Monday 12 December 2011

Thursday 8 December 2011

Evaluation

Our Video was presented in my opinion just how i visioned it to be. I think personally it is what we was expected and aimed our vision of a narrative video. The whole part of a boy becoming a girl is linked together, especially at the end where the girl disappears and the boy comes, this illusion was presented very well, we used this so that the audience will realize the artist of the music video.

At the start where the beat heads the images are suppose to change, in the video the aims were matched. The idea of the beat and images moving was inspired from Rihanna Feat Calvin Harris - We Found Love, as her movie and duration changes when the music starts and within the music video, so we was inspired by this idea and used it within our video. It took us long time to get the hat scene which we wanted her to flick to hat although it want going within the beat, so we changed it in order for the character to apply by it and also for it to hit the melody.As within this scene the hat is different compared to the other shots. This was one of the changes made within the video because the actress was finding it difficult to wear the LA blue hat as it didn't fit her. As you can spot in the video their is different costumes because as music videos, artist don't always have the same outfits all through the video, by having different styles with hair and outfits this would show that teenagers change clothes so that the public do not understand and see it is them.








These images are used to resemble the clothing which teen boys wear, as you can see the colour of the video is black and white although our aim of having only blue elements standing out has been achieved. When the beat starts the images move within the beat so that it can get the audience attention. But also to move to the melody of the beat, when music being watched people would move and nod to the rhythm, by the video durations changing and moving to the beat audience would be more aware and interacted to the music video. At the start you can not see who the artist is, this is hiding the character in order not to ruin the whole image and vision of the video. This is also would keep the audience attention.
  
As you can see we still keeping the idea of a girl going into a boys position, we used this idea because as people want to reach 'fame' they would want to go into anything such as any celebrity or star they ideal life, so when our female character was transformed into a male , she would act just like them in order to be just like them. The actions, clothing and attitude has to be strong and ' ghetto' so that she doesn't leave her character. The whole idea of her wearing the "geeky" glasses is to resemble the artist, as the artist himself does wear glasses she is imitating him on every move and outfit he wears.
 
We had different locations such as the bus, this was used in order to show what a life of a teenager would be. As she sat at the end of the bus, this is a stereotypical thing because teenagers which are from the 'ghetto' or are 'gangsters' they all sit in the back to mess about or to show the others in the bus they control the bus. We used this stereotypical thing in order to still have that image of a teenagers 'boy' life

  
This is scene is a point of view shoot, we used to show where the character is standing and also to get the vibe of the when people are standing in bus stops. We used this in order to use a different shoot and to show the audience how the character would stand and act physically when they are walking and moving. Also we used to show the examiner that we can use different types of shoots other than simple ones. The colour scheme is still black and white with blue elements.






 These scenes are the studio scene which is where the character would be making the song he/she has created their music. Although within this video their is a fault which is where there is suppose to be only black and white video with blue elements, there is inappropriate colours. This was a mistake which i, myself made because i added another colour when taking out the images to be blue. This was a mistake although it added a little affect which showed the emotions of the character within those scenes. The studio was meant to have the producer and other equipments showing, we took the shoot when the producer is there to control the artists, although we thought it didn't go with the beat and the mimicking would not be at the beat of the song. So we cut it of. It would of been a much of a realistic video if we had that part although it didn't go with the vision we was trying to achieve. There is scenes which she is laughing although that can be used to show the success and is laughing at how no one was there for him but he is still this great and flamboyant.










The illusion used within this scene is to get the audiences attention in order for the audience to visually see the artist who created this song. We wanted to show this because from our inspiration within Beyonce music video if i were a boy, there is both the male and female characters and in the end both characters go into their own form so that the audience understand the female was playing the males part at all times. As seen below Beyonce use the strategy of male and female transforming at the start of the video in order for the audience to understand what is going on, we wanted to use it at the end because we wanted to keep the audience still thinking why we used this type of video and also to make the audience want to watch the video more. If we used it exactly the same as Beyonce video that wouldn't be as effective as the idea of keeping a characters identity wouldn't apply.  So by hiding the identity of a new artist, the audience would be second opinions of who the artist would be, so for hiding the artist identity the audience can appreciate the vocal and artistic of the artist rather than for the looks and charm.
             

                      









 


Monday 28 November 2011

Rihanna - We Found Love ft. Calvin Harris

The start of this song was setting outside the blocks, which then changes to a scene inside the blocks where Rihanna is staying at, its a 3-2 second duration on the female actor, this then changes to a bath scene which the male character is laying down. Both shoots are showing/ introducing the main characters within this Music Video, they both are from different shoots which gives a interesting vibe and would make the audience more aware of the video and also not to be"boring" for the audience.
The melody of the music goes within the scene which change around, every beat and melody controls the different scenes moving. The narrator is almost setting the scene and telling the story, the 40s vintage English dark dull scene and the British accent is showing a unnatural scenting because as Rihanna is American the video is showing a different scene which can be related to there romance, also the coloring of the video being dull that is also affected and resembled towards the love for each other.
When the piano plays the camera hits onto the male character then when the piano plays again the scene changes into the female character.
As shown Below.





















When the start there isnt any music apart from the piano, and the narrator is speaking the words she is saying are all being implied within the shoots to show a visual understanding of the video. The music is still controlling when to change scene to still make the audience more attracted and interested within the video, also the wordings are all being implied within the video.


