Now, imagine that I thought windows movie maker was hard at one point, imagine my shock when I open Final cut express, it is a whole different ball game ! SO to help prepare myself for the editing ahead, as it looks more professional and you can do more with final cut than imovie, I have found some useful videos to help me:
I can still barely understand the video's but I will get it at one point and it will be easier than windows media player or imovie!
Thursday, 21 November 2013
Filming!
We shall be filming next tuesday which will be Tuesday 26th of November.
This will be some of the main shots from my dad's gym.
There are two locations needed for the shots and 3 scenes in the music video.
locations: The gym and a white room/ area
Scenes: Billy singing the song, On the way to the gym, The preparation for the fights and finally the big fight.
Complications:
As with every music video there will be complications, one main one is our actor because he has other priorities as well we need to make sure we communicate days with him in which we can definitely (his name is Richard) to be quite frank it only should take 2 days to film plus half a day for Billy's singing scene. Another complication as this is at a live Muay Thai boxing gym with people who pay money to train we have to film at the end of training practice in order to have the least amount of people possible but a time when the gym is still open.
These are minor complications and there is a meeting in the gym soon which means they keep it open for longer with no body training during the time of the meeting and that would be a perfect time to film. Also my dad can keep it open for a bit longer in order for us to film.
Getting props, costuming etc is easy, lighting may be a bit tricker but we can cross that bridge when we get to it. By the end of the weekend the story boarding MUST be done as it is vital to speed up the process and make sure the filming process is more structured than randomly pulled from the air, which can be done as well but we need to have a clear story board before we film.
So I will keep you updated on that :)
This will be some of the main shots from my dad's gym.
There are two locations needed for the shots and 3 scenes in the music video.
locations: The gym and a white room/ area
Scenes: Billy singing the song, On the way to the gym, The preparation for the fights and finally the big fight.
Complications:
As with every music video there will be complications, one main one is our actor because he has other priorities as well we need to make sure we communicate days with him in which we can definitely (his name is Richard) to be quite frank it only should take 2 days to film plus half a day for Billy's singing scene. Another complication as this is at a live Muay Thai boxing gym with people who pay money to train we have to film at the end of training practice in order to have the least amount of people possible but a time when the gym is still open.
These are minor complications and there is a meeting in the gym soon which means they keep it open for longer with no body training during the time of the meeting and that would be a perfect time to film. Also my dad can keep it open for a bit longer in order for us to film.
Getting props, costuming etc is easy, lighting may be a bit tricker but we can cross that bridge when we get to it. By the end of the weekend the story boarding MUST be done as it is vital to speed up the process and make sure the filming process is more structured than randomly pulled from the air, which can be done as well but we need to have a clear story board before we film.
So I will keep you updated on that :)
Rihanna- What Now... Illuminati ?
Now, there was a stage in my life (2010) where I did research about the Illuminati and I was genuinely TERRIFIED with the results I found, Especially with the fact I found that they 'apparently' track your IP address, find out where you live and kill you if they find you have Googled them. In hindsight, the dark room, the fact it was midnight and the point my bed is right next to the window in my room, most likely contributed to the fear that night, because the next day I totally forgot about it. But the topic of the Illumanti and the Free Masons and New World order, is quite a scary and daunting conspiracy, and they apparently target media and in particular music artists, as music is a lot easier to stay in the mind than text.
You are probably wondering why I am writing of them and what this topic has to do with the music video, well, it will all be explained in the following paragraphs:
This is Rihanna's music video for What Now which has only recently come out and is a lot more appropriate than her last video (Pour it up)
Now I love this music video at the moment as it is just SO simple and I love how they sped up her dancing and then slow motioned it to get this really amazing effect.( from 0:49-0.56) I also love how its not In black and white but there is a high contrast of black and white with a grungy, whitewashed feel, with very specific lighting helping to contrast the black and the white. And I think our group could definitely recreate the speeding up and slow motion and to be honest the whole video as it is not that complicated it's mostly the editing techniques which makes it appear more complicated to film than it is.
