25 Word Pitch For Music Video

Me and Emma are doing, Passion Pit's 'Sleepyhead' for our music video. We are basing it on a seemingly normal day in a boy's life, including stop motion and enigma codes.

Moodboard For Music Video

Moodboard

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Busted Preliminary Task Evaluation

For our preliminary activity, we have to film our own version of the first 1 minute and 14 seconds of Busted's 'What I Go To School For' music video.
The first thing we did was form a prop list as a class including things like the uniform, guitars, filming equipment etc. We also decided on who would be the main roles in the music video. We needed the three members of the band, the teacher, two girls who walk past, a girl who turns round and smiles and a girl dancing. We chose Josh to be Charlie, Jack to be Matt and Dan to be James for the band. Becky was Miss Mackenzie as we felt she had a 'teacher' vibe to her. The two girls walking past were Leonie and Katie and Emma was the girl dancing. We chose to give our video a twist. The girl who turns round would be played by Luke. We thought this gave our video something different and made it more entertaining.
We got into pairs and each pair where then given 10 seconds of the video to storyboard for when we filmed it.

On our first day of filming we completed all of the outside shots as the weather was good enough to do it and as it's September we couldn't rely on it being a nice day if we left filming to a later date! Also, for the people who brought in the guitars it was much easier to get the use out of them in the first day so that they wouldn't have the hassle of having to keep bringing them in. These took most of the lesson to complete as we had to get exact timings right for things such as lip syncing and the synchronised jumps that the band do.
We spent our next lesson filming all of the inside shots to ensure we got all of our filming done. This took most of the lesson but we didn't have to do many re-takes which helped us get done sooner. We had time at the end to get a start on editing the final video. Me, Luke and Maz began editing the beginning and we managed to edit about 20 seconds of the final thing.

In the next lesson, me and Emma finished off the rest of the editing for our group. We had the original Busted video playing so we knew exactly what times certain shots should come in/end etc. so that we could get our video as close to the original as possible. We did a lot of cutting down clips as they didn't fit in with the original narrative and we sped up and slowed down some of the clips to make each scene flow more clearly into the next which we thought worked well. One problem we faced, was after editing the whole of our video we re-watched one clip and realised that the lip syncing was out of time with the footage. We tried to fix this by, again, slowing down/speeding up clips and trying to cut down or lengthen others. However, in doing so the rest of our footage didn't work so the best option was to leave the short clip as it was, rather than ruin the rest of our project.

For mine and Emma's own music video, if we include lip syncing, this has taught me that we need to be very observant and extremely specific in how we edit our own footage as we don't want something like that to happen in our final piece.
However, as this was our preliminary exercise, I'm very pleased with how it turned out, especially as it was the first time we had experience in lip syncing.

Final Coursework Idea

Me and Emma have chosen to pick the song 'Sleepyhead' by Passion Pit, for our final coursework piece.

Examples Of Other Texts

Me and Emma thought this video was a very good example of a media music video. We like the use of flashbacks which show 'natural' scenes within the narrative. We want to incorporate this into our own music video as I feel it will help the audience connect and be able to relate to the story more.




We also like this video as we want to incorporate the use of the first scene, how the song is playing softly in the background, as if the main character is listening to it themselves. I also like the use of the shots of photo booth pictures as, once again, I think it helps give a clearer view of the story and allows it to appear more real to the audience.




This is a great example of a music video. I like the use of the kind of party scene, something else which we had the idea of incorporating into part of our own music video. I also like how there is not a wide use of lip syncing as we also plan on using this idea in ours as the song we have is quite difficult to lip sync to and we feel we could tell more of a story if we only use minimal lip syncing.

Evaluating A Music Video - Example 'Watch The Sun Come Up'

This is the video for Example's, 'Watch The Sun Come Up'. Me and Emma thought this was an entertaining video as we liked the mix of real and drawn shots involved as they are a complete contrast, which we would like to include in our own coursework piece if possible. We also enjoyed the contrast of settings, alternating between the holiday location and when he has arrived back home. There was also a contrast in the colours used for the different locations, such as when they are on holiday, there is a use of bright and warm colours such as reds and oranges which relate to the mood of the scene. When they are back home, there is dull and cold colours such as grey and white, which also relate to the mood of the scene and the feelings of the characters in the video. The use of camera shots are very effective and we found it more entertaining to watch as there is a wide variety being shown. Laura Mulvey's 'The Male Gaze', is used in this video as the two main characters are attractive and appeal to the audience, both male and female. We also found this entertaining to watch as there is a story being told throughout, which we would also like to include in our own music video.We also think it's a good video as it has a 'happy' and uplifting vibe to it, through the exotic scenes and story line which many people will be able to relate to as they may have had the same experience at some point in their life. The use of the story also allows it to feel more real to the audience as it is not constantly Example miming, so it draws the reader in to the action more. The use of editing is very entertaining and makes the video more interesting to watch as they use varied and clever editing styles, for example, as mentioned before, the use of the drawing and how it changes from that to the scenes of reality.

Lip Syncing

This is mine and Emma's practice of lip syncing in preparation for filming our preliminary video, Busted's 'That's What I Go To School For'.

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