Research

Types of Music Videos on Prezi

After considering these different types of music video we decided that ours would fall into a combination of Performance and Narrative as we had an idea of having the band playing at a gig and through it we will have some shots which will show the typical story of a guy in the band liking a girl, and her also liking him back but not showing it, and most likely finishing with a happy ending, although we haven't properly developed this story yet. We chose to combine it with footage of them at a gig because this is often done in the pop punk type of genre and this is pretty much the category that our track falls under. For example in this video by You Me At Six -





For the performance side of the video we've considered renting out a hall somewhere in Totton because it gives a large amount of space with a stage as well for the band to play on with enough space to film as well. We're going to have lots of close ups of the instruments being played and of the band memebers themselves because we think it will look really effective when we put everything in time with the music. This type of thing can be seen in a video by The Pigeon Detectives - This is an Emergency, however we probably won't be using the 4-way split screen.

Narrowed Down Ideas

After talking it through as a group we decided upon creating a music video rather than a short film because we think we will be able to express all our ideas easier and make progress by narrowing these down quite quickly, which we would have slightly more trouble with if we were to do a short film as there are so many ideas. We also thought this would be a good idea because Ryan has a couple of recordings from his old band meaning that we would be able to get started right away with expanding and producing our ideas.

After making this final we decided to do some more research souly on music videos by using the site www.youtube.com which is full of new and old bands of all genres and even previous A2 media productions from various different places. These are what we paid quite alot of attention to as it was really useful to take note on which things worked well and which things didn't and also why they did or didn't work.

For example, making sure we didn't use the same clip too many times. Some professional music videos use certain clips more than once if that part of the song has been repeated so that it gives the impression that they're still singing and puts emphasis on the chorus/part thats being repeated. However, by looking at this video below done by some other A2 media students we noticed that they have used certain clips too many times as it just makes it look like they couldn't be bothered with filming so they just repeated them alot.





Another point we took from other student music videos was to make sure that it looks realistic because in some videos they had people miming singing and playing the instruments which is effective if it's done well and resembles the beats and notes of the song a lot, although it looks quite bad and messy if it's not done well. Also if the editing is out of time with the music then this will make any video look un-professional even if they have a really good storyline/idea.






Kate Nash - Merry Happy
( A2 coursework 2008 By Made: Jade Hughes,Megan Kearns,Emily Kearns,
Beverley Garcia)



Liked the quick shots when things changed like the glasses change on each shot



This song by The Cribs also does this.

First Ideas and Research

For the A2 course there is Me,
Nicole [[http://www.nicole-collas.blogspot.com/]],
Rich [[http://www.richwellsa2.blogspot.com/]] and
Ryan [[ http://www.blakeryan1.blogspot.com/ ]] in a group and after looking through the 3 options of possible tasks we've decided to focus our research around option 2 and 3 which is either a music video or a short film, however we're not sure which one yet. So we're going to research both of them mainly by looking up different videos on youtube and seeing how they're structured and what sort of ideas we could pull from them so that have a certain impact on the audience and maintain interest.

For a music video we have to get an original track and base the video around this meaning that we will need to ask some musicians we know and see if they are willing to help us out. We'll need to do this as soon as possible because to get a good idea of what to include in the video, it would help to see and understand the lyrics and the story behind the song so that the video doesn't end up really irrelevant and making no sense.

For a short film we have a really open choice of what to create and include which does make it a little more difficult to pull together ideas which aren't too complex and long as it won't fit properly in a short, 5minute film. We'll need to base our film around the '3-act structure' which every good film made will follow.