I've put out a message to various experts asking for feedback on your videos. Here's the responses from the first one, film-maker Ben Gee
Shadows 1 (church)
very good start with tilts, nice effects throughout, seems professional, like a real music video; cuts very good, suits music well, constant old film effect is very good, shadow idea suits it well; eyes in background very good; very high standard- similar to Latymer. fantastic for a two month project; nice ending
Shadows 2 (tea party)
nice fades and objects in opening; good simultaneous zoom and fade; intriguing imagery makes you think and poses questions; whole band on location very good. good effect on tea party; changing person and nice shadow; very smooth cuts; out of focus shots very good; use of lights very good.
Wicked little Girls
nice cuts, professional look; good fades, light used well, very good use of mix shots with big close ups and shared shot on screen; care in filming and edited very well; doubled up shots very nicely done; blur effect good; all good quality, no bad shots; cards at end make it look pro
Bicycle one
cuts a bit sudden; moving camera very good; good lipsynch; a bit jumpy. Nice location use, good performer, good range of shots
1234
whres the iPod touch ! Have you seen the sesame st version? very good- but is it too much like the actual video/ very good cutting, nice effect with piano, good use of fx, good consistent idea, obviously worked on a lot
Everywhere (sven)
lighting excellent, cuts to band very good, nice glint on paint, wide shot on paint very good, use of blur and focus very good
Everywhere (Elliott)
ceiling lights shots good- all as above good plus blur start and flash effect, nice moving camera, good use of tricks within the shots, such as effects, jumps, movement;
mansion
authentic looking band; good start with preparation convention; like the quick cuts; don't get the funny faces- doesn't quite work, didn't understand the narrative
Overall, this selection is way above the usual standard that I see- not one of them has serious defects- all have little bits which could be tweaked, but no duffers!
Monday, 15 March 2010
Friday, 12 March 2010
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Evaluation
These are the four questions which you need to address for the last 20 marks of the project, for evaluation. As with the film opening earlier in the year, these questions will each be accompanied by a task, which you must carry out and then post the outcome to your blog. All four should be completed by the end of Friday 19th March and must sit at the top of your blog in the order here. Some parts of the task will be done individually and some may be done with your group partners. If you are doing some individual work at home on the task, you may complete it over the weekend, but everything MUST be on all blogs by Sunday 21 March at 9 pm.
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products ?
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
4.How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products ?
For this task, you will do something very similar to the film opening; take nine frames from your video and put them into a grid. The nine frames need to represent the following features of your music video:
1. a shot that shows a link between lyrics and/or music and visuals
2. a shot that typifies the way a record company would want their artist to be represented
3. a shot that illustrates how your video uses music genre
4. a shot that shows an intertextual reference
5. a shot that demonstrates your use of camera
6. a shot that demonstrates your use of lighting
7. a shot that demonstrates your use of mise-en-scene
8/9. Two shots which you feel demonstrate something which shows you have watched other music videos
here is how Alex approached it:
For each of these nine shots, write a couple of sentences explaining how they fit the brief here.
You then need to take screengrabs from other (real) music videos and construct a second nine frame grid which you will use in parallel to your one on your blog. There must be at least THREE music videos which you have grabbed from.
Again for each of the nine frames, write a couple of sentences about how they meet the brief. Here is alex’s version:
This task is to be completed on Tuesday ready for feedback in Wednesday's lesson.
We also want you to take the panes of your digipack and set them alongside images from other album covers to show similarities and to take your advert and set it alongside an advert to show how you have used conventions. In each case, you will need to annotate your work.
This task is to be done individually.
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
For this, we want you to take your finished video and grab some stills from it and put them on a document alongside grabs from your digipack and advert and to annotate the document to show how they all go together. This should be done in lesson time on Thursday and may be done as a group.
