Friday, 22 June 2018

Music Video to Analyse

Big Shaq 'Mans Not Hot'-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_5oYU-IsU

Song has comedic relief
Celebrity endorsement throughout
Showing off/flexing
Set in Miami,Amsterdam, London


This music video will help me towards my own music video. As i am playing with the idea of having a comedic relief for my own music video. I would also like to take the overall vibe from this music video, which is a feel good, energetic vibe throughout which is promoted through the high saturation and the vast amount of vibrant colours used throughout.

Tuesday, 12 June 2018

Camera techniques and operations


  • Wide-shot 
  • Midshot
  • Closeup

Wide-shot can be used for action, to get the whole scene
Midshot is shot from the waist up
Closeup are used for more emotional shots. 

Storyboards are rough illustrations used to give a correct order of thought as the creator storyboards allows them to see a rough copy of their original idea. It also will help people you are working with to understand your vision. For storyboards you can either make this through drawings or still shots. 

Rule of thirds is used to divide the shot and therefore it makes it easier to position your subject. 

High angle shots make the subject seam weak whereas low angle shots make the subject look dominant.
Continuity is ensuring the shots make sense when put together

180 degree rule is when the two subjects in separate shots are looking at each other. 

Shot reverse shot is going back and forth between two subjects can be used in conversations. 

Steadicam is keeping the camera steady with a dolly or a tripod


Statement of intent


Genre conventions of the music


A production schedule

Production Schedule

2 Days of Filming
1st day to complete most of the video and shoot most scenes with the two friends whilst taking advantage of the sunlight.
2nd day to complete rest of the music video and shoot the scenes left with the female actor to finish off all the work.

Editing
The editing process will take over a number of weeks to finish off

Day 1 - 5/11/18

Filming-

Used this day to complete a large proportion of the video. Started filming in areas nearby Harlow to represent the rags to riches story and almost the journey the two friend undertook.

Filming in Harlow took place between 1:00pm-3:30pm
In this time we shot both intertextual links in the titanic and Shawshank Redemption.
The opening sequence of the flashback was shot as well as the car journeys.
Also different, parts of the video such as the friends playing video games/walking around the area and having fun.

Filming in Westfield, Stratford took place between 5:00-6:30
In this time we travelled to Stratford to shoot the opening and closing scene where the two friends bumped into each other and in the end forgave each other and became friends again.
We conducted a costume change and the two lads changed into smarter clothing to represent a higher socio economic class which is A B.

Day 2 - 6/11/18


Filming- 

In that day we completed the rest of the video, and the only scenes that were left was the ones with the interactions with the female actor. In this day all of our shots were in Harlow.

Filming in Harlow- 2:00pm-3:00pm 
Filming didn't take long as areas was nearby, 
We shot the scene when the lads first meet the girl and also shows the fight between the lads. This was a quick and easy process and ws able to be finished within an hour. 

Storyboard