On first watch I thought it was a very artist interpretation of someone who is going crazy over her feelings and the feeling of been trapped in an open space, and the white highlighted the blank thoughts she is feeling and the black accents were to highlight the darkness that was coming over her. When watching it for the second time, I thought she does look slightly possessed, maybe by her thoughts but when looking at the comments I got a COMPLETELY different viewpoints, A LOT of them banging on about the Illuminati. At the side a video popped up that I thought 'lets watch':
This lady goes into quite a lot of detail about the video and how it is part of the occult. I can see why people do believe in the Illuminati as all the signs in the video that she mention did have me thinking 'ooooh quite true' as I had never thought about it in that way. But it led me to think:
Do directors of music video's go into THAT much detail in creating a music video, to control the mind
or
Do us as viewers, like we do in Literature with things such as poems, want to believe that they are so smart that they have thought of these things in so much detail, but really the meaning is very basic on the surface but we want to believe it has a much deeper meaning, for some unknown reason.
The second option is much easier to achieve as the audience do it without prompt and it leads me to think, our group does not need to have an intricate story line and go into that great detail about our music video, or that it won't look like a profession video because the audience will perceive it how they want and may go in a lot greater detail than we ever intended which is a reassuring thought. And our video can be very simply, Muay Thai boxing and a singer and let the viewers minds create what they want the meaning to be, which is what people do, and it does morph into ideas such as the Illumanti (which may be real but we don't know) and this is shown in the two videos, so we need to go as simple as possible to get the greatest impact.
You are probably wondering why I am writing of them and what this topic has to do with the music video, well, it will all be explained in the following paragraphs:
This is Rihanna's music video for What Now which has only recently come out and is a lot more appropriate than her last video (Pour it up)
Now I love this music video at the moment as it is just SO simple and I love how they sped up her dancing and then slow motioned it to get this really amazing effect.( from 0:49-0.56) I also love how its not In black and white but there is a high contrast of black and white with a grungy, whitewashed feel, with very specific lighting helping to contrast the black and the white. And I think our group could definitely recreate the speeding up and slow motion and to be honest the whole video as it is not that complicated it's mostly the editing techniques which makes it appear more complicated to film than it is.
On first watch I thought it was a very artist interpretation of someone who is going crazy over her feelings and the feeling of been trapped in an open space, and the white highlighted the blank thoughts she is feeling and the black accents were to highlight the darkness that was coming over her. When watching it for the second time, I thought she does look slightly possessed, maybe by her thoughts but when looking at the comments I got a COMPLETELY different viewpoints, A LOT of them banging on about the Illuminati. At the side a video popped up that I thought 'lets watch':
This lady goes into quite a lot of detail about the video and how it is part of the occult. I can see why people do believe in the Illuminati as all the signs in the video that she mention did have me thinking 'ooooh quite true' as I had never thought about it in that way. But it led me to think:
Do directors of music video's go into THAT much detail in creating a music video, to control the mind
or
Do us as viewers, like we do in Literature with things such as poems, want to believe that they are so smart that they have thought of these things in so much detail, but really the meaning is very basic on the surface but we want to believe it has a much deeper meaning, for some unknown reason.
The second option is much easier to achieve as the audience do it without prompt and it leads me to think, our group does not need to have an intricate story line and go into that great detail about our music video, or that it won't look like a profession video because the audience will perceive it how they want and may go in a lot greater detail than we ever intended which is a reassuring thought. And our video can be very simply, Muay Thai boxing and a singer and let the viewers minds create what they want the meaning to be, which is what people do, and it does morph into ideas such as the Illumanti (which may be real but we don't know) and this is shown in the two videos, so we need to go as simple as possible to get the greatest impact.
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Practice album Cover!
okay, so we were set a task to follow the Chief Examiner- Pete to create our own album covers using his steps, as I am a fool, I thought we just had to make an album cover on word or something from our imaginative creative minds, but I should of actually read the task properly,so I have ALSO done that one, So I may as well show it at the end of the post.
So this is Pete's task:
But any ways... That was extremely fun, other than the last bit but I don't think we will be using it for our album cover, because it really does not fit in anyway!
So this is Pete's task:
Make your own album cover
If you are making an album cover as part of an A level task, you need some practice. One of my favourite tasks, which proves that anyone can be creative, is this one, also known as the internet CD cover meme creator, to be found in various locations on the web. Here's what you do:
1. Get a band name:
Use the title of a randomly-generated Wikipedia article. You HAVE to use the title of the page you land upon!