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
For this task, we want you to consider four stages of feedback
1. class and teacher feedback on your initial treatment
2. rough cut- class feedback and teacher feedback
3. class feedback on your digipack roughs
4. final version of everything- class feedback and feedback from anyone else
For 1. You need to have a paragraph which notes what people said at that stage and illustrates changes you made
for 2. You need a paragraph about what the class said and what you changed as a consequence- with screengrabs to illustrate
for 3. you need a paragraph on what was said and grabs of your sketches/ early drafts (even if already on the blog, link to them)
for 4. again note down any responses you get.
This task may be done as a group in Thursday's session.
4.How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
For this final task, you are to do the same as for the film opening: have a photo of each person with the technology used and a screengrab of each website/program used as part of the project: facebook, Myspace, blogger, youtube, Final cut, etc
Put it together and annotate it in photoshop then upload to your blog. example here
This task may be done individually or as a group.
Please note that for any group task, you will be credited for your contribution to it.
If you are feeling really adventurous, construct a prezi like this one, and put all your four tasks into it. A good prezi has a strong chance of top marks.
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products ?
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
4.How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products ?
For this task, you will do something very similar to the film opening; take nine frames from your video and put them into a grid. The nine frames need to represent the following features of your music video:
1. a shot that shows a link between lyrics and/or music and visuals
2. a shot that typifies the way a record company would want their artist to be represented
3. a shot that illustrates how your video uses music genre
4. a shot that shows an intertextual reference
5. a shot that demonstrates your use of camera
6. a shot that demonstrates your use of lighting
7. a shot that demonstrates your use of mise-en-scene
8/9. Two shots which you feel demonstrate something which shows you have watched other music videos
here is how Alex approached it:
For each of these nine shots, write a couple of sentences explaining how they fit the brief here.
You then need to take screengrabs from other (real) music videos and construct a second nine frame grid which you will use in parallel to your one on your blog. There must be at least THREE music videos which you have grabbed from.
Again for each of the nine frames, write a couple of sentences about how they meet the brief. Here is alex’s version:
This task is to be completed on Tuesday ready for feedback in Wednesday's lesson.
We also want you to take the panes of your digipack and set them alongside images from other album covers to show similarities and to take your advert and set it alongside an advert to show how you have used conventions. In each case, you will need to annotate your work.
This task is to be done individually.
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
For this, we want you to take your finished video and grab some stills from it and put them on a document alongside grabs from your digipack and advert and to annotate the document to show how they all go together. This should be done in lesson time on Thursday and may be done as a group.
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
For this task, we want you to consider four stages of feedback
1. class and teacher feedback on your initial treatment
2. rough cut- class feedback and teacher feedback
3. class feedback on your digipack roughs
4. final version of everything- class feedback and feedback from anyone else
For 1. You need to have a paragraph which notes what people said at that stage and illustrates changes you made
for 2. You need a paragraph about what the class said and what you changed as a consequence- with screengrabs to illustrate
for 3. you need a paragraph on what was said and grabs of your sketches/ early drafts (even if already on the blog, link to them)
for 4. again note down any responses you get.
This task may be done as a group in Thursday's session.
4.How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
For this final task, you are to do the same as for the film opening: have a photo of each person with the technology used and a screengrab of each website/program used as part of the project: facebook, Myspace, blogger, youtube, Final cut, etc
Put it together and annotate it in photoshop then upload to your blog. example here
This task may be done individually or as a group.
Please note that for any group task, you will be credited for your contribution to it.
If you are feeling really adventurous, construct a prezi like this one, and put all your four tasks into it. A good prezi has a strong chance of top marks.
Saturday, 6 March 2010
Thursday, 25 February 2010
C5 Gadget Show - Music Video Challenge
The Gadget Show (CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE EPISODE) has a go at creating two music videos using different video equipment.
One production has a professional crew with the very latest and best professional video making kit in order to make a promo for British alternative rock band FIGHTSTAR.
While the other production, a music video for HAR MAR SUPERSTAR, is limited to using a range of new consumer HD camcorders and editing software.
FIGHTSTAR VIDEO: Crew, Equipment & Hire Links
One production has a professional crew with the very latest and best professional video making kit in order to make a promo for British alternative rock band FIGHTSTAR.
