Location Chocies

Locations Within Music Videos

Some music videos have many locations such as parks, bedrooms, recording studios and plain rooms. In my music video I used a variety of locations this is because this is a common theme to many music videos.

Location 1 - The Green Room

The reason I have chosen to film in the green room is because it is more convenient to film my friends at college as this is when I see them most. Also in the green room I can use the green screen which I can then add a background onto during editing. Therefore it doesn't restrict my ideas of having a plain background. Even more so the green room offers a range of lights such as suspended ceiling lights and back-lights which I can use for a three point lighting system.

Location 2 - My House

The reason why I have chosen to film in my house is because this is where me and my friend meet most often. We filmed on a sunny day so we had good lighting coming into the kitchen. I chose to postilion my artist against a white wall so she would be the main feature in the frame.

Other Locations:

Locations from EGladders

Communication

This image shows the text which I sent my friend asking her to be in my music video. I then rang her and we have now decided and times and dates in which we can film my music video.

 

 

 

Transitional Make-Up

Make-Up Ideas
For my music video I want to show a young girl changing her appearance to please others. I am going to achieve this a number of ways however these are some of the ideas I would like to achieve.

Natural/No Make-Up

I have chosen a natural appearance because I think this is an important to show a natural look. Especially if young girls are watching my music video who may want to be inspired by the looks of the artist.

Eccentric/Skull Candy

I have chosen to use eccentric make up themes such as Skull Candy make-up. Although this make-up is hard to achieve I am going to give it ago because I think it would be a valuable make-up theme which some people may be able to relate to.

Chavs

Emos

Posh Totty

Geeks/Nerds

St Trinians (2007)

I have taken some inspiration from a scene from the comedy, teen film St Trinians. In the scene below Annabelle, the new girl is finding her own identity. The rest of the girls in the school give her a make-up based upon stereotypes of young teenage girls. This is one of my favourite scenes because it shows how Annabelle doesn't fit in the school until her fellow peers help her find her identity. 

  

 

0.48 - 2.00 shows the make over taking place.

The young girls within the both films recently made stereotype the girls into having their own personal identity/be apart of a collective group. People sometimes find being part of a group of people with a shared identity helps them find their own character.

Stereotypes

This clip is from the film Mean Girls in which everyone in the canteen is part of a collective identity group. People group themselves into categories which they have certain things in common with.

  

 

Make-Up Ideas

Make- Up Ideas from EGladders

Main Influence

Jess Glynne - Take Me Home

Ideas I Would Like To Use/Develop:

- Natural look

- Minimal make-up

- Minimal colours

- Eye line match

- Lip-syncing

- Long clips of performer singing directly towards the camera

- Passion within the performance

- Use of jump cuts

- Use of medium close-ups

Compared To My 1st Draft/Mock Exam:

During the making of my music video I watched Jess Glynne's music video, Take Me Home. From this I took inspiration for my own music video and the images below show how I used similar shots to Glynne's music video.

Image 1:

Both performers are showing their passion through the use of facial and body expressions. As this shot is a medium close up the arms help to show the emotions and passion of the performer. I think this is an effective way to show the audience the passion in which the performer is trying to convey.

Image 2:

These images show a close up with the performers both making a direct connection with the audience. Both performers are lip-syncing and appear with very minimal make-up on. In my opinion the natural look helps to create a realistic connection with audience. The performers look directly into the camera and a close up helps to emphasise this is as it makes the performers face, especially their eyes, connect with the audience.

Image 3:

These images show a change in the narrative and colour tones. In my music video I choose a B/W colour change to show my performer being weak and withdrawn from the rest of the narrative. In Jess Glynne's video , she uses darker lighting to show a change in the narrative. I think both these shots are very useful as they show refection shots away from the narrative.

Image 4:

These images show a medium close up. Both of the performer display the narrative through the use of lip-syncing. I like this shot because it shows the full face and neck of the performer as well as some of the background. Emotions are also very good to show via facial and hand movements because the camera can focus on these specific movements. 





Mock Exam Edits

These images show some of the effects which I have used during my Mock Exam/Draft 1.

Additive Dissolve

Black and White

When the artist is not singing I will add a B/W effect.

Transparency 

Shows weakness and the artist fading away.

Matte Generation

This effect shows the artist getting ill.

Ultra Key

This effect removed the green screen from behind my artist. 

Analysis of Effects

My Mock Exam

This video is my first attempt at a music video. I completed this for my mock exam however I only used my test shots, therefore the video does have some blank elements. I also used images from my storyboard to demonstrate the timings of the shots I haven't filmed.



What I Think Went Well:
- Lip-Syncing was well connected
- Natural look was well achieved
- The shots I used achieved the emotions I wanted to show
- The one location I used showed what I wanted to achieve
- The editing transitions I used were very effective in making my music video look very good
- The B/W effect I wanted to achieve proved to work very well


What I Need To Improve:
- More camera movements
- More camera angles
- Use a range of editing transitions
- Follow the storyboard
- One element of the lip-syncing was slightly out