aspects that should be accounted in our music video

The factors that will need to be taken into consideration when planning a video are:
The location
Actors
Weather
Sound and Lighting
Costume
Hair and make up
Mise en scene
The positioning of characters and objects in a frame

If we want our music video to be successful we must include all of these aspects.

Case study- Jamie thraves

Jamie thraves created short films while he was at university. He used award- winning short films as a 'calling card' to get a 'foot in the door' with the video company factory films. After he started to shoot very low budget music videos which cost about 5000 pounds.

Heres the proccess of it all:
.A commissioner from a record label sends a track to 5-10 directors
.The directors then submit a treatment, there is no payments at this stage
.The director who has submitted the best treatment is then commissioned to produce the video, from here the director is paid




Here is one of Jamie Thraves latest music video 'Japanese Popstars song for Lisa. The video cost about 20,000 pounds, it took two days to be shot. Jamie has used the music video to get into the film business. 




Radio Head- Just had a budget of 100,000 pounds and  was shot in three days.



Cold play- The Scientist had a budget of 200,000 pounds adn was shot in three days. The song was written by all members of the group. The video consists of reverse narrative, inorder for this to be done, Martin had to learn to sing the song backwards.

what I learn from the preliminary task

The preliminary that i and my group member this allowed us to discover the key aspects of creating a music video. This have helped us feel more  confident towards the process of producing our actual music video. The preliminary task has made us discover actually how difficult it would be to create a actual music video. The task has also helped us develop skills such as getting lip synching in perfect place, this will be advantageous for us in the future when we coming to editing our actual music video. 

worldle how we know a music video is successfull

Finding our song for our final product

To stay away from any copyright products we have discovered a site we can use to choose the music we want for our music video. The site holds non-copyright music which have been produce by independant unsigned artist.

Preliminary

We were asked to do a preliminary task in our groups to grasp the aspects of how to create a music video. We were given a song to use in our task. The song that we were given for the task was 'Don't go breaking my heart' by Elton John and Kiki D.

I and my partner firstly attempted to learn the words of the song, but we saw that it was too difficult as we both had no clue of the song. Even when we had the words on the projector and tried do a karaoki it was still proven difficult. We finally gave up after a numerous attempts and got two members of another group to take over.

We had to film three parts of footage with a HD cam recorder, which all included different situations, one where i am dancing, another where my partner is dancing and lasty the part where there is lip sinking.

Once we collected the footage we uploaded it onto the imac. we then had the song bluetooth over to the imac we were on.

First of all we had to get the edit of the lip sinking perfect and on point inorder for us to begin cutting and editing parts in and out. We then added some effects to have the video look more interesting. Hopfully this procedure of the preliminary task we help us with the final product.

Well here it is. Enjoy!

The purpose of a video and how do we know it is successful

A music video is a short film which is mixed up with a song and imagery. The purpose of a music video would be to give the lyrics of the song an interpretation, to express the song only the audience to see clearly what the song is about and to also add meaning. A music video is also used to promote the song so it can forward itself to a larger audience; it’s also used to promote the artist. A music video will express and individual's emotion; these emotions could show anger, sadness or happiness.

A music video can be judged to be successful by the TV channel it is on, the sales increase, the increase of the downloads, the number of views the video has from Youtube, the amount of times the music video is shown on TV, CD sales and the charts. all of these aspects will determine the Popularity of the video and probrably the sale figures.




  


                                                                           
                                                                                         

Top 100 greatest music video 11/100

Coldplay-The Scientist-2002, The Scientist had a budget of 200,000 pounds adn was shot in three days. The song was written by all members of the group. The video consists of reverse narrative, inorder for this to be done, Martin had to learn to sing the song backwards.

Top 100 greatest music video 5/100

Madonna- Like a Prayer- 1989, this music video was seen as highly controversial, because within the video there is an image of a black Jesus  which comes to life in a church and then makes love with Madonna. This music video made Madonna's sponsorship with Pepsi cancelled.

Top 100 greatest music video 4/100

Queen- bohemain Rhapsody- 1975, this music video was created because they didn't want to do keep having to perform the same song at 'Top of the Pops' every week as the song was a number 'one' hit for nine weeks.  

Top 100 greatest music video 1/100

Michael Jackson Thriller; 1983, this music video was highly popular and sold over 50million copies world wide. The music video had been voted as the most influential  pop video of all times. The video had been choreographed by Michael Peters and Michael Jackson himself. The music within the video contains similar music by film music composer Elmer Bernstein. 

