cover.

While still deciding on my final songs out of  ' Is your love big enough' and 'summer time sadness remix', i came across this cover of summer time sadness. 

I find covers really interesting and i find this one very different to the ordinal song which i found refreshing. The whole song is given a semi reggie feel which although i would use instead of one of my song choices i think it shows how songs can be completely changed and become something almost unrecognisable.  

If i did decide to do a remix and if i chose this one if would completely change my mind and ideas of what to do. 

class work - Brainstorm

In class the other day i spent some portion of the lesson coming up with ideas with possible ideas. I picked one of the two songs i'm still deciding on, i wanted to see if the Lianee la Havis song had enough possible parts and scenes to it. I managed to come up with some ideas and thought of both scenes and camera angles.

Goodwins Theory

Goodwins from Daisy Beaven

Cool videos, ideas.

I find this video really interesting and mainly the way it was done with the mise en scene. Location and scene wise its something very different and is constantly using some of goodwins theory through voyeurism. There is also a constant link between the lyrics and the visuals which is different because the type of people they have used in the song is not what i was expecting from the song when i originally heard it. I think this can give me some good advise for my own music video and that is that i can do something completely different and unexpected and it will still work if you still relate it to the lyrics. What i really find different about this video is that is one long shot that starts off looking like a photo.

                  
 As you can see from the photo the whole idea of the video is that it constantly zooms and and back into a different scene or part of the song. There are almost little actions going on between everyone and they all link to the song and what is being sang at that moment. The location is contrasting to the people that are in the image, the people you see are all quite rough and people you would expect to see in such an ornate building.  The space/ room also looks empty but i think this is linking to the song because it is about space and living and when the camera does zoom out to show everyone they do look very small in comparison. The costume also goes along with the rough feel with the boy's wearing stereo typical baggy trousers and lots of gold jewelry and the girls wearing things that are short and tight. This again is contrasting with their surroundings. The music video is also using some of Goodwins theory by using voyeurism and having the image mirror the lyrics, from the picture below the line is 'i'm sniffing' and as you can see the man is clearly sniffing. But like i was talking about before its happening in a way to carry on with the 'street feel'.  The picture above is showing the voyeurism and what i find interesting about this is how the 'street' person is saying some of the lyrics 'i'm spinning' and he isn't even part of the band. I think for my own video i could do something contradictory, but i don't think it will work that well with either of the songs i might want to do. It would also be hard for me to do a certain location but i like the lighting/ coloring its a bit like a sepia/instagram tone which i think i could use in parts of my video.

                            

Past Student work - Beyonce

Psw from Daisy Beaven

Survey..

If anyone could complete my survey it would be very helpful!
I did this to help me decide what music video to through audience research.. 




Or just scan the code thing!! (SOO COOL)

class work

Recently in class i've been looking at different music videos and songs because my original choices i picked didn't get a good reception from the class.

These were the songs i originally picked but they aren't going to be in my final pick now. 

 I really like this song and the think it could look good but the problem was there wouldn't have been much of a story line and i didn't want to take it to close to the original. 

One thing i might take from the video is the lighting its a lovely blue colour and it goes well with the slow motion which i think works really well especially when fast action is happening. The camera angles work really well and i think i'm going to take all three of these things and use them for my own video. 

I liked this song because i really liked the strong beat that the song had and i thought scene change would work really well. I also thought it had like a strong girl power vibe. 

The problem with this video is that it really leans towards a dance routine and i don't have the expertise or anyone to do a dance. I also thought you could have some really cool outfits and crazy locations. 

The main thing i liked about both of the song is the fun vibe that you get and i defiantly want to pick a fun song or a happy song because personally i think it will work better and be fun to make. 

Time toast - History of music

This is my personal opinion of the top famous songs over the years. 

Some of them are songs that i know and love and some are ones where if you didn't know them you would have to be living under a rock. 

Original audience feedback

After getting some audience feedback from my three original possible songs, i decided because there wasn't a massive amount of ideas from anyone and i didn't feel that i could be that creative with any of them, that i would change my song choices. 

There was also a problem because none or i could think a possible location. 

I did find the feedback useful through because it allowed my to defiantly decide that the songs were wrong.  

Directors Study - Diane Martel

Song Ideas - Chase & Status

This song allows itself to have a really interesting narrative. This music video is taken from the film Harry Brown and doesn't have any of the artist performing in it. 

The narrative is very simple and is all about crime and violence, but its giving it to you from the perspective from the 'bag guy' regretting what he has done. 

The whole thing is set in a sort of grimy area and it doesn't like anyone has that much hope for anything; that is basically what the whole film is about. 

Because a lot of clips from the film have been used in the music video i think you could do something completely different with it, and put a different view across to the audience. But i still think you need to keep it very narrative based, but you could add elements of performance by putting in someone playing the guitar parts and possibly being the lead singer. 

One thing i would take from the music video is the close up and mid shots and i also like how they have then actors performing and then the singer being completely ignored. I would like to take that forward into my own music video because i think it works well to see a clear difference between the 'actors' and the singers. 

Personally i think the lack of special effects adds to this video because it makes you focus on the lyrics and song more, the main one they use is when the singer is levitating which i don't think adds anything to the video and think it can be kept more simplistic. 

Parody's

 I was looking at all different music videos and i thought that it would be interesting to look at parody videos because they usually focus on different mise on scene elements and the outcome is usually something funny not serious. 

You also have different sorts of parodies, some are just copies of songs and some originals. 

This parody by the Midnight Beast and is a parody of Ke$a's Die Young, i find this parody very funny because its completely contradictory and its die old instead. 
They actually use some conventions that common music videos have like for instance the camera shots that have quite a few close up and mid shots which enable you to see the actors expressions and that they are actually singing. 
What is also similar is that editing wise they do both use jump cuts to go between scenes. 
But it is clearly obviously that this is a parody with the men dressed in a wig and they are are completely taking the mick out of the original. 
The parody also has a big amount of props for instances the clown and costumes being extravagant all fit with traditional conventions.
The lighting and colour manipulation isn't quite the same as the original but  think that in the original it is quite extreme and doesn't actually allow you to even see the artist's face very clearly. 
One of the main things i actually really like about the parody and most parodys is the homemade feel they give because i think they end up looking  good and always end up funny, which isn't typical to a normal music video conventions. 

I thought it would be interesting to look at parodies because they aren't usually thought of when it comes to music videos, but they aren't always versions on original songs. 

The midnight Beast have a wide selection of original song and although they aren't the cleanest and are sometimes explicit, from what i have spoken about above they do stick to conventions of typical music videos and follow some of Goodwin theories. 
This mainly happens through a link of lyrics and visuals which helps add to the comedy. 
Another almost constant is voyeurism which happens most of the time when they are singing and are constantly directing any action toward the viewer.