Wednesday, 7 September 2011

Five Music Videos For Consideration

1. 'Rolling In The Deep' - Adele
Although the video is fairly repetitious in the shots it uses, I like the use of strong visual aspects to this video. For instance, the hundreds of glasses of water vibrating on the floor looks nice in HD, as does the slow motion of the plates being smashed against the wall.

2. 'Set The World On Fire' - The King Blues
I really like this video, for three reasons. Firstly, there is a 'tongue in cheek' humour throughout where the video never takes itself too seriously. The second is the use of bright primary colours, which contrasts our preliminary task, which, in terms of mise-en-scene was very dark and gloomy, and I would like something more bright and open. The third is the exaggerated style, almost comic like, which is the style we were considering for the rejected song, '1+1'

3. 'Stay The Night' - James Blunt
I like the way this music video has 'captured' the mood and feel of a hot summers day. The actual visuals are simple in this video, but the subtle yellow filter makes the video feel warm and comfortable and relatable. Although I don't want to make a video of this style, it would be nice to capture a mood this effectively.

4. 'Let's Hang The Landlord' - The King Blues
Another King Blues song, but I like the British style of their videos. This is very different, building up a picture and scenes on a blank canvas, like the idea of painting a picture. It's interesting how they use one shot throughout but keep the video moving and interesting.

5. 'Moves Like Jagger' - Cover Version (original by Maroon 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px0X5QODsHM&feature=related
This is a more 'out of the box idea'. It's not an official music video, but an amateur one which looks professional and is very easy to do. I stumbled across it on Youtube, and liked how it looks so professional and is so simple, so thought it would be worth showing and commenting on.

Initial Music Video Ideas

Today, we discussed possible tracks that we could use for a music video.

The main track that we seriously considered was '1+1' by Scouting For Girls, and we presented our ideas to the class. However, the general feedback was that although our ideas for the track were good, the track itself wasn't. The conclusion was the track was too 'suggestive' to use for a music video, and we are better off with a similar style track but which has less innuendo in it.

We haven't decided that this is definitely the genre we want to go for, but it is one of the possibilities.

Sunday, 3 July 2011

The Spinning Coin

Some ideas for spinning things, coins or otherwise (I mentioned with Chris a pen lid...)




Suggested Songs

Use this post as a joint post where we can put all songs that we are considering / have considered so we don't forget them.


Hollywood Will Listen by Robbie Williams Rejected.
1+1 by Scouting For Girls Not discussed
Laid by James Not discussed

Magicy Watery Glassy Tricky

Had a nice idea for an interesting shot.

Water in a glass, with cling film on top which can't be seen (not done brilliantly in my pictures), then roll it along the floor, so it looks like the water is 'floating' in the glass.

We could get really adventurous and colour the glass. Red for blood or something.

Thoughts?




Sunday, 26 June 2011

Flour and party poppers

Thought I'd put some of the floury stuff I talked to you about into action. If we could get some coloured stuff which weighs about the same as flour, this would look even better.


(angle was a bit too low on this one.)
half tsp of flour, not packed


one whole tsp of flour, not packed

Two tsps of flour, packed tight.

Thursday, 16 June 2011

Dump your various musings here.

Anything you want, really. Videos you like, music you like, camera techniques you want to try etc etc etc. Hopefully we can get some sort of coherent plan together from this.