Monday, 30 March 2015
Tuesday, 24 March 2015
Filming progress
We planned to film our music video project over the christmas holiday. However due to various circumstance, with recurring themes. However, we have managed finally to get some filming done, however, we have not been able to get as diverse an area or as much filming as we would like. however, we have managed to find some symbolism within our shots, making the best of a bad situation.
Our decisions were limited by time and locations, due to members of our team not having a lot of transportation outside of walking, and and a looming deadline assured that we had to take whatever footage we could grab, and worry about the quality of which later.
On day 1 of filming we went over Hanault forest. however, due to our mistakes, instead of lip synching the full song, we only got about a minutes worth of footage per time. This means that although we got some decent footage whilst we was out, we had to go and get some more. This was fine as we had to go out and get some urban shots. There we got some shots of walking from different angles, to fit with the general theme of the song.
To finish the first bout of filming, we went and got some shots of us in the band room, to imitate the look of people playing instruments. however, due to a minor mix up between shots, two of the members swapped instruments, and due a filming taking place at a later date, there was a sudden change of clothing halfway through.
Then we came to our first editing session. We were struggling to put together a coherent piece with accurate lip synching, so we had to go out and get more footage, especially of the band, since our current produce was disappointing with neither the lip synching or instrument playing being any good. However after we re-did the shots, it came out looking much better.
We needed some more shots to amplify the feel of the music, so we went out to Valence park, and did some recording there, namely on the different pieces of equipment. Some of this was removed from the final product for looking too out of place.
Our decisions were limited by time and locations, due to members of our team not having a lot of transportation outside of walking, and and a looming deadline assured that we had to take whatever footage we could grab, and worry about the quality of which later.
On day 1 of filming we went over Hanault forest. however, due to our mistakes, instead of lip synching the full song, we only got about a minutes worth of footage per time. This means that although we got some decent footage whilst we was out, we had to go and get some more. This was fine as we had to go out and get some urban shots. There we got some shots of walking from different angles, to fit with the general theme of the song.
To finish the first bout of filming, we went and got some shots of us in the band room, to imitate the look of people playing instruments. however, due to a minor mix up between shots, two of the members swapped instruments, and due a filming taking place at a later date, there was a sudden change of clothing halfway through.
Then we came to our first editing session. We were struggling to put together a coherent piece with accurate lip synching, so we had to go out and get more footage, especially of the band, since our current produce was disappointing with neither the lip synching or instrument playing being any good. However after we re-did the shots, it came out looking much better.
We needed some more shots to amplify the feel of the music, so we went out to Valence park, and did some recording there, namely on the different pieces of equipment. Some of this was removed from the final product for looking too out of place.
Case study Jamie Thraves
Jamie Thraves is a director who made short films in university and used his award winning short film to get in 'a foot in the door' with the video production company factory films. He started be shooting 3 very low budget music videos that cost about £5,000 each.
This is the song The Scientist by Coldplay.
This is a video clip of Jamie Thraves at the London film festival about his film he had created. The film is a drama and is about a man who leaves his family for no reason and has started living on the streets on London. The film is called treacle jr and stars actor Aidan Gillen.
The way that the process works it that a 'commissioner' will give a record labels to 10 different then each director have to submit a treatment. The director who submits the best treatment is then commissioned to make the music video. He submitted treatments for his 2 best pieces of work and each was accepted.
He has done music videos for Radiohead and Coldplay. He did the music video for Just by Radiohead and had a budget of £100.000 budget and was filmed in 3 days. The the music video for the song The scientist by Coldplay which had a budget of £200,000 and was also filmed in 3 days.
This is the song Just by Radiohead
This is the song The Scientist by Coldplay.
This is a video clip of Jamie Thraves at the London film festival about his film he had created. The film is a drama and is about a man who leaves his family for no reason and has started living on the streets on London. The film is called treacle jr and stars actor Aidan Gillen.
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