2. Get an album title:
3. Get your image:
Use the random images generator from Flickr's last seven days you HAVE to use the third image, whatever it is
4. Drop image and words into Photoshop:
Adjust your band name and album title by changing the font, colour and size and maybe putting a bit of layer effect on. Resize your image so that it is the right size for the front of an album. If you want, you can turn colour into black and white, but you can’t add anything else to the image!
5. Upload it to one of the random generated CD cover sites
So I am going to show you step by step my results:
1. Get a band name...
I got the Band name Zantop Air Transport, Apparently it is an airline company that was in america for 4 years in the 60's. Very random but has a snazziness to it.
2. Get an Album Title....
'Bear the best fruit' a very odd album title name but there is something symbolic about it and philosophical about the phrase that makes you think deeply about it. I like it.
Not going to lie, this is actually a really fun task, I think I'm enjoying it too much!
3.Get your image...
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| Proof |
Not happy with this, there was so much hope and promise for the album cover and then I get a zoomed in flower !!! I was excited that I was going to get like a street or landmark but I got a flower. Maybe I take the last 'this is actually really fun' comment back ! joking aside I wish it was more interesting however, this flower may be Extremely interesting to someone else. But actually taking a second look it is a beautiful flower and the colours are brilliant, so thanks Hugh for the picture !
4. Drop images onto Photoshop...
As I don't have Photoshop on my computer at home I used online picmonkey- Thanks Anna for the website!
Now I am not going to lie... I'm quite loving the CD album cover! Although nothing to do with our actual music video !! It actually looks good for a practise, I didn't edit the picture in any way because the filters didn't help the colours at all but instead made them look Horrible! So I just left it and added the text and cropped the photo! I really like the text font's, both of them, but especially the circular font, I think that looks really cool and I chose the colours to match the flower, of course, and therefore tie the whole thing together. And technically the flowers are the fruit of plant and the flower is beautiful so therefore they have born the best fruit!
5...
Now again like a fool, I thought we had to look for a random cd generator but its upload to one, to my Horror I click the first one and see the first random generated cd cover was a disgusting, huge tarantula! and seeing as I have a Major phobia of spiders, I nearly died of cardiac arrest when it popped up right on my screen:
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| This is absolutely DISGUSTING AND SICKENING! |
But any ways... That was extremely fun, other than the last bit but I don't think we will be using it for our album cover, because it really does not fit in anyway!
One last thing... This is the album cover that I originally done:
I did it in black and white to tie in with our music video which may be in black and white because it looks a lot cleaner and the focus on the gloves in the middle tie in with the Muay Thai boxing theme that we are going for. Again as I don't have Photoshop I had to use word and Paint which was not to bad, but obviously Photoshop will give a more professional look. I do like my album cover because it is really simplistic which is similar to Swedish House Mafia's album covers which are really simple and the black and white theme is also similar to their album covers:
What I really like about their album covers is that they always have a group of three things on there mainly three circles which represent the three members of the band !
What I really like about their album covers is that they always have a group of three things on there mainly three circles which represent the three members of the band !
Wednesday, 6 November 2013
Footage!
We finally started filming, but only practise footage because we didn't like the quality of our Panasonic camera's, Also we decided that it doesn't look too much like a music video... The shots on its own. So we have decided to add a male lip sync to pull the piece all together and look more like a realistic music video. We also like the thought of the music video being in black and white also, just because it look cleaner and slicker. For the male Lip sync we may choose Alicia's twin brother Billy or one of Hannah's friends. We will record them both and see which one we like best. So far it is going okay and hopefully we can film soon. One obstacle we are facing is that the rope's in the ring of my dad's gym are being replaced and the person who owns the building is messing about with when they are getting changed, so we just have to wait till then or it is going to be mismatched, with the old rope and the new rope. We have also found our main guy's from the gym to fight- Richard and Kamil. As we think they look old enough and have the skills and physique to pull off the role we are going for. I have asked for their consent and they have agreed, however I will get them to formally sign something and take a picture and post it on the blog, so that we can 100% use them without fail. So the next video we will post will either be the practise footage or a bit of our lip sync video.
Monday, 4 November 2013
Filp4
Because it is not letting me post a comment (and I have tried several times) I have thought just to do a post on it, our group has flip 4.
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