picturing my music video

I sat down and listened to my chosen song a few times and tried to write what I could  picture during the lyrics/beat of the song. I have taken into account what my target audience and also what Lizzard Channel want to see in their music video.

00:00 - 00:30 - fast edits, different locations of band playing music, guitar drums

00:30 - ed (vocalist) intro followed by each stuff, van, skating, surfing etc

00:40 - back to all band

00:45 - ed singing

00:50 - studio fast edits

00:56 - possibly little boy singing
1:00 - bands studio with song beach scenes
1:20 - main vocalist (dolly) different angles of lip syncing
1:40 - setting up footage, bright lighting - more band equipment - guitars etc.
1:54 - possibly little boy/ main vocalist
2:00 - beach stuff, surfing, having fun, fast edits.
2:10 - panning shot's of guys singing chorus/choir with few quick edits of various things.
2:30 - guitar solo - fast cuts
3:00 different locations band mixed in with funny footage

Target Audience

This web link takes you to my online survey which I have created to help gather information, I used survey monkey, a free online website which allowed me to easily collet responses. The answers will give me some interesting information about what people expect to see in music video's of my genre, giving me an indication of what I need to include within my music video.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YNW3W2F


These are the results which i have already collected. I have presented the results in a column graph.

Key demographic:
This is Ryan, he is 18 and his favourite music is ska/punk - he attends live gig's and enjoys being in mosh pits! His favourite artists are - Blink 182, Greenday and Lizzard Channel.
He has a part time job in a surf shop during the weekends and his hobbies include surfing, skateboarding and making short films.

In this video I asked my key demographic questions to help me understand what my typical audience expects to see within a music video of the same genre.

Photoshop Poster Practise

This tutorial was very helpful and challenging, I learnt how to use liquify and other tools to produce a skull smoke effect. I am not 100% happy with the final outcome because I do not think that the skull blends in with the smoke very well but its helped me become more aware and familiar of the photoshop tools.

Compressing footage

I have now filmed various parts of my music video such as the Lizzard Channel live gig at the Jersey Bowl. This week I have been using Compressor to correct my footage so far. I have been using Apple ProRes 422 setting as this is the best setting to compress Canon 7D footage

here are some screen grabs which illustrate the setting which I have been using. By doing this to my footage it will allow me to edit my music video in Final Cut Pro much faster!

School Interviews

My teacher asked myself and another student to film 7 mock interviews of lower sixth students practising their interview techniques. To do this we used 3 camera's, which would allow us to capture their full facial expressions during the interviews. The camera in the middle was static which would be filming throughout each interview while we used two Canon 7D's from filming from opposite angles.

Using the Canon 7D for this task has helped me feel more confident when using equipment.

Equipment testing

This video shows me using the Canon 7D which I will be using to shoot my A2 music video with. I learnt the fundamentals today like changing the ISO and aperture settings and also using the dolly. I enjoy using the dolly as it allows me to get a smooth travelling shot. I will try and incorporate this in my music video as I think this technique looks professional.

CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO SEE MY EQUIPMENT TEST VIDEO!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Iv9XQkqoE&feature=youtu.be

I will be using the following pieces of equipment to produce my music video and ancillary tasks:
Canon 7D - various lens and attachments
Tripod
Dolly
Mac - Final Cut Pro, After Effects, iMovie, Photoshop, InDesign and many other softwares.

Photoshop Practise

In class we used tutorials to practise our photoshop skills. In this tutorial we learnt the basics and fundamentals to create a poster.