22nd January 2010

we chose Hellogoodbye - Here in your arms. We have been planning our video.

we planned location, which was to use a friends house to begin with and then the surrounding streets, also outside our school and a shop. we then planned what characters we needed and cast the characters we had a 'Cool guy' (Conor) who is with the 'popular pretty girl'(april) that all the geeks want and a 'geeky boy' (Me) who chases the girl.
The costumes would be along the lines of this - Cool guy - branded clothing, jeans and a nice jacket, groomed hair and facial hair. The Popular Pretty girl - Blonde hair, a lot of make up, short skirt/shorts, lots of pink, nice car. Geeky boy - oversized glasses, bad hair, clothes all tucked in and trousers pulled too high, braces and long white socks.

the basic plan of the video was going to be from the geeky boys point of view and have day dream bubbles of what he was thinking, he would follow the girl and imagine himself with her only we would edit it to be the cool guy with her and the geeky boy is only imagining it.

12th January 2010

We looked at a few songs on youtube of music vidoes, professional and amateur but this song stood out to us on you tube, and thought it was a good option because it was a clear song, with lyrics we can make a story to, its called Here in your arms and its by HelloGoodbye.
here is the video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-KQ1tp_qOQ
and here are the lyrics - http://artists.letssingit.com/hellogoodbye-lyrics-here-in-your-arms-sknfc2n
and here is an image of the group 'HelloGoodbye'


as you can see from the image of the group they are quite quirky and different, and the genre of their music i would say is probably Pop, maybe a little rock/alternative.
from the video you can see that is has an easy story to follow and understand this is because the song is clear and the lyrics are simple.

11th January 2010.

My group is me, tana and april, we have decided today that we want to do a music video. we thought it would be the most interesting to do and would also suit us as a group, we believed we worked well in a group and we would get along. we got brain storming on ideas and decided that it would be better to choose a song you could hear the lyrics to clearly, so that we can have a story to it. we also decided we didnt want to lip sync the whole song but that a good video always has some lip syncing. we went on www.youtube.com to look at other music videos to see what was consistant and what was not. we also thought at first we should chose a well known song and then realised that probably wasnt the way to go about it. we realised that it is easier to copy ideas of a song if it is really well known as it is hard to sway away from the idea the original artist already got.

we have to have a promotion pack as well as the video, we all have to do individual CD covers and magazine adverts, they all need to be done seperately but must show consistancy.

we thought about the genre of the song and thought it would be best not to do a rap/r&b song as they are usually fast songs, therefore would be hard to keep a story to the lyrics.

This video is  sweded version of  Saw by Me, Lizzie and Abbey. 

PSA - RAPE AWARENESS EVALUATION

Overall i think that our PSA deserves a level 3, i think that a level 2 is too low for the work and skills needed to create this video.

we used a point of veiw shot when running, but other than that every shot was held steady when it needed to be. there where no heads cut off so the framing was appropriate. we had to cut and split clips where appropriate. we used many different types of shots such as the following;

- Long Distance
-Close up
- Over the shoulder
- Establishing shot
- popint of veiw and more

the material got the message across taht we wanted, adding music made a better effect on the video too therefore the material is appropriate for the task set.
For Mise - en scene we purposly done our video in daylight so that people can see it doesnt just happen at night it can happen any time of the day. we chose a girl being chased and a man chasing her which is appropriate mise - en - scene

we edited our video by adding in statistics and warnings so that it helps the message get across to the viewer.
we used fade in and fade out, and changing the sound levels so that it was more clear.
we combined images sound and editing to suit the movie and i think we did really well.
planning was a very important part of our work as it helped the filming go more smoothly.

PSA - what i have learnt so far

last week we were put into groups to do our Public Service Announcment videos first we sat down and created a story board of what we would like to incloude in our PSA.

i will post a copy oif my story board on here shortly,
the planning was probably the hardest part like choosing where we was going to shoot the filming as we wanted to do it across a road outside school but it wasnt possible as the cars where always going past! also a member of our group was abcent when planning so when it came to filming we had to go over the whole thing with that person and it took up time, this person wanted to do things different but it was difficult because we had already planned.

using our time sensibly was the most important thing, and communication, before we knew it our time was up, luckily we were able to finish our filming. I think planning is really important so that we could go out and just follow it rather than just filming anything and making it up as we went along.

overalll i think our film went really well as we used a variety of different shots and angles.
we now have to concentrate on our editing to neaten it up. when filming some things had to be changed but overall we followed our story board.

PSA - Public service announcement

we have been asked for our next peice of work to create a PSA which is a type of advertisement for the publics safety. We will be focusing on rape awareness for the public.

The main thing i want to get across in my video is that women shouldnt go out on their own, they shouldnt walk down alleys, talk to people they dont know, get into unknown veichals but in a situation that is very common being aware that Unmarked cabs or taxis are dangerous and that people should be aware of this.

i think that to get the message across especially to young women it needs to be powerful, i dont want to just make women aware but everyone.

facts.

i found this on wikipedia, its a list of the reported rapes.

i found that alot of the time the stories i read where when people where on a night out, it seems that it is more rare that it will happen when a women is in the right state of mind however it still does. Women are attacked when drunk as they are seen as vunerable.

here is a link of David Lynch's PSA on cleaning up new york!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSWv90msTUc
i think this video is very powerful, the noises catch ur attention and it creeps you out so that you watch it and realise how bad it is! i think it has a good impact on people, especially those who dont like rats!!

here is another video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKNCYw2898Q
this video has a slightly different approach its powerful because its upseting and it makes you think!
its about a girl who was raped, she didnt speak up because she was too scared and she commit suicide, its her suicide note, i think it would effect not only women but their families too as they would not like to be the parents on the recieving end of their childs suicide not. its very upsetting but so effective. this video also contains facts about how many people speak up and the effects of not speaking up, i think this helps warn people of the concequences.

although this next video isnt as professsional as the other two it still sends a very important message across, i think the effects used suit the PSA as it is on drugs and some shots are made blurry. i also think that having the seringe there would make people realise actually this is dangerous! here is the link;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIf6a0bz-r4&feature=related