WorkShop Edit

Keep on Movin' - 5ive Lip Sync

'In The Sun' - Lip Sync

Preliminary Evaluation:

1.What do you think you learnt from Monday's workshop?

Monday's workshop taught me a lot about working on a real shoot. As I am normally behind the camera, the constant involvement gives the extremely long hours more of a purpose, but as one of the main actors for the day I got to experience life in front of the lense and I learnt a great deal.

I learnt formost the importance of timings on the shoot and getting everything done as quickly as possible with little fuss, I also learnt about how the actors need to be helped, encouraged, and complimented in order to pull the best performance out of them. As far as technical things go, the addition of the monitor was very helpful in giving a better perspective to the director of what was actually being shot, and from there he could comment on the lighting, framing, and acting very easily.

2. For you, what was the best bit of the day and why?

The best bit of the day for me was probably the library scene in which, as the main guy, everybody else would have to dance perfectly, yet I could just sit at a desk and read what was actually a dictonary!

However, I also enjoyed all the scenes in which I got to play the guitar solo, despite sometimes tedious.

3. Are you pleased with your edit? Is it how you expected it to look?

I am pleased with the edit, and somewhat thankful that I do not have to continue to endure listening to 'In the Sun' on repeat! We edited our version of the video to the exact frame, even including 2 frame cross-disolves where they featured, and overall this makes the edit more or less exactly the same as the orginal with the footage we have to use.

One problem we encountered was the lack of light in a lot of shots, obviously we had only one day to film, but if we were to do it again, it would definately be worth spending more time trying to light each shot properly.

4. Have the lip sync tasks benefitted you in any way?  

The lip sync tasks have really helped us as we have become more efficient at editing music videos, and we have built our confidence up greatly, both in the ability to perform in a video, and in our ability to shoot and edit a video in a few hours! 

5. How do you think the work you have completed for the preliminary tasks will impact on your real music video project?  

The work completed in this preliminary task will help us a lot when producing the real thing. We can now edit quickly and confidently, and we have an idea of what we each look like as a performer so can start to make decisions about the potential cast...  

Coldplay: The Scientist

Coldplay - The Scientist (Edit)

This is one of my favourite music videos. I say this because I love the idea of a reverse video which ties into the lyric "I'm going back to the start" and the storyline in reverse creates a very good twist at the end of the narrative when you see what has happened. The whole video was shot forwards (so the reverse to what you see) and it took Chris Martin a month to learn how to sing the song backwards!

Welcome!

Welcome to my music video blog. We have just begun the A2 media course and so far I am really enjoying it and can't wait for our main coursework task.

On monday 12th July we will doing a workshop in which we will try and re-create a real music video with the help of a professional director and film crew. So far I have learnt many things about the different ways to approach a music video e.g. performance or narrative or both, and all the factors which will affect these decisions such as genre, song, lyrics, the bands intentions and the record labels intentions.

A am looking forward to studying the roles of the film crew more closely on the day of our workshop and gaining further insights and useful tricks into the composition of the visuals and techniques used by the director, camera man, and lighting director. 

This is the video that we will be trying to re-create: