Monday, 29 July 2013
Film Riot's advice and help and tricks and tips and stuff on pre-production
Another couple of videos from Film Riot. This is a great run through of the pre-production process. I am defiantly going to check out the advice on story boarding, its always the hardest part for me. The idea of a casting call is also pretty cool. Not sure acting schools would be interested in this production but its worth a shot.
Friday, 19 July 2013
Preliminary Task - Why Does Love Do This To Me? The Exponents
We were asked to make a video utilising all the skills we have learned on Final Cut. This includes green screen, split screen, key frames, colour manipulation, editing to the beat, transitions and filters. We don't like transitions (especially the ones on Final Cut Express) so we shoved all those in at the beginning.
The song is a disease.
Tuesday, 16 July 2013
Chroma Key Tutorial
In preparation for our preliminary task, Aidan and I have put together a video tutorial on how to chroma key.
Aidan's voice is funny so we used his voice for the instruction.
Friday, 12 July 2013
Prance to romance to (John Mayer's new single)
This lyrical video is the official release. Quite repetitive in her movements but it clearly works!
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Goodwin
These are my initial notes on Goodwin. There will be more specific posts which follow up on each specific element.
Thursday, 4 July 2013
Stevie Wonder - Part Time Lover
Artist: Stevie Wonder
Song: Part Time Lover
Album: In Square Circle
Release: 1985
Label: Tamla
Genre: R&B, Soul, Pop
The video begins with live performance, which Goodwin suggests of the hard rock/metal genre. However Stevie obviously doesn't fit into either of these. Perhaps the area where the fusion between Goodwin's suggestion and Stevie Wonder takes place is to do with the location. Stevie is in a club, whereas the majority of hard rock or metal bands would be shot on stage. This also emphasises the synth-pop part of the song, which fits another of Goodwin's suggestions, the idea that the music fits the visuals. For Goodwin, this video may break the mold and go against some of his theories. In terms of representation this could suggest that black people enjoy breaking the mold and introducing new or controversial (50 Cent..) factors in both their music and the videos. It could also show how black people are usually in the minority (in this case in genre).
The club is full of both white and black people. By this time racism in American had died down but there were certainly still remnants left over. Perhaps this video is making a political statement about racial equality. There could even be an aspect of black supremacy, as the best dancers are all black. However this is probably because black people are generally better dancers than white.
Slightly low tilted angles are often used on Stevie. This helps to reinforce the ideas of equality and also show Stevie as the most important person in the video. Stevie's disability has zero effect in this video, and rightly so. Stevie is an icon and inspiration of how disability doesn't alter talent. Stevie also is the most lit person, and is in front of neon coloured lights. This is a reflection of his personality both on and off stage.
Song: Part Time Lover
Album: In Square Circle
Release: 1985
Label: Tamla
Genre: R&B, Soul, Pop
The video begins with live performance, which Goodwin suggests of the hard rock/metal genre. However Stevie obviously doesn't fit into either of these. Perhaps the area where the fusion between Goodwin's suggestion and Stevie Wonder takes place is to do with the location. Stevie is in a club, whereas the majority of hard rock or metal bands would be shot on stage. This also emphasises the synth-pop part of the song, which fits another of Goodwin's suggestions, the idea that the music fits the visuals. For Goodwin, this video may break the mold and go against some of his theories. In terms of representation this could suggest that black people enjoy breaking the mold and introducing new or controversial (50 Cent..) factors in both their music and the videos. It could also show how black people are usually in the minority (in this case in genre).
The club is full of both white and black people. By this time racism in American had died down but there were certainly still remnants left over. Perhaps this video is making a political statement about racial equality. There could even be an aspect of black supremacy, as the best dancers are all black. However this is probably because black people are generally better dancers than white.
Slightly low tilted angles are often used on Stevie. This helps to reinforce the ideas of equality and also show Stevie as the most important person in the video. Stevie's disability has zero effect in this video, and rightly so. Stevie is an icon and inspiration of how disability doesn't alter talent. Stevie also is the most lit person, and is in front of neon coloured lights. This is a reflection of his personality both on and off stage.
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