DigiPak

This is our digipack, which we think works really well, we feel that it fits in with the mood that our video was trying to create. i think that we were successful in making the band seem really fun. the digipack has photographs of the band that have been edited so that the pictures are more electronic to fit in with the genre of the music. we also included details about the album, including what other songs, and the producing details. we also included logo's of a record company to make it look more proffessional and realistic.

Magazine Advertisement

This is our music video magazine cover, we took the same idea as we did with our Digipack. We find that many of the colours we used in the magazine cover stand out because it appeals the viewer, and it also fits the genre that we picked. We had feedback relating the song to the genre we have chosen and most of the feedback was possitive. We added such labels as blueray, EMI records, and HD to give it an authentic look and add a touch of realism to the product.

I personally believe that i could see this magazine cover on display as it has a strong realistic feel about it.

Original CD cover

This is the bands original CD cover for the album, we liked the idea of having a photograph of the band on the front cover, we took this into account when making our own digipack and magazine cover.

Editing

We have begun editing our music video and found there is a lot of footage of us not lip syncing, we have decided to speed up these parts of the film using different effects so we can use them in our video. We have also slowed parts down such as the spitting paint part. One of the effects we used was dazzle, this made the UV paint stand out and look very striking, here are some screen grabs of the dazzle effect and other parts of the editing process we took whilst editing in final cut

GROUP 51 FINISHED MUSIC VIDEO

Q3-51 MUSIC VIDEO 2009 from SATMEDIASTUDIES on Vimeo.

We're really happy with the outcome, and we've had feedback from some members of the class, which also think we've created a really good music video.

'i love this video its very unusual but matches the song brilliantly just think you would benefit from having choreographed movement.'

i we were to do the video again, we would probably take this comment into account, and take more time to come up with choreographed dances.

'The video suits the music, the effects are brilliant especially when the girls' lips are bright red. Dance routine is fits well with the song. :D'

Editing techniques

For our final cut of our music video we expanded our use of imagery techniques within the video editing process. We also varied our footage on a larger scale rather than focusing on longer scenes for alot of the video.
Doing this increased the atmosphere and mood, making it seem lively and fun, drawing in the audiences attention for a longer period of time.

One of the main effects used on short, sharper footage is 'dazzle' on final cut. We also increased and slowed some footage to vary the overall pace of our video.

Rough Cut Feedback

we got a various different responses to our rough cut.

1. What do you rate as strengths of the music video?

- Good Editing
- Fits with theme of song
- Looks modern
- Nice Idea
- Good use of differen't shots

2. What do you think are the area's of improvement?

- Quite repetitive
- No lip syncing
- Bit long
- Plain Random shots
- More people needed
- include band and singer

3. What do you think the group should change?

- Differen't location
- Keep singers vague
- More shots of faces
- Add band

4. What has the group still got to do?

- Add more scenes and/or effects to make it seem less repetitive
- Add Lip syncing

we will take some of the advise given to us and try and apply it to our music video.

ROUGHCUT MUSIC VIDEO

GROUP 51 Music Video 2009 ROUGHCUT from SATMEDIASTUDIES on Vimeo.

Uv Body Suits

This is an image from the friendly fires video skeleton boy, they use some kind of uv paint on their outfits and drum kit. This gives a good effect and is a style we may encorporate into our video using uv paint.

Video

Ideas




This is a video that has a part at the beginning that we think has a similar idea to something we want to achieve

UV paint

These are the website's where we ordered our Uv paint from.

we ordered:
6 pack of skin safe uv paint
uv contact lenses

this came to around £38

We are going to use these items in our video and paint ourselves to give the effect in the style of the skeleton boy video by friendly fires we have refered to in our mood board and on another recent blog

http://www.glowshop.com/


















http://www.theglowcompany.co.uk/acatalog/UV-FACE-BODY-PAINT.html

Influences

Whilst researching into music video's we came across this video, which we really liked the camera shots, and how the whole video came together and edited. we also liked the idea of the darkness they use in the video with a party like atmosphere which influenced us to continue with our video idea.

pogo - digitalism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sicf2CECUBo


Due to a problem with the 'embed' link we were un able to put the video on our blog, but the link to YouTube is above.

Locations for filming + Ed Lovelace

We have been having a dilema for where we could have our set. at first we thought we could have a room in a friends house that we could use, but then we thought the UV paint may damage the room. after a lot of thought we decided to think of somewhere, such as a shed or barn where we could make a mess.

