Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Monday, 11 March 2013
Final Poster
This is a poster which will be included in my digipak as a gift to my targeted audience.
Diary Entry 49
I have just finished the task research task 'Evidence Of Music Videos Which Incluence Me' I did this through a video which allowed me to incorperate different forms of media in my work.
Diary Entry 48
Today I finished my poster which is an edition piece that I decided to include in my digi pak as a freebee to my target audience. This will hopefully increase the final grade of my coursework.
Diary Entry 47
Today I have finished my final edit of my mucic, this has been a long and eduring process however I am extremely proud of the outcome of my work.
Sunday, 10 March 2013
Diary Entry 46
I am encountering probelems in how to render and export tasks in which I created videos for, this is fairly stressful as it wastes time, however I am going to ask for help so it should be something I can overcome.
Saturday, 9 March 2013
Diary Entry 45
Today after my previous research into possible filter and effects I have chosen a final filter and applied to my coursework which I feel gives a really good mood to the music.
Friday, 8 March 2013
Diary Entry 44
Today after doing brief research on youtube I found a video which gave a small tutorial on how to improve and perfect the lighting of the shots in a music video. This I found was really helpful and what I learned consequently improved the quality of my shots.
Diary Entry 43
My final deadline is only a few days away however I am pleased with how my coursework is coming along.
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Diary Entry 42
Today I completed more editing of my music video, as a whole I'm pleased with the way my music video is turning out. I editing three scenes today which was the final scene, the time lapse scene, and the drunken scene. This was something which required extra research as I hadn't preciously created a time lapse video, but with the help of an online tutorial was able to create.
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Diary Entry 41
I showed my music video so far to a few peers and to my teacher in order to recieve some additional feedback in area which I can improve my coursework.
Diary Entry 40
Today I have tried various filters and effects to had to my final edit of my music video and have decided my final choices in which I have also applied.
Time Lapse Tutorial
After searching online I found a handy tutorial on how to create a time lapse effect through speeding up the time of footage. This something that helped me in the editing stage of my music video.
Monday, 4 March 2013
Sunday, 3 March 2013
Diary Entry 38
I personally feel like my editing skills on Adobe Premier are improving as my editing process is reaching the end, and I'm really starting to get the hang of use it.
Saturday, 2 March 2013
Diary Entry 36
Today I had just finished editing the bar scene, phone conversation scene and the running scene. This took me a while to complete as I had to watch a few tutorials in order to complete the desired effect in which I anted to achieve, however i felt the extra time spent was worth it.
Diary Entry 35
Today I started to create the basis of my digi pak, I'm finding this fairly challenging as I am not particularly good at or comfortable with using Adobe Photoshop.
Diary Entry 34
Yesterday I feel was an extremely productive day as I had filmed multiple scenes, with my deadline closely approaching I feel this will benefit me to stay on track to complete my coursework before the deadline.
Today I had filmed three different scenes, an argument between my two characters, a phone conversation and a time lapse scene on London bridge in the evening.
Today I had filmed three different scenes, an argument between my two characters, a phone conversation and a time lapse scene on London bridge in the evening.
Friday, 1 March 2013
Thursday, 28 February 2013
Diary Entry 32
Today I completed a planning task which allowed me to focus on the potential risk when shooting a music video, this allowed me to realise all types of possible dangers and I feel will improve the safety and reduce possible hazards whilst producing my coursework.
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Diary Entry 31
In the last couple days, as a part of my research tasks I have been looking at the conventions of music videos and also the Goodwin's theory of music videos. This allowed me to look at things that are essential in a music video's and things that I should include in my music video's. This should help me improve the quality of my music videos and also help with the evaluation write up of my coursework.
Omarion's Previous Music Videos
Omarion is my chosen artist for my course so I thought it would be essential to do research on his previous work in order to become familiar with his style of video production, and to Identify myself with common features which appear in his videos.
