Something I found out...

So... whilst I have been searching for a one shot music video, I came across the song OK Go - This Too Shall Pass. This music video is supposed to have been shot in one take, where a four minute sequence of the song is being played in time to the actions of a giant Rube Goldberg Machine. BUT I have seen that apparently the Rube Goldberg Machine was filmed as three continuous takes which were spliced together in post production. It has been mentioned that there is a cut at 2:27 when a curtain opens.

Shocking...

That's just a little fact I found out !

One Shot Music Video!

We have been asked to look at a one shot music video where the video and all of the shots in it, are filmed in one shot. One shot videos are taken in one long take and here is one I have found...

Greg Laswell (Take Everything).

I found this particular music video fascinating because not only is it taken in one shot, it is also in reverse. 

This means that the Greg had to sing the song backwards, for example, whilst researching this song, I found out, the following is the chorus of the song...

“Hooo ooor mnayeem maurf gni thear vleh guess nada owoogh.”

I believe that Greg is a talented singer for having to sing the chorus backwards, and it also makes the music video effective because it is not like normal music videos; it is a challenge for the makers of it and also the singer. It was challenging for Greg to learn the song backwards and here is a quick and interesting fact I found out about the video.. 

The entire song took him about 3 days to record in the studio and it took him four days to learn it backwards.

This shows that learning the words backwards was harder than actually recording the song. 

As well as learning the words of the song backwards I also believe the props and the making of the music video is fascinating. 

CLICK THE LINK BELOW

to see the making of the music video. 

  

http://vimeo.com/10372451

From looking at the behind the scenes video, it is clear that the lighting has been changed, and I think this makes the music video effective because it matches the surroundings. Also, Greg had to do all of his moves backwards because the other people and props were going in the right direction, and therefore when they were reversed, Greg had to be going in the opposite direction. This just adds to amount of work and effort that Greg had to put into the shoot, and shows that his hardwork paid off. 

The atmosphere of the music video was intense because there was so many things going on at once. In a one shot music video it is hard to get everything done at a precise time and this is why the video worked so well. From the coloured bouncy balls to the putting on of the boots, there is a lot of action going on in between and it shows that a lot of preparing and planning of the music video has been done for it to be successful. 

I would like to incorporate some of the ideas for this video into our music video, for example the pillow fight in the background would be a great idea to use because one of our song ideas (Rihanna -Cheers) is all about having fun, and I think this would be the perfect thing to do. 

Overall, I believe that this particular music video is a perfect example of a one shot music video, because not only is it shot in one take, it is also reversed, which makes the music video even more impressive. :)

We're back! :)

So.. it's a new year and we are starting on music videos!
Sophie and I have come together and formed a new group, and we are SO excited to start this music video!
In the lessons we have learnt about the different types of music videos, such as performance videos (e.g. Bon Jovi - Apologies),  concept videos (e.g. OK go - Here It Goes Again) and narrative videos (e.g. A-ha - Take On Me). We then put these three types of music videos onto a piece of paper and came up with a few songs and ideas for them. These included the songs Rihanna - Cheers (Drink To That) and Ed Sheeran - The A Team. We did a brainstorm and Sophie will be uploading this soon to show the ideas we came up with for each of the songs. :)

Back to school!!!!!

After a long, lovely 6 weeks of summer off we are back to school and back focusing on media. During the summer charlotte and i have been discussing ideas and now have many to choose from. We have managed to focus our thoughts into two ideas. Although these two ideas are only our first thought swe are quite excited! i will put our brain storm up soon!!

Recently in media we have all been working hard to get our 'tekkers' up to a good/great standard, perfecting our skills on final cut! I found this quite challenging as it is complicated to ensure that you get everything precisely right so takes a lot of fiddling. however we are getting used to using the programme now and are becoming more comfortable which is good!!! This means that we can do some funky effects when in comes to making our music video!! we have also found that youtube is one of the best teachers for final cut as it can give you a visual representation! There are some good tutorials in which show you what to do on screen while talking you through it. They are also in simple steps which makes it easy to follow! My favourite editing technique so far is the simpleness of changing the colour, i find this interesting and fun to play around with! Furthermore i really like adding the set effects onto a clip, especially the distort ones as these turn out to be really funny and make everyone laugh!! However a more complicated but favourite editing technique is the split screen, however from our test run we have found out this take LOTS of planning and thinking before you even start to film it! The overall prodect of this technique is good but the timings are hard to match up. However after thinking about it in relation to my music video i feel that there shouldnt be as much of a problem as we will have a set track over the top so there can be no problems with dialogue! :D 

In our media lesson on friday we were allowed to put these skills into action by filming a short practise music video which i LOVED doing!! We had to use a song by the Exponents called 'why does love do this to me'. This song is incredibly catchy and i love it!! I feel this was a good song to do our practise video to as it was an upbeat song!! (this stopped us from getting stressy and kept us singing along) We had a few ideas in which we messed around with in which included some split screens and some lip sync!! Ahhh editing will be stressfull!!! 

Split Screen presentation

Split screen presentation

Within class we were asked to make a presentation in groups showing a certain skill for Final Cut, This is so that when we came to edit the music video we would be able to use the programme with more confidence. My group had to learn to do split screening, here is our presentation for it.

Media presentation

Me and ollie made this presentation within class and i feel that this would be useful so i placed it on our blog. We were looking at the representation of region and place within a music video. The music video we have looked at is Beverly hills by Weezer as we feel that it conforms to stereotypes such as beverly hills being sunny and rich.