if in the industry, would relate directly to distribution. Knowing where people watch videos means that the budget could be used to better effect by channelling it in the right direction. For us, we can see that 50% of people watch most of their music videos on Youtube. If we upload our video to Youtube.com then it will get a better and more respecting audience.

Question 6: What Is Your Favourite Music Genre?

From these results, we can see that the most popular music genre is 'Indie'. If we pick an Indie song, the video will get a much better reception with the target audience, which is 17 - 21 year olds. This question had a wide spread of answers, with Indie being the most popular, but with only 34.6% of the votes. Perhaps we could find a song that crosses-genres in order to increase our videos audience.