Saturday, 23 February 2013
Friday, 22 February 2013
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Diary Entry 29
Today I had completed my audience research, the results I had received weren't surprising but nonetheless helped me learn more about the interests and preferences of my target audience. This will allow me to include and consider the most popular preferences on my target audience.
Saturday, 16 February 2013
Diary Entry 28
After recording parts of my narrative I have been watching a few narrative based music videos in order to get a better understabnd of effect ways in which I can incorperate the narrative in my music video.
Friday, 15 February 2013
Diary Entry 27
Yesterday I recorded an outdoors scene with my main character. I really enjoyed this shoot as it required acting rather than performance. One shot in which I found particularly chachallenging was the shot of my character running, it enabled to use the camera movement of panning in order to capture the shot.
Diary Entry 26
I am around the half way point of completing my music video and am fairly happy with how is going.
Diary Entry 25
Doing general research I have found various tip online for shooting and editing music video's. These I have found to be extremely helpful I am picking up many tips that I didn't already know, hopefully this can help improve the quality and therefore grade of my coursework.
Omarion Video Shoot Behind The Scenes
This is a behinds the scene look at the video shoot of 'Omarion - Lets talk (Feat Rick Ross)' this is a song by Omarion which is the same artist which I am using for my coursework. This video is useful since the style of song is similar to mine and therefore may share similar features to the music video which I will create.
Tips For Shooting A Music Video
After searching online I found an internet blog of useful tips and conventions of shooting a music video. Which include;
Shooting the music video
1. Record the track that you are playing back on set as you shoot. This scratch track will help you synchronize the shots with the clean track in post-production.
2. Instruct the singer to sing properly – no half-hearted singing or, worse, miming. If they mumble or mime, it will not look right when you lay the shots against the song, because the tension and movements of the face and body will not be consistent with the sound of the song. They must sing as if you were making a real recording of the song.
3. Remember that recording the singer while you shoot and using that copy of the song for the music video is not an option. It simply doesn’t work. You need the definitive recording of the track before you shoot, and the singer must match it exactly. It takes a little practice, and as the director, it is your job to make sure it is being done properly
4. Shoot plenty of angles, and make sure that most angles cover the entire song. If you do not shoot enough angles of the whole song, the final edit of the video might be too slow.
5. You should also shoot plenty of cutaways, also known as B-roll shots. Use these to give some variety to the video. Some directors intercut performance or dance routine shots with random cuts to shots in which the singer is neither singing nor dancing, but doing something vaguely relevant to the music video’s theme. This jump cut technique is usually disastrous in movies, unless it is used to achieve a specific effect, but it works nicely in music videos.
6. It is inefficient to shoot complicated and time-consuming setups that only cover a small part of the song – don’t schedule too many of these.
7. If there is a dance routine, make sure that the dancers know it properly, and that the lead singer is also completely at ease with it (you’d be surprised).
Editing the music video
Review all the takes and choose your favorite take for every shot. In practice, you may prefer different sections from different takes. For example, you may decide that your favorite beginning of a crane move is in take 2, whereas your favorite ending of the crane move is from take 6. That’s okay, providing of course that there is a cutaway between the two clips. If you want the crane move to be uninterrupted, which is highly unlikely in a music video, you will have to choose your favorite take and leave it uncut.
Use the waveform picture in your editing application to align the scratch track with the master copy of the track. In this way you will achieve perfect synchronization between sound and picture. Having synchronized the video clips with the track, disable the scratch sound tracks, but don’t delete them from the timeline, because you might need them again later. In this way when you scrub the timeline you will only hear the master track and you will see your music video take shape.
A nice trick I have used to edit a music video efficiently is to place all the selected clips on the timeline, one above the other on stacked video tracks. They must all be in their correct positions relative to the song, i.e. they must all be synchronized – except, of course, for the cutaways, which can be placed wherever you like.