While the other production, a music video for HAR MAR SUPERSTAR, is limited to using a range of new consumer HD camcorders and editing software.
FIGHTSTAR VIDEO: Crew, Equipment & Hire Links
Director of Photography – Adam Etherington
RED One Camera and DIT Provided by – www.brownianmotion.co.uk/
Moviebird Camera Crane Provided by – AlphaGrip
Lighting Supplied by – Panalux
Cirrolite
Sound Equipment Provided by – FabSound Richmond Film Services
Steadycam Provided by – Tiffen International
Band Speaker Stacks and Microphones Provided by – Sennheiser UK
Mentor – Price James
RED ONE Camera 
FIGHTSTAR VIDEO
HAR MAR SUPERSTAR VIDEO
Friday, 12 February 2010
HALF-TERM PROGRESS REPORT
GROUP 1 - Elliott & Sven
L3 TEST FOOTAGE - Everywhere Test- Elliott and Sven (Different Lens types) from cmdiploma on Vimeo.
GROUP 3 - Alison, Yasmin (ABSENT) & Jahmal
IN SESSION - FILMING & EDITING TEST FOOTAGE
L3 TEST FOOTAGE - Alison, Yasmin & Jahmal from cmdiploma on Vimeo.
Lip Sync
IN SESSION - 1. JAHMAL WORKING ON THE DIGIPAK
2. JAHMAL & ALI WORKING ON FILMING MORE TEST FOOTAGE
IN SESSION - FILMING & EDITING TEST FOOTAGE
IN SESSION - FILMING & EDITING TEST FOOTAGE
IN SESSION - FILMING & EDITING TEST FOOTAGE
IN SESSION - TILLY WORKING ON THE DIGIPAK
Thursday, 11 February 2010
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Friday, 5 February 2010
MUSIC VIDEO GROUP LOG BOOKS
Each group to fill in the CREW LIST and SHOT LIST sheets in the log book.
EXCELLENT RESOURCE FOR ALBUM ART
Sleevage is a blog all about music cover art. From the LP’s of the 60’s to the digital artworks of now.
Click here for the Sleevage page on the album art for Roisin Murphy's album "Overpowered"
And here for an online version of the Creative Review article on Art Director Scott King
Finally, you can see a mini interview with Scott King and a behind the scenes look at the album cover shoot and the making of the promo.
Thursday, 4 February 2010
NINJA TUNES VIDEOS
The NINJA TUNES label was started in London in 1990, by the DJ duo Coldcut who helped pioneer what became known as trip-hop. Primarily, the Ninja Tune imprint was a way to release music of a more underground nature, free from the restraints of major labels.
Along with the music release, the record label would commission a low budget and in most cases experimental music video. Check them out here.
Timber - Hexstatic & Coldcut (Stuart Warren Hill 1997)
Won the award for Best Editing Video Musique in France in 1998.
This is one of the very early examples of VJing, the images and sounds of circular saws, chopping axes and chainsaws are edited together to produce the music track and video.
Distorted Minds - Hexstatic (ft. Juice Aleem) (1995)
Here is an interesting use of applying motion techniques to images and text.
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Friday, 29 January 2010
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Wordle from your ILPs
Make yourself some word-based art by putting some text in Wordle. Here's one made from all your ILPs!
Used courtesy of http://www.wordle.net/
Used courtesy of http://www.wordle.net/
HURTWOOD HOUSE SCHOOL MUSIC VIDEOS
CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE HURTWOOD HOUSE SCHOOL MUSIC VIDEOS.
EMBED ONE OF THEIR VIDEOS ON YOUR BLOG AND DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING:
- WHAT MAKES IT A PARTICULARLY EFFECTIVE PROMO? WHAT WORKS WELL + WHY?
- IF YOU HAD TO RE-MAKE THIS VIDEO ON ZERO-BUDGET HOW WOULD YOU GO ABOUT DOING IT? HOW COULD YOU RECREATE THE IMPACT BUT WITHOUT THE COST?
