Technically Compentent

In the music video we are going to use alot of box wipes, fades and slow motion editing. This is because alot of this happens in the genre of music videos, (pop-rock.) They also have alot of close ups showing the peoples faces as they sing, where as in genres such as rap and rock they manly use long shots and mid shots to show whos singing. This is because in rock and rap songs the singers will be moving around alot or playing instoments.

The editing on a pop-rock video between shots is mainly fades, cuts and box swipes. These are easy editing skills and look very good within the genre of music video that i am doing. They also use high shots and alot of cross cuts between singers.

Pictures

This is a picture of the band that i have chosen a song for. They are a unsigned band who are aged around 16-20, They mainly perform to audiences of the same age group as themselfs as it is this age group who would listen to here genre of music.

Videos

I have looked at videos of songs such as Ninjas, play that funky music, and wake me up before you go-go. I have picked to look at these because they are in the same genre of music as the song that i have chosen to do. Most of these will use alot of fades, cuts and box cuts to change scene. They also use alot of different carmera angles and shots such as high shots and close ups to esablish the genre of the song.

CD

I designed a CD cover for the song that we have decided to do and also started tomake the inside of the book for inside the CD. The CD's i looked at where of bands who work within the pop-rock genre, therefore i would get a look at what their CD covers look like. Most of them had the band members close up to the Camera with the title in the background, therefore i decided to design ours like this.

Genre

For our music video we are using a rock-pop song that is also mixed in with abit of comady. We picked this because it will be easier to do and we all like the song. We have made a story board for the music video and planned out each shot / camera movment.

Production filming

I made two different short clips to test out filming techniques. the 1st one i made started out with a long shot of poppy walking down some stairs with me hiding in the bushes. I did this to show her being followed. by the camera looking at her from inside the bushes it shows a point of view shot so the audience that she is being watched. I used poppy as the one being followed because the traditional representation would be the woman/girl being the one being stalked to show hem as being the weaker sex. We then did a shot of poppy walking down the stairs looking paranoid to show the fear of being watched/followed. the clothing that poppy was wearing is showing her to be more of a laid back person who would be vulnerable to an attack and this helps to show that something is going to happen to her.

Our Group

In my group there are Me, Himilay and Luke. We have looked at many of bands and song and desided to pick 'Friends for Never.'
We have come up with plenty of idea's for this video that will add a sense of humer to the video as well as being sensible.

Bands

We desided to look at some Unsigned bands on websites such as myspace and youtube for our music video. We looked mostly at this one band called 'The Midnight Beast.'
We liked there music because it not only sounded very good but it also had an element of comidey to it. This is very helpful for us because we feel that making a video for these songs would not only be fun but also challenging. We looked at 3 songs very closely, These where:
The Midnight Beast: Friends for never.
The Midnight Beast: House party.
The Midnight Beast: Camden Crawling.
These are all great songs that are by unsigned artists.