To cut from one shot to another, you simply use the razor tool and delete all clips above the one you want. In this way you cut the video without having to drag and drop clips, because that step was taken care of when you synchronized your selected clips with the song. In this way you are effectively switching view from one angle to another, a bit like real-time editing of TV shows. This technique is not applicable to movies, but works very nicely when editing music videos.
Shooting the music video
1. Record the track that you are playing back on set as you shoot. This scratch track will help you synchronize the shots with the clean track in post-production.
2. Instruct the singer to sing properly – no half-hearted singing or, worse, miming. If they mumble or mime, it will not look right when you lay the shots against the song, because the tension and movements of the face and body will not be consistent with the sound of the song. They must sing as if you were making a real recording of the song.
3. Remember that recording the singer while you shoot and using that copy of the song for the music video is not an option. It simply doesn’t work. You need the definitive recording of the track before you shoot, and the singer must match it exactly. It takes a little practice, and as the director, it is your job to make sure it is being done properly
4. Shoot plenty of angles, and make sure that most angles cover the entire song. If you do not shoot enough angles of the whole song, the final edit of the video might be too slow.
5. You should also shoot plenty of cutaways, also known as B-roll shots. Use these to give some variety to the video. Some directors intercut performance or dance routine shots with random cuts to shots in which the singer is neither singing nor dancing, but doing something vaguely relevant to the music video’s theme. This jump cut technique is usually disastrous in movies, unless it is used to achieve a specific effect, but it works nicely in music videos.
6. It is inefficient to shoot complicated and time-consuming setups that only cover a small part of the song – don’t schedule too many of these.
7. If there is a dance routine, make sure that the dancers know it properly, and that the lead singer is also completely at ease with it (you’d be surprised).
Editing the music video
Review all the takes and choose your favorite take for every shot. In practice, you may prefer different sections from different takes. For example, you may decide that your favorite beginning of a crane move is in take 2, whereas your favorite ending of the crane move is from take 6. That’s okay, providing of course that there is a cutaway between the two clips. If you want the crane move to be uninterrupted, which is highly unlikely in a music video, you will have to choose your favorite take and leave it uncut.
Use the waveform picture in your editing application to align the scratch track with the master copy of the track. In this way you will achieve perfect synchronization between sound and picture. Having synchronized the video clips with the track, disable the scratch sound tracks, but don’t delete them from the timeline, because you might need them again later. In this way when you scrub the timeline you will only hear the master track and you will see your music video take shape.
A nice trick I have used to edit a music video efficiently is to place all the selected clips on the timeline, one above the other on stacked video tracks. They must all be in their correct positions relative to the song, i.e. they must all be synchronized – except, of course, for the cutaways, which can be placed wherever you like.
To cut from one shot to another, you simply use the razor tool and delete all clips above the one you want. In this way you cut the video without having to drag and drop clips, because that step was taken care of when you synchronized your selected clips with the song. In this way you are effectively switching view from one angle to another, a bit like real-time editing of TV shows. This technique is not applicable to movies, but works very nicely when editing music videos.
Music Video Tips
I was online searching for possible tips and advice for when shooting a music video, and I found this video which I think is a fairly helpful.
Monday, 11 February 2013
Thursday, 7 February 2013
Diary Entry 24
I have completed a number of research tasks for my my coursework and have found that my knowledge for music videos an the history behind them has increased which has me feel a bit more confident in facing the final coursework piece.
Sunday, 3 February 2013
Diary Entry 23
Today I continued the editing process of my music video, this took me considerably more time to complete, however I felt it was essential to spend extra time in order to perfect the editing of my music video.
Saturday, 2 February 2013
Friday, 1 February 2013
Diary Entry 21
Today Was my second shoot for filming my music video, I felt this really went well, and I was able to take a different approach of shooting indoors behind a black screen.
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Diary Entry 20
Today I started planning my digi pak, I found this enjoyable as it requires practical drawing skills and allowed me to incorporate art in my work.
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