Preliminary Task - Shot by Shot

0-0 . 25 - Blackout
0.25 - 1.5 - Establishing Side view of Teacher
1.5 - 2 - Close up on Teacher
2 - 3 Close up shot as Teacher squints
3 - 4 Close up shot as Teacher squints
4 - 5 Whole face shot on Teacher
5 - 6 Black screen zoom on back
6 - 7 Back shot of backs of people (Wide shot)
7 - 8 Pan Sideways onto next person
8 - 9 Pan Sideways onto light studio
9 - 10 Pan Sideways onto next person
10 - 11 Pan Sideways onto next person
11 - 12 Pan Sideways onto light studio
12 - 13 Side shot of person humming
13 - 14 Side shot of person humming zooming out
14 - 15 Side shot of person humming zooming out with another person in the shot
15 -16 Side shot of person humming zooming out with another person in the shot
16 - 17 Side shot of person humming zooming out with another person in the shot zooming out more
17 - 18 Side shot of 3 people humming zooming out again
18 - 19 Side shot of 4 people humming and zooming out
19 - 20 Pan sideways zooming out
20 - 21 Zooms out side shot of 1 more person and cuts away
21 - 22 Zoomed side shot of male singer
22 - 23 Zoomed side shot of male singer
23 - 24 Zoomed side shot of male singer
24 - 25 Zoomed side shot of male singer
25 - 26 side shot of male singer
26 - 27 side shot of male singer
27 -28  side shot of male singer
28 - 29 side shot of male singer & Pan
29 - 30 side shot of male singer & Pan
30 - 31 side shot of male singer & Pan
31 -32 side shot of male singer & Pan
32 - 33 side shot of male singer & Pan
33 - 34 side shot of male singer & Pan
34 - 35 Zoom towards the other singers away from the main male singer
35 -36 Female singer comes from the right in front of the other singers
36 -37 Female singer comes from the right in front of the other singer
37 - 38 Zoom on the female singer from the right
38 - 39 Zoom and focus on female singer
39 - 40 Focus on female singer
40 - 41 Pan to the left with female singer actions
41 - 42 Pan to the left with female singer actions
42 - 43 Pan to the left with female singer actions with microphone in the background
43 - 44 Focus and pan to the right slightly & zoom
44 - 45 Zoom on female singer face
45 - 46 Move outwards on female singer
46 - 47 Blackout to back of singers
47 - 48 Silhouette on the back of the female singer
48 - 49 Front shot of female singer zoomed in
49 - 50 Side shot of a singer playing the piano
50 - 51 Pan shot to move to the front of the piano
51 - 52 Zoom into the singer playing the piano
52 - 53 Pan upwards on the guitar players face

Preliminary Task - Glee Don't Stop Believing

For our Preliminary task we need to re-create a replica of a music video which has a link to school theme, in our group we are going to be re-creating Don't Stop Believing by Glee we need to do this shot-by-shot to make it an exact perfect copy.  We only need to copy the first 1 minute of the video.

Here is the original Video -

Prop List -

Costume
Microphone
Lights
Piano
Guitar
Wheelchair
Glasses
Drums

Dry Me The River Task

In class we were asked to listen to Dry The River - No Rest, once we had done this we needed to come up with a Music Video for the Song and give ideas to each other based on the song, we had to re-create the music video based on the beat, tempo and the lyrics.  My group came up with the idea of a love relationship couple which have problems in their relationship and an on going problem which worsens.  As the lyrics do fit a relationship breakdown.

Here is the actual Music Video -

Analysis of Radiohead Fade Out Music Video

Analysis of Radiohead's "Street Spirit (Fade Out)

British alternative rock band, Radiohead released a song in 1995 called "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" and the music video made its debut in February 1996. The music video was filmed over two nights in a desert near Los Angeles. The black-and-white music video was directed by Johnathan Glazer.

Radiohead - Spirit Street from e2n on Vimeo.

This Music video is highly edited in a Radiohead Style

Each action shot has been altered to be either slowed down or sped up to fit the tempo of the music

The whole video is black and white which could is a controversial decision.

There are lots of closeups to a distorted lead singer who seems to have different layers of effects on his face.

The video features some very different and strange events, there is a boy and a dog who seem to be staring at each other in a meaningful way.

There is also a group of ballet dancers who are all dressed in black and are in sync with eachother almost to represent a flock of birds.

What Music Means to me

I was asked to select three music tracks that are in some way a reflection of my life. I was expected to choose a song from my early childhood, a song from when I began high school, and finally a song from now.

Childhood Song -  I remember this song from a very young age  
This song has very remember-able lyrics which was always played on the Radio which is why the lyrics and the beat of the song stuck in my head from a young age.





High School Song - Black Eyed Peas I gotta feeling
I listened to this song a lot as it was a number 1 in the charts in 2010 which was Year 8 for myself.



Song Now - The Eden Project - Fumes 
This song is very calm however has a deep meaning and the lyrics are quite clear I like the beat and lyrics and listen to this song often.

Goodwin's Music Video Theory

I will be looking at 3 Music Videos and applying Goowin's Music Theory which is that -
"Music videos ignore common narrative as they are essentially advertisements.  As consumers, we make up our own meaning of a song in our minds: a music video anchor meaning and gives the record company/artist a method of anchoring meaning".

1.  A relationship between the lyrics and the visuals, which illustrate, amplify or contradict the lyrics.

In Wiz Khalifa - See You Again - The Lyrics 

"How can we not talk about family"

"Because Families all we got"

We have this shot of the team (Family) 

This shows a relationship between the lyrics and the visuals.

2. Thought beats: seeing the sounds (seeing what they mean or represent in your head).

There are three ways visuals are used to promote a song:

Illustrate: Music videos use certain images and shots to illustrate/explain the meaning of lyrics to their songs and the genre.

Disjuncture: In this situation, the meaning of the song is completely ignored in the music video.

Amplify: This is when the images and camera shots are manipulated and shown repeatedly throughout the music video and is drummed into our vision.

In Calvin Harris - Bounce when the beat drops we are shown an actor who started dancing to the beat.

3. Genre - Related Style and Iconograpy

In Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk the genre is the 1960s and Bruno Mars is casually wearing a old-style hat which he frequently wears this would be another example of iconography.  The style of clothing that Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson are wearing also represent the classic 70s Funk look, which matches the song title "Uptown Funk"

4. Multiple close-ups of the main artist or vocalist: the creation of a star image to promote a recognisable brand image.

In Nicki Minaj - Anaconda in the video Drake is showing off a rare pair of Jordan Shoes.