Suggestions
Shed
deserted house
feild
kids play pak
public areas
garages



Ed Lovelace Talk In The Hall

Ed Lovelace is an ex Long road student who studied media. He kindly came in to talk to us about the music video industry. He has worked on smaller bands music videos and has progressed on to bigger budget and bigger band videos. for example he directed the gallows first video with only £100 budget and then went on to create two videos for the band Cage the elephant for £40,000 each. He is hoping to break into the film industry with his documentay/film called Werewolves across America but the film distribution is at a standstill because he needs clearance from the artist he was following in the documentary.
There is three main jobs when directing a music video, Director of photography, art director and cinematography. Each video has a set amount of time for each job to be done. The pitch takes three days, planning is one week, filming is one day and editing is three days making the whole process a two week project.
Certain parts of the footage in filming need to be changed, for example you can use colour correction to make the film look how ever you want it to such as changing atmosphere or the brightness of the shot.

ED LOVELACE - TALK IN THE HALL - WEDNESDAY 7.10.09

Former Long Road Media student Ed Lovelace will be talking about his music videos and career path into the film industry.

Please remember to take notes on the talk and the videos discussed - In the next lesson you will be writing up the talk on your blogs and from YouTube adding the videos he will be showing in his presentation.

'Ain't No Rest For The Wicked' - Cage The Elephant


'In One Ear' - Cage The Elephant


'Abandon Ship' - Gallows


'Laser Hannon' - Cutting Pink With Knives

Lyrics

Below are the lyrics for our music video, translated from french to english,

"I breathe the sweet air of the city
City, city, ah-ah.
It circulates the neon colors
Neon, neon, ah-ah.
I imagine a film in French
french, french, ah-ah.
In this bloated white Mercedes
In this bloated Mercedes.

The night,
tonight,
Oh night, oh night without end.

Midnight I'm so high at the party.
party, party ah-ah.
The mix of vodka gel�e and the beat
the beat, the beat ah-ah.
You flash on the balcony of Paris
paris, paris, ah-ah.
And me excited, with your look risky,
you with your exiting look.

The night,
tonight,
Oh night, oh night without end.

The night,
tonight,
Oh night, oh night without end.

Search the tomb of Gainsbourg for six hours,
six hours, six hours ah-ah.
Our hearts, cocaine, at Montparnasse
cocaine, cocaine, ah-ah.
It assassinates one of these tunes
These tunes, these tunes ah-ah.
it plays hide and seek in the morning,
plays hide and seek.

The night,
tonight,
Oh night, oh night without end."

....

from this we can establish a clearer picture of the songs substance and can
also incorperate our own ideas to fit with whats being sung.

Costume and camera

With these images, we can vastly develop our ideas towards costume, camera and even some lighting techniques!

Different effects we may use

OUR GROUP!

Emailing the band

We have emailed the band to ask them for help and input with our music video

Influence

This is a music video for the same robots in disguise song however this video was made by another member of the public.

Some of the techniques, costumes and camera angles could prove to be extremely helpful when developing ideas towards our own music video!

Post card final idea

We have designed a post card to advertise our music video. On the post card we have put information about the videos release date. We used very bright colours which reflect the style of the music. Also this stands out and is very eye catching

CD Track Timeline

Possible Locations

• Inside
• Black Backgroud
• inside a small room
• pitch black (widows blocked out)

Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
Uploaded by BlackEyedPeas. - See the latest featured music videos.

This is the black eyed peas video "i gotta feeling" which we have studied in the way that they use lighting and UV effects as we should be using most of them in our own.

this video is a influence on us as we plan to use slow motion in parts of our own video.

Possible Props

• UV paint & UV lighting
• accessories such as sun glasses
• black clothing
  
• cake and other food related objects for food fight.

This is our mood board which contains our varied ideas which mostly consist of UV paint, strobe lighting and various other colourful things.

Pitch.

my thought was to incorporate UV paint into the mise en scene of the video. putting it on the main character, secondary characters and perhaps group shots (dancing).

The main video will have some stop motion included into the video which will most likely be a small amount throughout the video. the music video will also change atmosphere such as location and then change from daylight to night.

we will have two main characters and then a few secondary characters in the video and there will be a story line based to the video. the two main singers take most of the screen time while as the rest of the band are shown every now and then through fast cuts and will most likely become background characters.

the music video "pogo" by digitilism has become a stepping stone for our production of the music video. the whole video is very fast stop motion which looks almost like the band is moving on a regular camera. This technique also shows the lead singer as if he is floating in the center of the room due to the amount of stop motion.

the equipment we will be using will consist of UV paint for the band and other characters. we will also be using a large amount of lighting effects such as UV light, dim lights, colour filters and strobe lighting which will play a big part in the video as it will add an additional stop motion effect.

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