OUR NEW SONG
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Better Than Revenge - Analysed by our group to how we want it to be
Monday, 13 December 2010
Taylor Swift - Better Than Revenge
OUR NEW SONG
:D
Better Than Revenge - Analysed by our group to how we want it to be
New Song
As I had a very important deadline to keep, I wasn't involved too much in picking the next song that was chosen. But both Emma and Sophie looked through various female artists such as:
- Ke$ha
- Amy Studt
- Pink
- Avril Lavigne
- Lady Gaga
- Taylor Swift
After they had looked through them all, and were left with a couple of songs to choose between they sort my help. As I listened to them I too was stuck on what song would be better for us to do our video too, however we all came to a mutual decission that Taylor Swift - Better Than Revenge would be the best thing for us to choose.
We all felt that the song was very easy to come up with ideas of what we could do with it, as well as being able to rely on ourselves which wasn't possible with the other song we had choosen. The song has a very clear beat and lyric choice which will allow us to come with a good narrative story. As I had to carry on with revision, they were coming up with ideas however as soon as it is over I'm sure that I will be able to think of things that will help make this video amazing.
- Ke$ha
- Amy Studt
- Pink
- Avril Lavigne
- Lady Gaga
- Taylor Swift
After they had looked through them all, and were left with a couple of songs to choose between they sort my help. As I listened to them I too was stuck on what song would be better for us to do our video too, however we all came to a mutual decission that Taylor Swift - Better Than Revenge would be the best thing for us to choose.
We all felt that the song was very easy to come up with ideas of what we could do with it, as well as being able to rely on ourselves which wasn't possible with the other song we had choosen. The song has a very clear beat and lyric choice which will allow us to come with a good narrative story. As I had to carry on with revision, they were coming up with ideas however as soon as it is over I'm sure that I will be able to think of things that will help make this video amazing.
Change of Song
As we were all thinking about making the story boards for Deja Vu we soon realised how difficult it might be for us to do. We all suddenly started expressing our own doubts about the making of it.
We realised that we would have to rely on other people throughout the whole of the making of it, as our group is girls and the singers voices on the song are male it would have been a lot to ask of other people.
We were also realising that many of the kinds of places we would want to film would be unrealistic, as we would need a club kind of scene and nearly all of us at the time were under age so we couldn't just go filming in a club. We also didn't have use to a taxi either.
Overall Deja Vu was just coming up with problem after problem and we decided that the hassle just wasn't worth the energy.
Now we are all planning on listening to FEMALE artists as it is clearly going to be more suitable when picking our next and final song. So that is our homework for the next lesson.
We realised that we would have to rely on other people throughout the whole of the making of it, as our group is girls and the singers voices on the song are male it would have been a lot to ask of other people.
We were also realising that many of the kinds of places we would want to film would be unrealistic, as we would need a club kind of scene and nearly all of us at the time were under age so we couldn't just go filming in a club. We also didn't have use to a taxi either.
Overall Deja Vu was just coming up with problem after problem and we decided that the hassle just wasn't worth the energy.
Now we are all planning on listening to FEMALE artists as it is clearly going to be more suitable when picking our next and final song. So that is our homework for the next lesson.
Friday, 10 December 2010
Research on 3OH!3
I had recently been to a concert of 3OH!3's and so knew what their stage prescence was like, if we were going to simulate any live performances within our final music video. They were extremely lively and never stood in one spot. One thing which I noticed they are also very keen in is keeping the audience involved, even though the audience are obviously their they weren't just ignoring us which makes it a fun performance and not a boring one. They weren't taking themselves too seriously and were often making fun out of one an other on stage, and this is shown within music videos which they had done as they never do really take themselves that seriously.
http://www.3oh3music.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvf--10EYXw - Starstruk - 3OH!3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdB3Oyd5HtU - Don't Trust Me - 3OH!3
In this video it is them creating a scenario of them being the last male models alive on the planet. Obviously this scenario isn't realistic, however, as we as an audience know this and they are aware that we do they are very much playing on that fact. They are allowing there fantasies and dreams along with the lyrics that they have explore and make such interesting videos.