" That without them you feel like nothing". The wording is visually used to show the audience more understanding of the video, also it to engage the audience the meanings of the words and also to show the intimacy within the couple.




The video still is moving to the melody of the song, every beat the piano makes the video scenes change, this is still to engage the audience within the music video. Also the video settings change from the bedroom scene into the fields, although there is a moment which he is standing at the side of the fields and she is within the fields. This is a way to make the audience more interested int the video. The scenes are stilling changing, from scenes of the bath into the street and other scene which considerate onto the characters.






















As the video starts as a positive start of which every fun they have the thunder to show a scene of dis-trace.Also its an intro the video which shows the intimacy within the characters also the thunder is a warning showing it might be a sharp and romantic relationship, although if your not safe something wrong might happen, such as someones heart will be broken.












 As you can see the machine shows a sign written " PLAY NOW"! This is a sign to show when the music video is going to start in other words its a visual direct understanding on when the music will be playing. The scenes all change and all have a passionate vibe to show to the audience the fun and valuable times they are having together. Scenes are changing very quickly to make the video more interesting and too keep the audience attention because within this generation teens get very bored, very easily because they are use to having something keep them entertained. So when the video keeps changing quickly and having colours which change would make them more concerned.

 There is wide shoots which show the setting more and also there is scene such as the one at the side, which are from the same setting but have different view and materials,it has a discontinuance scene which show unseen bit but it to make the video more interesting and better for the audience.  The lyrics all are visually shown in the video.






This scene is a protractor shining onto her, the background shows flowers growing this can imply to the relationship is growing slowly.  The discountenance is still happening all through out the video, this is just to cut the unnecessary bits which isn't needed, the whole video also shows a whole hallucination scene to show the audience the madness of their video.There is also discountenance scenes inside the fish and chips store where she and her 'boyfriend" are standing together and the scene changes to her standing on the table, this is used to have fillers which to cut the unnecessary bit and also to cut the video to have a shorter duration within that scene and also to have more affect on the video. The quick sharp changes have an affect to what is happening in the video and it adds effects which the audience would be more interested in.












The different shoots are to show the couples passionate relationships with each other and also it to show the audience the love' they have for each other. These images also imply to the name of the song as it visually shown. As love has many different and weird meaning, at the end of the day if two people love each other they anything for each other. The drugs and alcohol are resembled as a lose relationship showing that their relationship has hallucinations and unbalanced feelings. The drugs being thrown around and weed/cigarettes being used are to show they hide their emotions through these drugs, images of drugs and alcohol used to visual used to make audience more aware of the interesting. They use the drugs to camouflager the feelings for them and also when the drugs is moving pass out the body system the bad times are coming back. As shown below :


occur to be be the same as their relationship having a "POP" vibe suggesting that they are enjoying the time they have for each other. As this video does a a reality meaning, which is her relationship with her ex boyfriend in 2009, this video is implying the "mad" love they had for each other.But because of him she has became much of a 'bad' person because of him introducing her into the "druggy' life style. As Rihanna had a image before as a sweet Carribean girl, she is implying that her relationship with man, she has changed because of him. That she started to do these things for the love she has for him and that she is not aware of the danger and anti-social things she is doing as shown below.













While this relationship is based on drugs, the relationship is lacking and the female character is getting a bit tired of the same routine every time, so she is having many arguments with her lover, these are also some physical arguments which relate to her previous relationship with  her ex in 2009. when the drugs are getting off their system they are getting back to their normal energy, their love  isn't the same as when they are high and drunk. This is symbiosis by the falling building suggesting their relationship is falling. The images are all changing but the mood has changed it being a relationship which isn't a fairy tale love scene of joy, but a miserable, argumentative love-hate relationship. So the female character can not take this and decides to leave: to put an end to this relationship.




By Mariian Hussein














Music Video

When creating a video, the producer and director would be creating it so that it resembles the lyrics or the type of genre the music video is.
Music itself has many different types of genres, such as RnB, Rock, Indie, Rap, Gospel and many more. So within a music video, the type of colour, equipments and lighting used with have to be reflected to the type of music genre. If the video has inappropriate use of materials or sources that would affect how the video is presented. Music videos are used to resemble a short story to the lyrics of the artist. In fact music videos are like films although they show the whole meaning of a video but in a short story, which films don't do, allowing for extremely poetic artistic expression to be shown. Also by using different music videos to show emotions, as the lyrics are emotional and show a sense of feeling. The music video most apply to the video so that it would make sense to the audience.

Monday 21 November 2011

How Chroma Key Used

Green and blue background are the two colours used when making affected movies and filming.  Usually these colours are used because they are the only two main colours furthest away from skin tone. The Image above the background would still be the same, while the background changes and becomes the alternative background the person wants.
Green is used mainly because blue can camouflage with someones eye colour. So due to the that green would be more appropriate to use and also green is more sensitive towards the camera implying that the filming which would mean that the green coloring would be mimicking the human eyes increasing the green light, therefore the colour would produce the cleanest key/matte/mask.
however, blue is used before green,

Thursday 3 November 2011

The type of way we would video the studio

The studio scene would be still the same colouring to what we are accepting to be. The shoot would be different although the colouring of the clothing would need to stand out more, so the audience can understand the effects added.







The blue folder is to show the colouring we are accepting to see. The colour blue was used because its symbioses for men, and also this colour is the only colour which is off the human skin colour.