TIMELINE EXERCISE - GROUP MUSIC TRACK BREAKDOWN
TASK: Breakdown your music track into verses, chorus, instrumental parts, key phrases and sounds.
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Pitches and another director
Well done to everyone on a great set of ideas for your pitches- now all you have to do is plan, shoot and edit- oh and make a digipack and an advert!
Meanwhile here are some links to the work of director Dougal Wilson, who often works with editor Suzy Davis (who Pete used to teach- back in the day!).
Meanwhile here are some links to the work of director Dougal Wilson, who often works with editor Suzy Davis (who Pete used to teach- back in the day!).
TIMELINE EXERCISE - MUSIC TRACK BREAKDOWN
Chris Cunningham talking about the pre-storyboarding stage of making a 'graph chart' of the music track.
QUESTION: Do you have the edit pre-constructed in your head before filming?
Chris Cunningham: Pretty much. I'd say it ends up that 60% are shots that are designed to go in one specific place and won't go anywhere else. But the other 40% are accidents or tangents you go off on. That ratio is determined by the limited amount of time you have. I'm not sure I'd change that because you have to be surprised by stuff, else it's no fun.
"So much you are going to have to do (in the edit) is already laid down for you (in the music track)"
MUSIC VIDEO TIMELINE TASK
Breakdown the ‘My Generation’ track into verses, chorus, instrumental parts, key phrases and sounds.
QUESTION: Do you have the edit pre-constructed in your head before filming?
Chris Cunningham: Pretty much. I'd say it ends up that 60% are shots that are designed to go in one specific place and won't go anywhere else. But the other 40% are accidents or tangents you go off on. That ratio is determined by the limited amount of time you have. I'm not sure I'd change that because you have to be surprised by stuff, else it's no fun.
"So much you are going to have to do (in the edit) is already laid down for you (in the music track)"
MUSIC VIDEO TIMELINE TASK
Breakdown the ‘My Generation’ track into verses, chorus, instrumental parts, key phrases and sounds.
Monday, 25 January 2010
Björk and Chris Cunningham Interview
An interview with Chris Cunningham and Björk on the making of the "All is full of Love" video.
C4 MIRRORBALL - CHRIS CUNNINGHAM
Back in 1999, Chris Cunningham, Michel Gondry, and other top music video directors were featured on a Channel 4 programme called Mirrorball, the content of which was later used in the making of the first set of Directors Label DVDs.
Mirrorball - Chris Cunningham - part 1 of 5
Mirrorball - Chris Cunningham - part 2 of 5
Mirrorball - Chris Cunningham - part 3 of 5
Mirrorball - Chris Cunningham - part 4 of 5
Mirrorball - Chris Cunningham - part 5 of 5
**Please note the sound is out of synch on all five parts of the programme
MUSIC VIDEO DIRECTOR 1 - CHRIS CUNNINGHAM
Selected Music Videos:
1. Second Bad Vilbel (1996) video for Autechre
2. Come To Daddy (1997) video for Aphex Twin
3. Only You (1998) video for Portishead
4. Frozen (1998) video for Madonna
5. Afrika Shox (1999) video for Leftfield and Afrika Bambaataa
6. Come On My Selector (1998) video for Squarepusher
7. Windowlicker (1999) video for Aphex Twin
8. All Is Full of Love (1999) video for Björk
Friday, 22 January 2010
MUSIC VIDEO PITCH KEYNOTES
THE KEYNOTES TO GO WITH YOUR PITCHES ARE HERE READY TO EMBED ON YOUR BLOGS:
1. Elliott and Sven - EVERYWHERE
2. Sophie, Angelica, Liam - SHADOWS
3. Alison, Yasmin, Jahmal - SHADOWS
4. Alex, Max, Tom B - MANSION IN THE SKY
5. Charna, Hannah, Louis - WICKED LITTLE GIRLS
6. Christina, Rob, Emma - SHADOWS
7. Tilly, Tom H - NO SOCIAL
Christina, Emma & Rob's Shadows Pitch
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