They are almost taking the 'micky' out of the press and the way in which celebrities are and act with the scenes in which they are being photographed, as it is all very extravagont and over the top. However throughout the video they are always lip synced so nothing is out of sync. The edits are all on time, for example when the taller singer (Nat) is in a barbaric video shoot and comes to the camera going to hit it, it changes to a different scene which is all being in sync with the music to make the music video flow.
When looking at what 3OH!3 were like as a band this was very helpful.
All in all when thinking about creating a music video, you need to have a real flow for the audience to be able to understand what it is happening. However, every now and then the fluidity needs to be broken, saying this it is a contridiction to what I said but the main point of a music video is to remember that it is a MUSIC VIDEO and that the audience should be focussing on the music behind it as that is what they are trying to sell to you.
http://www.3oh3music.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvf--10EYXw - Starstruk - 3OH!3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdB3Oyd5HtU - Don't Trust Me - 3OH!3
In this video it is them creating a scenario of them being the last male models alive on the planet. Obviously this scenario isn't realistic, however, as we as an audience know this and they are aware that we do they are very much playing on that fact. They are allowing there fantasies and dreams along with the lyrics that they have explore and make such interesting videos.
They are almost taking the 'micky' out of the press and the way in which celebrities are and act with the scenes in which they are being photographed, as it is all very extravagont and over the top. However throughout the video they are always lip synced so nothing is out of sync. The edits are all on time, for example when the taller singer (Nat) is in a barbaric video shoot and comes to the camera going to hit it, it changes to a different scene which is all being in sync with the music to make the music video flow.
When looking at what 3OH!3 were like as a band this was very helpful.
All in all when thinking about creating a music video, you need to have a real flow for the audience to be able to understand what it is happening. However, every now and then the fluidity needs to be broken, saying this it is a contridiction to what I said but the main point of a music video is to remember that it is a MUSIC VIDEO and that the audience should be focussing on the music behind it as that is what they are trying to sell to you.
Thursday, 9 December 2010
3OH!3
As a group we felt that this song Deja Vu would be best to use for our music video. As we had all listened to it we were all coming up with many different kind of ideas which we could film.
This song gave us all clear views of what we would be able to create. For example when it talks about a bar tender we were kind of invisaging a point of view shot from the bartender looking at the person singing, and it being quite an intimate kind of shot. Also when it talks about the taxi scene, then we would use a camera both outside a car looking in at the passenger, and a camera within the car looking at the singer as though it was looking from the drivers seat to the singer.
As all of our ideas were flowing we were finding it more and more exciting and thought that it would all work out really well. As you do when your planning and getting excited we thought it would lead to A* quality material.
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
Practise Music Video
As a group we had to make a film to practise editing and syncing our lips and words within the song together. As a group we decided we should do something that didn't mean we took ourselves too seriously and basically which made us look like complete fools. I suggested we should do 'Moto Moto - Chunky', this song is a part of the film Madagascar 2 and just always makes me laugh. Emma and Sophie both had a listen and thought it was perfect too. This meant as a group we could just embarrass all ourselves rather than just taking it too seriously.
Filming this wasn't a problem, we did it all within the school grounds and used our uniform as it was mainly too check that we could lip sync everything together in the long run.
When we were editing it was a lot to get to grips as none of us were expert in this area and we all had used different software otherwise. However, once reading the instructions which were given to us we were all able to create something which allowed us to have a music video which was synced well.
** VIDEO **
Filming this wasn't a problem, we did it all within the school grounds and used our uniform as it was mainly too check that we could lip sync everything together in the long run.
When we were editing it was a lot to get to grips as none of us were expert in this area and we all had used different software otherwise. However, once reading the instructions which were given to us we were all able to create something which allowed us to have a music video which was synced well.
** VIDEO **
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