A.M: Inspiration

I think the beginning of this music video is very clever. The music doesn't begin until the tape has been inserted into the tape player. This is a very clear illustrative relationship between the music and the visual. I think that we should incorporate this idea into our music video.





I love how simplistic yet effective this video is. What made it really stand out to me is the use of slo-motion when the singer is miming. This is particularly evident at 3:46.  I think we should incorporate this into our music video. It will add an interesting look to our video and make the miming parts look more artistic.

L.P: Technical Analysis

Darwin Deez- Radar Detector

Shot	Duration	Camera	Mise-en-scene
1.37-1.38	1 second	Still shot	Typewriter with the lyrics “I won’t go on and on” being typed out as Darwin Deez sings them, this is effective because it allows the consumer to connect with the lyrics and also makes the relationship between the music and visuals more illustrative.
1.38-1.39	1 second	Still Medium shot	Green screen with a pink background, which shows Darwin Deez dancing. He has a very individual look with tight ringlets and a band around his head; we want to style our lead in our video after him.
1.39-1.43	4 seconds	Still Close-up	Green screen where the background goes from pink to purple to blue, it’s a close-up of his face, which allows the audience to see how happy he is.
1.43-1.45	2 seconds	Still Close-up	A spin table has been used to create a moving effect. On the table is loads of cameras connected by wires
1.45-1.48	3 seconds		Darwin Deez goes on to use these cameras as a hat which then turns into a teleporting device. He puts the hat on in this shot
1.48-1.51	3 seconds	Still Medium shot	In this shot he starts to use the 'teleporting device'. The background is him standing on a port with the sea behind
1.51-1.53	2 seconds	Still Medium shot	The background suddenly changes as if he has 'teleported' and he moves to the right a bit. He is now standing in a library
1.53-1.55	2 seconds	Still Medium shot	The background changes again, and he moves a bit more to the right. He is now down an alley.
1.55-1.57	2 seconds	Still Medium shot	The background changes again and he goes to the right, he is now in a dvd shop.
1.57-2.00	3 seconds	Still Medium shot	The same thing happens and he is now on a sandy beach
2.00-2.03	3 seconds	Still Medium shot	The same thing happens and he is now in a lime green kitchen.
2.03-2.05	2 seconds	Still Medium shot	The same thing happens and he is now on a balcony above a city
2.05-2.07	2 seconds	Still Medium shot	The same thing happens and he is now at a skatepark with palm trees all in the background
2.07-2.11	4 seconds	Still Medium shot	And then he goes back to the port along the sea, and he is back to his original position
2.11-2.23 (about 26 shots)	12 seconds	There are about 26 still medium shots in the space of this time which get faster and faster with the music	In these shots, it starts by having him in his different positions with the different backgrounds all splayed over one shot- so it's been edited so that the screen is cut into 7. This is really effective and we are inspired by this and may use it in our own music video. The rest of these shots are cut to the beat of a drum, at the same time as him pressing his 'teleporting'  device. They are edited with a swish cut, and they get faster and faster with the music until it creates an effect which almost makes your head/eyes spin.
2.23-2.25	2 seconds	Still Medium shot	It goes back to the original position, of him standing on a pier on the sea as the finishing shot of this bit. His voice gets lower and he says 'you are a radar detector' for the final time.
2.37-2.38	1 second	Still Medium Long shot	In front of the green screen and the background is cream. he has purple feather flying at him. He is dancing with his arms up and bobbing his head
2.38-2.39	1 second	Still Medium shot	The same shot but a bit closer, with the purple feathers
2.39-2.42	3 seconds	Still long shot	Dancing in front of the green screen, the background goes from blue to yellow to pink to lilac to cream to green
2.42-2.44	2 seconds	Still close up	Of his face and his head bobbing, in front of the green screen. He starts singing again, and has the band around his head. This is a visual signifier of Darwin Deez along with his tight ringlet hair.

