Prop List

Editing Workshop for Music Videos

Today one of teachers talked to us about how to best edit a music video whether it be a band or a solo artist. He told us that there were some rules of cutting music videos:

1. Listen to the music and illustrate what you hear. 

2. Group your shots together. Or else it would look too random. 

3. Follow movement. 

One of the things that they told us that we need to do was start off with the performance cut of the editing process and then move on to the narrative part of the music video. Then after everything had been edited together we should then focus on adding any effects to the video and then sort out the colouring of the video at the end of the editing process. He also told us what the reason behind the clapper board was for in music videos and it is basically there to make sure that the music and the band are able to sync up so it looks like they are actually singing in the music video. Another tip that he gave us to make sure that we didn't get too confused was to rename the clips in the timeline instead of in the bins and when you rename a clip try and describe the shot going from the left to the right of the shot and not to use the peoples name when renaming as this can also confuse people in your group or even yourself if you forget the peoples names. We were also taught that if we can't use the clapper board to sync up the music and the band we can use the snare drums on both of the music videos that have been added before the song to get an idea of the tempo of the song and also to try and sync up the band and the music. 

Final Digipak Design

 

This is the final design that was drafted up for the DigiPack of our band and we decided to use the front cover of my DigiPack design and the inside of Max's design and the idea of James's back cover to try and create an interesting DigiPack for our band. 

Shot List

This is the shot list that Max was able to create for us

shots to include:   (not in order) 

 

• tracking shot of shoes walking in, pan up trouser leg and along arm to picking up the drink on table, follow drink up to audience members mouth and pan around to the band on stage for an over the shoulder shot. first 20 seconds
• close up of guitar playing- at angle from down the neck to body
• shot of kick drum coming in, both the 2 beats
• top side angle shot of drummer playing the kit
• shot of audience members looking up surprised
• shot of the base guitarist and drummer from the side together
• shot of the singer
• guitar strumming riff
• slight side angle under shot of the singer again, to the camera
• shot of drummer, 45* angle
• close up of grimaced face
• over the shoulder shot of the singer- silhouette of him facing the audience, hazy singing to audience
• shot of audience un-impressed
• shot of base guitarist starting to walk with he singer and guitarist towards camera, drummer should be seen in background bashing symbols

change location

• singer walking backwards from camera bending down to the lens singing
• shot of the guitarist for half the bar, and switch to drummer
• shot of singer saying 'i've had' or 'enough' while the other half of the phrase is focused non the base guitarist.
• shot of first guitar riff on the main body, switch angle each time it repeats
• shot of drummer hitting the 4 beats and kick drum
• mid shot of base guitarist nodding as he plays
• show the singer begin to 'Aaahhhh' and go to drums
• begin the riff again, show some of the background in focus over the band members shoulder e.g. show poster, beer bottles and old cigarettes
• show base guitarist nodding for a short moment and go back to guitar smiling back at singer
• shot of singer at 45*angle singing to guitarist, track the shot past the singer to the guitarist as we hear the twang chords
• gopro shot from guitar neck showing the base guitarists fretboard- janky and unusual
• go to the wall, show photos of the band together mucking about, possible cut to them drinking on the sofa laughing- slower speed
• shot of the base guitarist riff again, front angle then cut to side at lower angle, show fingers on the main body
• Begin sliding chords of guitar, then show singer "Im getting sick and tired of those who know better"- sang to camera show frustration
• shots of sticks tapping on symbol, cut to sticks on a drum
• shot of guitar on one strum, shot of singer staggering and nodding his head, another long shot of the guitar doing the quick strum up and going to a jump, cut to a mid shot of the drummer beginning the big chorus intro

 

singer walks towards camera off stage and cheers with beer bottle onto lens into blackness, then pulls away and we are in the rock garage in colour

Talk about the Set Design

Today we spoke to the set designer for our music video and they were quite positive towards our ideas for the two sets but we would still need to try and source some of our own props and decorative things for the set. We were told that it might be a good idea to create a list of all the things that we need to get for our set to be able to know what we might already have in school and what we need to get our selves. But the feedback we got on the Jazz club idea was positive and better than I was expecting as the set isn't going to be the easiest thing to make as the creation of the set is going to be difficult to do on the shoot day and we are worried that it might take a big chunk of the day to create. 

Music Video Storyboard first draft

 will take another photo to show a better shot. 

Digipak design ideas

Pre-Production Task

 for our pre-production task we were doing a mood board for our idea:

But since this mood board was created we have changed the idea and so most of the ideas and images found in this mood board wont be the same and the final product will most likely not have anything to do with this mood board. 

Lighting Workshop

Today we had a workshop with one of our teachers and we were taught on how to properly do lighting for our music videos. He started by telling us what type of light we normally use for the music videos and it was called a redhead light ad it is the most common light that gets used when making a music video and later he also mentioned flurries which are basically long tubes of fluorescent LEDs and these lights can be used in a shot to try and create an atmosphere because they are aesthetically pleasing to look at. 

Then he went on to talk about different ways we could use light to make a shot look beautiful and nice for the audience. He started by talking about one point lighting where it is best for the light to be placed around the camera but it wasn't very good because it created quite a sharp shadow on half of the persons face but this can be fixed by using a three point lighting method where there is a focus light (which is the one that was used in the one point lighting), a filler light that gets rid of the shadow on the side of the persons face and is normally further away from the object to still create a 'shadow' on the person's face and then there is also a back light to out line the person because without the back light the person starts to blend into the background and all the back light does is give the person an outline to make them appear separate to the background. 

Our teacher then showed us a few other ways to light our shot. One of them being a three point shot but instead of using a redhead light for the backlight and instead use a blonde light which is a much more powerful version of the redhead light. Then there is a method that another one of our teachers made when they were working on a different project he had a massive flat from the theatre department and some wax paper to disperse the light across the room and create a nice warm glow to the shot and it is a good light to use if there are a lot of props around the set and you don't want any shadows to appear on the main object of the shot. 

Idea of what our Bands Instagram page would look like