100 greatest music videos

In lesson we have been viewing the 100 greatest music videos 




1. michael Jackson: thriller

2. Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer

3. A-ha: Take on Me

4. Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody

5. Madonna: Like a Prayer

6. Robbie Williams: Rock DJ

7. Michael Jackson: Billie Jean

8. The Verve: Bittersweet Symphony

9. Madonna: Vogue

10. Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit

11. Coldplay: The Scientist

12. Michael & Janet Jackson: Scream

13. Pink Floyd: Another Brick in the Wall

14. Christina Aguilera: Dirrty

15. REM: Everybody Hurts

16. OutKast: Hey Ya

17. Blur: Coffee & TV

18. Beyonce: Crazy in Love

19. Madonna: Material Girl

20. Gorillaz: Clint Eastwood

21. Queen: I Want to Break Free

22. Justin Timberlake: Cry Me a River

23. Britney Spears: ...Baby One More Time

24. Radiohead: No Surprises

25. Madness: Baggy Trousers

26. TLC: Waterfalls

27. David Bowie: Ashes to Ashes

28. Foo Fighters: Learn to Fly

29. Electric Six: Gay Bar

30. Weezer: Buddy Holly

31. Eminem: Stan

32. Chris Isaak: Wicked Game

33. U2: The Sweetest Thing

34. The White Stripes: Fell in Love with a Girl

35. Sinead O'Connor: Nothing Compares 2U

36. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Give It Away

37. Guns N Roses: November Rain

38. Fatboy Slim: Weapon of Choice

39. Pulp: Common People

40. Missy Elliot: Get Ur Freak On

41. The Spice Girls: Wannabe

42. Bjork: It's Oh So Quiet

43. Dire Straits: Money for Nothing

44. Kylie Minogue: Can't Get You Out of My Head

45. Aerosmith: Crazy

46. Adam & the Ants: Prince Charming

47. The Prodigy: Firestarter

48. Johnny Cash: Hurt

49. Jamiroquai: Virtual Insanity

50. Paul Simon: You Can Call Me Al

51. Run DMC & Aerosmith: Walk This Way

52. Massive Attack: Teardrop

53. Wham: Club Tropicana

54. Daft Punk: Around the World

55. Fatboy Slim: Praise You

56. Eminem: Without Me

57. Meatloaf: I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)

58. The Cure: Close to Me

59. Abba: Knowing Me, Knowing You

60. Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams

61. The Prodigy: Smack My Bitch Up

62. Blur: Parklife

63. George Michael: Outside

64. Bjork: Human Behaviour

65. Aphex Twin: Windowlicker

66. Bob Dylan: Subterranean Homesick Blues

67. The Beastie Boys: Sabotage

68. Madonna: Ray of Light

69. Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Two Tribes

70. The Police: Every Breath You Take

71. Bjork: All Is Full of Love

72. Robert Palmer: Addicted to Love

73. Basement Jaxx: Where's Your Head At?

74. Wu-Tang Clan: Gravel Pit

75. Duran Duran: Rio

76. The Beatles: Strawberry Fields

77. MC Hammer: U Can't Touch This

78. Godley and Creme: Cry

79. New Order: True Faith

80. Radiohead: Just

81. Ultravox: Vienna

82. 50 Cent: In Da Club

83. Shakespear's Sister: Stay

84. The Boomtown Rats: I Don't Like Mondays

85. Sid Vicious: My Way

86. The Streets: Fit But You Know It

87. Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime

88. Elton John: I Want Love

89. Smashing Pumpkins: Tonight Tonight

90. The Pet Shop Boys: Go West-1993

91. The Specials: Ghost Town-1981

92. Herbie Hancock: Rockit 1983-1983

93. The Rolling Stones: We Love You-

94. Bonnie Tyler: Total Eclipse of the Heart-1983

95. The Cardigans: My Favourite Game-1998

96. So Solid Crew: 21 Seconds- 2001

97. Cornershop: Brimful of Asha-1998

98. Bronski Beat: Smalltown Boy- 1981

99. Supergrass: Pumping on Your Stereo-1999

100. Musical Youth: Pass the Dutchie- 1982

Welcome post

Hi my name is Leon Fagan, be welcomed to my blog. I have been set the task of producing a music video; I will be using my blog to keep you updated with the process of the making of my music video. As you view the progress of this production, I well and truly hope that you enjoy all throughout. I also hope when my final product has been finalized you are entertained by it, thank you.