Group: Ideas Development

In todays lesson the 25th September we had a group discussion. This allowed us to work together as a group and make some more finalised decisions on what our video would be like.

Costume: Main male character- black skinny jeans, different t shirts, band around head
Main girl char

Location: Greenwich, blue water

Props:

Colour grading:

editing:

Narative and concept:

Group: Brighton Music Video

On the 18th September we went to Brighton to complete a location reccie and create a video montage that practiced shots we want to use in our final music video piece. We were given the brief to get specific shots including:
- POV handicam
- Tracking
- Close-ups
- 360 degree pan
- Low angles and high angles.

These were our aims before we went to Brighton:
Location:
- Film on top of a roof.
- Go down the lanes and find some urban areas with graffiti. 
- Visit some shops
- The sea front.

Costume: 
- Casual clothing with an urban theme.

Camera:
-ECU
-CU
-MS
-MLS
-LS
-ELS
-handi cam shots
-POV shots
We hope to experiment with different depths of fields. This will be interesting to film on top of the rooftop and create some very interesting shots. Also we want to use the manual focus on the camera to film lights out of focus.

Shots for editing: 
- a character is walking through a crowd slowly and then speed up the footage so that the rest of the public are walking quickly.
- action shots so that we can reverse some shots. 
- slow-motion shots
- Possibly of some birds flying.

Composition of shots:
- use the rule of thirds when shooting some of our shots
- in others we will break this rule to create some unique and artistic shots.
This will allow us to find out what shots look effective and professional and also we can find out whether Brighton could be our final location choice. I think the colours will look bright and interesting on the film.

What did we achieve?
Location:
We went to the first car park roof we could find which was situated in Churchill Square we managed to get some really great shots here for example the LS of Alex jumping off the wall. Next to this car park was an even taller one and after filming us walking down all the stars from the first car park we went up to the roof. We saw some pigeons sitting on the roof and Laurel ran up to them as they flew away we videoed them.
We wanted to have a lot of graffiti in our video so we walked around the lanes to find some in order to create an urban vibe. Down the lanes we also filmed in a shop called Snoopers Paradise that contained a lot of mirrors we used to film Laurel's dancing feet and a fish eye mirror of all 3 of us. There was a photo booth in the shop and we thought it would add a casual and cute aspect in the video if we shot it after we got the photo.

Costume:
We wore our own clothes. We ensured that we were all wearing casual everyday clothing to represent ourselves as youths. Our costumes also fitted in with the beach town location.

Camera:

>POV

>Manual focus - shallow depth of field

>High Angles and

>low angles

>ELS

>CU

>MS

>LS

>Slow Left to Right pan

>Establishing shot

>360 pan

>Pan up and down

>Canted angle

>Birds eye view

>Handi cam

Editing:
>Dip to white- on beat of music

>Jump cuts- on roof and when Alex is outside the pub

>Slower cutting rate at start.

>Overlaying

>Parallel lines of action

>Reverse shots at start to beat of music

>Slow motion birds

>Appear and disappear

>Time stretch

>Seamless location change as Laurel continues to walk.

What problems/ obstacles did we face?
In the shot where the camera pans up to the Banksy graffiti and then down to Alex and Laurel a man walked in front of them and ruined the shot. We did not realise this until looking at the footage after the trip and we had to cut it our of the video.
We also didn't have enough time to do many shots on the sea front as we'd planned because we spent too much time in the lanes. It didn't matter so much because we got some really great shots in the lanes and we did manage to get a few shots on the beach. 

What did we learn to take to our next reccies?
Time management is a key thing that we need to work on when going to location reccies because we didn't manage to do that well.
When we go to a location we need to make sure we film around the location as well as the one specific place we had planned to go to in case we change our minds in the future and it turns out to be better.
We also need to make sure we take pictures of everything we think we would consider to film and remember exactly where it is because it is possible we may forget.

Group: Brighton Reccie